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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 |
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25 Sep 1785 | North Berwick Royalty | |||||||
Requist [Requisition] Sept. | Hew Dalrymple Esq M [Married] | Miss Douglas HKeeper [House Keeper] | 1 | 1 | £0.7.6 | |||
Katherine Dobie Cook | 1 | 1 | £0.7.6 | |||||
Elizabeth Liberton Gn Md [General Maid] | 1 | 1 | £0.7.6 | |||||
Charles Dalrymple Esq M [Married] | ||||||||
Mrs Pearson Housekeeper | 1 | 1 | £0.7.6 | |||||
M Holiday Ly MD [Lady's or Laundry Maid] | 1 | 1 | £0.7.6 | |||||
M Hogg House Maid | 1 | 1 | £0.7.6 | |||||
Jean Sutherland Dy Md [Dairy Maid] | 1 | 1 | £0.7.6 | |||||
Jean Brown Kn Maid [Kitchen Maid] | 1 | 1 | £0.7.6 | |||||
William Swinton Mercht. [Merchant] M [Married] | ||||||||
A; Aitken | 1 | 1 | £0.7.6 | |||||
Euphemia Hamilton | 1 | 1 | £0.7.6 | |||||
Robert Hogg Mercht [Merchant] W [Widower] | Elizabeth Gray | 1 | 1 | £0.1.10½ | ||||
George Watt M [Married] | Isobel Hall | 1 | 1 | £0.1.10½ | ||||
Henry Watson W [Widower] | Susan Marshall | 1 | 1 | £0.1.10½ | ||||
13 | -2- | 3 | 8 | £4.0.7½ | ||||
Proof | ||||||||
3 Female Servants @ 2/6 [£0.2.6] p. ann [per annum] for ¾ is 1/10½ [£0.1.10½] | £0.5.7½ | |||||||
2 Female Servants @ 5/- [£0.5.0] p.ann [per annum] for ¾ is 3/9 [£0.3.9] | £0.7.6 | |||||||
8 Female Servants @ 10/- [£0.10.0] p. ann [per annum] for ¾ is 7/6 [£0.7.6] | £3.0.0 | |||||||
£3.13.1½ | ||||||||
2 Female Servants of a Batchelor @ 3/9 [£0.3.9] Addition Each | £0.7.6 | |||||||
£4.0.7½ |
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NORTH BERWICK[Page] 95
In the Royalty of the Brugh of North Berwick From 5 July 1785 to 5 April 1786
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I William Hogg Surveyor of Taxes Do Hereby Certify that upon carefull Examination of
the foregoing Rates & Dutys on Femle Servants in the Burgh of North Berwick I
the Amount to Four Pounds & Seven pence half penny Sterling. And that upon the 2nd January
1786 I delivered to Mr Henry Watson Collector of the said Dutys an Exact Duplicate of the Above
Account duely Compared & Examined with the Foregoing, & which contained my Oath that the
Foregoing Inhabitants were Served with Requisitions of the Date aforesaid and that the Assessment
was made from their own Answers & Lists thereto, Now in my Possession from whence there can be no
ground of Appeal.
[signed] Will Hogg Survey [Surveyor]
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