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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:

Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates: Early 17th century.

Legal and miscellaneous accounts and receipts., 1655-1697, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14642
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Legal accounts with Richard Douglas, advocate, 1678 (folio 1); James Hay of Carriber, Writer to the Signet, 1679-1687 (folio 3); Thomas Trotter, 1686 (folio 13); and John Buchanan, 1682-1691 (folio 14);(ii) ‘Compt of teind drawen of the baronie of Newton for crope 1654’ with teind-book of the barony of Newton, 1671 (folio 40);(iii) Accounts and receipts for the payment of cess, 1667-1696 (folio 48);(iv)...
Dates: 1655-1697, undated.

Legal and other papers concerning the Douglas Cause., 1764-1766.

 File
Identifier: MS.5353
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Inventories, 1764-1765, of writs and other exhibits produced (folio 1);

(ii) Interrogatories, depositions and lists of witnesses, 1764-1766 (folio 28);

(iii) Letters and accounts, 1765, concerning the citation of witnesses (folio 147).

Dates: 1764-1766.

Legal and tax accounts., 1720-1764.

 File
Identifier: MS.14673
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts with Archibald Tod, Edinburgh, 1720-1721 (folio 1); John Gray, Haddington, 1732-1764 (folio 2); Alexander Ross, London, 1739-1752 (folio 9); James Hay, Writer to the Signet, 1741-1747 (folio 12); Thomas Tod, Writer to the Signet, 1756-1760 (folio 16);(ii) Accounts and related papers, 1752-1764, of transactions with Alexander Tait, Writer to the Signet (folio 20);(iii) Poor rate receipts, 1732-1762 (folio 101);...
Dates: 1720-1764.

Legal, family and miscellaneous papers of the 7th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1777-1806, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14527
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1787-1802, including accounts, of the trustees of the 6th Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 1);(ii) Family papers, being copies of the marriage contract, 1785, between the 7th Marquess and Marchioness of Tweeddale; a printed ‘Information', 1788, for Frances, daughter of Major William and Lady Catherine Hay, against Robert Hay of Drumelzier; and an inventory, 1789, of the jewels belonging to Frances, Marchioness of Tweeddale (folio...
Dates: 1777-1806, undated.

Legal, financial and other papers concerning James Augustus Grant., 1827-1913, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.17933
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Papers concerning James Augustus Grant's service in India, 1853-1884, undated, supplementary to MS.17908, folios 50-108, including a list of property lost during the Mutiny and general statements of his service (folio 1); (ii) Papers concerning Africa, undated, supplementary to MS.17922, including a list of the contents of John Hanning Speke's cases at Zanzibar and a copy of an agreement between Alexander Low Bruce and James Augustus Grant junior concerning...
Dates: 1827-1913, undated.

Legal papers of William Wilson and Son., 1782-1879.

 File
Identifier: MS.9676
Scope and Contents

The papers include the following:

Papers concerning the dispute in 1787 over the right of the country weavers to buy yarn at the Stirling market (folio 1);

Miscellaneous petitions, 1779-1836 (folio 62);

Miscellaneous accounts and receipts, 1783-1878 (folio 88);

A typescript history of the firm, 20th century (folio 110).

Dates: 1782-1879.

Legal papers relating to the estates of Lochgelly and Melgund., 1696-1748.

 File
Identifier: MS.13281
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Papers in the claims of Agnes Murray Kynynmound against her mother, l742-1746, chiefly relating to household plenishing, and to money for education and clothing (folio 1); (ii) Legal accounts of Harie Dow, 1696-1705 (folio 76), Hugh Somervell of Invertiel, Writer to the Signet, 1700-1731 (folio 96), Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, 1713-1735 (folio 107), Andrew Chalmer, writer in Edinburgh, 1728-1748 (folio 132), and miscellaneous, 1679-1748 (folio...
Dates: 1696-1748.