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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
Parishes Collected
West Kirk 261 35 178 49 18 16 £403.5.0
Cannongate 63 7 47 8 8 £95.10.0
South Leith 40 3 32 3 5 £57.0.0
364 45 257 60 23 24 £555.15.0
forgot as below 6 6 £7.10.0
370 45 263 60 23 24 £563.5.0
Prooff
258 at £1.5.0 is £322.10.0
60 at £1.10.0 is £90.0.0 Exd. GS [Examined General Surveyor]
23 at £1.15.0 is £40.5.0
24 at £2.0.0 is £48.0.0
Batchelors 46 at £1.5.0 is £57.10.0
£558.5.0
Charles Gordon Esq of Braid 2 at £1.5.0 each £2.10.0
Lady Dowr [Dowager] Elphingston 2 at £1.5.0 each £2.10.0
Mr Russell of Roseburn 2 at £1.5.0 each £2.10.0
Totall £565.15.0 wrong Prooff
Surcharge
Colin Young Archers Hall Waiter £2.10.0

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15th
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[Below Totals] Exd. GS [Examined General Surveyor]

Edinburgh 1st Jany [January] 1789
I John Taitt Surveyor aforesaid, do hereby certify that upon carefull examination of the several
foregoing rates & duties, I find they amount in whole to Five Hundred & Sixty five pounds
Fifteen Shillings Sterling, and that I this day delivered to George Cranston Esq Collector
of said duties, at his Office Edinburgh an exact duplicate of the above Accompt duly
examined & Compared with the foregoing which certified that Requisitions were
left with the Several Inhabitants or at their dwelling Houses of the dates affixed and
that they are Charged conformable to their own Returns
John Taitt Surveyor

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