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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
1787		Dunbar Brot. [Brought] over	5			2	3	£2.0.0
21 Sep 1787	Sir Peter Warrander Lochend	Janet Anderson May Young	2			2		£0.10.0
	Robert Tait Slawbigging	one maid	1		1			£0.2.6
	Dr. [Doctor] John Drysdale Eastbarns	Ann Inglis	1	1	1			£0.5.0
			9	1	2	4	3	£2.17.6
	The Parishes Collected
		Oldhamstocks	5				5	£2.10.0
		Innerwick	4			4		£1.0.0
		Spott	4				4	£2.0.0
		Stenton	10			2	8	£4.10.0
		Whittinghame	8				8	£4.0.0
		Garvald	4	4			4	£4.0.0
		Giffordhall	8	2-3	3	2	3	£4.7.6
		Bolton	3		1	2		£0.12.6
		Salton	7		1	2	4	£2.12.6
		Humbie	10	2-3	3	4	3	£4.17.6
		Pencaitland	10		1		9	£4.12.6
		Ormiston	13	1	4	2	7	£4.12.6
		Gladesmuir	5	1	1	4		£1.5.0
		Tranent	11	3--3	5		6	£5.10.0
		Prestonpans	23	3	9	4	10	£7.10.0
		Aberlady	2		2			£0.5.0
		Dirtleton	12		1	2	9	£5.2.6
		North Berwick	4		1		3	£1.12.6
		Whitekirk	14	2		2	12	£7.0.0
		Athelstanefoord	8	1	3		5	£3.0.0
		Preston	8		2		6	£3.5.0
		Haddington	23		2	2	19	£10.5.0
		Dunbar	9	1	2	4	3	£2.17.6
			205	10-6-13	41	36	128	£87.7.6
	Add The Earl of Wemyss on his second return	9 servts. [servants] more at 10/- [£0.10.0]	9				9	£4.10.0
			214	10-6-13	41	36	137	£91.17.6
			214	10-6-13	31	30	124	£91.17.6

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[Page] 97
P. [Page] 5.

Survey of the FEMALE SERVANTS TAX Continued

Proof
41 Servants at 2/6 [£0.2.6] is £5.2.6
36 Servants at 5/- [£0.5.0] is £9.0.0
128 Servants at 10/- [£0.10.0] is £64.0.0
10 Bachelor's servts. [servants] at 2/6 [£0.2.6] is £1.5.0
6 Bachelor's servts. [servants] at 5/- [£0.5.0] is £1.10.0
13 Bachelor's servts. [servants] at 10/- [£0.10.0] is £6.10.0
..................................................................................£87.7.6

Add the Earl of Wemyss on his amended return
9 additional Maids at 10/- [£0.10.0] each ..........add £4.10.0
................................................................................£91.17.6

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find the foregoing Duties
amount to the sum of Ninety one pounds Seventeen shillings and six pence Sterling and that when the seventh day of
November (1787) I delivered to William Wilkie Depute Collector of these duties for County of East Lothian an exact du-
plicate of this Accompt dueley examined and Compared which contained my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were regula-
rily served with requisitions and that they were charged according to the Answers they made thereto or according to my know-
ledge & belief that they were liable in these duties.
[Signed] William Johnstone Surveyor

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