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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 3 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/3

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Renfrew shire

Glasgow 31st Decemr [December] 1779. I William Gordon, Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify
that the foregoing duty on Servants, have been Carefully examined and I find they
Amount in whole To One Hundred and Twenty Pounds Two Shillings Sterling,
And upon the 22d Current I Transmitted to Mr Robert Paterson, Collector of the Said
duty for the said Shire, An Exact dupplicate of said Account Compared with the foregoing
which Contained my Oath. That Notices were Left with the Severall Masters or Mistresses
or at their dwelling houses of the dates Anexed to these Respective names Requiring them
to Return the Greatest Number of Servants employed by them for the foresaid Perriod.
William Gordon Surv [Surveyor]

Servants
Shire of Renfrew from
25 March 1778 to 25 March 1779
122 Servants £128.2.0

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 3 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/3

Volume 3 contains male servant tax rolls, 1778-1779, for each county except Shetland and Buteshire. Royal burghs are covered in volume 4.

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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