E69/1/9/4

Hearth tax transcription

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-- -- hearths
Daviot
Surveyed be Mr William Adam session Clerk
& Alexander Sym & John Symson elders Conform to
ane subt [subscrivt] list extends to ane hundreth nynty nyn -- 199

Premnay
Surveyed be
Alexander Johnston session Clerk & Mr adam
Barclay & William Reed elders Conform to ane
subt [subscrivt] list extends to ane hundreth eighty two -- 182

Bethelny
Surveyed be Mr William urquhart schoolmaster
Georg Black & Alexander Lumsden elders Conform
to an subt [subscrivit] list extends to three hundreth
fourty one -- 341

Inverury
Surveyed be Mr James Anderson
session Clerk & Mr Georg scot & Georg weir
elders Conform to ane subt [subscrivit] List extends to
two hundreth & eleven -- 211

Insh
Surveyed be Mr william Lesly session Clerk
Robert Burnet & Alexander Reid elders Conform
to ane subt [subscrivt] list extends to two hundreth twenty
two -- 222
-- Suma [Summa] -- 3577

Suma [Summa] of hearths given up be the forsd [forsaid] sub Collr [Collector]
befor the survy [survey] extends to -- 3311

Suma [Summa] of the surveyed hearth Conform to the
forsd [forsaid] Lists extends to -- 3577

So that the sum of the conceald hearth is -- 266

I William forbes younger of monimusk being appoynte
by ane meetting of Commissioners for receaving the accompts
of the hearth mony [money] receaved be Robert Bruce in Bridgale hous out
of the prebrie [presbytrie] of Garioch & for appoynting surveyers in each
parioch of the sd [said] presbrie [presbytrie] for surveying the hearths throf [thereof] Conform
to the act of privy Councell thr [there] anent & haveing receaved the
the accompts & lists afor mentionat & haveing perused &
exactly Calculat the samen d [do] testify & declar the above writte [written]
accompt to be the true & exact Compt of the same & do testify
& declar that the sd [said] Robert Bruce his accompts did exactly
agree with his Intromission & that he had don Considerabl
dilligence [ane] surveying the bounds of the sd [said] Presbetrie [before]
this present survey was Commanded & that the greatest par [part]
of the deficients within the Prebrie [Presbytrie] are the poorest sort
of peope [people] of whom it will be difficult to recover
payt [payment]
William Forbes

Transcriber's notes

Numbered 4 at top left in a modern hand.
NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION
At Premnay, " Mr Adam Barclay session Clerk" has been scored out. At Inverurie, something has been scored out.
The deposition at the bottom of the page has some smudges and some words are cut off at the right-hand edge.