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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Sheriffdoms - Volume 2 - (see 'More Info' for details of Sheriffdoms), E106/1/2

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Dumfermling Prisbetrie

[Signed] J S Bogie J.P. [Justice of the Peace] com [commissioner]

[Page] 287

Transcriber's notes

L.s.d. for pounds, shillings and pence, the letters being taken from the Latin librae, solidi and denarii.
By and attour - over and above
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

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Sheriffdoms - Volume 2 - (see 'More Info' for details of Sheriffdoms), E106/1/2

This volume contains Land tax rolls - the following sheriffdoms: Inverness-shire, Nairnshire, Angus (Forfarshire), Banffshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Sutherland, Morayshire, Berwickshire, and Fife, 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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