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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
29 Aug 1787 Auldearn Parish
Miss Brodie of Lethen Male Servants Footmen 3 3 £4.10.0
3 3 £4.10.0
Calder Parish
John Campbell Esq of Calder Male Servant Game Keeper 1 1 £1.5.0
1 1 £1.5.0
Croy Parish
Mrs Rose Kilravock Postilion & Gardiner 2 2 £2.10.0
2 2 £2.10.0
Parishes Collected
Auldearn Parish 3 3 £4.10.0
Calder Parish 1 1 £1.5.0
Croy Parish 2 2 £2.10.0
6 3 3 £8.5.0

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A Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. Arisen in the Countey
of Nairn from 5th Apl [April] 1787 to 5th April 1788 by Patrick McDonald Surveyor

[Page] 137

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3 Male Servants @ £1.10.0 each p ann: [per annum] for a year is £4.10.0
3 Male Servants @ £1.5.0 each p ann: [per annum] for a year is £3.15.0
£8.5.0

I. Patrick McDonald Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing several
rates and duties on Male Servants. I find they amount in whole to Eight pound five Shillings Sterling
and that upon the Sixteenth day of November 1787 I delivered to Duncan Campbell Collector of Said
duties for the County of Nairn aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above acct [account] duly examined and
compared which contained my oath that that the foregoing inhabitants were duly,Served with requisitions
of the dates aforesaid and that the assessments are made and from the lists and answers now in my
possession
Patrick McDonald Surveyor

Sworn before me at Forres 1st Decr [December] 1787 Alexander Grant J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

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