Help understanding an old Land Tax Roll

[Ceryswyn]

Hi everyone,

Not sure if this is the right place for this but I couldn't find anywhere else that seemed quite right.

I'm trying to understand a Land Tax Roll document on Scotland's Places. It does have a transcription already, but I've no idea what it's telling me, or how the name I'm looking at fits in with the prior text.

https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/historical-tax-rolls/land-tax-rolls-1645-1831/land-tax-rolls-various-counties-volume-01/176

The name Donald McNeill is one of the signed names.

He could potentially be an ancestor of mine, so I'm trying to figure out what information about him I might be able to gleen from this document, but I'm having a hard time even figuring out where the information starts, or what year it's from, let alone what it might be telling me.

Can anyone help, or point me in the direction of any resources that might?

Cheers!

[goldie61]

If you go back 2 pages, it would seem to be saying he is one of the 'commissioners'.
 From the transcription:
The Roll of the rent of the shrefdome [shirefdome] of Bute Maid and sett downe by the comissioneris [commissioneris] vnder subscryuing appointit for that effect by act of the estaitis of parliament of this kingdome Holdin At Edinbrut [Edinburgh] the fourt of august jaj vi ct fourtie Nyne Zeris [4 Aug 1649]

and it goes on a bit more.

All these men have signed their name  - 'under subscribing'.

I would assume he was quite a 'worthy' of the place.
Perhaps somebody else would know more.

You could always email scotlandsplaces and see what they say.