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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:

Essay by Alexander Carlyle on the parish of Inveresk., 1752-1756, [1791, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.23919
Scope and Contents

The volume was first used to record the maintenance expenses of the Musselburgh Poors House 1752-1756 (folio 1), then reused by Alexander Carlyle for this essay (folio 18 verso). A few leaves loosely enclosed in the volume have been placed at the back (folio 43).

Dates: 1752-1756, [1791, or before.]

Estate accounts., 1753-1785.

 File
Identifier: MS.14682
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Account, 1755, of wild fowl from the 6th Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 1);

(ii) Farm accounts, 1762-1784 (folio 2);

(iii) Accounts, 1753-1773, for dyke construction (folio 144);

(iv) Accounts, 1763-1785, concerning tenants (folio 148);

(v) Carriage accounts, 1763-1785 (folio 177).

Dates: 1753-1785.

Estate accounts., 1743-1786, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14684
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Forestry accounts and valuations, 1743-1786, undated (folio 1);

(ii) Accounts and related papers concerning the sale of timber to James Small, farmer and carpenter in Blackadder, 1773-1779 (folio 158);

(iii) Accounts of Alexander Low, gardener, Yester, 1779-1780 (folio 187);

(iv) Gardening accounts, 1761-1784 (folio 191).

Dates: 1743-1786, undated.

Estate accounts., 1788-1803.

 File
Identifier: MS.14699
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Disbound account-books, 1788-1789, of Yester Mains (see also MS.14615) (folio 1);(ii) Carriage accounts and receipts, 1788-1789 (folio 29);(iii) Accounts, 1788-1792, with George Rate, Saltoun, for lime shells (folio 51);(iv) Accounts, 1789, of yokings with John Gullen, Gifford (folio 63);(v) Accounts, 1791-1799, between John Hay of Hopes and James Hay, Writer to the Signet, factors, and Peter Melrose,...
Dates: 1788-1803.

Estate accounts., 1724-1762.

 File
Identifier: MS.14669
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts, 1726-1761, of incidental expenses chiefly of the grieve (folio 1); (ii) Disbound account books, 1754-1762, of the grieve for crops and livestock (folio 76);(iii) Disbound account books, 1761-1762, of charge and discharge of crops (folio 156);(iv) Accounts and receipts, 1732-1757, of crops paid to servants and workmen (folio 176);(v) Accounts, 1732-1762, of crops fed to animals (folio...
Dates: 1724-1762.

Estate accounts., 1724-1762.

 File
Identifier: MS.14670
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Various accounts, 1726-1762, of crops and livestock (folio 1);

(ii) Accounts, 1724-1761, of tenants' arrears (folio 179);

(iii) 'Accompt of carriage goals paid by the tenants in Yester Barony 1753' (folio 214);

(iv) 'Accompt of carriage coals at Yester 1761' (folio 216);

(v) Various carriage accounts, 1739-1758 (folio 217);

(vi) Various accounts, 1737-1762, concerning tenants (folio 226).

Dates: 1724-1762.

Estate accounts., 1717-1762.

 File
Identifier: MS.14671
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Fowler's accounts, 1721-1760 (folio 1);

(ii) Timber valuations and accounts, 1717-1761 (folio 13);

(iii) Gardener's accounts, 1732-1761 (folio 92);

(iv) Accounts, 1727-1762, of seeds supplied for the gardens at Yester by William Miller, Edinburgh, (folio 110);

(v) Miscellaneous estate accounts and receipts, 1717-1762 (folio 136).

Dates: 1717-1762.

Estate accounts, discharges and vouchers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance., 1643-1797.

 File
Identifier: MS.8218
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Estate accounts of Castlemilk, 1643-1659, kept by James Stuart of Torrance as executor to his brother, Archibald Stuart of Castlemilk (folio 1);

(ii) Discharges, 1726-1736, undated, concerning the estate of Torrance (folio 75);

(iii) Vouchers, 1796-1797, for the household and estate accounts of Anne, Lady Stuart of Castlemilk (folio 122).

Dates: 1643-1797.