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Date	Masters/mistresses names and designations	Servants names	Number of servants	Bachelor servants	One servant	Two servants	Duty
5 Jul 1788	Burgh of Lanark
	Miss Porterfield at Smellons Entered in Georges Square Edinr [Edinburgh]	Anna Grerson Housekeeper Margaret Cunningham Cook Nancy McKay derry maid
	Commissary John Bannatyne ----2	Two female servants	2		1		£0.2.6
	William Hutton Wright	Betty Dent Housemaid	1		1		£0.2.6
	Chancelor Thomson Wright	Margaret Thomson Housemaid	1		1		£0.2.6
	James Lockhart Wright	one Female Servant	1		1		£0.2.6
	James Forrest Mercht [Merchant] a Bachelor	one Female Servant	1	1	1		£0.5.0
	William Bannatyne Surgeon	one Female Servant	1		1		£0.2.6
	Mrs Bell	one Female Servant	1		1		£0.2.6
	Mr John Gardener School M [Master]	one Female Servant	1		1		£0.2.6
	James Hastie Writer ---4	Two Female Servants	2			2
	William Todd Surgeon	Janet Todd	1		1		£0.2.6
	John Wilson Town Clerk	Janet Wilson	1		1		£0.2.6
	Thomas Anders Baker	Janet Anderson	1		1		£0.2.6
	Robert Newbigging Writer ---4	Two Female Servants
	Total ---10		16	1	11		£1.10.0
	Grand Total		12	1	10		£1.10.0

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A Survey of the Duties on Female Servants in the Royal Burgh of Lanark for the Year from the 5th of April 1788
to the 5th of April 1789 By William Mure Surveyor

[page] 36
LANARK 71

Proof
11 Female Servants at £0.2.6 Each per year £1.7.6
1 Batchelor Servant at £0.2.6 Each per year £0.2.6
£1.10.0
Grand Total

Children Under 14 Years of Age 10
Female Servants Free of duty 5
Female Servants Charged with Duty 11
Total 16

I William Mure Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Carefull Examination of the
foregoing Several Rates & Duties I find they amount, in whole to one pound Ten Shillings
Sterling ad that upon the [---] I delivered to James Waggateshaw
Collector of the said duties for the 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 or at their Dwelling houses, of the dates annexed to their Respective names
that they were to be charged with the Sumes hereby Certified to be Due from them by William Mure

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