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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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Survey of the FEMALE SERVANTS TAX in the Burgh of Wigton
from the 5th of April 1788 to the 5th of 1789 by Anthony Macmillan Surveyor
[Page] 131

Proof of 4 female Servants at £0.2.6 each is £0.10.0

I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing
Several rates and Duties I find the amount in whole to the ten Shillings Sterling and that upon
the Twelfth day of Novr [November] one thousand Seven hundred & eighty eighty ears I delivered
to Mr John McKairly Collr [collector] of the said duties for the said Burgh an exact Duplicate
of the foregoing which contained my oath that Requisitions were left with (or delivered
to) the said respective Inhabitants, or at their dwelling places, respective by the dates
annexed to their names that were to be charged the sums hereby certified
to be due from them.
Anthony Macmillan

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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