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Date Masters & mistresses names & designations Servants names Quality of servants Number of servants Bachelor servants One and two servants Three and four servants Five to seven servants Eight to ten servants Eleven or more servants Duty
Dr [Doctor] Henry Merchant Street 1 1 £0.18.9
Miss Crawford St Andrews Square 1 1 £0.18.9
Neil Ferguson Esqr St Andrews Square 2 2 £1.17.6
General Lesslie St Andrews Square 4 4 £4.10.0
Lindsay Carnegie Esqr Parliament Close 1 1 1 £1.17.6
John Erskine Esqr Shakespears Square 1 1 1 £1.17.6
Gilbert Laurie Esqr Cowgate 2 2 £1.17.6
Thomas Tod Esqr Castle Hill 1 1 1 £1.17.6
General McNab Princes Street 1 1 1 £1.17.6
Mr Lauder of Carrilside Craigs Close 1 1 1 £1.17.6
Professor Stewart Colledge 1 1 £0.18.9
Lady Cathcart Princes Street 1 1 £0.18.9
Colonel Maxwell Thistle Court 1 1 £0.18.9
Mr William Cumming Parliament Close 1 1 £0.18.9
Mr John Adam Society 1 1 £0.18.9
Mrs Cuningham Argyles Square 1 1 £0.18.9
Colonel Pringle Society 1 1 1 £1.17.6
Captain Brown Princes Street 2 2 £1.17.6
Mrs Philp Princes Street 1 1 £0.18.9
Dr [Doctor] Home Hyndfords Close 1 1 1 £1.17.6
The Post Office Bridge Street 1 1 £0.18.9
Miles Mcphell Geddes's Close 1 1 £0.18.9
Mr Alexander Walker Princes Street 1 1 £0.18.9
Professor Dalziell Colledge 1 1 1 £1.17.6
Total 30 8 26 4 £36.7.6

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Account of Male Servants Duty from 5th July 1785 To 5th April 1786 in the City of Edinburgh of which
Notices were given To the Collector & Collected by him tho not included in the Survey by John Maughan Surveyor

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8 Bachelors Servants at £0.18.9 each £7.10.0
26 Married Persons Servants at £0.18.9 each £24.7.6
4 Married Persons Servants at£1.2.6 each £4.10.0
Total £36.7.6

I John Maughan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull Examination of the foregoing Rates & Duties I find
they Amount in the whole To Thirty Six Pounds Twelve Shillings & Six pence Sterling and that Notices were left
with the Serveral Inhabitants or at their Dwelling Houses by me John Maughan Surveyor

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