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Volume contents
- 2 - Orkney , Deerness
- 9 - Orkney , Holm
- 17 - Orkney , Orphir
- 20 - Orkney , Stromness
- 24 - Orkney , Sandwick
- 31 - Orkney , Stenness
- 34 - Orkney , Harray
- 39 - Orkney , Birsay
- 41 - Orkney , Evie
- 43 - Orkney , Rendell
- 45 - Orkney , Firth
- 48 - Orkney , Hoy
- 49 - Orkney , Walls
- 52 - Orkney , South Ronaldsay
- 59 - Orkney , Burray, Flotta, Swannay
- 60 - Orkney , Shapinsay
- 61 - Orkney , Stronsay
- 63 - Orkney , Sanday
- 69 - Orkney , North Ronaldsay
- 71 - Orkney , Eday
- 72 - Orkney , Westray
- 73 - Orkney , Papa Westray
- 74 - Orkney , Rousay, Enhallow
- 77 - Orkney , Egilsay
- 78 - Orkney , Wyre
| Proprietor and land | Valuation |
|---|---|
| John Elphinstoun has of free Rent out of the Lands of Walls fourty Eight Meills Malt Is | £100.0.0 |
| Edward Scollay has of free Rent there Twelve Meills Malt & Twelve Meills Meall Is fourscore Eight pound | £88.0.0 |
| James Scollay Fiar of Tofts has of free Rent out of his Lands of How Thretteen Meills Two Settings Malt, Six Meills four Settings Meall Is | £71.1.2⅔ |
| [page] 66 Burness Parish | |
| James Cock has of free Rent out of his Lands of Stoveby & Attoure the Superior Duty | Eighteen Meills Malt |
| and for the Superplus of the Grassum four pounds Money | £4.0.0 |
| More out of his Lands there Two Meills Ane Setting Malt, More Two Meills of Malt Is Threescore Seventeen pound Seventeen Shill [Shillings] Nine pennys third pt [part] penny | £77.17.9⅓ |
| John Grott of Elsness has out of his Lands in Burness four Meills Malt Is | £13.6.8 |
| James Traill has of free Rent of his Lands there | Three Meills Malt, More there Nine Settings Malt, More there four Settings half Setting Malt, More of Malt Ane Meill |
| & of Money Twenty Shilling | £1.0.0 |
| Is Twenty Ane pound Sixteen Shilling Eight pennies | £21.16.8 |
| Malcolm Sinclair in [--] has of free Rent four Settings half Setting Malt Is | £2.15.0 |
| Malcolm Sinclair Sometime of Rapness has of free Rent of his Lands there | Six Meills Malt |
| & in Grassum yearly four pound | £4.0.0 |
| And Ane Leispond Ten Merk of Butter Yearly | |
| Is | £26.16.8 |
| Simon Scott has there Ane Setting half Setting Malt Is | £0.16.8 |
| Mr Thomas Abercrombie has there of free Rent of his Lands of Burness four Settings half Setting Malt Is fifty five Shilling | £2.15.0 |
| Brandie Thurland has of free Rent there ane Setting half Setting Malt Is | £0.16.8 |
| Walter Thomsone has of free Rent there Three Settings Malt Is | £2.13.4 |
| [Continued] Richard Fotheringhame has there of free Rent Two Meills Malt Is | £6.13.4 |
| John Scott of Langskaill has there Three Meills Malt Is | £10.0.0 |
| Walter Thomsone has there Two Meills Malt Is Six pound Thretteen Shill [Shillings] four pennys | £6.13.4 |
| John Above the Riggs has there Two Meills Malt is Six pound Thretteen Shill [Shillings] 4 pennies | £6.13.4 |
| Edward Cock has there four Meills Malt is | £13.6.8 |
| Robert Stewart of Brugh has of free Rent of his Lands in the Isle of Sanday | Threescore Eleven Meills Three Settings Malt |
| And for flesh & Grassum Ane Hundred & Thretty pound Ten Shilling | £130.10.0 |
| Whereof Deduces payable to Edward Stewart of Brugh Two Hundred pound | £200.0.0 |
| Sua Remains of free Rent Ane Hundred Threescore Eight pound Sixteen Shilling Eight pennies | £168.16.8 |
| Edward Stewart of Brugh has of free Rent there Two Hundred pound | £200.0.0 |
| The Sum of the free Rent of the said Island and Parochine belonging to the Heretors Extends to Thretty four Last Two Meills Malt Is in Money Two Thousand Seven hundred Twenty Six pound Thretteen Shilling four pennys | £2726.13.4 |
| Fourty Eight Meills four Settings Meall Is Ane Hundred fourscore fourteen pound Thretteen Shill [Shillings] four pennys | £194.13.4 |
| Four Barrell Two Leispond Eighteen Merks butter Is fourscore pound Ten Shilling | £80.10.0 |
| off flesh, Grassum & Casuall Rent Ane Hundred Threescore Two pound Nineteen Shilling four pennys | £162.19.4 |
| Is in all Three Thousand Ane hundred Threescore Nine pound Seventeen Shilling | £3169.17.0 |
| Whereof Deduces payle [payable] to the Minister or Superior Ane hundred Threescore fifteen pounds | £175.0.0 |
| Sua Remains of free Rent Two Thousand Nine hundred fourscore fourteen pound Sixteen Shilling | £2994.16.0 |
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[page[ 66 Sanday -- L.P. [Lady Parochine]
[signed] John Urquhart -- Donald Groat
Andrew Young
[page] 67 Sanday. B.P. [Burness Parish]
[signed] John Urquhart -- Donald Groat
Andrew Young
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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Orkney county - Volume 1 - parishes (see 'More info' for parish details), E106/24/1
This volume contains land tax information from the parishes of Orkney in 1653. These parishes include Deerness, Holm, Orphir, Stromness, Sandwick, Stenness, Harray, Birsay, Evie, Rendell, Firth, Hoy, South Ronaldsay, Burray, Flotta, Swannay, Shapinsay, Sanday, North Ronaldsay, Eday, Westray, Rousay, Enhallow, Egilsay, and Wyre.
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).