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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 19 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/19

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Survey of the CARRIAGE AND SADDLE HORSE TAX. in the Burgh of
Peebles from the 5 Aprile 1790 to the 5 Aprile 1791 by William Brunton Surveyor.


11 Horses at £0.10.0 each is £5.10.0

I William Brunton surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I
find he above duties amount to the Sum of Five pounds and ten Shillings and that upon the twenty
seventh day of November I delivered to John Hyslop Collector of these duties for the Burgh aforesaid
an exact duplicate of the above which contained 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 my 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 Aprile 1790 as well as an acount
report was made up from their Several lists or returns to me from the best information I could
procure or from my own certain knowledge of their Respective Establishments.
William Brunton

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 19 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/19

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the Scottish burghs of Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Anstruther Wester, Arbroath (Aberbrothock), Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Burntisland, Campbeltown, Crail, Cullen, Culross, Cupar, Dingwall, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dysart, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverary, Inverkeithing, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kilrenny, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Pittenweem, Queensferry (South Queensferry), Renfrew, Rothesay, Rutherglen, St Andrews, Sanquhar, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, Whithorn, and Wigtown, between the 5th of April 1790 until the 5th of April 1791.

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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