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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
Dunbar Parish
19 Sep 1787 James Hay of Belton John Angus
John Craik
William Turnbull
Gardnr. [Gardner]
House servt. [servant]
Ch. [Chaise] driver
3 3 £4.10.0
20 Sept 1787 Dr. [Doctor] Hamilton Hallhill James Donaldson Ch. [Chaise] driver 1 1 £1.5.0
Sir Peter Warrender Lochend David Blacklaw
William Purves
House servt. [servant]
Postillion
2 2 £2.10.0
6 3 3 £8.5.0
The Parishes Collected
Oldhamstocks 4 4 £6.0.0
Innerwick 5 2 3 £7.0.0
Spott 4 4 £5.0.0
Stenton 7 2 5 £11.5.0
Whittinghame 9 9 £18.0.0
Garvald 6 4 2 4 £13.10.0
Giffordhall 6 5 3 3 £14.10.0
Bolton 2 2 £2.10.0
Salton 6 1 5 £10.0.0
Humbie 7 2 4 3 £12.0.0
Pencaitland 11 2 3 6 £17.10.0
Ormiston 9 1 3 6 £15.10.0
Gladesmuir 4 1 3 £5.15.0
Tranent 11 5 6 5 £22.10.0
Prestonpans 14 5 9 £24.5.0
Dirleton 15 2 3 10 £27.0.0
North Berwick 7 4 3 £9.10.0
Whitekirk 18 2 2 16 £37.0.0
Athelstaneford 8 3 3 5 £16.5.0
Preston 4 4 £6.0.0
Haddington 28 1 4 9 5 10 £48.10.0
Dunbar 6 3 3 £8.5.0
191 23 55 45 37 54 £337.15.0

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P.4. Survey of the MALE-SERVANT TAX Continued - [Page] 56

Proof 23 Batchelor servants at £1.5.0 = £28.15.0
55 Male Servants at £1.5.0 = £68.15.0
45 Male Servants at £1.10.0 = £67.10.0
37 Male Servants at £1.15.0 = £64.15.0
54 Male Servants at £2.0.0 = £108.0.0
[Total] = £337.15.0


I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull examination of the foregoing several Rates and
duties I find They amount in the whole to the sum of Three hundred and Thirty seven pounds, fifteen shillings Sterling and [that]
upon the seventh day of Novemr [November] (1787) I delivered to William Wilkie depute Collr. [Collector] of these duties for the County of East Lothian an exact duplicate of this Accompt duely examined & Compared which contained my Oath that the above Inhabitants were serv [served]
with requisitions of the dates foresaid and that they were charged in conformity to their respective answers thereto Or according to my
knowledge & belief that they were liable in said duties.

William Johnstone Surveyor

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