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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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Rectified Valuation Roll 1814, Continued

Description of Property – Present Proprietors
St Cuthbert's, Brought forward, L. [£] 12286.17.11
The Haugh belonging to the Town of Edinburgh £36.0.0
For lands of Lochbank, or Barefords Parks, belonging to the Town of Edinburgh £131.0.0
For Thomas Anderson, Edinburgh £72.10.0
For Allan, stated afterwards, Edinburgh £61.3.4
For Robert Malloch, Edinburgh £46.13.4
[Sub total] L. [£] 347.6.8 The Town of Edinburgh £347.6.8
Sir James Rocheid, for the lands and estate of Inverleith, L. [£] 1940. Divided thus,-
The heirs of Alexander Kinloch, for three-fourths of the lands and estate of Inverleith – L. [£] 1455.0.0 James Rocheid of Inverleith - £1455.0.0
R. Cathcart Taylor, afterwards Alexander Boswell, for one-fourth, called Wardie and Windlestrawlee - £485.0.0 John Donaldson Boswall - £485.0.0
Agrees – L. [£] 1940.0.0

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[Page] 43

Rectified Valuation Roll 1814, Continued.

SCOTS MONEY

[Handwritten note beside the entry for Sir James Rocheid] * For Divn [Division] of V.R. [Valuation Roll] of Inverleith, See Appendix pages 1 & 2 & 30

[Handwritten note beside the entry for Cathcart Taylor] ‡ For Division of V.R. [Valuation Roll] of Wardie see App. [Appendix] p. [page] 26

[Handwritten note beside the combined entries for the Lands and Estate of Saughtonhall] * For Divn [Division] of V.R. [Valuation Roll] see App [Appendix] p [page] 35.

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Transcriber's notes

Annotations in red and/or green ink have not been transcribed.

To the left of the several entries, there appears a large, bold, capital letter R. Moderators to decide what to do with it.

The entries for Alexander Wood and George Knox, both part of Craigleith, are bracketed together with their subtotal attributed to Present Proprietors Heirs of G. Ramsay of Barnton.

The valuation entries for the lands of Damside and Factor's Park are combined for the subtotal £102.19.7, and to the right of those two valuation entries, the word "after" appears, in a vertical orientation.

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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