| Description | Accounts and miscellaneous papers, 17-18 century. Including:
Scroll unsigned letter addressed 'my lord' n.d.
Unexpected bad news of disbanding of the regiment; is to be made and example of; they are now punished for faults of both colonels; wishes a better post; his past services.
Major William Burnet of Balfour to his wife. London, 10 June 1699.
Financial straits; payment of the clothing money; urges her not to be uneasy, but to go to Carriden; trouble with here brother; the Spey fishing.
Compt of intromissions of Mr William Douglas with some of rests of rent of Tantalloun, preceeding March 1662 and the date of the commission granted to Sir Robert Douglas and him to visit the barony to grant ease to the depauperat tenants, as they should find expedient etc.
Note of victual and bestial of the Laird of Leyis' tenants, n.d. mid 17 century.
Account of nails bought by John Collly, wright, from Alexander Hutcheon, merchant in Banchory, for the manse of Banchorie, 1748. Paid 24 October 1748.
Letter from Patrick Duncan to Captain William Burnet of Balfour, Stirling, 30 December 1691.
Protests that he has been calumniated and that he never spoke against recipient, adding that there were others mor guilty than he was; intends to buy a horse for the king's service as the troop horse he had was shot in the 'spald'. |