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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
26 Nov 1787 Robert Baikie of Tankerness Alexander Laurence Footman 1 1 £1.5.0
James Ruddoch Collr [Collector] James Scart Footman 1 1 £1.5.0
Robert Laing David Bews Footman 1 1 £1.5.0
John Traill of Westness John Loggie Footman 1 1 £1.5.0
4 4 £5.0.0

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Survey MALE SERVANTS TAX within Kirkwall from
5th April 1787 to 5th April 1788 By Alexander Fraser Surveyor

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I Alexander Fraser Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify, that the amount of the above Survey is Five
pounds and make oath that upon the Twenty eight day of January jajvijc [Seventeen hundred] & Eighty eight I
delivered to Alexander Loutit Writer in Kirkwall, Collector of Cess and said duties for the Town
of Kirkwall an exact Duplicate hereof carefully examined & compared with the foregoing
Alexander Fraser Surveyor.
At Kirkwall 20th January 1788
Sworn Before John Wier JP [Justice of Peace]

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