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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 16 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/16

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[Page] 109 RENFREW

Burgh of Renfrew, Survey of Duties on
FEMALE SERVANTS TAX
from 5th April 1787 till 5th April 1788
by David Hutcheson Surveyor


1 Bachelor Servt. [Servant] @ 2/6 [£0.2.6] £0.2.6
3 Servants @ 2/6 [£0.2.6] £0.7.6
£0.10.0

I David Hutcheson Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that
upon Carefull examination of the foregoing several Rates
and Duties, I find they amount in whole to the Sum of
Ten Shillings Sterling and that this day I delivered to
James Cross Collector of the said Duties for the Burgh
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 Severall
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 be due
from them
David Hutcheson S [Surveyor]
Glas [Glasgow] 27 Decr [December] 1788

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 16 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/16

Volume 16 contains female servant tax rolls for the following burghs: Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, Inverbervie, Inverkeithing, Inverness, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kilrenny, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Peebles, Pittenweem, Perth, Queensferry, Renfrew, Rothesay, Rutherglen, St. Andrews, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, and Wigtown.

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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