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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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SELKIRK
A Survey of the [FEMALE SERVANTS TAX] in the Burgh of Selkirk from
the 5 of Aprile 1787 to the 5 of Aprile 1788 By William Brunton Surveyor
[Page] 121

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1 Female Servant @ £0.5.0 Each is £0.5.0
2 Female Servants @ £0.2.6 Each is £0.5.0
Sum Total £0.10.0

I William Brunton Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby Certify that Upon Carefull examination
of the foregoing Taxs I find they Amount in whole to the Sum of Ten Shills. [Shillings] Ster [Sterling] And that upon
the twenty Second day of October 1788 I delivered to John Lang Collector for Said
Burgh a Copy of the Above duly Compared which Containd my Oath that Requisitions were
left with the forgoing persons that they were to be Charged with the Sums Set Against their
Severall Names -
William Brunton Survyr [Surveyor]

Transcriber's notes

Number of children under 14 are 7

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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