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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 20 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/20

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Survey of the Male Servants Tax in the Royalty of North Berwick
from the 5 April 1792 to the 5 April 1793. by William Johnstone Surveyor

Proof 1 Servant at £1.5.0 is £1.5.0
3 Servants at £1.10.0 is £4.10.0
and 1 Bach. [Bachelor] Servant at £1.5.0 is £1.5.0
Sum is £7.0.0
and 10 p [per] Cent on this sum is £0.14.0
the Amount is £7.14.0 Sterling


I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify That upon carefull examination of the foregoing duties I find
they amount to the sum of Seven Pounds fourteen shillings Sterling And that upon the 13th Oct. [October] 1792 I delivered to
John Kirk Collector of these duties an exact duplicate of this accompt duely examined & Compared which contained my
Oath That the foregoing Inhabitants were duely served with Requisitions And that they were charged according to
my knowledge & belief that they were lieble in said duties.
William Johnstone Surveyor.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 20 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/20

Volume 20 contains male servant tax rolls, 1792-1793, for each of the following burghs: Aberdeen, Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Cullen, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, Irvine, Kinghorn, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcaldy, Kirkwall, Lanark, Linlithgow, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Queensferry, St. Andrews, Stirling, 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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