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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 Royal Burgh of Ayr
23 Jun 1788 Miss Fullarton James Stewart Footman 1 1 £1.5.0
Provost Fergusson John Jackson
William Smith
House Servant
Postilion
2 2 £2.10.0
Capt. [Captain] Stevenson Thomas Baird H.S. [House servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
24 Jun 1788 Mrs Campbell of Skerrington John Murray H.S. [House servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Mrs. Logan James Rowan H.S. [House servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr. Dun Vintner Gibson McGallan Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
25 Jun 1788 Mr. Cathcart Vintner William Thomson Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
Captain Webster David Laughlan H.S. [House servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Mrs. Kerr of Newfield John Millar H.S. [House servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
27 Jun 1788 Major Montgomery a Bat [Bachelor] James Haiter H.S. [House servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
28 Jun 1788 Mrs. Rankine Postillion 1 1 £1.5.0
30 Jun 1788 Hugh Hamilton Esq. of Pinmore a Bach [Bachelor Thomas McCrorie H.S. [House servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Countess of Crawford John Morrison
Andrew McCormick
William Kerr
Hugh Dick
Alexander Crawford
Butler
Footman
Coachman
Postillion
Gardner
5 5 £8.15.0
Total 18 2 13 5 £27.10.0

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MALE SERVANTS TAX
From 5th April 1788 to 5th April 1789 By Robert Aiken Surveyor

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2 Bachelors Servts [Servants] @ £1.5.0 £2.10.0
13 Servts [Servants] @ £1.5.0 £16.5.0
5 Servts [Servants]@ £1.15.0 each £8.15.0

18 Total & Proof £27.10.0

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid, Do hereby Certify That upon
careful Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties They Amount in whole
to Twenty Seven pounds Ten Shillings Sterling, And that upon the seventeenth
day of December Current, I delivered to James Johnston Collector of said Duties
for Said Burgh an exact Duplicate of, and duely examined & compared with the foregoing
Account which contained my Oath that Notifications were delivered or left of the dates
foresaid, And that the Rates charged in said Account were just and true to the best of
my Skill & knowledge; And to the best of my belief, no person liable to be charged was
ommitted.
Robert Aiken Surveyor

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