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Receipts. Financial records.

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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:

Miscellaneous English financial papers., 1686-1691.

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

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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 letters and documents.

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

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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 concerning the ‘Forty-five., 1695-1784, 1846.

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Identifier: MS.295
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) ‘Information’ relating to a dispute between Lachlan Mackintosh of Mackintosh and Coll Macdonell of Keppoch over the feus of Glenroy, 1695. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letter of William, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock, about a tenant, 1706. (Folio 2.)(iii) ‘The characters’, a poem printed as ‘A Jacobite Pasquil’ in ‘The Scottish Antiquary’, volume xii (1898), page 56, a cutting from which is attached. (Folio 4.)(iv) Letters of...
Dates: 1695-1784, 1846.

Miscellaneous letters and papers relating to affairs, chiefly Scottish and military, of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries., 1667-1745.

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Identifier: MS.3741
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Orders and letters of Lieutenant-General Hugh Mackay to Captain Robert Menzies, Younger of Weem (also known as Younger of Menzies and Fiar of Menzies), 1689-1690, relating to the Killiecrankie campaign and to Menzies's command as Lieutenant-Governor of Inverlochy and Fort William. From the Castle Menzies charter-room. They are extensively quoted in D P Menzies, "The 'red and white' book of Menzies" (Glasgow, 1894). (Folio 1.)(ii) Letter...
Dates: 1667-1745.

Miscellaneous papers and correspondence of and concerning Lady Hislop., 1806-1851, undated.

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Identifier: MS.13140
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Miscellaneous papers of Lady Hislop, 1806-1851, undated; (ii) Correspondence, chiefly family, of Admiral Sir Charles Elliot 1839-1865 (folio 101); (iii) Correspondence and papers of Gilbert Elliot, Dean of Bristol, 1843-1856 (folio 168).

Dates: 1806-1851, undated.

Miscellaneous papers and drawings of William Edmondstoune Aytoun., 1827-1871.

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Identifier: MS.4931
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) William Edmondstoune Aytoun's card of admission to Edinburgh University Library for 1827-1828, and a note, 1866, about the classes Aytoun attended at Edinburgh University, 1827-1833. (Folio 1.)(ii) Papers concerning Aytoun's legal career, including his apprenticeship to his father, 1829, his commission as Writer to the Signet, 1835, and his qualification as Advocate, 1840. There is also a receipt, 1834, for a donation to the Society of...
Dates: 1827-1871.

Miscellaneous papers concerning railway companies other than Aberdeen, and Arbroath and Forfar., 1839-1865.

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Identifier: MS.15485
Scope and Contents The railway companies include: the Llanelly Railway and Dock Co., 1839-1856 (folio 1); the Scottish North Eastern Railway Company, 1861-1865 (folio 17); the Dundee and Arbroath Railway Company, 1836-1845 (folio 21); Forfar and Dundee Railways, 1843 (folio 32); The Great Northern Railway, 1854-1864 (folio 34); the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway Company, 1852 (folio 38); the Montrose and Brechin Railway, 1837 (folio 40); the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company, 1843 (folio 44); the...
Dates: 1839-1865.

Miscellaneous papers concerning the family of James Seton., Late 17th century-19th century.

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Identifier: MS.19238
Scope and Contents

The papers include a notebook of prayers in a late 17th century hand (folio 1), genealogical notes mainly of the Laing family, 18th century (folio 9), and medical recipes of the 18th and 19th centuries (folio 13).

Dates: Late 17th century-19th century.

Miscellaneous papers, including charters and sasines, some concerning the Hope family., 1558-1665.

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Identifier: Acc.12092/4
Scope and Contents Contains:67. Charter by Robert Stewart of Rossyth in favour of Agnes Scrymgeour spouse of Peter Bruce apparent of Erlishall and their heirs failing which the heirs of Peter Bruce of the middle third of the lands of Cragy in the barony of Rossyth to by held in fee. Baillie for sesine William Barklay. At Edinburgh, 6 August 1558. Witnesses: William Galt, David Grege and Finlay Martin.68. Instrument of sasine dated 16 June 1576 in favour of David Seitoun son of Alexander...
Dates: 1558-1665.

Miscellaneous papers of John Hill Burton., 1674-1880, undated.

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Identifier: MS.9445
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Statements, 1879-1880, concerning the sales of John Hill Burton's books, ‘History of Scotland’ and ‘Queen Anne’. (Folio 1.)(ii) A list of the obituary dates of various friends of Burton. (Folio 6.)(iii) 'The history of Peter Anderson', an anonymous short story in the form of an autobiography. (Folio 11.)(iv) Notes on accounts of building works, 1674-1679, carried out by Sir William Bruce. (Folio 41.)...
Dates: 1674-1880, undated.

Miscellaneous papers of John Spottiswoode, Advocate., 1698-1718, undated.

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Identifier: MS.658
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) ‘Act [i.e., Bill] for erecting the Advocats into a Society. 27 Jany. 1701’ (folio 1);(ii) Similar draft, undated (folio 2);(iii) Lists of advocates, 1661-1710 (folio 4);(iv) Printed petition to the Court of Session by the Dean and Faculty of Advocates and others regarding valuation of the burgh of Edinburgh by the stent masters, 1707 (folio 14);(v) Draft of formal receipt by John Spottiswoode of the...
Dates: 1698-1718, undated.