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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
The Parishes Collected
Coldinghame 6 2 4 £1.5.0
Buncle 3 1 2 £0.12.6
Chirnside 4 2 -- 2 -- 0 £1.10.0
Towlden -- 2 4 3 £1.10.0
Mordington -- 2 7 0 -- 0 -- 3 £1.10.0
Ayton 7 4 -- 0 -- 0 1 2 £1.12.6
Eymouth -- 5 14 2 -- 0 -- 0 10 £1.15.0
Hutton -- 6 21 0 -- 2 -- 0 2 14 £8.10.0
Ladykirk 5 0 -- 0 -- 4 1 £4.2.6
Edrom -- 19 32 1 -- 0 -- 4 1 2 15 £12.7.6
Dunse 38 5 -- 0 -- 0 21 2 11 £9.17.6
Langton 2 2 £0.10.0
Polwarth 3 3 £1.10.0
Foggo 5 1 -- 2 -- 0 2 £1.15.0
Coldstream -- 5 19 4 -- 0 -- 0 1 2 10 £6.12.6
Eccles -- 14 20 3 -- 0 -- 0 3 4 3 £3.12.6
Greenlaw 4 1 -- 0 -- 0 1 2 £0.17.6
Westruther 3 1 2 £0.17.6
Legerwood 1 1 -- 0 -- 0 £0.5.0
Lauder 2 2 £0.10.0
Earlston 13 1 -- 0 -- 0 2 10 £5.10.0
Martin 14 1 -- 0 -- 0 1 2 10 £5.17.6
Nenthorn -- 3 10 1 -- 2 -- 0 6 £4.5.0
Longformacus -- 6 4 1 £0.2.6
Canshaws 1 1 -- 0 -- 0 £0.5.0
Abbay St Bathans 1 1 -- 0 -- 0 £0.5.0
Cockburnspath 1 1 -- 0 -- 0 £0.5.0
[total] 245 30 -- 8 -- 11 48 34 85 £79.10.0
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P. [Page] 6. Survey of the Female Servants Tax in Berwickshire

Proof 30 Bach [Bachelor] Servants at £0.5.0 is £7.10.0
8 Bachelor Servants at £0.10.0 £4.0.0
11 Bachelor Servants at £1.0.0 is £11.0.0
48 fem [female] Servants at £0.2.6 is £6.0.0
34 female Servants at £0.5.0 is £8.10.0
85 female Servants at £0.10.0 is £42.10.0
[total] 216 -- £79.10.0

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull examination I find the foregoing duties
amount to the sum of Seventy nine pounds Ten shillings Ster [Sterling] and That upon the 8 December 1789 I delivered to David
Renton Collr [Collector] of said Duties an exact Duplicate of this Account duely examined & Compared which Contained my Oath
That the preceding Inhabitants were duely served with requisitions And That They were charged in conformity to the
several Returns Or according to my knowledge & belief that they were liable in said duties
[Signed] Will Johnstone Surveyor

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