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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
Bt [Brought] Over & Continued Stirling Borough 61 8 59 2 £8.17.6
3 Nov 1786 Andrew Gray Brewer Not named 1 1 £0.2.6
John McCowan Taylor Not named 1 1 1 £0.5.0
Miss Wingate Not named 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr. Alexander Cunningham Mert [Merchant] Margaret Muir 1 1 1 £0.5.0
George Edmond Janet Leith 1 1 £0.2.6
4 Nov 1786 John Hutton Baker Not named 1 1 £0.2.6
James Syme Mert [Merchant] Not named 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Main Not named 1 1 £0.2.6
Miss Christy Elizabeth Dunbar 1 1 £0.2.6
Doctor Glassford Not named 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. Bussall Not named 1 1 £0.2.6
Thomas Nuccol Not named 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs. David Muschett Betty Young 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr. David Doig School Mr [Master] Ann Brown 1 1 £0.2.6
Total 75 10 73 2 £10.17.6
75 10 63 2 £10.17.6

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[Page] 121
Stirling Borough FEMALE SERVANTS TAX. Survey Continued


Proof
73 Servants at 2/6d [£0.2.6] Each £9.2.6
2 Servants at 5/- [£0.5.0] Each £0.10.0
75 £9.12.6
10 of the above Batchelor Servant at 2/6 [£0.2.6] Each £1.5.0
£10.17.6

I James Allan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull Examination of
the foregoing several Rates & duties they amount in Whole to Ten pounds seventeen Shillings & six
pence Sterling & that upon the 16th Currt [Current] I delivered to Mr. John McGibbon Collector of the said duties
for the Borough aforesaid an Exact duplicate of the above Account duly Examined & Compared with
the foregoing which contained my Oath that notices were left with the Whole foregoing Inhabitants or at
their dwelling Houses & that they were to be charged with the Rates & dutys hereby Certified to be due
from them.
[Signed] James Allan Surveyor

Alloa 20th Decemr [December] 1786

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