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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
Brought forward 254 27 70 50 73 16 45 £491.0.0
Proof
27 at £1.5.0 £33.15.0
70 at £1.5.0 £87.10.0
50 at £1.10.0 £75.0.0
73 at £1.15.0 £127.15.0
16 at £2.0.0 £32.0.0
45 at £3.0.0 £135.0.0
£491.0.0
£491.0.0
Parishes -- Gamekeepers added
Blair -- Colln [Colonel] John McDonald William Cochrane Gamekeeper 1 1 £1.5.0
Fortingall -- Duncan Robertson Robert Stewart Gamekeeper 1 1 £1.5.0
Fortingall -- Duncan Stewart Allan Stewart Gamekeeper 1 1 £1.5.0
Rhynd -- Earl of Wemyss N.B. Gives up 7 Servants in the County of Haddington William Sommerville Gamekeeper 1 1 £2.0.0
258 27 73 50 73 17 45 £496.15.0

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Perth 20 January 1789 I Laurence Buchan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify That
upon careful Examination of the foregoing Several Rates and duties I find They amount in Whole to
Four hundred and Ninety One pounds st [Sterling] and that upon the 13th Curt [Current] I delivered to James
Maxton Esquire Collector of the said duties for the Shire aforesaid an Exact Duplicate of the above
Acct [Account] duly Examined and Compared with the foregoing Notes being left with the several Masters
and Mistresses or at their dwelling houses of the dates Anexed to their respective Names
Laurence Buchan Surveyor

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