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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Dumfries county - Volume 2 - parishes (see 'More info' for parish details), E106/12/2

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Proprietor and land	Valuation
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Parish of Wamphray continued
Brot. [Brought] over	907.6.8
The Lands that belonged to Wamphray and which now belong to the Earl of Hopeton exclusive of the Lands of Broadgill disjoined there from at the rate of 70 merks by Act dated 6th May 1741 & charged in the parish of Dalton since that Time	2730.0.0
The twenty sh [Shilling] Land of Girthead and twenty shill [Shilling] Land of Rammellhill	180.0.0
The twenty shill [Shilling] Land of Miln	112.6.8
The two merkland of Garrogill that pertained to Corhead and Breckonside the one half to be paid by Breconside & [?] other included in Corheads rent	75.6.8
But as the Lands in the Article last mentioned cannot now be found the Collector of the Land tax gets yearly Credit for the Land tax payable out of the same
The Marquis of Annandale's Lands included in his Cumulo
Summa of this parish of Four thousand & five Merks Six Shills [Shillings] & eight pennies	4005.6.8
United parish of Hutton and Corrie
The whole Lands in this parish belonging in property or Superiority to the Marquis of Annandale are included in his Lordships Cumulo except the lands of Watscales part of the Lands evicted from him by the Duke of Queensberry which now pay by themselves at the rate of	75.0.0
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The united parishes of Applegirth Sibbaldbie and Dinwoodie
The forty pound land of Dinwoodie	1800.0.0
The Laird of Applegirth's Lands with Briery hill and Nether Cleugh	2100.0.0
The nine merkland of Sibbaldbie acquired by the late Sir John Jardine from the late Marquis of Annandale was included in the said Marquises Cumulo but by an Act of the Commissioners dated 26th May 1737 was disjoined from the same and ordined to pay at the rate of	665.0.0
The Six Merkland of Milnbank	300.0.0
The Marquis of Annandale's other Lands in this parish and those of his Vassals included in his Lordships Cumulo
Summa of this parish is four thousand eight hundred and sixty five merks with the addition of the Lands of Sibbaldbie	4865.0.0
Parish of Dryfesdale
The thirty pound land that pertained to Andrew Johnston of Lockerby & fishing the ten merkland of the Highfield of Bengal & five merkland in Town of Lockerby	2300.0.0
The five merkland of Hillhead	200.0.0
The twenty Sh [Shilling] Land of Bishopcleugh	30.0.0
The twenty shill [Shilling] Land of Auchenslork	56.0.0
The forty Sh [Shilling] Land of Dam & half mk [Merk] Lan of Broomrig & lockerby	300.0.0
The twenty shill [Shilling] Land of Dryfeholm more than pays the Superior	7.0.0
Boghead included in the Marquis of Annandales total
The forty Sh [Shilling]Land in Lockerbie that pertained to Gimmenbie	60.0.0
The three pound Land of the netherplace of Lockerbie over the rent paid to the Superior	22.6.8
The half merkland pertaining to Lockerbie	33.10.0
The half merkland of Chappell	30.0.0
Carried over	3039.3.4

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[signed]
John Goldie
William Mein

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[signed]
John Goldie
William Mein

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[signed]
John Goldie
William Mein

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Dumfries county - Volume 2 - parishes (see 'More info' for parish details), E106/12/2

This volume contains land tax information from the parishes of Dumfriesshire in 1771. The parishes include Penpont, Tynron, Closeburn, Morton, Sanquhar, Kirkconnel, Dunscore, Dumfries, Caerlaverock, Kirkmichael, Torthorwald, Kirkpatrick Juxta, Hutton and Corrie, Lochmaben, Dalton, Ruthwell, Kirkpatrick Fleming, Annan, Hoddom, Westerkirk, and Langholm.

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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