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Reference | Title | Date |
GD112 | Papers of the Campbell Family, Earls of Breadalbane (Breadalbane Muniments) | 1306-20th century |
GD112/15 | Vouchers of Factors' Accounts | 1643-1797 |
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Country code |
GB |
Repository code |
234 |
Repository |
National Records of Scotland |
Reference |
GD112/15/275 |
Title |
Vouchers of accounts of John Campbell, cashier of the Royal Bank, of rents of the Earl of Breadalbane's estate, crop 1739 and moneyrent 1740. Settled at Taymouth, 4 October 1742 |
Dates |
1739-1742 |
Access status |
Open |
Location |
On site |
Description |
Including: 7. Account due to James Norie, painter, for work at Breadalbane's lodging in the Abbey of Holyroodhouse, 1739-40. Paid 23 December 1740.
8. Account due to John Jack, slater, for work on roof of the coach house in the Abbey Close, 2 April 1740.
9. Account due to John Ogile, for a dozen leather bottomed chairs and a wainscot chest of drawers, 2 December 1740. Paid at Holyroodhouse, 14 January 1741. With letter from Breadalbane to John Campbell, cashier, Tuesday. Tells recipient to debit Glenorchy's account for these chairs and the chest, and says that there are another dozen chairs being made; `they are all to be sent to the new house Taymouth. I will draw no more upon you, time now to stop'.
11. Account due by Lord GLenorchy to Duncan Campbell, for importing white clover seed from Rotterdam, 1741. Paid 5 February 1741.
12. Precept by Breadalbane for payment to Mr Murray who has paid for a dozen chairs for this house in the Abbey or Taymouth the sum of £3 18s stg., for the dozen, to be placed to Glenorchy's account, 18 February 1741.
13. Account for smithwork due by Breadalbane to William Richardson, Edinburgh, for work at the Abbey, including hinges for shutters, shutter bands, crook bands for the coach house, a kitchen grate, etc. 1740. Paid 11 November 1740.
14. Account due to John Campbell, merchant in Leith, for freight of six large casks, 6-7 January 1741. Includes a payment of half a crown to the coastwaiter not to open the casks. Paid 19 March 1741.
17. Account due to John Dinn, carrier, for transport of various goods, including a box with geese, two casks clover, a watering pan, six scythes and a wire riddle, five casks with nails and four large bundles of arras hangings, January-March 1741. Paid 28 March 1741.
19. Receipt by James Runciman for 40s stg. to account of work, not specified, at Taymouth. 30 April 1741.
20. Account due to William Adam, architect, for 2000 stock bricks put on board the `Thomas' of Kincardin, and for 2454 pavement tiles, 2 July 1740. Paid 28 April 1741.
21. Memo in Breadalbane's hand, enquiring about the Duke of Argyll's pension, and possibility of pensions for private men. Endorsed by Bank John as `memorandum from E. Bne. concerning which I paid a guinea to John McDougal at the Exchequer, 23 March 1741'.
22. Account due to William Millar for garden seeds, 1740-1. Varieties supplied include Battersea cabbage, Russia cabbage, Dutch cabbage, Alnwick cabbage, Strasbourg onion, London leek, London radish, Dutch radish, Silesia lettuce, asparagus, Savoy Cabbage, Flanders peas, Windsor beans, Turkey beans, melon beech mast, hornbeam, and cauliflower plants. Paid at the Abbey, 14 July 1741.
23. Account due to George Steel for freight of goods from London to Leith, including a chaise, 29 June 1741.
24. Account due to James Ker, jeweller, for a silver egg coffeepot, costing £16 4s 6d in all, 18 September 1741.
25. Precept by Breadalbane for payment to John Din, carrier at Perth, for carriage to Perth of all materials for the works at Taymouth, locks, bands and many other things, he is to be paid £4 stg., 16 October 1741.
27. Account due to William Nuccoll, 1740-1. Includes warehouse rent for 4000 brick and paving tile with a great chimney and a box with hinges and town's custom, and two carts with the chimney and hinges to Crieff and town's custom for the whole at Dunblane, etc. 24 November 1741.
28. Letter from Alexander Thomson to William Deas, servant to Captain Nuchole, at Alloa. Taymouth, 20 October (1741). Transport of about 280 stone of lead from Alloa; offers `some hundreds of stones of steanshar iron'.
29. Letter from James Runciman to Captain Willkiam Nuccoll, merchant in Alloa. Leith, 8 July 1740. Transport of bricks and pavement tile on the `Thomas'.
31. Account of linen cloth bleached for Lord GLenorchy, `to whytning six score fouer els broad linnen cloth at Lenerick bleatch field at 6ps pr. ell'. Paid to John Murray, 5 February 1742.
33. Account due by Lord Glenorchy to John Ogile, wright, for two dozen solid elm chairs, leather bottomed, at £12 in all, with a pair of footstools at 8s for the two, and a firescreen at 7s 6d. 2 March 1742, Paid 3 March 1742, at Edinburgh.
34. Receipt by James Williamson, miner, for £4 stg. from Lord Glenorchy, for charges of a journey to Tynndrom from Edinburgh, and home again, 13 March 1742.
35-6. Receipt by John Shiells, Gorbals of Glasgow, for £3 18s stg. as payment for two guns made for Lord Glenorchie and delivered to Thomas Cowshland, 12 March 1742. Paid at Edinburgh, with twopence to the porter, 15 March 1742. With letter from John Shiells to John Campbell, cashier of the Royal Bank in Edinburgh. Gorbals of Glasgow, 12 March 1742. Sends the guns bespoke by Mr Colin Campbell, porter to the University of Glasgow, for Lord Glenorchie, one at two guineas and the other at 35s; `we thoght it proper to make one of them at two gunies to let his lordship sie the work that could be done hear in this pleas'.
38. [Last] discharge by Mrs Mildred Littler of her yearly annuity of 1000 merks scots, 10 March 1741.
42. Account of law charges, 16 March 1741 to 19 March 1742. Includes cost of a warrant for transporting William Duncanson from Stirling to Edinburgh, 22 July 1741; a consultation with the Advocate concerning Lochdochart's right to mines in lands of Conandash, 17 November 1741; various expenses over the forest of Mamlorn with Menzies of Culdares; and consultation with the present Advocate at his signing for the crown and Breadalbane and his chamberlain for transportation of William Duncanson to America, 18 March 1742. |
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