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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Wigtown county - Volume 3 - parishes (see 'More info' for parish details), E106/34/3

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PARISH of PENNINGHAME

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Lots subsequently sold have purchasers' names entered in red ink on the original documents and are marked with X - refer E106/34/3/1

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Land tax rolls - Wigtown county - Volume 3 - parishes (see 'More info' for parish details), E106/34/3

This volume contains land tax information from the parishes of Wigtownshire in 1799. These parishes include Wigtown, Penninghame, Whithorn, Glasserton, Inch, Kirkcolm, Kirkcowan, Kirkinner, Kirkmaiden, Mochrum, Old and New Luce, Portpatrick, Stoneykirk, and Sorbie.

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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