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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 8 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/8

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INVERBERVIE 55
A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Female Servants Arisen in the Burgh of Bervie for one year com
mencing the fifth day of April 1786 and ending the fifth day of April 1787 by William Greig Surveyor

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing duties find they amount in
whole to one pound two shillings and sixpence Sterling and that upon the day [blank] of March 1787 I delivered Mr John Duncan
Postmaster in Stonehaven Collectors of the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account (as will appear
from [blank] hereunto fixed) duly examined and Compared with the forgoing which contained my Oath that nottices were left
with the Several persons before named or at their dwelling-houses of the dates annexed to their respective names, requiring them
within fourteen days to give a list of their Female Servants retained or employed by them from the fifth day of April 1785 to
the fifth day of April 1786, and that the said account or Survey is made out from the lists returned to me and from the best in
=formation I could procure of the Female Servants of those who neglected or refused to give in a list there of in terms of the Notices
left with them as foresaid.
[signed] William Greig Surveyor

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Female servant tax - Volume 8 - Burghs (G-W) (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/6/8

Volume 8 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, 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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