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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Sheriffdoms - Volume 1 - (see 'More Info' for details of Sheriffdoms), E106/1/1

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Pasley ultimo noia [notitia] 1649

Wee the comissioners [commissioners] vnder subscriving appointed for valuatioun of the rents of the shreffdome of Renfrew by act of the estates of Parliament of this kingdome holdin at Edr [Edinburgh] the 4th of august 1649 [4 Aug 1649], heaving often and frequentlie conveined, And heaving laboured to informe our selvs of the value and worth of the said whole shire by the informatioun and depositions of men who might give best knowledge in the rextiue [respective] paroches ceited for that effect : Doe declare vpon our oath that we found the valuatioun according to the informaun [informatioun] and depositiouns of the saids witnesses would not extend to the former totall sume: And theirfore for satisfying of the act of parliament (ordaining no respect to be had to anye valuauns [valuatiouns] that sould be vndir the totall of the former valuatioun) We haue added to our saids informers depositiouns als much as to make vp our former totall sume [summe] In obedience to the act of Parliament allanerlie : With this humble protestaune [protestatioune], that if the valuaune [valuatioune] of any shire be receaved from the valuers within their former totall sumes [summes] We may be admitted to give in our valuatioun expreslie according to the informaune [informatioune] and depositioun of our witnesss [witnesses]

Nota tht [that] this last article of knock, bogsyde & sandiefoord is to be deduced aff the shire in regard tht [that]
sen the former valuaun [valuatioun] it is declared be the Lords of counsell & ssession to be wtin [within] the towne
of Renfrew

[Signed]
James Montgomrie
W Ralstone of that ilk Neather pollok
J Wallace
Patrik Flemyng of Barrochan
A Craigends
Johne Maxwell of sowthbar
William Mure
Porterfeild of thht [that] Ilk
[Faulduss] of tht [that] ilk

Transcriber's notes

L.s.d. for pounds, shillings and pence, the letters being taken from the Latin librae, solidi and denarii.
'Rextive' is an abbreviation for 'respective(ly)', by confusion of 'p' and 'x'.
deduced - deducted
Latin 'ultimo notitia' - latest information

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Sheriffdoms - Volume 1 - (see 'More Info' for details of Sheriffdoms), E106/1/1

This volume contains Land tax rolls - the following sheriffdoms: Midlothian, Kincardineshire, Wigtownshire, Dumfries-shire, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Peebles-shire, Stirlingshire, West Lothian, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, Perthshire, Clackmannanshire, and Ayrshire, in 1649.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records)

The Scottish Exchequer, and subsequently the Court of Exchequer, were concerned with the accounting of collected taxes in Scotland. These taxes include the Carriage tax (1785-1798), Cart tax (1785-1798), Clock and watch tax (1797-1798), Dog tax (1797-1798), Farm horse tax (1797-1798), Servant tax (1777-1798), Hearth tax (1691-1695), Horse tax (1785-1798), Inhabited house tax (1778-1798), Land tax (1645-1831), Poll tax (1694-1698), Shop tax (1785-1789), Window tax (1748-1798). Following the Consolidating Acts (38 Geo. III cap. 40 and 41), the duties on windows, inhabited houses, male servants, carts, carriages and dogs were incorporated in Consolidated Schedules of Assessed Taxes (1798-1799).

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