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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 6 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/6

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A Survey of the Duties on Male Servants in the Royal Burgh of Lanerk from the 5th of July 1785 to the 5th of
April 1786 by William Mure Surveyor

[Page] 87

Proof
1 Male Servant at £1.5.0 per Year for three Quarters of a Year is £0.18.9
Grand Total £0.18.9

I William Muir Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull Examination of the foregoing
several Rates and Duties I find they Amount in Whole to Eighteen Shillings & Nine pence Sterling and that
upon the ... I delivered to Richard Watson Collector of the Said Duties for the Shire aforesaid
an exact duplicate of the Above Account duly examined and compared with the foregoing which contained my
Oath that Notices were left with the Several Inhabitants or at their Dwelling houses of the Dates annexed
to their respective names that they were to be charged with the Sums hereby certified to due from them
by me William Muir Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 6 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/6

Volume 6 contains male servant tax rolls, 1785-1786, for each of the following burghs: Aberdeen, Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Cullen, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverness, Inveraray, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkwall, Lanark, Linlithgow, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Queensferry, Rutherglen, St. Andrews, Stirling, and Tain.

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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