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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
1786 The Royal Burgh of Irvine brot. [brought] over 51 4 43 8 £6.1.10½
Mr McFie Taylor Agnes Blair 1 1 £0.1.10½
7 Mar 1786 Samuel Gemmill Agnes Findlay 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mr William Grieve Janet Gibson 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mrs. Francis Jean Porter 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mr James Campbell Mary Watt 1 1 £0.1.10½
Capt. [Captain] John Peebles Mary Findlay & Agnes Adam 2 2 £0.7.6
Mrs Hamilton Mary Broun 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mr Nisbet Writer Mary Hood 1 1 1 £0.3.9
Total 60 5 50 10 £7.4.4½

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47 Servants @ 2/6d each per year for ¾ of a year is £4.8.1½
8 Servants @ 5sh. [shillings] each per year for ¾ of a year is £1.10.0
Batchelor Servants 2 Servants @ 10sh. each per year for ¾ of a year is £0.15.0
Batchelor Servants 3 Servants @ 5sh. each per year for ¾ of a year is £0.11.3
Total by Proof £7.4.4½

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid, Do hereby Certify that upon
careful Examination of the foregoing Several Rates and Duties
I find they amount to Seven pounds four shillings and four pence
half penny sterling, And that upon the fourth day of
April I delivered to Baillie Alexander McMillan Collector
of said duties An Exact duplicate of And duly Examined
and Compared with the foregoing account which Contained
my Oath that Notices were left with the Several Inhabitants
Or at their dwelling houses And that the Rates and Duties
Annexed to their Respective Names Are just and True
charges against them to the best of my skill & knowledge.
Rob Aiken Surveyor

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