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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 4 - Burghs (G-T) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/4

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768 Female Servants at £0.2.6 each per year for three quarters of a year is £72
222 Female Servants at £0.5.0 each per year for three quarters of a year is £41.12.6
53 Female Servants at £0.10.0 each per year for three quarters of a year is £19.17.6
in Whole 1043
92 Batchlors Servants at £0.2.6 each per year for three quarters of a year is £8.12.6
20 Batchlors Servants at £0.5.0 each per year for three quarters of a year is £3.15.0
3 Batchlors Servants at £0.10.0 each per year for three quarters of a year is £ 1.2.6
Grand Totale £147.0.0

I William Mure Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby certify, that, upon carefull Examination of
the foregoing Several Rates and Duties, I find they amount, in whole to One Hundred and forty
seven pounds Sterling; and that, upon the I delivered to Mr John
Carlile Collector of the said Duties for the Burgh aforesaid, an Exact Duplicate 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 Dates annexed
to their respective Names, that they were to be charged with the Sums hereby certified
to be due from them.
by me William Mure Surveyor

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 4 - Burghs (G-T) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/4

Volume 4 contains female servant tax rolls for the following burghs: Glasgow, Haddington, Inveraray, Inverbervie, Inverkeithing, Inverness, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kinghorn, Kilrenny, Kirkcaldy, Kirkwall, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Montrose, Nairn, North Berwick, Peebles, Pittenweem, Perth, Queensferry, Renfrew, Rothesay, Rutherglen, St. Andrews, Stirling, and Tain.

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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