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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:

Journals of Alexander Carlyle, consisting chiefly of daily diaries, together with some journals of private tours in Scotland and of activities in London, both on official business and private affairs., 1765-1805.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.23766-23785
Scope and Contents

Alexander Carlyle's daily diaries contain very brief entries. There are some journals of private tours in Scotland (MSS.23766-23767, 23771) and of activities in London, both on official business and private affairs (MSS.23768-23769, 23774). Some contain notes of expenses and other accounts.

Dates: 1765-1805.

Kennel Book, 1797-1926, compiled by James Hunter Rutherford W.S. (adm.1877), of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt. With correspondence, accounts and subscription lists, 1915-1948, of and relating to the Hunt.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13278
Scope and Contents

The main interest of this collection lies in the Kennel Book. Its author, James Hunter Rutherford, was Honorary Secretary of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt and Master of Foxhounds from1915-1926. He was the author of The History of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt, 1775-1910, Edinburgh, 1911. The Kennel Book records every hound that was part of the hunt, its name, parentage and fate.

Dates: 1797-1948

Lawyers' accounts of the family of Menzies of Menzies., 1737-1803.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9965-9966
Scope and Contents

The series is imperfect, but as far as is possible, the relative vouchers have been placed after each account.

Dates: 1737-1803.

Ledger of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, with accounts and memoranda., 1731-1759.

 Item
Identifier: MS.16904
Scope and Contents

The contents comprise: excerpts from Saltoun accounts, 1744-1745 (folio 5); accounts with Middleton, Campbell, and Bruce, 1731-1755 (folio 8), and with John Watson, Writer to the Signet, 1750-1759 (folio 29); and various memoranda and household accounts, 1743, 1750 (folio l inverted).

Dates: 1731-1759.

Ledgers, journals, waste books, fishing receipt and disposal books, freight account books, and miscellaneous financial papers of John Richardson and Company, covering all aspects of the family's business., 1760-1820.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20849-20981
Scope and Contents

The early volumes are general account books, but from 1800 the financial side was divided into three branches. The ledgers, journals, and waste books concerning shipping are distinguished by a letter, those for fish curing by a number, and those for fishing by neither.

Dates: 1760-1820.

Legal accounts., 1743-1786.

 File
Identifier: MS.14685
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Accounts and related papers, 1763-1786, of transactions with Thomas Tod, Writer to the Signet (folio 1);

(ii) Accounts, 1765-1770, for the 5th Marquess of Tweeddale, of John Gray, Haddington, (folio 93);

(iii) Various legal accounts, 1743-1784, of the 6th Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 99).

Dates: 1743-1786.

Legal accounts and receipts., 1764-1786.

 File
Identifier: MS.14686
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Tax receipts and valuations, 1765-1786 (folio 1).;

(ii) Poor rate receipts, 1764-1784 (folio 107);

(iii) Insurance receipts, 1771-1786 (folio 155);

(iv) Advertisement accounts and receipts, 1763-1785 (folio 150).

Dates: 1764-1786.