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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:

Miscellaneous documents concerning the Coltbridge/Roseburn enterprise of Patrick Geddes., 1898-1906, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.10611
Scope and Contents

The papers include business accounts, plans, estimates, and typescripts giving details of the proposed building schemes. There are also several photographs of Roseburn Cliff, Coltbridge, and miscellaneous undated jottings concerning the project.

Dates: 1898-1906, undated.

Miscellaneous English financial papers., 1686-1691.

 File
Identifier: MS.14630
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts of expenses, 1686, of the Earl and Countess of Roxburghe (folio 1);(ii) Notes to tradesmen, April 1686 (folio 3);(iii) Freight bill, May 1686, for goods from London to Leith (folio 8);(iv) Accounts, October 1689, of furnishings and household goods to be sent to London, or bought or hired in London (folio 9);(v) 'The charge of David Halon book', 1689-1690 (folio 18).(vi) Monthly...
Dates: 1686-1691.

Miscellaneous estate accounts, bills, discharges and rentals of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance., 1658-1917.

 File
Identifier: MS.8220
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Miscellaneous estate accounts, 1658-1883, undated, of Torrance and Castlemilk (folio 1);

(ii) Miscellaneous bills and discharges, 1692-1859 (folio 45);

(iii) Rentals, 1731-1917, of the estates of Torrance, Castlemilk, Glassford, and Milton (folio 62).

Dates: 1658-1917.

Miscellaneous financial papers, and papers of and concerning the Commercial Department., 1807-1813.

 File
Identifier: MS.11613
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letter of George Tytler, Calcutta, to the Chief Secretary to Government, 1807, concerning the former's contracts in 1786-1787 (folio 1);(ii) Memorandum by Neil Benjamin Edmondstone concerning a contractor, 1808 (folio 7);(iii) 'Comparison of the Estimated and actual Revenues and charges in India 1808-1809 and 1809-1810. Estimate for 1810-1811 and observations thereon' (folio 10);(iv) Statement of bills drawn upon the Court...
Dates: 1807-1813.

Miscellaneous financial papers of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians., 1927-1976.

 File
Identifier: MS.21610
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1927, 1933, 1935, 1939, 1944, concerning debentures in the Edinburgh Society of Musicians (folio 1);(ii) Correspondence and papers, 1954-1962, concerning the Edinburgh Society of Musicians Benevolent Fund and its beneficiaries, with bank statements, 1970-1976 (folio 16);(iii) Papers, 1931, 1933-1938, concerning the Annie Townsend Fund for providing musical entertainment in the Bruntsfield Hospital (folio 32);...
Dates: 1927-1976.

Miscellaneous historical and topographical tracts, copied in the 17th and early 18th centuries.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.1(i)-(xv)
Scope and Contents

There is a list of contents (folio i) in the same 19th-century hand which drew up the contents list in Adv.MS.22.2.10.

Dates: 17th century-circa 1754.

Miscellaneous letters and documents.

 File
Identifier: MS.500
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Ordinance of the Committee of War of the Sheriffdom of Fife on the arming of heritors within the Presbytery of Cupar, 1644 (folio 1);(ii) Information for John Balfour, probably Portioner of Kinloch (died 1651), regarding the succession to certain lands of Christian Williamson, daughter of John Williamson and Helen Balfour, 1644 (folio 2);(iii) Breakfast bill of ‘Langshaw’ [? David Montgomery of Lainshaw], receipted by Thomas...
Dates: 1644-1760, undated.

Miscellaneous letters and documents.

 Series
Identifier: MS.14835
Dates: 1708-early 19th century.

Miscellaneous letters and manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.3112

Miscellaneous letters and other papers of the Hays of Yester., 17th century-mid 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.14827
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Miscellaneous letters and other papers, 1602-1922, undated, chiefly collected for their autographs interest, and including eight letters to Hermann Schlagenweit (folio 1);(ii) Miscellaneous papers, 17th century-20th century (folio 130);(iii) Seven manuscript items, 17th century-19th century, including a fragment of a letter to the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale in 1704, a letter concerning the 1715 rebellion, and accounts and...
Dates: 17th century-mid 20th century.

Miscellaneous letters and papers.

 Series
Identifier: MS.3836

Miscellaneous letters and papers concerning family, local and business affairs., 1781-1856, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.9677
Scope and Contents The papers consist of the following: Miscellaneous incoming letters with draft replies, chiefly on family or local affairs not connected with the business, 1785-1856 (folio 1); Agreements with workers, 1809-1822, undated (folio 47); Estimates, accounts, and drawings for houses to be built at Bannockburn, 1781, 1788 (folio 58); Plan of the works at Bannockburn, 1835 (folio 77 verso); Miscellaneous papers on church affairs, 1815-1844, chiefly concerning the building of a Free Church manse,...
Dates: 1781-1856, undated.