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Date	Masters/mistresses names and designations	Servants names	Number of servants	Bachelor servants	One servant	Two servants	Duty
23 Jun 1787	Miss Porterfields at Smeillon	Entered there Female Servant at Edinburgh
	William Hutton Wright	Betty Hutton Housemaid	1		1		£0.2.6
	Thomas Anderson Beaker	Janet Anderson Hsm [Housemaid]	2		1		£0.2.6
	William Bannatyne Surgeon	Catharine Bannatyne	3		1		£0.2.6
	James Forrest Merchant a Bachelor	Janet Forrest Housemaid	4	1			£0.5.0
	Mrs Bell	Agnes Bell Cook Helen Bell Ch: [Chamber] maid	5-6			2	£0.5.0
	William Todd Surgeon	Janet Todd Housemaid	7		1		£0.2.6
	Mrs Miller	Agnes Miller Housemaid	8		1		£0.2.6
	Chancellor Thomson Wright a Bachelor	Margaret Scot Housemaid	9	1			£0.5.0
	John Wilson Toun Clark	Nelly Thomson Housemaid	10		1		£0.2.6
	Comissary John Bannatyne	Margaret Hamilton Hm [Housemaid]	11		1		£0.2.6
	Mr John Gardner School Master	Janet Gardener Housem [Housemaid]	12		1		£0.2.6
			12	2	10	2	£2.0.0
	Grand Total		12	2	8	2	£2.0.0
	Proof
	10 Female Servants at £0.2.6 Each per Year is						£1.5.0
	2 Female Servants at £0.5.0 Each per Year is						£0.10.0
	2 Bachelors Servants at £0.2.6 Each per Year is						£0.5.0
	Grand Total						£2.0.0

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[Page] 69
A Survey of The Female Servants in the Royal Burgh of Lanark for the year from the
5th April 1787 to the 5th April 1788 by William Mure Surveyor
LANARK

I William Mure Surveyor Aforesaid, do hereby certify that upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing
Several Rates and Duties, I find they amount , in whole, to Two Pounds and that upon the 12 Novr. [November] 1787
I delivered To James Waggateshaw Collector of the Said Duties for the Royal Burgh aforesaid, an Exact
Duplicate of the above Account Duely examined & Compared with the foregoing, which contained my
Oath, that Notices were left with the Several Inhabitants and or at their Dwelling houses, of the Dates
annexed to their Respective names that they were to be charged with the Sums hereby certified
to be due from them
by me William Mure Surveyor

Transcriber's notes

The surveyor has used the 'Actual No of Servants' column as a progressive total in error.

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