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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1798 | |||||||||||||
| 31 Mar 1798 | John Fordyce of Ayton for 6 Servants in place of 4 charged by his amended return making a difference of | £2.5.0 | £0.9.0 | ||||||||||
| The Earl of Lauderdale for a Seventh servent at Lauder fort making a difference of | £0.15.0 | £0.3.0 | |||||||||||
| £3.0.0 | £0.12.0 | ||||||||||||
| Sum of the additional duties is | £3.0.0 | ||||||||||||
| Sum of 20 p [per] Cent for 9 months p [per] 37 George 3d is | £0.12.0 | ||||||||||||
| Total Sum is | £3.12.0 | Ster [Sterling] |
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Additional Survey
of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. in Berwickshire from 5 April 1797
to the 5th April 1798 by William Johnston Survr. [Surveyor]
I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull Examination I find the foregoing duties amount to the
Sum of Three Pounds twelve shill. [shillings] Ster. [Sterling] And that upon the 1st. day of April 1798 I delivered to David Renton Coll. [Collector] of these
duties an exact duplicate of this Acct. [Account] duely examined & Compared, And that the foregoing Inhabitants were charged the above
additional duties conform to their amended returns or the information received from the Tax Office at Edinburgh that
they were liable in said duties-
William Johnstone Survr. [Surveyor]
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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).