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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 2 - Counties (M-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/2

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23 Servants at 1/10½ [£0.1.10½] pr. [per] ¾ Annum is £2.3.1½
14 Servants at 3/9 [£0.3.9] pr. [per] ¾ Annum is £2.12.6
Bach [Bachelor]
25 Servants at 7/6 [£0.7.6] pr. [per] ¾ Annum is £9.7.6
8 Servants at 3/9 [£0.3.9] pr. [per[ ¾ Annum is £1.10.0
6 Servants at 1/10½ [£0.1.10½] pr. [per] ¾ Annum is £0.11.3
3 Servants at 7/6 [£0.7.6] pr. [per] ¾ Annum is £1.2.6
17.6.10½


I William Brunton Surveyor do hereby Certify that up-
on careful Examination of the foregoing several Rates and Duties, I find they amount
in whole to £17.6.10½ Sterlg. [Sterling] and that upon the 18th of March I sent by Post to John
Rutherford Collector of the said duties for the shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the
above Acct. [Account] duly examined and compared with the foregoing. And
do make Oath that the above is a just list returned by the several inhabi-
tants when requisitions were made by me of the dates aforesaid.
William Brunton
GSr [General Surveyor]
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Survey of the
Female Servants Tax
In the Shire of
Roxburgh
from 5 of July 1785
To 5 of April 1786
£17.6.10½

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 2 - Counties (M-W) (see 'More info' for county details), E326/6/2

Volume 2 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).

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