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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
Brought over -- 8 5 3 £0.7.6
6 Jun 1788 Mr John Morrison -- 2 2 1 £0.2.6
22 Jun 1788 Mr John Mill 1 1 £0.2.6
22 Jul 1788 Mr John Inches -- 2 1
14 Aug 1788 Mr David Thomson 1 1 £0.5.0
22 Aug 1788 Mr Peter Barclay -- 2 1
28 Oct 1788 Mr James Sands -- 3 1
Mr Peter Mair 1 1 £0.2.6
[Children under 14] -- 17 13 1 6 £1.0.0
Parishes Collected
Tingwall & Lunisling -- 10 13 5 4 £1.12.6
Yell & Fellar -- 5 15 1 12 £1.15.0
Unst -- 9 7 4 £0.10.0
Northmavine & Delling -- 11 10 7 £0.17.6
Walls and Dunrossness -- 3 7 6 £0.15.0
Lerwick and Bressay -- 42 48 30 4 £4.15.0
Parochial Clergy -- 17 13 1 6 £1.0.0
[Children under 14] -- 97 80 2 70 8 £11.5.0

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Proof
10 Servants at 5 Sh [Shillings] [£0.5.0] each per year is £2.10.0
70 Servants at 2 Sh [Shilling] 6d [pence] [£0.2.6] each per year is £8.15.0
Totall £11.5.0

I John Henderson Surveyor do hereby Certify that upon Carefull Examination of the
Forgoing Tax I find they amount in whole to Eleven pounds five Shillings, and I do
make Oath that upon the Second Instant I delivered into Mr Henry Ross (Collector of the
above Tax for the Lordship of Shetland) His office in Lerwick an Exact Duplicate of
the above account duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing, which contained
my Oath that notices were left with the several Inhabitants or at their Dwelling
Houses of the dates annexed to their Respective names [Signed] John Henderson Surveyor
All Lerwick 3d February 1789
Sworn Before
[Signed] Francis Heddell Commissary Dept. [Department] of Shetland

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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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