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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:

Gosford estate accounts., 1703-1746.

 File
Identifier: MS.6456
Scope and Contents This bound volume is arranged on the crop year system, generally estimated from Whitsunday to Whitsunday. Thus, Whitsunday 1705 to Whitsunday 1706 equals Crop 1705. It contains the charges and discharges of the Gosford rent. Apart from entries relating to agriculture there are miscellaneous items concerning dress, housekeeping, education, and other matters. The volume was kept by Sir Peter Halkett, Baronet, of Pitfirrane (created 1697), formerly Wedderburn, during whose life-time the estates...
Dates: 1703-1746.

‘Grant manuscript.’

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents

The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).

Dates: 1494-1593, 17th century.

‘Grant manuscript’, volume 1., 1494-1577.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (1)
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.A few notes of accounts, 1494-1499, between the Burgh of Hadington and their fermorars. Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), December 1550 – October 1577, collected chronologically by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington. Numbered up to 254 and continued to about 200 more.Extracts from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1532-1568, imperfect at the beginning.'Tables of the kings of Scotland,...
Dates: 1494-1577.

‘Harwood's Warwick, Worcester, Salop, and Staffordshire memorandum Book (London, undated) containing an account, 1840, of Patrick Chalmers (died 1854) and inventories, 1841-1867., 1840, 1841, 1850, 1867.

 Item
Identifier: MS.15452
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Account, 1840, of Patrick Chalmers with the Worcestershire Iron Company (folios 3); (ii) Inventory, 1841, of plate at Auldbar (folio 5); (iii) Inventory, 1841, of glass and china (folio 14); (iv) Inventory, 1850, of silver (folio 17); (v) Inventory, 1867, of plate (reversed folio 4).

Dates: 1840, 1841, 1850, 1867.