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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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Clackmannan

The Roll of the Rent of the Sherfdome [Sherifdome] of Clakmannanne, made and sett downe, by the Commissionars vnder subscryveand, Appoynted for that effect, By Act of the Estaites of Parliament of this Kingdome, Holden at Edgh [Edinburgh] the fourth of August Jaj vj c fourtie nyne yeeres [4 Aug 1649], Wch [Which] Commissionars, haueing mett on the Eleventh Day of September [11 Sep 1648] And haueing Judiciallie given there Oathes to use there best endevors for a richt And true Informaun [Informatioun] Of the rents of the Whole Shyre And to proceede faithfullie and Impartiallie In prosequuting there Commissione, And Instructiones Relating thrinto [there into] Which they haue cairefullie performed in everie point, After Mature and Serious Deliberaun [Deliberatioun], They haue made, and sett downe, the Roll following, In Articles according to the Number of the severall Pariochs within the said Shyre, And haue cast up the sowmes according to the Direction of the Parliamente.

Transcriber's notes

L.s.d. for pounds, shillings and pence, the letters being taken from the Latin librae, solidi and denarii.
Breviter - Briefly
ut in Brevi - so in brief
The measure - Linlithgow prick mett was the standard firlot measure with a diameter of 19 1/6 inches and a Depth of 7 1/3 inches
wodsetter - the creditor in a mortgage arrangement
Latin 'inde' - thus

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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