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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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The Roll of the Rent of the Shirreffdome of Pearth made and set doune by the Commissioners vnder Subscriving appointed for that effect by Act of the Estaites of Parlament of this Kingdome holden At Edinburghe the fourth of August Anno. one thousand Six hundreth fouirtie Nyne [4 Aug 1649] which Commissioners haueing met on the Twentie Sixt day of August Last [26 Aug 1648], And haueing Judicially given their othes to use their Best endeavours for a right and true Informatione of the Rents of the wholl Shyre and to proceed faithfully and Impartially In prosecuting their Commissione and instructions relating theirvnto which they haue carefully performed in every point: After Serious and mature deliberation they haue made and set doun the Roll following in Articles according to the Number of the Severall parishes within the said Shyre and haue cast up the Summes acording to the directione of the Parliament:

[Signed]
Stirling
John Broune
Prestone
Inchesture
A Menzeis off Comryes
J Kinloch
Williame Moncreiff
Robert Prestone

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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