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Hearth tax transcription

The wholl number of hearthes amounts wnto -- 7101
deficients -- 291
poore -- 391
[total] -- 682 -- 682

hearthes payed -- 6419
which at 14 s [shillings] per peice is -- £4493.6.0
wherof payed -- £3866.7.4
So Rests -- £626.18.8

Nota: the Compters sallary and incident
charges is to be deduced from this
ballance
The totall of the payd hearths
wt [with] the sd [said] addittione of six is -- 6425

Att Edr [Edinburgh] the --- day of

I Thomas Turunbull of Know hereby declair vpon my solmne oath
in presence of the Lordes Commisioners of thr [their] maties [majesties]
Thesaurie That the forsaid listes of hearthes Extending to Six thousand foure
hundredth & nyntine -- which are payed And Tua Hundreth and nyntie ane
qch [quhich] are unpayed is a trew and just list of all the hearthes of the
forsaid parochins Contained in my charge amounting to Thretie four parochins
to the best of my knauledge Excepting Three hunderth and nyntie ane
hearthes of poor And that I have vsed my outmost dilligence to come
to the knouledge of all the herthes of the sd [said] parochins And tht [that]
I have not willinglie nor wittinglie concealled any But given vp the
samen as sd [said] is Ad [And] I shall ansr [answer] to
God

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