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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 10 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/10

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Survey of the MALE SERVANT TAX in the Royalty of
North Berwick for the year ending 5 April 1788 by William Johnstone Surveyor

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Proof 5 Men Servants at £1.5.0 is £6.5.0
1 Batchelor Men Servants at £1.5.0 is £1.5.0
£7.10.0

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the above duties I find they amount to Seven pounds ten shillings Sterling and that upon the ... Novemr [November] 1787 I delivered to Henry Nelson Collector of said duties in the Royalty of
North Berwick an exact duplicate of this accompt duely examined & Compared which contained my oath that the above Inhabitants were duely served with Requisitions of the above date, and that they were charged in conformity to their own answers thereto or according to my knowledge and belief that they were liable in the said forms hereby certified to be due from them William Johnstone Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 10 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/10

Volume 10 contains male servant tax rolls, 1787-1788, for each of the following burghs: Aberdeen, Annan, Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Cullen, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkwall, Lanark, Linlithgow, Montrose, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Queensferry, Rothesay, Rutherglen, St. Andrews, Stirling, Stranraer, and Tain.

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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