Land Tax records.
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
‘Assumption of the benefices’, copy, 18th century, of a book of assumptions, tax rolls of church properties, and retour of Fife.
Cess book for Berwickshire., 1736-1748.
The volume is dated 1736 and is described on folio 7 as 'made out from the old authentic Rolls of the Shire, particularly that of 1694'.
There is a list of changes made between 1737 and 1748 (folios 36 verso-39 verso) and indexes of parishes and proprietors (folios 3-6).
Cess book for Berwickshire., 1736-1749.
The cess book incorporates some of the changes made between 1737 and 1748 noted in MS.5440 and notes other changes, the latest in 1749.
Cess books for Berwickshire., 1736-1749.
Cess roll of Berwickshire, written partly, at least, by Joseph Robertson of Ladykirk, circa 1736, and compiled from records of various dates, particularly those of 1694.
General and East Lothian papers., 1541-1891, undated.
Household and personal accounts and receipts of the Cameron family., 1643-1899, undated.
Microfilm of books of Assumption.
The contents are as follows:
Book of Assumption of Beneficies (Adv.MS.31.3.12);
‘Assumption of the benefices’, copy, 18th century, of a book of assumptions, tax rolls of church properties, and retour of Fife, 16th century-early 17th century (Adv.MS.31.3.13);
Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals, 16th century-1628, of Church and Crown lands in Scotland (Adv.MS.31.3.16).