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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Hearth tax - Berwickshire, E69/5/1

Hearth tax transcription

The paroch of Polwart
From Robert Craw my Lords Baillie for seventein hearths
including ovens & furnaces possest be My Lord himself
Conform to List which bears the names of the whole paroch
and hearths possest be them -- 17
Mr George Halywall minr [minister] att Polwart -- 5
James Patersone thr [there] one, William Foord thr [there] one, Georg Halyday
thr [there] one, Patrick Brysen thr [there] one, Georg Mandersone thr [there] one
James Currie elder thr [there] one, Robert Haistie thr [there] one, & William
Jaffrae thr [there] one being in all -- 8
Thomas Martle yor [younger] in Polwart -- 1
William Watt workman in Polwart one Thomas Martle
elder thr [there] one, John Johnstone thr [there] one, Patrick Whythead
thr [there] one Christopher Ridpath thr [there] one David Sheill thr [there] one
Peter Broun thr [there] one, & Alexander Hunter thr [there] one being in all -- 8
James Angus weaver in Polwart -- 1
Alexander McCrackett in Polwart Mains -- 1
Georg Stevensone in Weltour one, William Taylor in Hyndlaw
his coatter one is in all -- 2
Margaret Greive in Polwart -- 1
John Bell thr [there] -- 1
John Blirn in Polwart -- 1
Robert Fairbairn elder & yor [younger] in Woodsyde 3 on a smidie -- 3
Adam Thomsone in Polwart milne -- 2
William Murray in Overwoodsyde -- 1
Patrick Haistie in Polwart -- 1
James Currie yor [younger] thr [there] -- 1
Robert Knox now in Polwart milne -- 1
Robert auld in Polwart mains -- 1
James Dicksone in Polwart one, William Whytlaw thr [there] one
James Jaffrae in Rouistoune one in all -- 3
James Minto in Polwart one John Minto thr [there] one Ninian Jaffra thr [there] on
Hendry Hanna thr [there] one Patrick Moffat thr [there] one & James Wilsone thr [there] one -- 6
Totall -- 65


The paroch of Greenlaw
James Murdoch in Whinkerstones for ane smidie possest
be him in Angelaw -- 1
James Scott coatter in Greenlaw -- 1
[sub total] -- 2

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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Hearth tax - Berwickshire, E69/5/1

This volume contains a list of householders liable for hearth tax in Berwickshire 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).

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