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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Renfrew county - Volume 2 - parishes (see 'More info' for parish details), E106/27/2

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We William Mure Esqr of Caldwell & William Davidson Esqr Chief Magistrate of Paisley
Two of the Commissioners of Supply of the County
of Renfrew and John Wylie Clerk of supply
of said County. Do hereby certify that the
following is a just and true Extract from the
Valuation Book of the Shire of Renfrew Vizt.



[signed] John Wylie Clerk

[Page] 1A

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Renfrew county - Volume 2 - parishes (see 'More info' for parish details), E106/27/2

This volume contains land tax information from the parishes of Renfrewshire in 1735, with alterations in 1803. These parishes include Cathcart, Eaglesham, Greenock, Inchinnan, Inverkip, Kilbarchan, Kilmalcolm, Lochwinnoch, Mearns, Neilston, Paisley, Renfrew, Eastwood, Killellan, and Houston.

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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