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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
In the Royalty of North Berwick From 5th April 1786 to 5th April 1787 by Henry Watson Surveyor

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5 Servants @ £1.5.0..........£6.5.0
1 Batchelor.......................£1.5.0
£7.10.0

I Henry Watson Surveyor Aforsaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull Examination of the forgoing survey
Rates and Duty's I find They amount to the Sum of Seven Pounds Ten Shillings Sterling And that
upon the -- I delivered to Alexander Crawford Collector of the same Dutys for the Royalty
of North Berwick an exact Duplicate of the forgoing Acc. [Account] duely Examined and compared with the forgoing
And which contained my Oath that Requisitions were sent to the several forgoing Inhabitants, and that
they were charged According to their Answers made to same
Henry Watson 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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