Tax records. Records (documents).
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Collections of documents associated with the assessment and payment of taxes, including tax returns, tax bills, and warrant books.
Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:
16th-century manuscript containing the Accounts of the Archbishopric of St Andrews, covering the years 1539-1549.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.2
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland, containing accounts of the Archbishopric of St Andrews from October 1539 to May 1549. The entries provide information on the different kinds of grain delivered and expended as rendered by the 'Granitarius', and on the more general cash accounts rendered by the 'Camerarius'.Borland suggests that the work is written by one hand. A section from folios 46r-65r, however, exhibits a different character of writing with distinctive pen-strokes, although...
Dates:
Circa 1549.
‘Assumption of the benefices’, copy, 18th century, of a book of assumptions, tax rolls of church properties, and retour of Fife.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.13
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.V.3.1.The contents are as follows:
(i) An abridgement of part of the valuation, 1551 (page 5);
(ii) The rent paid to the King out of the surplus of the thirds of benefices (page 48);
(iii) Various taxt rolls of Benefices and church property - temporality as well as spirituality, chiefly early 17th century (page 51);
(iv) List of Religious houses (page 185);
(v) Copy of a retour,...
Dates:
16th century-early 17th century.
Copies, 1648-1649, of assessments of taxes and payments to the Exchequer by Sir Robert Innes, Baronet, of Innes, on lands of Delney and Milntoun of Meddat, with a letter, 1650, of John Rawson, Perth., 1648-1650.
Series
Identifier: Ch.A.82-83
Copies, 1796, of charters and other papers, 1st half of 16th century-1740, written for and partly by William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Copy of the lesser Aberdeen Cartulary, 1st half of 16th century, made from Adv.MS.34.4.4 (folio 1).(ii) Copy of charters concerning Banffshire (folio 69).(iii) Copy of the tax-rolls of Aberdeenshire for 1554 and 1613, the latter made from Adv.MS.49.7.19, folios 32-35 (folio 81).(iv) Copy of the rentals of Aberdeenshire for 1674 and 1740, made from Adv.MS.49.7.18 (folio 88).(v) Copy...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century-1740.
Copies by Sir James Balfour of chiefly rentals of Church and Crown lands in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.16
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: a.1.22.Some of the items in this manuscript may have been copied from Adv.MS.34.2.17: Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rent.The contents are as follows:
1. Rentals of benefices, 1561;
2. Kings Rents & Casualties, 1628;
3. The contributions to the Lords of Session;
4. Compt of taxation of £100,000, 1593;
5. The rent paid to the king out of the...
Dates:
16th century-1628.
Copies, chiefly from printed books, of documents concerning Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.19
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Copies of papers relating to Galloway, in various hands of the 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Retours in Kirkcudbrightshire, extracted from the Chancery records, 1542-1682; in two series (folios 1, 15).(ii) Copy of an extract (certified by Thomas Gibson, Principal Clerk of Session) of the tax-roll of Kirkcudbrightshire in 1613 (folio 44).(iii) Copy, from the Exchequer records, of the rental of the Bishopric of Galloway in 1685 (folio 46).(iv) Copy of the tax-roll of the Lordship of Galloway,...
Dates:
1542-1685, 1741.
Discharges concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk, and the Stuarts of Torrance., 1622-1799.
File
Identifier: MS.5322
Scope and Contents
The discharges are for for annualrent, teinds, various forms of taxation, ministers' stipends, schoolmasters' salaries, etc.
Dates:
1622-1799.
Financial and business papers of Neil Munro., 1899-1952.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26931-26937
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Born in Inveraray, Neil Munro became a journalist in Glasgow, rising to the post of editor of the ‘Glasgow Evening News’. His papers consist largely of manuscripts of his novels and short stories, though some of his newspaper articles are represented by presscuttings.
Dates:
1899-1952.
Financial and legal correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto and family., 1767-1816
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11164-11192
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates:
1767-1816
Financial papers and papers concerning the Commercial Department., 1806-1807, 1809.
File
Identifier: MS.11611
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Account stating the loss of Freight that has arisen between the excessive Taxes which have been allowed in the Private Traders' Accounts of Privilege Goods, exported from Bengal, and the Taxes on the same goods which it has been deemed proper to deduct on the adjustment of the Accounts of the within ment[ione]d Ships', 1806-1807 (folio 1);
(ii) Copies of the charter-parties of affreightment of the East India ships 'Lady Carrington' and 'Ann', 1809 (folio...
Dates:
1806-1807, 1809.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Bengal Government.
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Financial papers, and papers of and concerning the Commercial Department.
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Various financial papers concerning the Commercial Department.
Financial papers, including records and plans relating to estates and buildings., 1861-1914, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8468/117-130
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes charters and other formal documents, cash books, ledgers, estate papers and letters.
Dates:
1861-1914, undated.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Letters and papers relating to taxation, salt-duty and fisheries., 1785-1820, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.640
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters and papers relating chiefly to taxation 1786-1820. The correspondents and subjects dealt with include duties on soap and candles, 1786-1787; surveyors of windows, etc., in North Britain, 1787; malt-tax in Scotland, 1788; Inspector General for Stamps for Scotland, 1790; accounts of the Receiver General for Scotland in respect of the land-tax, 1788-90; window, house, etc., taxes, 1878-1879; petition of the glasswork companies at Leith,...
Dates:
1785-1820, undated.
'Liber taxarum' of the Papal Chancery, written in 1484.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was completed in 1484, and written and illuminated in Italy. The volume is a tax book for the Apostolic Chancery containing details of benefices and their respective taxation of the late 15th-century Church. The benefice headings are given in a gothic bookhand, while the remaining text is in a humanistic hand. The names of the benefices are to the left and centre of the page, and the taxable value is given in florins in a column to the right. The list...
Dates:
1484
Lists of religious houses and parishes in Scotland and tax roll of Scotland for 1633.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.6
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) A list of the monasteries and nunneries in Scotland;
(ii) An alphabetical index of all the parishes in Scotland with an account of the shire diocese presbytery commissariot they ly in and who are patrons of the parishes;
(iii) The Tax Roll of the Sheriffdoms, Stewardries, Bailliaries, the King’s proper lands, prelacies, small benefices & burrows within this kingdom 1633.The volume is neatly written in a uniform hand throughout and from...
Dates:
1633, [?1684-?1689.]
Microfilm of books of Assumption.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.482
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
Microfilm of 'Liber taxarum' of the Papal Chancery; and, ‘Meroure of Wyssdome’ by John Ireland.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.420
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript produced in 1484, a 'Liber taxarum' of the Papal Chancery (Adv.MS.18.2.1);
‘Meroure of Wyssdome’ by John Ireland, ?1490 (Adv.MS.18.2.8).
Dates:
1484, ?1490.
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, chiefly concerning financial matters., 1847-1859.
File
Identifier: Acc.3521/20
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Miscellaneous letters, 1847-1859, concenring Henry Cockburn's statement of financial affairs November 1847;
Letters, 1848, concerning sale of house in Charlotte Square;
Correspondence, 1850 from Scottish Widows Fund and Equitable Assurance;
Tax accounts;
Papers, 1854, concerning Bonaly House.
Dates:
1847-1859.
Miscellaneous financial papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', consisting chiefly of bills, receipts, and papers relating to income tax returns., 1934-1976, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27166
Scope and Contents
Included are notes made by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid', of fees received for broadcasts and literary work.
Dates:
1934-1976, undated.
Paper concerning the taxation of the Bishopric of Moray., 1622.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.95
Papers concerning Neil Munro's life insurance, investments and income tax., 1905-1930.
File
Identifier: MS.26934
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Born in Inveraray, Neil Munro became a journalist in Glasgow, rising to the post of editor of the ‘Glasgow Evening News’. His papers consist largely of manuscripts of his novels and short stories, though some of his newspaper articles are represented by presscuttings.
Dates:
1905-1930.
Papers of and concerning Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet., 1742-1775.
File
Identifier: MS.11036
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Memorial for the ministers of the Church of Scotland on the window tax, 1757 (folio 1). See also MS.11017, folios 64-65.
(ii) Notes and printed bill concerning the writ of Habeas Corpus, [1758] (folio 3);
(iii) Drafts of speeches to be delivered in the House of Commons on the conduct of the war, with notes on bribery at elections and the swearing of oaths, [1759] (folio 11);
(iv) Memorial for John Forbes of Culloden, 1762 (folio 22);
(v) Notes relating...
Dates:
1742-1775.
Papers of taxation of, and of public debts owing to, the 1st Earl of Tweeddale., 1618-1672, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14479
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of:(i) Papers, being chiefly discharges of taxation: churches of Peebles, Houston, Belton, Lyne and lands of Powgavie, 1618-1668, including bonds of relief (folio 2); lands of Rodonna and Hopetoun, 1627-1639 (folio 34); teinds of Bara, 1629-1637 (folio 45); barony of Loquhariot, 1629-1638 (folio 53); barony of Auchtermuir, 1632-1639 (folio 60); tax paid to the Lords of Session, 1633-1636 (folio 63);(ii) Miscellaneous taxation papers, 1633-1665,...
Dates:
1618-1672, undated.