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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
12 Jul 1788 Hugh Dalrymple Esq James Yorston
Robert Whitecross
House servt [servant]
Postillion
2 2 £2.10.0
Capt. [Captain] James Dalrymple Duncan Robertson Own servt [servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Charles Dalrymple Esq James Gibson
Robert Porteous
2 2 £2.10.0
5 1 5 £7.10.0
Proof 5 servants at £1.5.0 is £6.5.0
1 Batchelor servant at £1.5.0 is £1.5.0
£7.10.0

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Survey of the Male Servants Tax in the Royalty of
North Berwick from 5 April 1788 to the 5 April 1789.
by William Johnstone Surveyor
[Page] 85


I William Johnstone Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find the above Duties amount to Seven
Pounds ten shillings ster [sterling]. And that upon the 29 Oct. [October] 1788. I delivered to Henry Nelson Collector of these Duties an exact duplicate
of this account duely examined & compared which contained my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duely served with requisitions
and that they were charged in conformity to their several Returns Or according to my knowledge or belief that they were liable in said
duties. William Johnstone Surveyor

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