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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # Carriage horses
(10s each)
Saddle horses
(10s each)
Duty
28 Jul 1788 John Johnston Bellhaven 1 1 £0.10.0
Alexander Sawyers Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
James Hog baker Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
Thomas Turnbull surgeon Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
Revd. [Reverend] Mr. Bruce Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
Adam Watson merch. [merchant] Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
Grieve Wilson Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
Peter Hunter grocer Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
John Falconer brewer Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
Andrew Oliver sadler Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
George Comb tobacconist Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
David Nesbit mercht. [merchant] Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
Thomas Christie Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
Christopher Middlemas Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
Thomas Meik mercht. [merchant] Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
Charles Kay Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
John Tait town clk. [clerk] Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
John Gimsnell Innk. [Innkeeper] Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
James Kilpatrick mercht. [merchant] Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
Alexander Kelly surgeon Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
Dr. [Doctor] Alexander Johnston Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
John Gibson Shoem. [Shoemaker] Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
William Purves brewer Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
David Pringle Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
John Lorimer vinrtr. [vintner] Dunbar 1 1 £0.10.0
25 1 24 £12.10.0
Proof 1 Carriage Horse at £0.10.0 is £0.10.0
Proof 24 Saddle Horses at £0.10.0 is £12.0.0
£12.10.0

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Survey of the Carriage and Horse Tax. in the Royalty of
Dunbar from 5 April 1788 to 5 April 1789 by William Johnstone Surveyor
[Page] 39

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon care [carefull] ex:
:amination I find the foregoing Duties amount to Twelve pounds ten shill [shillings sterling]
and that upon the 29 Octr. [October] 1788 I delivered to William Kirkwood Coll. [Collector] of these [duties]
an exact duplicate of this Account which contained my Oath that the foregoing In:
:habitants were duely served with requisitions and that they were charged in acc: [according]
:ly to their several returns or accordinging to my knowledge & belief that they were [due]
in said duties.

signed...........William Johnstone Surveyor

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