Volume contents
- 1 - 1789-90 , Midlothian (Edinburghshire)
- 101 - 1789-90 , Morayshire (Elginshire)
- 105 - 1789-90 , Nairnshire
- 107 - 1789-90 , Orkney
- 111 - 1789-90 , Peeblesshire
- 115 - 1789-90 , Perthshire
- 127 - 1789-90 , Renfrewshire
- 145 - 1789-90 , Ross-shire
- 149 - 1789-90 , Roxburghshire
- 153 - 1789-90 , Selkirkshire
- 155 - 1789-90 , Shetland
- 159 - 1789-90 , Stirlingshire
- 171 - 1789-90 , Sutherland
- 173 - 1789-90 , West Lothian (Linlithgowshire)
- 183 - 1789-90 , Wigtownshire
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I John Wood Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that upon carefull
examination I find these duties to amount to the sum of one hundred
and sixty five pounds Two shillings and sixpence Sterling and
that this Same day being the eighteenth of January 1790 I did
deliver into the office of George Cranstoune Esqr. Collector of
said duties a full duplicate of this acct [account] in which I mentioned
that the charges agt. [against] the several Inhabitants were made either in
consequence of their returns to My Requisitions, or when they failed
to make such Returns from the best information I could procure John Wood
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257 Female Servants at £0.2.6 each £32.2.6
70 Female Servants at £0.5.0 each £17.10.0
147 Female Servants at £0.10.0 each £73.10.0
68 Bachrs [Bachelors] Servants at £0,5,0 each £17.0.0
10 Bachelors Servants at £0.10.0 each £5.0.0
20 Bachelors Servants at £1.0.0 each £20.0.0
572 £165.2.6
Surcharges
17 Oct 1789 Mr Mercer at Bow 1 1 £0.10.0
Ed [Edited] 8 Mar 1790 The above surcharge added to the Collector's Duplicate by John Wood
Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 18 - Counties (M-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/18
Volume 18 contains female servant tax rolls for the following counties: Midlothian, Morayshire, Nairnshire, Orkney, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland, Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Lothian and Wigtownshire.
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).