Tickettyboo wrote on 10 sep 2013 in soc.genealogy.britain: > Thanks to Evertjan and Anne who I think both got it spot on. > Now can anyone explain, why, when I have looked at it for ages, it > seems obvious when someone else points out what it says :-) Because I, knowing little about early British taxing or handwriting, and probably the same goes for Anne, presuming from her previous methods, started by searching "Google Books" for: "Surveyor of * taxes" [The * standing for one or more words] <https://www.google.nl/search?q="Surveyor+of+*+taxes"&tbm=bks> -- Evertjan. The Netherlands. (Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)