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Date Inhabitants names, residence, and parish Actual # of shops Shops at £5 to £10 Shops at £10 to £15 Shops at £15 to £20 Shops at £20 to £25 Shops at £25 and up Duty
30 Sep 1785 Coldstream Parish
Robert Dick Mercht [Merchant] 1 £5.0.0 £0.1.10½
Thomas Weatherhead 2 £5.0.0 £0.1.10½
James Hunter Mercht [Merchant] 3 £12.0.0 £0.9.0
3 Oct 1785 Dunse
William Gladstounes Mercht [Merchant] 1 £8.0.0 £0.3.0
John Davidson Mercht [Merchant] 2 £5.0.0 £0.1.10½
James Hunter 3 £12.0.0 £0.9.0
3 £13.0.0 £12.0.0 £0.13.10½
Collected
Coldstream 2 £10.0.0 £0.3.9
Dunse 3 £13.0.0 £12.0.0 £0.13.10½
5 £23.0.0 £12.0.0 £0.17.7½
Proof
£23 - at 6d p £ for ¾. years £0.8.7½
12 - at 1/ p £ for ¾. year £0.9.0
£0.17.7½

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SHOP TAX
In the County of Berwick from 5 July 1705 to 5 April 1706 by Will Hogg Surveyor

I William Hogg Surveyor of Taxes Do Hereby certify that upon careful examination
of the Foregoing Rates & Dutys on Shops in the County of Berwick I find they
Amount to Seventeen Shillings & Seven pence half penny sterling. And that I
Delivered to Mr David Rinton Collector of Said Dutys in said County an
Exact Duplicate of the foregoing Justly Examined & compared, And Contained
my oath that notices were Left with the Different Inhabitants on the date
aforesaid that they were to be Charged with the Severall Dutys fill against their
names
[signed] Will Hogg Surveyor

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