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Volume contents
- 1 - , Inveresk
- 8 - , Dalkeith
- 10 - , Liberton
- 11 - , Lasswade
- 12 - , Newbattle
- 14 - , Penicuik
- 15 - , Borthwick and Stow
- 16 - , Duddingston
- 16 - , West Calder
- 17 - , Midcalder and Colinton
- 18 - , Cramond
- 19 - , Currie, Kirknewton and Cranston
- 32 - , Dalkeith town and parish
- 33 - , Liberton and Lasswade
- 34 - , Newbattle and Crichton
- 35 - , Penicuik, Carrington and Temple
- 36 - , Stow, Cranston and Ormiston
- 37 - , Newton and Wesyt Calder
- 38 - , East Calder, Colinton and Cramond
- 39 - , Kirkliston, Corstorphine and Currie
- 40 - , Parish totals
- 41 - , New survey
- 48 - , deposition
Hearth tax transcription
[Page] 48
Edinburgh the 7th day of March 1694 [7 Mar 1694]
In presence of the Earle of Cassillis one of the Lords Comrs [Commissioners] of Thery [Thesaury] Compeared Peter Kennoway subCollr [subCollector] of the hearth-money within Mid-Lothian, who being sworn & examined, Declared, That the forsaid Lists of hearths Extending to Nyn thousand fyve hundred fifty three which are payed. And Eight hundred & therty six which are unpayed, Is ane true & just List of all the hearths of the parochins forsaid, to the best of his knowledge. Excepting the hearths of Fyve hundred, therty one poor. And that he hes used his outmost endeavours, Conform to the proclamations of Councell anent the Ingathering of the hearth-money, to attaine to the knowledge of all the hearths of the said parochines. And that he hes not wittingly nor willingly, concealed any, bot given up the samen truely as said is. And this is the truth as he shall answere to God.
[signed]
P Kennoway
Cassillis
Transcriber's notes
Page numbered 48 in a modern hand.
Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Hearth tax - Midlothian - Volume 1 - excluding Edinburgh and Leith, E69/16/1
This volume contains a list of householders liable for hearth tax in Midlothian, excluding Edinburgh and Leith in 1694.
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).