, Male servant tax - Volume 25 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/25&destination=/virtual-volumes/volume-images/volume_data-E326-5-25/REX01666?image_number=203){kind=link}
Volume contents
- 1 - 1797-98 , Aberdeenshire
- 13 - 1797-98 , Argyll
- 17 - 1797-98 , Ayrshire
- 27 - 1797-98 , Banffshire
- 33 - 1797-98 , Berwickshire
- 45 - 1797-98 , Buteshire
- 47 - 1797-98 , Caithness (1796-97)
- 49 - 1797-98 , Clackmannanshire
- 53 - 1797-98 , Cromartyshire (1796-97)
- 55 - 1797-98 , Dunbartonshire
- 59 - 1797-98 , Dumfriesshire
- 75 - 1797-98 , East Lothian (Haddingtonshire)
- 81 - 1797-98 , Fife
- 95 - 1797-98 , Angus (Forfarshire)
- 103 - 1797-98 , Inverness-shire
- 105 - 1797-98 , Kincardineshire
- 109 - 1797-98 , Kinross-shire
- 113 - 1797-98 , Kirkcudbrightshire
- 120 - 1797-98 , Lanarkshire (1796-97)
- 135 - 1797-98 , Midlothian/Edinburgh (1796-98)
- 159 - 1797-98 , Morayshire/Elgin (1796-97)
- 163 - 1797-98 , Nairnshire (1796-97)
- 165 - 1797-98 , Peeblesshire
- 169 - 1797-98 , Perthshire
- 181 - 1797-98 , Renfrewshire
- 189 - 1797-98 , Ross-shire (1796-98)
- 193 - 1797-98 , Roxburghshire
- 201 - 1797-98 , Selkirkshire
- 203 - 1797-98 , Shetland
- 205 - 1797-98 , Stirlingshire
- 213 - 1797-98 , Sutherland (1796-97)
- 215 - 1797-98 , West Lothian (Linlithgowshire)
- 223 - 1797-98 , Wigtownshire
| Date | Masters & mistresses names & designations | Servants names | Quality of servants | Number of servants | Bachelor servants | One and two servants | Three and four | Five to seven | Eight to ten | Eleven or more | Duty | 10% per 31 George III | 10% per 36 George III |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -- Sep 1797 | Lady Simbister | Alexander Ramsay | Gardener | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | £0.2.6 | £0.2.6 | |||||
| Gideon Gifford Esq. of Busta | William Ormond | Gardener | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | £0.2.6 | £0.2.6 | ||||||
| £2.10.0 | £0.5.0 | £0.5.0 | |||||||||||
| 10 per cent thereon | per 31 George 3d | £0.5.0 | |||||||||||
| 10 per cent thereon | per 36 George 3d | £0.5.0 | |||||||||||
| Total | £3.0.0 |
Transcribe other information
Survey of the Rates & Duties arisen in the Lordship of Shetland on
Male Servants from the 5th of April 1797 to the 5th of April 1798 By
Francis Heddell Surveyor
I Francis Heddell Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon
carefull examination of the foregoing Duties I find they amount to the Sum of Three
Pounds Sterling: and that upon this Twenty Ninth day of November 1797 I left
with Mr Henry Ross Collector of said Tax for the Lordship of Shetland an exact
Duplicate of this Account duly examined and compared which contained my
Oath, that the foregoing Inhabitants were duly served with requisitions and
that they were charged in conformity to their several returns or according to
my Knowledge & belief that they were liable in said Duties.
Francis Heddell Surveyor
Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 25 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/25
Volume 25 contains male servant tax rolls for each county except Orkney. For most counties the rolls cover 1795-6 but those for Caithness, Cromartyshire, Lanarkshire, Morayshire, Nairnshire, and Sutherland cover 1796-7 and those for Midlothian and Ross-shire cover 1796-1798.
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).