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Hearth tax transcription
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The soume as on the othr [other] syde receave be the Collector in The paroch of South leith is -- £1091.12.0
The soume receaved be him in the Cannongates Parochine as sd [said] is amounts To -- £837.18.0
The soume receaved in the Towne syde Cannongathead -- £247.2.0
The soume receaved in the west kirk paroch -- £1098.6.0
It [Item] receaved be him in the paroch of north leith -- £357.4.0
Summe of all is -- £3631.18.0
Deficient hearthes in the sd [said] bounds
Imprs [Imprimis] in The parochin of south leith -- 625
It [Item] in Cannongate paroch -- 477
It [Item] Cannongatehead Towns syde -- 148
It [Item] deficients in The westkirk paroch -- 900
It [Item] in north leith -- 181
Summe of deficients is -- 2331
Of These deficients There are Testificats produced for poore in Eeach paroch To witt for south leith 65 It [Item] Cannongate & Cannongatehead 48 It [Item] in Westkirk paoch 40 and in north leith 75 Inde in all who have brought Testificats -- 228
It [Item] of souldiers quortered in the suburbs at That tyme and in leith north & south who neither had to pay nor wold pay alse many and it will be found that The generalitje of jnhabitants in south leith are among The poorest people in The natjone
As for The wastes The Collector hath sett downe alse many as he could come to the knowledg of and as To the rest qr [quhar] whole Lodging were waste and neither heretors nor factors wpon The place he behooved To set thm [them] downe as waste without any deficiente number also seall [severall] mansione housss [houses] qr [quhar] the heretors were not living at the tyme and The Collector did give in To The lords of the Committie the reasons qrfore [quharefore] he thought the moes [monies] was not more spedilie got in and shall give in to ther Lo [Lordships] the samen with ane accott [accomptt] of his diligence & [Expensss] and entreats The honable [honourable] lords To Consider the same
Transcriber's notes
Latin inde - thence, from that
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).