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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Midlothian (Edinburgh) county - Volume 7 - parishes (see 'More info' for parish details), E106/22/7

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revise and correct the Books; desiring him, when any difficulty occurred, in the course of the
work, to lay matter before the Committee for their advice and assistance. The Com-
mittee afterwards reported the matter to a General Meeting, held the 7th day of March 1814,
who approved of their proceedings.

Under these circumstances, Mr MACFARLANE submits, as the most eligible plan of pro-
cedure, to assume the Roll 1726 as the TEXT, aided by those of the four following years, by
which the Land-Tax appears to have been collected, aided also by the Roll 1702, and by the
Certified Roll 1738, AND TO TRACE each article of valuation through all the copies downwards
to the present time. He begins, therefore, with the Roll 1726 as the text, copying each Parish
from that Roll, and then draws out a Rectified Roll for the year 1814.


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VALUATION ROLL
OF THE
COUNTY OF EDINBURGH,
BY WHICH THE LAND-TAX, OR KING'S CESS, WAS COLLECTED IN
1726

No. 1. North Leith Parish, 1726.


-- SCOTS MONEY

Evan McGregor, for Gray of Warriston -- £260.11.4
for Mr James Pillan's Heirs -- £77.7.0
[sub total] -- £ 337.18.4

James Law of Hillhousefield -- £270.13.8
for James Davidson -- £26.1.0
for Pilrig's Acres -- £31.6.8
[Sub total] -- £328.1.4

N.B. For James Edgar - omitted, though the total drawn out
agrees -- £13.0.0
[Total]£341.1.4 -- £341.1.4

The Seamans Hospital of Leith -- £169.4.0
George Wilson -- £21.3.4
Henry Wilkie -- £15.13.4
Maurice Trent, for Boswell's Heirs -- £110.0.0
Thomas Storry -- £4.17.0
for Katharine Carol -- £5.16.0
[Sub total] -- £10.13.0
N.B. Only £10.3.0 drawn out


Jean Keay -- £4.17.0
Walter Duncan -- £11.0.0
Widow Stalker, for Marjory Cunningham -- £15.13.4
for the Carters -- £5.0.0
£20.13.4

William Smith, for Isobell Lyle -- £12.13.4
Captain John Brown -- £50.0.0
Widow Wardlaw -- £28.0.0
Kenneth McKenzie -- £7.0.0
George Dallas, for St Martins -- £8.0.0
Walter Stewart -- £8.0.0
Alexander Johnston, for James Sutherland -- £6.0.0
William Nisbett -- £6.0.0
Thomas White -- £5.0.0
James Gibson, writer in Edinburgh, for Alcorn's Heirs -- £28.0.0
John Martin, for Lady Bruce -- £10.0.0
Andrew Walker -- £10.0.0

Total £1716.0.0 -- £1220.17.0


N.B. 10s [shillings] more than this Roll 1726, owing to the above under summation of 10s [shillings] in Thomas
Storry's valuation, and agrees with the total summation of the Roll 1738. It is £10. 17s [shillings]
more than the Roll 1702, which wants Andrew Walker's £10 valuation, and is 17s [shillings]
under summed.

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revise and correct the Books; desiring him, when any difficulty occurred, in the course of the
work, to lay matter before the Committee for their advice and assistance. The Com-
mittee afterwards reported the matter to a General Meeting, held the 7th day of March 1814,
who approved of their proceedings.

Under these circumstances, Mr MACFARLANE submits, as the most eligible plan of pro-
cedure, to assume the Roll 1726 as the TEXT, aided by those of the four following years, by
which the Land-Tax appears to have been collected, aided also by the Roll 1702, and by the
Certified Roll 1738, AND TO TRACE each article of valuation through all the copies downwards
to the present time. He begins, therefore, with the Roll 1726 as the text, copying each Parish
from that Roll, and then draws out a Rectified Roll for the year 1814.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Midlothian (Edinburgh) county - Volume 7 - parishes (see 'More info' for parish details), E106/22/7

This volume contains land tax information from the parishes of Midlothian in 1814. These parishes include North Leith, South Leith, St Cuthbert's, Collington, Currie, Kirknewton, Inveresk, Lasswade, Newton, Newbattle, Libberton, Abbey of Holyroodhouse, Duddingston, Corstorphine, Cramond, Ratho, Kirkilston, East Calder, Mid Calder, West Calder, Dalkeith, Glencorse, Penicuik, Carrington, Crichton, Fala and Soutra, Temple, Heriot, and Stow.

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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