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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
1788 Manor Parish
James Burnet of Barns --6 3
Parishes Collected
Innerleithen Parish -- 6 4 1 £0.2.6
Drumelzier Parish 2 2 £0.10.0
Glenholm Parish 1 1 £0.2.6
Kilbucho Parish 3 3 £1.10.0
Linton Parish 3 1-2-0 £1.5.0
Newlands Parish 3 3 £0.7.6
Traquair Parish -- 10 10 1 4 £2.5.0
County Part of Peebles &c 2 1-0-1 £1.5.0
Eddleston Parish -- 4 8 1 5 £2.15.0
Manor Parish -- 6 3 £0.7.6
[Children under 14] -- 26 39 4-2-1 5 2 12 £10.2.6
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Proof
5 female servants @ Sh [Shillings] 5 each is £1.5.0
2 female servants @ 10 £0.10.0] each is £1.0.0
5 female servants @ 2..6 [£0.2.6] each is £0.12.6
2 female servants @ 5.. [£0.5.0] each is £0.10.0
12 female servants @ 10.. [£0.10.0] each is £6.0.0
Sum Total £9.7.6

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the
foregoing Taxes I find they amount in whole to the Sum of nine pounds seven Shills [Shillings] and six pence
Ster [Sterling] and that upon the 25th day of Decr [December] 1788 I delivered to John Robertson Collector
for Said County a copy of the above duly Compared which contained my Oath that the requisitions
were left with the foregoing persons that they were to be Charged with the Sums set against their
Several Names.
William Brunton Surveyor

Proof
4 bachelor servants @ 5/ [£0.5.0] each is £1.0.0
2 bachelor servants @ 1-/ [£0.10.0] each is £1.0.0
1 bachelor servant @ £1 each is £1.0.0
5 married bachelor servants @ 2/6 [£0.2.6] each is £0.12.6
2 married bachelor servants @ 5/ [£0.5.0] each is £0.10.0
12 married bachelor servants @ 10/ [£0.10.0] each is £6.0.0
26 servants £10.2.6

Transcriber's notes

Number of children under 14 years of age has been entered against
name of master/mistress as column missing from template

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