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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Taxt-roll, n. Also: taxtt- and -row. [Tax(t n. and Rol(l n.1 4.] A register or list of persons, property, etc. liable for tax together with the amount of tax payable on any particular occasion, freq. with reference to the liability of the royal burghs.1545 Reg. Privy C. I 21.
Lord Ruithven shereff of Perth … oblissis him … to bring in with him the taxt roll 1547 Reg. Privy C. I 81.
To require the saidis prelattis to mak payment of thair partis of the said taxt … ilk ane for thair awin part efter the forme of the taxt roll maid thairupon 1552 Treas. Acc. X 147.
To the burrowis of Aberdene [etc.] … witht letteris for rasyng of the futemen … conforme to the taxt row maid be the provest and counsale of Edinburght … and to the lairdis of Boyne [etc.] … to caus thame concur and be commissioneris witht the shereffis for rasing of ane sufficient futeman of ilk xl merke land 1558 Inverness Sheriff Ct. 39.
That all schereffis of our realme suld mak taxt rollis of all landis within thair scherefdomes efferand to thair landis 1586 Conv. Burghs I 214.
[Burntisland] to be erected … in ane fre burgh regall and thairfoir to be enrollit with the remanent frie burrowis in thair generall taxtt rollis to sustene all sic resonabill chargis as thai may gudelie do with the saidis burrowis 1587 Conv. Burghs I 246.
The forme and maner of ane taxt roll set be the burrowis … quhat euerie burghe of this realme suld pay of euerie hundreth pundis of all taxationis to be imposit vpone thame induring ane ȝeir to cum … of the kingis maiesties customes … Edinburch, xxxviij li. ij s. viiij d., Dundie, ix li. x s. viij d. … Wigtoun iiij s. [etc.] 1587 Conv. Burghs I 247.
Gif new tak war tane of the customes thair suld be ane taxtt roll set be the burrowis for payment of the inlaik thairof 1622-6 Bisset II 54/17.
The … taxt roll of Bagymount … comprehendis nocht … the taxt of … the Ilis 1642 Kinghorn Kirk S. 47.
To pay ten merks money according to ane taxt roll alreddie sett down quharby the pleughes of the said parochin wes stented 1655 Conv. Burghs III 409.
Thair burgh payes triple moir ces nor wold fall to them conforme to thair proportione of the taxt roll 1658 Rothesay B. Rec. 20.
[The committee] are to drawe upe a taxt roll [for collecting the minister's stipend] 1676 Elgin Rec. I 322.
Informatione to the commissioner of borrowes: to plead for ane ease of the taxt roll in respect James Calder, laird of Muirtoune, who wes the great merchant, is removed from us 1692 Misc. B. Rec. 82.
Which decay of trade … hes occasioned the decay and ruine of the towne and therfor ane ease of their taxt roll is desired
