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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Servants names Number of servants Bachelor servants One servant Two servants Three or more servants Duty
27 Feb 1786 John Clark Jannet Scott Household 1 1 £0.1.10½
1 Mar 1786 Alexander Hill 1 1 £0.1.10½
James Smith Elizabeth Wyllie 1 1 £0.1.10½
John Smith Snr. [Senior] Margaret Grier 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mrs Gillies Isobel Walker
Jean Naughtie
Ann Cooper
3 3 £1.2.6
Miss Christian Doig Isobel Sutherland 1 1 £0.1.10½
John Duncan Isobel Duke 1 1 £0.1.10½
John Mitchell unmarried Mor Ducke 1 1 1 £0.3.9
Mrs Ramsay 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mrs Dicksen Isobell Stewart 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mr John Spence Isobell Howse
Isobel Fauns
2 2 £0.7.6
Mrs Spence Snr [Senior] Helen Reid 1 £0.1.10½
Mr Normand Sivewright May Davie 1 1 £0.1.10½
Pro: [Provost] John Molison 1 1 £0.1.10½
Doctr [Doctor] Henry William Tytler 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mrs Linton Jean Fraser 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mrs Smith Senr [Senior] 2 2 £0.7.6
Mrs. Grierson 2 2 £0.7.6
Mrs Andrew Bruce 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mrs Turnbull Marry Davidson
Elespet Steel
2 2 £0.7.6
Mrs Gellies Junr [Junior] Hellen Kinnear Household 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mr John Bissett 1 1 £0.1.10½
Patrick Wilson 1 1 £0.1.10½
James Millar So [South] Port 1 1 £0.1.10½
Totall 31 1 19 8 3 £4.11.10½

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BRECHIN
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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Female Servants, in the Burgh of Brechine for three quarters of one
Year commencing the fifth day of July 1784 & ending the fifth day of April 1875 by William Greig, Surveyor

1: Single Female Servant of an unmarried person above the age of 21 Years for 9 Months £0.1.10½
20 Female Single of named persons for 9 Months at 1/10½ [£0.1.10½] each is £1.17.6
8 Female (pairs] of named persons for 9 Months at 3/9d [£0.3.9] each is £1.10.0
3 Female treeble of named persons for 9 Months at 7/6d [£0.7.6] each is £1.2.6
Totall £4.11.10½

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the forgoing Duties I find
they Amount in whole to Four Pounds Eleven Shillings & Tenpence halfpenny Sterg [Sterling] and that upon the [blank] day of [blank] I
delivered Mr Alexander Valentine Collector of the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account
(as will appear from [blank] ) duly examined and compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath
that Nottices were left with the several persons before mentioned or at their dwelling houses of the dates annexed
to their respective Names requiring them within fourteen Days to give in a list of their Servants retained or employed
by them from the fifth day July 1784 to the fifth day of April 1785, and that the said Account or Survey is made out
from the lists returned to me, and from the best information I could procure of the Servants of those who neglected
or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the Nottices left with them as aforesaid.
William Greig Surveyor

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