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E326/6/16/121
Date | Masters/mistresses names and designations | Servants names | Number of servants | Bachelor servants | One servant | Two servants | Three or more servants | Duty |
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26 Jun 1788 | The Burgh of Selkirk | |||||||
John Lang Writer in Selkirk --3 | 2 | 1 | £0.2.6 | |||||
George Roger Writer in Selkirk --1 | 1 | 1 | £0.2.6 | |||||
Andrew Henderson Junr. [Junior] Writer Selkirk --1 | 1 | 1 | £0.5.0 | |||||
Andrew Henderson Senior Writer Selkirk --2 | 1 | |||||||
7 | 1 | 2 | £0.10.0 | |||||
Total | 3 |
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SELKIRKA Survey of the [FEMALE SERVANTS TAX] in the Burgh of Selkirk from
the 5 of Aprile 1787 to the 5 of Aprile 1788 By William Brunton Surveyor
[Page] 121
Proof
1 Female Servant @ £0.5.0 Each is £0.5.0
2 Female Servants @ £0.2.6 Each is £0.5.0
Sum Total £0.10.0
I William Brunton Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby Certify that Upon Carefull examination
of the foregoing Taxs I find they Amount in whole to the Sum of Ten Shills. [Shillings] Ster [Sterling] And that upon
the twenty Second day of October 1788 I delivered to John Lang Collector for Said
Burgh a Copy of the Above duly Compared which Containd my Oath that Requisitions were
left with the forgoing persons that they were to be Charged with the Sums Set Against their
Severall Names -
William Brunton Survyr [Surveyor]
Transcriber's notes
Number of children under 14 are 7Transcribers who have contributed to this page.
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Angus County, Argyll County, Ayrshire County, Berwickshire County, Buteshire County, Delting Parish, East Lothian County, Fife County, Kincardineshire County, Lanarkshire County, Nairnshire County, Orkney County, Peeblesshire County, Perthshire County, Renfrewshire County, Ross And Cromarty County, Roxburghshire County, Stirlingshire County, West Lothian County