| Presbytery of Paisley |
Religious Organization |
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| Robert Cowan and Company |
Company |
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| Robert Hunter and Company |
Company |
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| Roger, Hogg, and Kinloch |
Partnership |
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| Royal Bank of Scotland |
Company |
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The National Archives, Kew |
| Sibbald and Greig |
Company |
Engaged in the smuggling of tea from Gothenburg to Scotland |
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| Sibbald and Johnston |
Company |
Engaged in the smuggling of tea from Gothenburg to Scotland |
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| Sir George Colebrooke and Company |
Company |
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| Sir William Forbes, James Hunter and Co. |
Partnership |
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| Society of Clerks to the Signet |
Trade Association |
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| Society of Fleshers in Dalkeith |
Trade Association |
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| Society of Solicitors of the Court of Session |
Trade Association |
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| South Sea Company |
Company |
Joint-stock company founded to reduce the national debt; created a bubble, which burst at the end of 1720. |
South Sea Bubble Resources in the Kress Collection at Baker Library |
| Stevenson and Laird |
Company |
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| Synod of Glasgow and Ayr |
Religious Organization |
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| The Coal-Work of Newton of Ayr |
Company |
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| The Greenock rope-work |
Company |
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| The Magistrates and Town-Council of Edinburgh |
Government Body |
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| The Magistrates of Perth |
Government Body |
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The National Archives, Kew |
| The Magistrates of the United Towns of Port-Glasgow and Newark |
Government Body |
1695 erected as a separate community from the parish of Kilmacolm; 1775 united with the Burgh of Barony of Newark; 1833 became a Parliamentary Burgh |
The National Archives, Kew |
| The Merchant Banking Company of Glasgow |
Company |
Composed of small traders, its name attracted the ire of the Merchants' House. Closed 1798. |
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| Thomas and Samuel Leach |
Partnership |
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| Trustees of the Post Road District |
Government Body |
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| Trustees of the South Bridge |
Government Body |
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| University of Glasgow |
Government Body |
College of Glasgow |
Archives Hub |
| Vice-Admiralty Court of Grenada |
Government Body |
Held jurisdiction over maritime affairs in Grenada. |
The National Archives, Kew |
| Walpole & Ellison |
Company |
Carried out a protracted legal debate with the trustees of William Alexander & Sons over two Grenada plantations, over which they held a joint mortgage. |
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| Walter Ewing and Company |
Partnership |
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| Walter Monteith and Company |
Partnership |
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| Walter Peter and Company |
Company |
Merchants in Virginia, engaged in the tobacco trade |
Virginia Gazette, April 25, 1766 |
| William Alexander and Sons |
Company |
For a time, one of Edinburgh's principal merchant houses. Failed as a result of the crisis of 1772. |
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| William Cuming & Son |
Company |
Founded between 1750 and 1760. Thomas Cumming was married to Janet Chalmers, a cousin of William Miller, Lord Glenlee |
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| William Cuninghame and Company |
Company |
Named Cunningham, Stewart and Co, until merging with Cochrane, Murdoch & Co in the 1760s. Later became Cunninghame, Findlay & Co. |
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| William Duguid and Andrew M’Kenzie, Merchants in Glasgow |
Partnership |
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| William Fuller and Son |
Partnership |
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| William MacCormick and Co. |
Company |
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| Williams, Tebb, and Williams |
Company |
Exported Calico to Scotland. |
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| Wright and Lang |
Partnership |
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