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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
Sept 17 1787 Mrs Fairbairn vint. [vintner] Alexander Thorn Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
Mrs Johnston of Huttonhall Peter Falconer House servt [servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Capt. [Captain] Maitland one 1 1 £1.5.0
John Clerk junr [junior] vint. [vintner] John Mather Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
4 4 at £1.5.0 is £5.0.0

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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX in the Royalty of
Haddington for the year ending 5 April 1788 by William Johnstone Surveyor

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I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find the above duties amount to Five pounds
Sterling and that upon the seventh day of Novemr [November] 1787 I delivered to John Carfrae Collector of these Duties in the Royalty of Haddington
an exact duplicate of the above Accompt duely examined & Compared which contained my Oath that the above Inhabitants were duely
served with requisitions of the foresaid date and that they were charged the sums Sett against their names according to their answers to
said requisitions Or according to my knowledge and belief that they were liable in said duties.
William Johnstone Surveyor

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