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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
City of Edinburgh Brought Over 55 10 43 12 £84.5.0
31 Jul 1788 Mr John Ferguson George Gibson House Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Honble [Honourable] Mrs Maitland MacGill Returns in FifeShire
Mrs Bosswall Kenneth Lewis House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
15 Jul 1788 Fredrick Street Mr Frederick Fotheringham House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
31 Jul 1788 Mr Alexander Elphingtone Adam Clerk House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr Alexander Abercromby Joseph Gibson House Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Mr Alexander Forbes James Clark House Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Sir M Malcolm 2 2 £2.10.0
Mrs Sandilans William McKay House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr John Clerk Advt [Advocate] Charles Seton House Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Colonel Stewart 2 2 £2.10.0
Captain Campbell House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Major Donaldson Donald Clarkson House Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
12 Jul 1788 Mr H Brougham George Street 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr Millar George Street Returns in County of Edin [Edinburgh]
Lord Haddo Princes Street Returns at Peebles
Mrs Hamilton Bishops Land Returns in East Lothian
Third Division 70 14 58 12 £108.0.0
Abstract of the Foregoing Divisions
1st Division to Page 4th 184 37 165 19 £281.0.0
2nd Division to Page 8th 208 34 151 38 10 9 £323.15.0
3rd Division to Page 10th 70 14 58 12 £108.0.0
462 85 374 69 10 9 £712.15.0
Proof 85 Bachelors Servants at £1.5.0 Each 106.5.0
374 Servants at £1.5.0 Each £467.10.0
69 Servants at £1.10.0 Each £103.10.0
10 Servants at £1.15.0 Each £17.10.0
9 Servants at £2.0.0 Each £18.0.0
Total £712.15.0

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City of Edin [Edinburgh] from 1788 to 1789
10th.
[Page] 44

I Robert Maughan Assessor & Surveyor Aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Careful Examination
of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find the Amount in the Whole to Seven Hundred and Twelve
Pounds Fifteen Shillings Sterling & that upon the Twentyth Day of December Seventeen
hundred & Eighty Eight years I delivered to Mr George McQueen Collector of Said duties
for the City of Edinr [Edinburgh] An exact Duplicate of the forgoing Accompt Duly Examined and
Compared which Contained my Oath that Notices or Requisition were left with
Several Inhabitants or at their Dwelling Houses of the Dates annexed to their [respective]
Names
Robert Maughan

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