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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Dumfries county - Volume 3 - parishes (see 'More info' for parish details), E106/12/3

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Proprietor & Land	Valuation	Valuation (Total)
PARISH OF DURISDEER continued	Merks s. d.	Merks s. d.
Brought forward		247.6.8
Lord Eliock has disponed his lands lying in the parish of Sanquhar, also called "The merklands pertaining to Carnwath;) the Commissioners of Supply, by their Act, dated third October 1774, found and declared, that these parts and portions of the twenty-six merkland of Eliock, lying in the parish of Durisdeir, before the suppression of the parish of Kilbryde, viz. the lands of Crairie, the lands of Burnmouth, Farding-malloch, Glenwhairn, Ober Glengenny, Nether Glengenny and Dryffesmark, with the pertinents disponed to the said William Campbell, ought to be stated in the cess-books of this county, as lying within the parish of Durisdeer, by the foresaid known names, in the place of the general description under which they stand valued at the above sum of		£800.0.0
PARISHES of SANQUHAR and KIRKBRYDE.
The merklands that pertained to Carnwath, and which now belonged to Lord Eliock, are stated in the old valuation book at 800 merks
But upon the petition from Lord Eliock, William Campbell, and William Maxwell, more fully mentioned under the parish of Durisdeer, the Commissioners of Supply, by their Act, dated the said third October 1774, found and declared, that the forty shilling land of Euchan, the forty shilling and forty penny land of Eliock, and these parts and portions of the twenty-six merkland of Eliock, lying in the parishes of Sanquhar and Kirkbryde, now suppressed, viz. the lands of Craigdarroch, the lands of Twenty Shilling, Hawcleughside, and Rowantreeflat, and the lands of Little-Mark, with the pertinenets, lying as mentioned in the sid petition, and disponed to the said William Maxwell, ought to be stated in the cess-books of this county, as lying within the parish of Sanquharm under the foresaid known names, at the said valued rent of		800.0.0
And the Collectors of the land-tax were ordained to uplift all public burdens out of these specific lands.
Summa of this parish is eight hundred merks.		800.0.0
The DUKE of QUENNSBERRY'S Cumulo
The Duke of Queensberry's haill lands in Nithsdale, including the lands of the petty heritors in Kirkconnell parish, the Curans, the two merkland aclaimed by William Carlyle in Roucan, the twenty shilling land of Reidhall in Lochmaben, the Netherland croft in Dalgarno, the kirkland of Torthorwald, Mortonholm and Penpont, the ten pound land of Dornock above the kirk, with the Birks in Penpont, Gotsbrig, Neuk, and twenty shilling land possessed by Hog in Middlebie, were valued in the valuation book, made up in May 1671, in cumulo, and extended together to	33687.0.0
But on a petition presented to the Commissiners of Supply, on the seventeenth day of May 1745, by the Commissioners of His Grace Charles Duke of Queenberry and Dover, it was represented, That upon examining the vaulation book, and placing out the lands therein contained, which had been purchased by the family of Queensberry, since the time it was made up, it would appear there were none whereof the tenants did not pay the supply, except these following, viz.
PARISH of TYNRON
Pingerie's lands,	325.0.0
The lands of Craigencuins,	262.6.8
CLOSEBURN
The forty shilling land of Glencross,	60.0.0
MORTOUN.
The mains of Mortoun, the lands of Whitefald and Buss, Burnfoot and Handgill,	1000.0.0
The four merkland of Drumshinnoch,	120.0.0
DURISDEIR.
The whole lands in this parish, which are particularly mentioned under it, except Durisdeir-town, and the lands pertaining to Lord Eliock,	3985.0.0
Carried over,	39439.6.8

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Dumfries county - Volume 3 - parishes (see 'More info' for parish details), E106/12/3

This volume contains land tax information from the parishes of Dumfriesshire in 1781. The parishes include Penpont, Tynron, Closeburn, Morton, Sanquhar, Kirkconnel, Dumfries, Dunscore, Kirkmichael, Tinwald, Wamphray, Hutton and Corrie, Lochmaben, Mouswald, Cummertrees, Kirkpatrick Fleming, Anna, Middlebie, Eskdalemuir, 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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