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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:

Administrative and personal papers of James Stuart., 1781-1783.

 File
Identifier: MS.8430
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of:

(i) Returns and inventories of stores and provisions, 1781-1783, undated. (folio 1);

(ii) James Stuart's household accounts, etc., 1781-1783 (folio 25);

(iii) Miscellaneous receipts and invoices, 1782-1783 (folio 64).

Dates: 1781-1783.

Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.

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Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates: 1696-1891, undated.

Bills for various goods and provisions from merchants and tradesmen in Edinburgh, Leith and East Lothian., 1785-1801.

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Identifier: MS.14690
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Bills, 1785-1786, for various goods for Lady Hannah Hay [Marchioness of Tweeddale] at Edinburgh (folio 1);(ii) Bills for various goods from John Croumbie, Haddington, 1788-1799 (folio 13); Robert Paterson, Gifford, 1788-1800, including the gardener's and fowler's orders (folio 20); Midlemas Hay and Co., Dunbar, 1795 (folio 61); James Simpson, Haddington, 1797 (folio 63);(iii) Bills for provisions from Edinburgh shopkeepers,...
Dates: 1785-1801.

Bills, with some receipts and related papers, from Scottish merchants and tradesmen., 1670-1713, undated.

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Identifier: MS.14650
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Bills of Edinburgh tailors: Alexander Home, 1673-1687 (folio 1); various tailors, shirtmakers, sempstresses, etc., 1670-1697, undated (folio 27);(ii) Bills of Edinburgh and Haddington shoemakers, 1670-1687 (folio 58), with bills for Lady Anne Hay, 1681-1688 (folio 89), William and Lady Jean Hay, 1685-1686 (folio 93);(iii) Bills of Edinburgh tradesmen: James Brome, hatter, 1671-1678 (folio 95); William Ferrier, beltmaker,...
Dates: 1670-1713, undated.