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REBELLION PAPERS
[OCT. 14
and Mansfield. Dined at Mrs. Clerks and talkd over sundry
Bank business. Message per Bailie Mansfield to General
Guest for admittance about Bank business to the Castle—
agreed to. Meeting indicted for 9 to morrow. Officers of the
Bank came to me and I notified same. Had 1 bottle of wine.
Supp’d at Mr. Ronald Crawford’s with sundrys.
Tuesday, 15th October 1745.
Coulterallers calld for loan of 6 guineas, which I gave him
on bill. Went to the Castle with Provost Coutts, David Baillie,
accomptant, and his clerk, Ewart, and three tellers about Bank
business, having notified our intention to General Guest, by a
letter which I wrote to him per Bailie Mansfield. Before we
went up had another crave for half crown contribution on Bank
house amounting to £8 : 2 : 6, which the directors agreed to
pay, so Bailie Mansfield was to advance it in my absence, and I
to repay him. Provost Coutts and I waited upon Generalls
Guest and Preston in the Castle. Then enterd upon our
business in the vault, viz*.—Settled and balancd the state of the
cash since 11 September. All the Bank notes cancell’d. The
tellers orderd to take down from the Castle all their balances.
All the notes formerly torn and not burnt, but laid up in the
directors old chest under lock, were this day burnt. All the
bills on 60 days, not formerly brought down, were deliverd to
David Baillie, his receipt or the Secretarys having formerly stood
for the same. All the foreign bills, and those from P. Murdoch,
etc. taken down by Robert Selkrig, in order to be lookt into.
On our coming from the Castle dined with Mr. Coutts, D.
Baillie and George Chalmers at Lucky Clerks, paid bill, 7
shillings. Went after dinner to the Castle with Mr. Coutts
and D. Baillie, and saw all the business finished. Came home,
Provost Coutts and D. Baillie with me, where the keys, seal,
and vouchers were seald up with Mr. Coutts’s seall. Answered
Lady Glenorchy’s letters of 8 and 10, but sent her nothing
enclosed, she having forbid to send any more newspapers. Got
a letter from Duncan Campbell. Answered letter of Lady
Dunstaffnage’s1 and sent her a guinea by her servant enclos’d.
1 Wife of Neil Campbell of Dunstaffnage.
REBELLION PAPERS
[OCT. 14
and Mansfield. Dined at Mrs. Clerks and talkd over sundry
Bank business. Message per Bailie Mansfield to General
Guest for admittance about Bank business to the Castle—
agreed to. Meeting indicted for 9 to morrow. Officers of the
Bank came to me and I notified same. Had 1 bottle of wine.
Supp’d at Mr. Ronald Crawford’s with sundrys.
Tuesday, 15th October 1745.
Coulterallers calld for loan of 6 guineas, which I gave him
on bill. Went to the Castle with Provost Coutts, David Baillie,
accomptant, and his clerk, Ewart, and three tellers about Bank
business, having notified our intention to General Guest, by a
letter which I wrote to him per Bailie Mansfield. Before we
went up had another crave for half crown contribution on Bank
house amounting to £8 : 2 : 6, which the directors agreed to
pay, so Bailie Mansfield was to advance it in my absence, and I
to repay him. Provost Coutts and I waited upon Generalls
Guest and Preston in the Castle. Then enterd upon our
business in the vault, viz*.—Settled and balancd the state of the
cash since 11 September. All the Bank notes cancell’d. The
tellers orderd to take down from the Castle all their balances.
All the notes formerly torn and not burnt, but laid up in the
directors old chest under lock, were this day burnt. All the
bills on 60 days, not formerly brought down, were deliverd to
David Baillie, his receipt or the Secretarys having formerly stood
for the same. All the foreign bills, and those from P. Murdoch,
etc. taken down by Robert Selkrig, in order to be lookt into.
On our coming from the Castle dined with Mr. Coutts, D.
Baillie and George Chalmers at Lucky Clerks, paid bill, 7
shillings. Went after dinner to the Castle with Mr. Coutts
and D. Baillie, and saw all the business finished. Came home,
Provost Coutts and D. Baillie with me, where the keys, seal,
and vouchers were seald up with Mr. Coutts’s seall. Answered
Lady Glenorchy’s letters of 8 and 10, but sent her nothing
enclosed, she having forbid to send any more newspapers. Got
a letter from Duncan Campbell. Answered letter of Lady
Dunstaffnage’s1 and sent her a guinea by her servant enclos’d.
1 Wife of Neil Campbell of Dunstaffnage.
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| Description | Contents:The library of James VI. In the hand of Peter Young, his tutor, 1573-1583 / G.F. Warner -- Documents illustrating Catholic policy in the reign of James VI., 1596-1598 / Thomas Graves Law -- Twenty-four letters of Sir Thomas Hope, ... 1627-1646 / Robert Paul -- Civil war papers, 1643-1650 / H.F. Morland Simpson -- Thirty-four letters written to James Sharp, ... 1660-1677 / John Dowden -- The diary of George Turnbull, minister of Alloa and Tyninghame, 1657-1704 / Robert Paul -- The Masterton papers, 1660-1719 / V.A. Noël Paton -- Accompt of expenses in Edinburgh by Alexander Rose of Kilravock, 1715 / A.H. Millar -- Papers about the Rebellions of 1715 and 1745 / Henry Paton -- General index -- Index to the library of James VI. |
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