- A tax
collector (also
called a taxman) is a
person who
collects unpaid taxes from
other people or
corporations on
behalf of a government. The term could...
-
favourite location for smuggling.
Robert Burns made his
living as an
exciseman along that
coastline in the late-eighteenth century. In 1469, the title...
- Dumfriesshire,
settling there in June. He also took up a
training position as an
exciseman or gauger,
which involved long
rides and
detailed bookkeeping. He was...
- and 1909. The
material was recorded, translated, and
reworked by the
exciseman and
folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832–1912).
Carmina Gadelica was...
- Taylochan, Isle of
Lismore – 6 June 1912, Barnton, Edinburgh) was a
Scottish exciseman, folklorist, antiquarian, and author.
Between 1860 and his
death Carmichael...
-
mature works come from the 1660s;
after he
married and took a job as an
exciseman in 1668 he
painted less, and
after 1689
apparently not at all. He was...
- The
Nuttall Encyclopedia: ****un.
Robert Burns, The Deil's Awa Wi' Th'
Exciseman. G. K. Chesterton, Lepanto.
Valinora Troy's
Review of
Child of the Moon...
- 1785
about the
problems these high
duties caused.
Burns himself was an
exciseman between 1789 and 1796. He was
reported to be "not a
bustling active gauger"...
-
Moonrakers are
strictly from Devizes.
Expanding the
elisions gives "So the
exciseman as
asked un the
question had his grin at un, but they had a good laugh...
- "An
Exciseman made out of the
Necessaries of Life now Tax'd in
Great Britain..." a
satirical cartoon of 1765....
