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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 24 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/24

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JEDBURGH
A Survey of the [FEMALE SERVANTS TAX] in the Burgh of Jedburgh
from the 5 of Aprile 1790 to the 5 of Aprile 1791
By William Brunton Surveyor

Proof
3 Female Servants @ 5 sh [£0.5.0] Each is £0.15.0
9 Female Servants @ 2 sh [£0.2.6] Each is £1.2.6
Sum Total £1.17.6

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find the above
duties amount to the Sum of One pound Seventeen Shillings and Sixpence and that upon the [blank] day of
[blank] I delivered to James Black Collector of these duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate of
the above which containd my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly served with requisitions of the dates
foresaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose
an attested list of all the Servants horses and Carriages used and employed by them from the 5 of Aprile 1789 to the 5
of Aprile 1790 as well as an account of what Servants horses and Carriages they might use and employ any where else
and that the forgoing report was made up from their several attested lists or Returns to me from the best information
I coud procure or from my own certain knowledge of their respective Establishments
William Brunton

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 24 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/24

Volume 24 contains female servant tax rolls for the following burghs: Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, 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, Sanquhar, 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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