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Accounts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents in which monies or goods received and paid or given out are recorded in order to permit periodic totaling. This term was not used in the published volumes of the 'Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925'. Such records were indexed under the subject terms Housekeeping or Prices.

Found in 3038 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence principally to, and of, Patrick Chalmers of Auld bar, with related papers., 1834-1850, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.19586
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: William Blackadder, Glamis, James Burnes, Montrose, Frederick Fotheringham, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh, Patrick Watson Carnegy of Lour, Henry Baxter of Idves, Advocate and Patrick Irvine, Writer to the Signet. The volume also contains other miscellaneous accounts and notes, 1816-1818, and undated (folio 151).

Dates: 1834-1850, undated.

Correspondence with banks, and related material., 1728-1836.

 File
Identifier: MS.10871
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: letters and accounts of Seton, Houstoun and Co., Edinburgh, 1779-1784, 1792, correspondence with the Bank of Scotland, 1777-1827, and miscellaneous cheques and bank statements, 1728-1836.

Dates: 1728-1836.

Customs and excise papers, 1662-1687, undated, being accounts, vouchers and miscellaneous papers., [Circa 1660]-1687.

 File
Identifier: MS.14491
Scope and Contents

The papres includes ‘The rules and method practised in the Custome House of Leithe’, circa 1660; accounts of customs duties levied at, and of goods imported into, various Scottish ports; and a table, 1669, of customs officials’ fees.

Dates: [Circa 1660]-1687.

Customs book, to which has been added historical material relating to contemporary affairs in Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2263
Scope and Contents The customs book comprises:(i) Accounts of the Salt Custom on the North and South of the Firth of Forth, 1618-1630 (folio 1);(ii) 'Ane Memorandum of all the declarations, petitions, protestations ... informations to the shires with the names of ther Commissioners and Collonelis from 1637 to 1648', followed by a table of contents (folio 49);(iii) History of events, 1635-1662; at folio 93 has been inserted an account of 'The Generall Assemlie Holdin in...
Dates: 17th century.

Day-book of William Scott of Raeburn., 1837-1839.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6312
Scope and Contents

The contents include an inventory of the contents of William Scott's cellar (folio 22 verso).

Dates: 1837-1839.

Day-book of William Scott of Raeburn., 1848-1850.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6314
Scope and Contents

The contents include measurements of land bought by William Scott in 1831 (folio 1).

Dates: 1848-1850.

Day-books of William Scott of Raeburn., 1837-1850.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.6312-6314
Scope and Contents

The day-books contain notes concerning Scott's health, domestic and estate accounts including doctors' bills, addresses, notes on weather, etc., mingled confusedly together.

Dates: 1837-1850.