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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Actual # Carriage horses
(10s each)
Saddle horses
(10s each)
Duty
1789 The Parishes Collected
Oldhamstocks 14 2 12 £7.0.0
Innerwick 27 6 21 £13.10.0
Dunbar 29 5 24 £14.10.0
Spott 14 5 9 £7.0.0
Stenton 19 5 14 £9.10.0
Moreham 3 3 £1.10.0
Whittingham 24 4 20 £12.0.0
Preston 20 4 16 £10.0.0
Athelstaneford 23 4 19 £11.10.0
Dirleton 36 12 24 £18.0.0
Aberlady 16 5 11 £8.0.0
Garvald 22 5 17 £11.0.0
Gifford 26 8 18 £13.0.0
Bolton 10 2 8 £5.0.0
Salton 14 5 9 £7.0.0
Humbie 24 5 19 £12.0.0
Pencaitland 26 10 16 £13.0.0
Ormiston 15 3 12 £7.10.0
Gladesmuir 24 5 19 £12.0.0
Haddington 56 17 39 £28.0.0
Tranent 19 4 15 £9.10.0
Prestonpans 22 8 14 £11.0.0
North Berwick 18 5 13 £9.0.0
Whitekirk 38 7 31 £19.0.0
539 136 403 £269.10.0
Proof 136 Carriage Horses at £0.10.0 is £68.0.0
403 Sadle Horses at £0.10.0 is £201.10.0
£269.10.0 Ster. [Sterling]

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P.[page] 13. Survey of the Carriage and Horse Tax. in Haddingtonshire Continued

[Page] 117

I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull exami:
:nation I find the foregoing duties amount to the sum of Two hundred & Sixty nine pounds
ten shills [shillings] Ster. [Sterling] and that upon 8 Decem. [December] 1789 I delivered to William Wilkie depute Collr.[Collector]
of these duties an exact duplicate of this Account duely examined & compared which contained
my Oath that the foregoing Inhabitants were duely served with requisitions & that they
were charged according to their several answers or according to my knowledge & belief that they
were liable in said duties.

[signed].......William Johnstone Survr. [Surveyor]

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