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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
18 Aug 1786 Hew Dalrymple Esq M.[married] James Yerston Footman 1 1 £1.5.0
Peter Lourie Chaise Driver 1 1 £1.5.0
Charles Dalrymple Esq M [married] David Gibson Butler 1 1 £1.5.0
Robert Porteous Footman 1 1 £1.5.0
Captain James Dalrymple B [bachelor] one Servant 1 1 1 £2.10.0
5 1 5 £7.10.0

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MALE- SERVANTS TAX
In the Royalty of North Berwick From 5th April 1786 to 5th April 1787 by Henry Watson Surveyor

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5 Servants @ £1.5.0..........£6.5.0
1 Batchelor.......................£1.5.0
£7.10.0

I Henry Watson Surveyor Aforsaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull Examination of the forgoing survey
Rates and Duty's I find They amount to the Sum of Seven Pounds Ten Shillings Sterling And that
upon the -- I delivered to Alexander Crawford Collector of the same Dutys for the Royalty
of North Berwick an exact Duplicate of the forgoing Acc. [Account] duely Examined and compared with the forgoing
And which contained my Oath that Requisitions were sent to the several forgoing Inhabitants, and that
they were charged According to their Answers made to same
Henry Watson Surveyor

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