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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
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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