| Description | The Stent Roll is a valuation of properties, mills and fishings within the burgh that were subject to payment of cess, or land tax. On 9 April 1712, the Town Council ordered that a valuation be made of these properties under the terms of 1712 Land Tax Act. The resulting Stent Roll lists the proprietors of taxable land within each quarter, their occupations and the assessments to be paid towards the land tax.
The towne of Footie lay to the north of, what is now, Waterloo Quay.
William Shepherd's house
Assessment: £33 6s 8d
Helen Nicolson's first land
Assessment: £10 0s 0d
Andrew Shepherd's house
Assessment: £10 0s 0d
Helen Nicolson's second land
Assessment: £14 0s 0d
Robert Caddenhead's land
Assessment: £5 6s 8d
George Leper's new house
Assessment: £9 0s 0d
Alexander Masson's house and land
Assessment: £22 13s 4d
Helen Nicolson, for William Bissett's butt
Assessment: £3 6s 8d
James Baxter's land
Assessment: £14 0s 0d
Helen Nicolson's third land and butt
Assessment: £40 0s 0d
Jean Ritchie's land with a butt
Assessment: £18 0s 0d
Relict of John Caddenhead's land
Assessment: £30 0s 0d
Helen Nicolson's fourth land
Assessment: £5 6s 8d
William Shepherd's land a butt
Assessment: £33 13s 4d
William Shepherd's new land
Assessment: £24 0s 0d
Helen Nicolson's fifth land
Assessment: £18 13s 4d
John Cruikshank [for] land and butt
Assessment: £10 0s 0d
Peter Forbes' butt of land
Assessment: £2 0s 0d
Thomas Farquharson's land and butts
Assessment: £34 0s 0d
Heirs of William Cowts [for] a butt
Assessment: £33 13s 4d
Heirs of Clerk Robertson, [for] a butt of land
Assessment: £8 16s 8d
George Robertson's land
Assessment: £40 0s 0d |