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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:

Papers of Robert Douglas Hamilton., 1757-1862.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.9770/1-12
Scope and Contents

Robert Douglas Hamilton was a physician in Lanarkshire in the early 19th century, and the author of 'The principles of medicine'.

Dates: 1757-1862.

Papers of Robert Kemp.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7622
Scope and Contents

Including diaires, accounts, photographs and typesripts of plays, novels, short stories, addresses, broadcast talks and documentaries.

With letters of, among others, James Bridie and Cedric Thorpe Davie.

Dates: circa 1920-1967.

Papers of Samuel Beazley.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9135
Scope and Contents

Concerning the building of Leys Castle near Inverness.

Includes correspondence, reports and accounts.

Dates: circa 1833-1842.

Papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, as Lord of the Admiralty and Treasurer of the Navy., 1759-1801.

 File
Identifier: MS.11037
Scope and Contents

(i) Papers concerning the payment of marines, 1759-1760 (folio 1); (ii) Papers concerning a bill for securing timber for the navy, [1772] (folio 25); (iii) Papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot concerning his financial accounts as Treasurer of the Navy, 1769-1772, 1776-1781, 1801, including letters of Andrew Douglas, Paymaster and Accountatnt of the Navy (folio 45).

Dates: 1759-1801.

Papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, as Lord of the Treasury and Treasurer of the Chamber., 1686-1769.

 File
Identifier: MS.11040
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Copies of Household, Secret Service, and Treasury accounts and papers, 1752-1768 (folio 1); (ii) Copies of papers on the conduct of Treasury business in the period 1686-1759, [?1761] (folio 21); (iii) Notes on the vote of credit for 1762 (folio 37); (iv) Miscellaneous papers concerning Treasury business, 1763-1765 (folio 50); (v) Letters of Andrew Douglas as Deputy Treasurer of the Chamber, 1766-1767, with a receipt of Sir Gilbert Elliot to Douglas, 1769...
Dates: 1686-1769.

Papers of taxation of, and of public debts owing to, the 1st Earl of Tweeddale., 1618-1672, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14479
Scope and Contents The manuscript consists of:(i) Papers, being chiefly discharges of taxation: churches of Peebles, Houston, Belton, Lyne and lands of Powgavie, 1618-1668, including bonds of relief (folio 2); lands of Rodonna and Hopetoun, 1627-1639 (folio 34); teinds of Bara, 1629-1637 (folio 45); barony of Loquhariot, 1629-1638 (folio 53); barony of Auchtermuir, 1632-1639 (folio 60); tax paid to the Lords of Session, 1633-1636 (folio 63);(ii) Miscellaneous taxation papers, 1633-1665,...
Dates: 1618-1672, undated.

Papers of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale chiefly concerning Treasury and Exchequer affairs., [Circa 1661-1683], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14489
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Papers, circa 1661-1683 (many undated but circa 1665-1669), of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, including accounts and lists of fees and pensions, concerning Treasury and Exchequer affairs (folio 1);

(ii) Rentals of the lands of Swinton, 1663, and of Hawick, 1669 (folio 169);

(iii) 'Instructions to our commissioners of the thesaurie', [circa 1667] (folio 172).

Dates: [Circa 1661-1683], undated.

Papers of the Berwickshire Liberal Association, mostly concerning parliamentary elections but also including broader administrative and financial information.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6767/1[1]-20[100]
Scope and Contents

Including papers, circulars, correspondence and accounts.

Concerning the association and the orgranisation of paliamentary elections in the county.

The papers particularly refer to Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth (1849-1909), Liberal M.P. for Berwickshire, Harold John Tennant (1865-1935), Liberal M.P. for Berwickshire (1894-1918) and John Bertram Kellie of Duns, their main election agent.

Dates: 1873-1920, undated.

Papers of the Britain-Russia Centre, Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12142/1-111
Scope and Contents The Britain-Russia Centre, Scotland, was founded in 1959 as the Scottish Branch of the Great Britain-USSR Association. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the branch became the Scottish Branch of the Great Britain-Russia Association, before becoming the Britain-Russia Centre, Scotland, in the later 1990s. The aim of the organisation was to promote understanding between the two areas through personal and professional contacts on a politically impartial basis. The organisation was...
Dates: 1962-1999.

Papers of the Calder family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9000
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from emigrants to Montana, United States and Australia.

Dates: 1822-1913.

Papers of the Christies of Stenton.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10628
Scope and Contents

Includes charters, correspondence, legal papers and accounts.

Dates: 1597-1878.

Papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park concerning individual steadings on the Springwood Park and Longnewton estates., 1799-1884.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8079-8083
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise correspondence and accounts concerning rents, construction and repair of buildings, piping of water to Heiton village, etc.

Dates: 1799-1884.