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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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Kilrenny
Survey of the Female Servants Tax Kilrenie
ending 5th April 1789 by Charles Robb Surv. [Surveyor]

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2 Servants @ £0.2.6 each is £0.5.0

I Charles Robb Assessor aforesaed do hereby certefy that upon careful Examination of the foregoing Several
rates and Duties I find they Amount in whole to the Sum of Five Shillings Sterling and that
upon the Twenty Seventh day of November I delivered to Robert Pratts Collector for the Burgh aforesaid an Exact
Duplicat of the Above Account duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing which Contained my Oath
that Notices were left with the Several Inhabitants or at their dwelling houses of the duties Annexed to their respective
Names that they were to be Charged with the sums hireby certified to be due by them
Charles Robb Assessor

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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