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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
12 Sep 1786 Kirkaldie
James Tounsend Oswald Esq. Thomas Lamb
David Brodie
Michall Muir
James Armstrong
Alexander Mathison
Thomas Kinge
Butler
Foottman
Groom
Stibell Boy
Helper
Gardner
6 6 £10.10.0
Andrew Cowen Thomas Knox House Servant 1 1 £1.5.0
Alexander Weemyss John Thomson Chees [Chaise] Draver 1 1 £1.5.0
Mrs McGill James Beath House Servant 1 1 £1.5.0
Mrs Whyte Alexander Smith House Servant 1 1 £1.5.0
10 4 6 £15.10.0

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4 Male Servants at £1.5.0 each is £5.0.0
6 Male Servants at £1.15.0 each is £10.10.0
= £ 15.10.0

I Charles Robb Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Careful Examination of the foregoing Several
Rates and Duties I find they Amount in whole to the Sum of Fifteen pounds Ten shillings Sterlling
and that upon the Eighteen day of November I delivered to William Drystall Collector for the
Burgh aforesaid an Exact Duplicat of the above Account duly Examined and 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 Sums hereby Certified to be due from them.
Charles Robb Surveyor

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