In this week's poser, taken from the poll tax records of Largs in Ayrshire, we asked you what the date given in jaj form was.

Image of an extract from the poll tax records of Largs parish (National Records of Scotland).

Answers: The year given in jaj dating form is 1698.

Transcription

Which pole underwrittin shall be puctually payed be the
persons [above]written in the terms of the act of parliament
being the first day of January next or thretty dayes
th[e]r[e]after Given under my hand at Kelburne the tenth
day of December 1698 years
Sic subscribitur
Boyle of Kelburn

I Agnes Dunbar Lady Skeldone within the parish of Dal-
rymple Do hereby decla[r]e that George Campbell of Skeldon my
Eldest Son (being ane minor) his valua[tio]ne to be above ane Hun-
dred & not Two hundred pounds sco[t]s In wittness q[uhai]rof I Have sub[scribed]
thir presen[t]s at coiltowne this fifteen of November jai vi c & nyntie
eight years Before the Mr of Cathcart and Ronald Chalmers
of polquhairn Sic subscibitur Agnes Dunbar

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