E69/22/1/79

Hearth tax transcription

There is in the toun and sherifdome) – payed – def [deficient] – poor
of Stirling Collected be John Bird) -- 7492 -- 273 --349

Edr [Edinburgh]: 19th June 1694

In presence of The Earl of Linlithgow
Compeared John Bird, Sub collector of the Hearth - Money
within the shire of Stirling; who being sworn & examined
Declared That the forsaid List of Hearths, extending to
Seaven thousand, Four hundred, Nynty two, which are payed
and Two hundred Seaventy three which are deficient, with
Three hundred, forty nine, belonging to poor = people ex-
eemed [exempted] by law. Is a just and true List of all the Hearths
within the sherreffdome forsaid. And that he hes used his out-
most [outmost] endeavours, Conform to the proclamations of Counsell
anent the Ingathering of the Hearth money, to attaine to the
knowledge of all the Hearths within the forsaid Bounds
and that he hes not wittingly or willingly concealed any, but
given up the Samen truely as said is. And this is the
truth as he shall answere to God.

[Signed] John Bird

-- Linlithgow

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