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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # 1 horse 2 horses 3-5 horses 6 or more horses Duty 10% per 31 George III 10% per 36 George III
Parishes Collected
The Country Part of Peebles Parish 12 11 1 £6.5.0 £0.12.6 £6.5.0
Eddleston Parish 12 11 1 £6.5.0 £0.12.6 £6.5.0
Newlands Parish 23 13 1 2 7 £16.0.0 £1.2.0 £16.0.0
Kirkurd Parish 12 6 1 5 £8.15.0 £0.19.6 £8.15.0
Skerling Parish 4 4 £2.0.0 £0.4.0 £2.0.0
Broughton Parish 4 4 £2.0.0 £0.4.0 £2.0.0
Linton Parish 11 8 1 2 £6.10.0 £0.13.0 £6.10.0
Glenholm Parish 6 6 £3.0.0 £0.6.0 £3.0.0
Kilbucho Parish 10 9 1 £5.5.0 £0.10.6 £5.5.0
Lyne Parish 5 5 £2.10.0 £0.5.0 £2.10.0
Mannor Parish 9 9 £4.10.0 £0.9.0 £4.10.0
Drummelzier Parish 10 9 1 £5.5.0 £0.10.6 £5.5.0
Tweedsmuir Parish 3 3 £1.10.0 £0.3.0 £1.10.0
Stoba Parish 5 5 £2.10.0 £0.5.0 £2.10.0
Innerleithen Parish 11 8 3 £6.12.6 £0.13.3 £6.12.6
Traquair Parish 16 12 1 3 £9.7.6 £0.18.9 £9.7.6
153 123 8 10 12 £88.5.0 £8.16.6 £88.5.0

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Carriage and Saddle Horse Tax.
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123 Saddle horses at £0.10.0 Each is £61.10.0
8 Saddle horses at £0.10.0 Each is £ 6.0.0
10 Saddle horses at £0.17.6 Each is £8.15.0
12 Saddle horses at £1.0.0 Each is £12.0.0
£88.5.0
£88.5.0 at 10 per Cent is £8.16.6
Sum Total £97.1.6
Additional Duty £88.5.0
Sum total £185.6.6

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination
of the foregoing Taxs I find that they amount to the sum of One Hundred and Eighty five pounds Six
Shillings and Six pence and that upon the ..... day of ...... I delivered to
Gideon Needham Collector of these duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above
duty compared which contained my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants were duly Served
with Requisitions of the dates foresaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause
to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose An Attested list of all the Carriage and Saddle
Horses they have and employed from the 5 of April 1797 to the 5 of April 1798 as well as an
account of what Carriages and horses they might employ any where Else and that the fore[going]
report was made up from their Several Attested lists or Returns to me from the best of my information [I could]
procure or from my own knowledge of their Respective Establishments.
William Brunton

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