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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
1788 Persons surcharged double duty for making short Returns
31 Oct 1788 Samuel Charteris Esq in Inveresk John Straitfoot Driver 1 1 £3.0.0
31 Oct 1788 for Short duty upon the two Servts [Servants] given up £0.10.0
9 Sep 1788 Gavin Thomson Surgeon in Roslin Laswade parish H Servt [House Servant] & Groom 1 1 £2.10.0
£6.0.0

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98 Servants at 25/ [£1.5.0] each is £122.10.0
107 at 30/ [£1.10.0] is £160.10.0
63 at 35/ [£1.15.0] is £110.5.0
17 at 40/ [£2.0.0] is £34.0.0
26 at 60/ [£3.0.0] is £78.0.0
38 Bachelor's Servants at 25/ [£1.5.0] is £47.10.0
£552.15.0

I John Wood Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify That upon careful Examination
I find these duties to amount to the Sum of five hundred and fifty two pounds fifteen
Shillings Sterling; And that this day being the 15th of December 1788 I did deliver
to George Cranstoun Esq Collector a full Duplicate of the above Survey. John Wood

15 December 1788 A Copy of the above Surcharge was also this day delivered to the Collector
John Wood

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