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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 4 - Counties (Lanark - Perth) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/10/4

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At foot, there is a number 12 below the total of numbers of horses. There is another 12 at the base of the horses liable in duty column, deducted from the total to give a new total of 120, though this is not the total carried forward.

Transcriber's notes

Steven might be the more regular spelling for this name, but it is definitely Stiven in volume 10, and I found a Robert Stiven married in East Kibride in 1756, unlikely to be same one but sets precedent.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Farm horse tax - Volume 4 - Counties (Lanark - Perth) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/10/4

Volume 4 contains farm horse tax information on the following counties: Lanarkshire, Midlothian (Edinburghshire), Morayshire (Elginshire), Nairnshire, Orkney, Peeblesshire (Tweeddale), and Perthshire.

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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