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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 16 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/16

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A Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX in the Burgh of Peebles
from the 5 of Aprile 1790 to the 5 of Aprile 1791 by William Brunton Surveyor

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I find the above duties amount to the Sum of
One pound and five Shillings and that upon the twenty seventh day of November I delivered to John Hyslop Collector of these duties for the Burgh
aforesaid an exact copy of the above which containd my Oath that the preceding inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions of the dates
foresaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose an attested list of all
the Servants horses and Carriages they might use and employ anywhere Else and that the forgoing report was made up from their several attested
lists or Returns to me from the best information I coud procure or from my own certain knowledge of their Respective Establishments.
William Brunton

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 16 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/16

Volume 16 contains male servant tax rolls, 1790-1791, for each of the following burghs: Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Cullen, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkwall, Lanark, Linlithgow, Montrose, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Queensferry, Rothesay, St. Andrews, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain and Wigtown.

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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