E326/6/9/119
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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1787 | Brought forward | 214 | 30 | 97 | 66 | 51 | £59.2.6 | |
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97 Single Female Servants, ones, of Married & unmarried persons | at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each is | £12.2.6 | ||||||
66 Single Female Servants, twos, of Married & unmarried persons | at 5ss [£0.5.0 each is | £16.10.0 | ||||||
51 Single Female Servants, threes, of married persons | at 10ss [£0.10.0] each | £25.10.0 | ||||||
20 Single Female Servants, ones, of unmarried persons & above 21 Years additionall dutie | at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each | £2.10.0 | ||||||
10 Single Female Servants, twos, of unmarried persons & above 21 Years additionall dutie | at 5ss [£0.5.0] each | £2.10.0 | ||||||
Totall | £59.2.6 | |||||||
214 | 20-10 | 77 | 56 | 51 | £59.2.6 Exd [Examined] |
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[Page] 119I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing duties I find they amount in Whole to Fiftie nine pounds two Shillings and Sixpence Sterling, and that upon the ___ day of ___ 1788 I delivered Major David Gardyne
Collector of the said duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account (as will Appear from ___ hereunto fixed)
duly examined and Compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath that nottices were left with the Several persons before named
or at their dwellinghouses of the dates Annexed to their respective names, requiring them within fourteen days to give in a list of their Female Servants, retained or employed by them from the fifth day of April 1786 to the 5th day of April 1787, and that the said Account or Survey is made out from the Lists returned to me, and from the best information I could procure of the Female Servants of those who neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the notices left with them as aforesaid, [Signed] William Greig Surveyor
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