E69/20/1/96

Hearth tax transcription

Edr : 26 : June :1694 [Edinburgh 26 Jun 1694]

In presence of The Earl of Linlithgow
Compeared Lewtenant Thomas Stewart Sub Collector [of]
the Hearth = money within the shire of Renfrew Who being
sworn & examined declared, That the forsaid List of Hear[ths]
Extending to Fyve thousand & Nyntein which are payed
And one hundred & thirty, which are deficient, with
three hundred & twenty four belonging to poor people
exeemed by Law. Is a just & true List of all the Hearths
within the shirreffdome forsaid. And that he hes used his
outmost endeavoures, Conform to the proclamations of -
Councell anent the Ingathering of Hearth=money, To attain
to the knowledge of all the hearths within the forsaid Bounds
And that he hes not wittingly nor willingly consealed any
bot given up the samen truly as said is. And this is the
truth as he shall answere to God.
Tho: [Thomas] Stewart
Linlithgow

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