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Hearth tax transcription
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I Mr William Archibald wryter in Edinr [Edinburgh] SubCollector of the hearth money within the parochines of South and North leith Cannongate parochines of West Kirk and Towne of Edinr [Edinburgh] without the Walls Doe be this puts declare That the number of hearths Containt in the pages within wryten extending the Sds [Saids] pages To ane hundred and thirty ane in number are Sett downe after Survey made be me The Said Mr William Archbald and John Stewart and William henderson wryters in Edinr [Edinburgh] my Servts [Servants] waged for that effect and that the Saids Servts [Servants] (with what I did surveyd at first my Self) did Survey the haill within wtne [writtene] bounds except Some Mansione houses and wasts mentioned in the within wtne [writtene] pages To qch [quhich] wee hade not access be reasone of Seall [Severall] persons being abSent And that the number of hearths allready Surveyed amount To Seven Thousand foure hundred and Seventy Two or thrby [thereby] And To the best of all our knowledge The accompts of payt [payment] as they are marked are True and Just And wee declare That none of ws have Concealled any hearths within the haill within wtne [writtene] bounds Ir anent viz The Concealling of any of the Saids hearths Wee all are Content To make faith when So ever The Honoll [Honourable] Lord for Their Maties [Majesties] privy Councill Shall appoynt Soe To doe or before The honoll [honourable] Lords of The committee
South Leith begins The book and ends 39 page
Cannongate begins 39 page & ends 63 page
Town of Egr [Edinburgh] without the walls begins 63 page and ends in the 71 page
Westkirk parochine beginns 71 page and ends in the 116 page
North leith begins in The 117 page and ends in 131 page
Transcriber's notes
The following has been crossed through.
The Soume receaved be Mr william Archibald of hearth
money in the parochine of South leith Extends to -- £1091.17.0
The Soume receaved in The Cannongate parochine is -- £837.18.0
The Soume receaved in The Toune of Egr [Edinburgh] without ports -- £247.2.0
The Soume receaved in the Westkirk parochine is -- £1098.6.0
and The soume receaved in The parochin of north leith is -- £357.4.0
This is given in Salvo justs Clculo -- £3631.18.0
Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Hearth tax - Midlothian - Volume 3 - Edinburgh and Leith, E69/16/3
This volume contains a list of householders liable for hearth tax in the parishes of North and South Leith, Edinburgh-Canongate, Edinburgh-West Kirk, and parts of Edinburgh outside the city walls in 1690.
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).