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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
20 Sep 1787 John Wauchop Bellhaven Helen Robison 1 1 £0.2.6
Miss Blair Bellhaven Christ[ian] Stewart 1 1 £0.2.6
Colonel Steele Bellhaven Jean Hardie Chamber maid
Magd [Magdalene] Spence Kit [Kitchen] maid
2 2 £0.10.0
Miss Pringle Dunbar Nanny Moss 1 1 £0.2.6
Robert Johnston Betty Ramsay 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr John Tait Agnes Smith 1 1 1 £0.5.0
Thomas Meik Nelly Blyth 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Ferguson Janet Calder 1 1 £0.2.6
Christopher Middlemas Isobel Henderson 1 1 £0.2.6
Robert Fall Esq two 2 2 £0.10.0
Revd [Reverend] Mr Bruce one 1 1 £0.2.6
Capt [Captain] Clerk one 1 1 £0.2.6
Andrew Brown one 1 1 1 £0.5.0
Dr [Doctor] Cunninghame Jean Bruce 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Dalysle one 1 1 £0.2.6
John Johnston Bellhaven one 1 1 £0.2.6
Robert Hogg one 1 1 £0.2.6
Jasper Forrest one 1 1 £0.2.6
Robert Mellville Esqr Ann Rennie
Margaret Lyal
2 2 £0.10.0
Charley Hay Alison Bethgate 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Dudgen Catharine Dobie 1 1 £0.2.6
Charles Lorimer Cecilia Mitchel 1 1 1 £0.5.0
Thomas Christie one 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Kilgour Janet Smith 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Leslie one 1 1 £0.2.6
Pollock Thomson one 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Kirkwood Jenny Doby 1 1 £0.2.6
30 3 21 6 £4.17.6

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DUNBAR
Survey of the Female Servants in the Royalty of Dunbar for the year ending 5 April 1788 by William Johnstone Surveyor
[Page] 59

Proof
3 Bachelors Maids at £0.2.6 is £0.7.6
24 Maids at £0.2.6 is £3.0.0
6 Maids at £0.5.0 is £1.10.0
£4.17.6

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find the foregoing duties amount
to the sum of Four pounds Seventeen shillings & Sispence Sterling And that upon the sixth day of Novembr [November] 1787 I de-
-livered to John Tait Collector of these duties for the Royalty of Dunbar an exact duplicate of this Accompt duely
examined and compared Which Contained my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions
of the above date and that they were charged the sums Sett against their names agreeable to the answers they made to said
Requisitions Or according to my knowledge and belief that they were in the said duties.
[signed] William Johnstone Surveyor

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