Skip to main content

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 15 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/15

Transcribe other information

(2nd)

Clackmanan County MALE SERVANTS TAX Survey continued

Proof
9 servants @ £1.5.0 each is £11.5.0
17 servants @ £2.0.0 each is £34.0.0
1 batchelor @ £1.5.0 each is £1.5.0
Total is £46.10.0

I James Watsone Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon carefull Examination of the foregoing
Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole to the sum of Fourty Six pounds ten Shillings
Sterling And that upon the Eighteenth day of November current I delivered to William John James
Collector for the said County of Clackmanan an exact Dupplicate of the foregoing Survey which
contained my Oath that the severall persons before named were duly Served with Requisitions
and Notices whereby they were to be Charged with the several Duties hereby Certified to be due
by them James Watsone Surveyor

Linlithgow 30th November 1790
James Watsone Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 15 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/15

Volume 15 contains male servant tax rolls, 1790-1791, for each county except Orkney. Royal burghs are covered in volume 16.

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).

View more volumes for Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records)