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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
11 Aug 1785 Royal Burgh of Lanerk
17 Aug 1785 & 13 Oct 1785 William Huton Wright Bell Dent 1 1 £0.1.10½
Thomas Anderson Baker Janet Anderson 1 1 £0.1.10½
John Haddow Vintner Marion Taylor Cook 1 1 £0.1.10½
William Gardner Baker Grizel Broun 1 1 £0.1.10½
William Bannatyne Surgeon Kathrine Lawrie 1 1 £0.1.10½
William Forrest Merchant Janet Forrest 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mrs Bell Agnes Legat 1 1 £0.3.9
Helen Wilson Ch. [Chamber] Maid 1 1 £0.3.9
William Todd Surgeon Janet Paton 1 1 £0.1.10½
Mrs Miller Agnes Anderson 1 £0.1.10½
Mr Robert Thomson Schoolmaster Elizabeth Gowans 1 1 £0.1.10½
Commissary John Bannatyne Janet Lockhart 1 1 £0.1.10½
Total of the Royal Burgh of Lanark 12 10 2 £1.6.3

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A Survey of the Duties on Female Servants in the Royal Burgh of Lanerk from the 5th of July 1785 to
the 5th of April 1786 by William Mure Surveyor.
LANARK [Page] 79

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10 Female Servants at £0.2.6 each per year for three quarters of a year is £0.18.9
2 Female Servants at £0.5.0 each per year for three quarters of a year is £0.7.6
Grand Total £1.6.3

I William Mure Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby certify that, upon carefull examination of
the foregoing Several Rates and Duties, I find they Amount, in whole, to one pound six shillings
and three pence Sterling, and that upon the [Blank space] I delivered to Richard Watson
Collector of the Said Duties for the Burgh aforesaid, 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,
that they were to be charged with the Sums hereby certified to be due from them.
by me William Mure Surveyor

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