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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:

Financial papers and papers concerning the Commercial Department., 1806-1807, 1809.

 File
Identifier: MS.11611
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) 'Account stating the loss of Freight that has arisen between the excessive Taxes which have been allowed in the Private Traders' Accounts of Privilege Goods, exported from Bengal, and the Taxes on the same goods which it has been deemed proper to deduct on the adjustment of the Accounts of the within ment[ione]d Ships', 1806-1807 (folio 1); (ii) Copies of the charter-parties of affreightment of the East India ships 'Lady Carrington' and 'Ann', 1809 (folio...
Dates: 1806-1807, 1809.

Financial papers, chiefly receipts., 1785-1802.

 File
Identifier: MS.14701
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Tax receipts, 1786-1801 (folio 1);(ii) Discharges, 1792-1797, by Alexander Fraser, sheriff clerk of Haddington, for various duties (folio 37);(iii) Poor rate receipts, 1793-1800 (folio 52);(iv) Insurance receipts, 1788-1800 (folio 63);(v) Advertisement receipts, 1787-1798 (folio 89);(vi) Miscellaneous accounts and receipts, 1785-1802, including servants' accounts of incidental expenses...
Dates: 1785-1802.

Financial papers concerning roads in East Stirlingshire., 1725-1847, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.10890
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: account-book, 1807-1816 (folio 1); miscellaneous accounts, 1726-1847 (folio 30); miscellaneous memoranda, petitions, reports, etc., 1725, 1834, undated (folio 143).

Dates: 1725-1847, undated.

Financial papers concerning the estate of Wells., 1735-1780, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.12932
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Estate accounts of Lieutenant-Colonel William Elliot of Wells, 1735-1752, undated (folio 41); (ii) Rentals of Wells, Ormiston and Haddon, 1759-1760 and 1773-1778 (folio 26); (iii) Letters of Gilbert Eliott of Otterburn, tenant at Wells and estate factor, to Anthony Chamier, 1773-1780 (folio 52).

Dates: 1735-1780, undated.

Financial papers concerning William Nassau Elliot as Commissary and Commissary-General to the allied army in Germany., 1761-1764.

 File
Identifier: MS.12888
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Treasury letters, 1764, relating to demands by the House of Commons to see papers concerning the supply of goods to the army in Germany (folio 1); (ii) Commissariat statements, 1761-1762 (folio 7); (iii) Commissariat statements and reports to Sir James Cockburn and the Prince of Brunswick (folio 27); (iv) Miscellaneous commissariat papers, 1762 (folio 41); (v) Miscellaneous accounts and receipts, 1761-1762 (folio 50).

Dates: 1761-1764.

Financial papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park., 1750-1915.

 File
Identifier: MS.8092
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise the accounts of Sir James Douglas, 1st Baronet, of Thomas Tod, Writer to the Signet, and of the firm of Tods, Murray and Jamieson, Writers to the Signet, under its various names.

Also included is an account, 1864, of the intromissions of the executors of Catherine E I Scott-Douglas (folio 199).

Dates: 1750-1915.

Financial papers of the Dunlop family., 1653-1868.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9259-9260
Scope and Contents

The papers are chiefly of personal and family interest, but include some accounts of Glasgow University, which in particular concern arrangements for poor scholars and the running of the library.

Dates: 1653-1868.

Financial papers of the family of Erskine of Alva., 1602-1827, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5100-5102
Scope and Contents

Accounts of the Erskine family: household expenses, including bills from local tradesmen and from merchants in Edinburgh and London; receipts for land burdens, including ministers' stipends and schoolmasters' salaries.

Dates: 1602-1827, undated.