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Receipts. Financial records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written acknowledgment of the receiving or taking of goods or money delivered or paid.

Found in 938 Collections and/or Records:

Factors' and servants' accounts., 1692-1715, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14654
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Monthly accounts, 1694-1699, of John Shiel (folio 1);

(ii) Accounts, 1708-1710, of John Rose in Scotland and at London (folio 38);

(iii) Accounts, 1713, of John Hay of Hopes for the funeral of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 74);

(iv) Charge, December 1715, of money received from John Hay of Hopes (folio 76);

(v) Miscellaneous factors' accounts and receipts, 1692-1715, undated (folio 78).

Dates: 1692-1715, undated.

Family and general correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Hislop., 1783-1843.

 File
Identifier: MS.13111
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters of his illegitimate son Lieutenant William Hislop, Bengal Army, 1822-1824, with letters, 1829, concerning his death at Kotah, Rajaputana (folio 1);(ii) Letters of his illegitimate daughter Caroline Bridget Van Baerle and her children, 1837-1843 (folio 26);(iii) General correspondence and papers, 1783-1842, including letters of Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick,...
Dates: 1783-1843.

Financial and legal papers for Lochgelly and Melgund estates., 1599-1813.

 File
Identifier: MS.13294
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Miscellaneous estate accounts and receipts for Lochgelly and Melgund, 1808-1813 (folio 1); (ii) Memoranda, miscellaneous legal papers, reports, etc., for Lochgelly, 1599, 1655, 1663, 1682, 1704-1746 (folio 69), and for Melgund, 1726-1746 (folio 206).

Dates: 1599-1813.

Financial and legal papers of and concerning William Stirling, architect, Dunblane., 1805-1840.

 File
Identifier: MS.10903
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

Accounts and memorial in the case raised by the executors of William Stirling against William Graham of Airth (succeeded 1836) in respect of the non-payment of Stirling's bills for his additions to Airth Castle, 1805-1810, 1839-1840 (folio 1);

Cash-book and receipts of William Stirling for his work at Airth and Strowan, 1805-March 1809 (folio 42).

Dates: 1805-1840.

Financial papers, chiefly receipts., 1785-1802.

 File
Identifier: MS.14701
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Tax receipts, 1786-1801 (folio 1);(ii) Discharges, 1792-1797, by Alexander Fraser, sheriff clerk of Haddington, for various duties (folio 37);(iii) Poor rate receipts, 1793-1800 (folio 52);(iv) Insurance receipts, 1788-1800 (folio 63);(v) Advertisement receipts, 1787-1798 (folio 89);(vi) Miscellaneous accounts and receipts, 1785-1802, including servants' accounts of incidental expenses...
Dates: 1785-1802.

Financial papers concerning William Nassau Elliot as Commissary and Commissary-General to the allied army in Germany., 1761-1764.

 File
Identifier: MS.12888
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Treasury letters, 1764, relating to demands by the House of Commons to see papers concerning the supply of goods to the army in Germany (folio 1); (ii) Commissariat statements, 1761-1762 (folio 7); (iii) Commissariat statements and reports to Sir James Cockburn and the Prince of Brunswick (folio 27); (iv) Miscellaneous commissariat papers, 1762 (folio 41); (v) Miscellaneous accounts and receipts, 1761-1762 (folio 50).

Dates: 1761-1764.

Financial papers of the family of Erskine of Alva., 1602-1827, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5100-5102
Scope and Contents

Accounts of the Erskine family: household expenses, including bills from local tradesmen and from merchants in Edinburgh and London; receipts for land burdens, including ministers' stipends and schoolmasters' salaries.

Dates: 1602-1827, undated.