Volume contents
- 1 - Orkney County , Jul 1778-Apr 1779
- 2 - Kirkwall Town , Jul 1778-Apr 1779
- 3 - Orkney County , Apr 1779-Jul 1779
- 5 - Orkney County , Jul 1779-Apr 1780
- 7 - Orkney County , Apr 1780-Apr 1781
- 9 - Orkney County , Apr 1781-Apr 1782
- 11 - Orkney County , Apr 1782-Apr 1783
- 15 - Orkney County , Apr 1783-Apr 1784
- 19 - Orkney County , Apr 1784-Apr 1785
- 23 - Orkney County , Apr 1786-Apr 1787
- 27 - Orkney County , Apr 1787-Apr 1788
- 31 - Orkney County , Apr 1789-Apr 1790
- 35 - Orkney County , Apr 1790-Apr 1791
- 41 - Orkney County , Apr 1792-Apr 1793
- 43 - Orkney County , Apr 1794-Apr 1795
- 47 - Orkney County , Apr 1797-Apr 1798
- 51 - Kirkwall Town , Apr 1779-Jul 1779
- 53 - Kirkwall Town , Jul 1779-Apr 1780
- 55 - Kirkwall Town , Apr 1781-Apr 1782
- 57 - Kirkwall Town , Apr 1782-Apr 1783
- 59 - Kirkwall Town , Apr 1783-Apr 1784
- 61 - Kirkwall Town , Apr 1794-Apr 1795
- 63 - Kirkwall Town , Apr 1795-Apr 1796
- 65 - Kirkwall Town , Apr 1787-Apr 1788
- 67 - Kirkwall Town , Apr 1788-Apr 1789
- 69 - Kirkwall Town , Apr 1790-Apr 1791
- 71 - Kirkwall Town , Apr 1791-Apr 1792
- 73 - Kirkwall Town , Apr 1792-Apr 1793
- 75 - Kirkwall Town , Apr 1794-Apr 1795
- 77 - Kirkwall Town , Apr 1797-Apr 1798
Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Inhabited house tax - Volume 47 - Orkney county (including Kirkwall burgh), E326/3/47
This volume provides information on who paid inhabited house tax in Orkney, including Kirkwall burgh around 1780.
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).