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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 8 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/8

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MALE SERVANTS TAX from 5th April 1786 to 5th April 1787 by Robert Aiken Surveyor



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3 servants @ £1.5.0 each is £3.15.0
2 Batchelor Servants @ £2.10.0 each is £5.0.0
Total £8.15.0

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing rates and duties aforesaid I find they amount in whole to Eight Pounds Fifteen Shillings Sterling and that upon the fifth day of January Current I delivered to Mr Robert MacMillan Collector of said Duties for said Burgh an exact duplicate of and duly examined & compared with the foregoing account which contained my oath that notifications were delivered or left of the dates foresaid and that the rates charged in said account were just and true to the best of my skill and knowledge , and to the best of my belief no person liable to be charged , was omitted. [signed] Robert Aiken Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 8 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/5/8

Volume 8 contains male servant tax rolls, 1786-1787, for each of the following burghs: Aberdeen, Arbroath, Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Cupar, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverness, Inveraray, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkwall, Lanark, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Queensferry, Rutherglen, St. Andrews, Stirling, Stranraer 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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