Manuscripts.
Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:
Account book of the family of Dundas of Dundas, relating to the abbey of Holyrood, crop 1543., 1543.
Account book of the family of Dundas of Dundas: rental., 1603.
Account book of the family of Dundas of Dundas: rental., 17th century.
Account book of the family of Dundas of Dundas: rental., 1778.
Account book of the family of Dundas of Dundas: rental and accounts., 1636-1655.
The contents of the volume are as follows:
(i) Rental, 1636-1654 (folio 1).
(ii) Accounts relating to crops, 1636-1655 (folio 1 inverted).
Account book of the family of Dundas of Dundas: rental for crop 1672., 1672.
Account book of William Baillie, a wright in Edinburgh.
Baillie apparently owned a joiner`s shop and employed a number of workmen both there and on his clients` premises. His account book records the number of days per week worked by each man, with their wages and a few receipts. Mention is made of work in the University and the Tolbooth Kirk, as well as for private individuals.
The first few pages are missing.
Account book relating to lime kilns of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1625-1626.
Account book relating to lime kilns of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1626-1629.
Account book relating to lime kilns of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1629-1632.
Account book relating to lime kilns of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1631-1636.
Account book relating to lime kilns of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1637-1643.
Account book relating to lime kilns of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1765.
Account books and other business records of T and T Clark, publishers, Edinburgh.
Account books of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 17th century-1818.
Account books of the family of Dundas of Dundas: rentals and lists of lands., 17th century-1778.
Account books relating to lime kilns of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1625-1643, 1765.
Account by John Drummond of government action in regard to the Highlands from 1688 to 1695, and particularly of the massacre of Glencoe., 1688-1695.
Account, by John Mackay of Rockfield, of the Mackays of Scourie and other branches of the clan, and more particularly of his father, Thomas Mackay, Minister of Lairg, and brothers, in the hand of Alexander Matheson, of Ardross., 1824.
The notes which follow the text are continued in a letter of John Mackay to Alexander Matheson, 1824, written by an amanuensis, Mackay being blind (folio 34).
On folio 36 is a genealogical note by Alexander Matheson on his ancestors.
Account by William Rose, the genealogist, of the Chaplaincies, Prebendaries and Alterages in the Dioceses of Ross, Caithness, Moray and Dunkeld, the revenue from which was granted to Rose in 1776.
The manuscript is mostly in Rose`s hand. At folio 159 is a summary of the work.
Account of Corstorphine Parish, with its buildings and the local families, with extracts from registers, etc., collected by John Philp Wood., [1795, or after.]
Account of goods carried from Scotland to England by the West Marches., 1617-1618.
Account of proceedings for forgery in the Supreme Court, Calcutta, before Sir Robert Chambers, against Nadara Bigam, Khwajah Zakariyya Khan, Ghiyath Beg, 'Inayat Allah Beg, Kazi Mu'zzam Beg and Haji Muhammad Iwaz., 1779.
This account most likely relates to the attempted impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey in 1788 (see MSS.11199-11202) rather than to the 1st Earl of Minto's Governor-Generalship.
Account of the captivity of Alexander Scott in the Sahara between 1810 and 1816 after having been shipwrecked on the African coast opposite the Canary Islands as set down by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill and William Lawson from conversations with Scott., [1816, or after.]
This detailed account of Alexander Scott's life with nomadic Arabs provides a wealth of sociological and geographical information. Includes a map and geographical appendix by the geographer, James Rennell, and related correspondence.