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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Children under 14 Servants names Number of servants Bachelor servants One servant Two servants Three or more servants Duty
5 Jul 1790 The Burgh of Jedburgh
Thomas Waugh Esqr. in Jedburgh 1 1 £0.2.6
Adam Scott Vintner Jedburgh 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Potts Senior Jedburgh 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Dowglas Burwynd Jedburgh 1 1 £0.2.6
William Rutherford of Falla Jedburgh 1 1 £5.0.0
Mrs. Jardin Jedburgh 1 1 £0.2.6
John Rutherford Ainzlie Jedburgh 1 1 £0.5.0
Miss Dowglas Jedburgh 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Bennet of Chesters Jedburgh 1 1 £0.2.6
James Potts Sheriff Clerk Jedburgh 1 1 £0.2.6
Thomas Usher Writer Jedburgh 1 1 £5.0.0
Mr. Shanks Seceding Minr. [Minister] Jedburgh 1 1 £0.2.6
12 3 9 £1.17.6

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JEDBURGH
A Survey of the [FEMALE SERVANTS TAX] in the Burgh of Jedburgh
from the 5 of Aprile 1790 to the 5 of Aprile 1791
By William Brunton Surveyor

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3 Female Servants @ 5 sh [£0.5.0] Each is £0.15.0
9 Female Servants @ 2 sh [£0.2.6] Each is £1.2.6
Sum Total £1.17.6

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find the above
duties amount to the Sum of One pound Seventeen Shillings and Sixpence and that upon the [blank] day of
[blank] I delivered to James Black Collector of these duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate of
the above which containd my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly served with requisitions of the dates
foresaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose
an attested list of all the Servants horses and Carriages used and employed by them from the 5 of Aprile 1789 to the 5
of Aprile 1790 as well as an account of what Servants horses and Carriages they might use and employ any where else
and that the forgoing report was made up from their several attested lists or Returns to me from the best information
I coud procure or from my own certain knowledge of their respective Establishments
William Brunton

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