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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Argyll county - Volume 1 - divisions of Cowal, Argyll, Lorn, Kintyre, Mull, and Isla , E106/3/1

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[1] Page -- Cowal -- Lochgoilshead &c: -- Valued Rents
Coual Division
[Page] 3/1

Sic Subscribitur Drumond Perth Cancell. [Cancellarius] I.p.d. [In praesentia dominorum]
Archibald Campbell Norius Pubs. [Notarius Publicus]

Transcriber's notes

Most of the Mlds [Merk lands] figures are too difficult to read.
L.s.d. for pounds, shillings and pence, the letters being taken from the Latin librae, solidi and denarii.
Merk Scots money - £0.13.4
MerkLands - Old Scots unit of land measurement
ut in brevi - in brief

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Argyll county - Volume 1 - divisions of Cowal, Argyll, Lorn, Kintyre, Mull, and Isla , E106/3/1

This volume contains land tax information on the Argyll divisions of Cowal, Argyll, Lorn, Kintyre, Mull, and Isla, 1684-1688.

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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