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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:

Exercise-book, containing a list of debts of the Reverend John Thomson of Duddingston, February 1826, his income and expenditure account, 1826, and a list of his pictures sold in 1826-1827, with titles, prices, and names of those who commissioned them., 1826-1831.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3167
Scope and Contents

Loose sheets, containing a list of debts paid and outstanding since February 1826, and the income and expenditure account for 1827-1828, 1830-1831, which gives particulars of certain pictures, have been sewn into the book (folios 11-23). All the accounts are in Alexander Macdonald's hand. See MS.3135 (xxv).

Dates: 1826-1831.

Exercise-book of James Duff, the Perthshire poet, containing copies of twenty-four poems, apparently in the author's hand.

 File
Identifier: MS.2881
Scope and Contents

The poems were written chiefly between 1801-1816. At the end are a few accounts, 1816-1821.

Dates: 1801-1821.

Expenses for travel and residence in England., 1643-1694, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14628
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Inn, dinner and horse bills, Scotland and England, 1643-1694, undated (folio 1);(ii) Accounts of expenses of journeys: 'To London from Yester to Durham', October 1667; to Morpeth and return of Yester, October 1669; of William Sangster, from York to Yester, 1670; of Thomas Duncan, to 'Durntown' and return to Yester, October 1671; of Thomas Manner, to Chillingham and return to Edinburgh, October 1671; to Dunse and return to Yester,...
Dates: 1643-1694, undated.

Expenses in England., 1669-1686.

 File
Identifier: MS.14629
Scope and Contents Unless specified otherwise, the location is London. The contents are as follows:(i) Bills, 1669-1670, for clothing, jewellery and furnishings (folio 1);(ii) Freight bills, 1670, for goods from London to Leith (folio 11);(iii) Bills, March 1672, for cloth and lace (folio 13);(iv) Bills March-June 1673, for picture frames and books (folio 16);(v) Notes, June 1674, to tradesmen (folio 18);(vi) Bill, 1675, for...
Dates: 1669-1686.

Expenses of going from Edinburgh to Dunblane and returning again, 28 July to 10 August 1824.

 File
Identifier: Acc.4414
Scope and Contents

With handbill, 1851, advertising a ferry.

Dates: 1824, 1851.

Facsimile of the minute-book, 1771-1792, of the Society of Civil Engineers (Smeatonian), and related papers.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1843
Scope and Contents

Also included are accounts, 1771-1785 (folio 72, inverted), and the first three pages of the second minute book, 1793-1794, 1824.

This is one of several facsimile copies made in 1893 to the order of the Society, for distribution to members.

Dates: 1771-1794, 1824.

Factors’ accounts., 1670-1712.

 File
Identifier: MS.14643
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Small accounts and receipts, 1670-1689, being papers of transactions through servants and factors concerning personal and household affairs (folio 1);

(ii) Small accounts and receipts, 1704-1712, being papers of transactions through John Hay of Hopes concerning farm and estate affairs (folio 264).

Dates: 1670-1712.

Factor's accounts and vouchers relating to the Lordship of Campbell., 1744-1760.

 File
Identifier: MS.17691
Scope and Contents

The accounts and vouchers cover crop years 1744-1747 (folio 1), 1748-1749 (folio 74), 1750-1751 (folio 146), 1752 (folio 199), 1753-1754 (folio 219), 1755 (folio 266), 1756 (folio 281), 1757 (vouchers only, folio 309), 1758 (folio 326), and 1759 (folio 344).

The factor was John Finlayson, commissary of Dunblane.

Dates: 1744-1760.