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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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I Robert Aiken aforesaid Do hereby certify that the foregoing is an
exact List of all the Servants returned by the different Masters and Mistresses
within the foresaid Shire with the duties arising thereon amounting in whole
to One hundred and eighty nine pounds Sterling. An exact Duplicate where of
I left with Mr. Charles Shaw Collector of said duties along with the Duplicates
of Surveys on inhabited Houses Windows or Lights within said County
Robert Aiken Surveyor

Defalcation in the number of servants accounted for

Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie Bart. [Baronet]
Left the Country - strikes off ...................................5
William Wallace Esq. of Sauchrie now
only one - strikes off ...............................................1
Archibald Crawford of Ardmilland removed
to the Burgh of Ayr, where he is
charged - this strikes off .........................................3
Mrs Boyd of Trochrigg also
removed to near Ayr Has
no servant - This strikes off ....................................1
Lord Auchinleck has reported all
his servants in Edin. [Edinburgh] This
strikes off ................................................................3
Lady Loudon dead -Her house
not inhabited - this strikes off .................................4

Total defalcation ......................................................17
brought down...........................................................180
Total formerly returned.............................................197 Rob Aiken Surveyor

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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