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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
1787 Within the Country Parishes of Bute Shire
Island of Bute
10 --1787 Earl of Bute John Douglas Gardener 1 1 £1.5.0
11 -- 1787 William McLeod Bannatyne of Kaimes Esquire a Batchelor Gardener
Footman
2 2 2 £5.0.0
Total 3 2 3 £6.5.0

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MALE SERVANTS TAX BUTESHIRE
From 5th April 1787, to 5th April 1788 by Robert Aiken Surveyor

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify, That upon Careful Examination
of the foregoing Rates and duties, I find they amount in whole to Six Six pounds five shillings
Sterling; And that upon the twenty sixth day of January current I caused to be
delivered to Alexander May Esquire Collector of said Duties an Exact duplicate
of and duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing Account which contained
my Oath that Notifications were delivered or left of the dates foresaid, And
that the Rates charged in said Account were just and true to the best of my
skill and knowledge; and to the best of my belief no person liable to be charged
was omitted, And I am now possessed of the said Alexander Mays Letter of the above
date acknowledging the Receipt of said Duplicate.
Robert Aiken Surveyor

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