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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:

Household accounts of the Earl of Angus, and other miscellaneous papers., 1608, 18th century-19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.2200
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Household accounts of the Earl of Angus, June-November 1608, signed by the Earl, 'V. D. Erll Anguss'. See A O Curle, "The kitchen and buttery accounts of the Earl of Angus's Household, &c.", in ‘Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’, volume xlii, page 191, where a transcript is given of the accounts for a week in July. (Folio 1.)(ii) Papers regarding the state of the Highlands in relation to Jacobitism: part of a...
Dates: 1608, 18th century-19th century.

Household and personal accounts of an Edinburgh resident.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9480
Scope and Contents

Expenditure is arranged by headings such as Clothing, Fuel, Food, Presents, etc. The compiler was probably a schoolmaster as the volume contains a list of boarding and miscellaneous charges for Master Peter Gordon, 1812-1813.

Dates: 1807-1814.