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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
5 Jul 1790 The Burgh of Jedburgh
Thomas Waugh Esqr. in Jedburgh 1 1 £1.5.0
Mrs. Jardin Jedburgh 1 1 £1.5.0
John Rutherford Ainzlie Jedburgh 1 1 1 £2.10.0
3 1 3 £5.0.0

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A Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. in the Burgh of Jedburgh
from the 5 of Aprile 1790 to the 5 of Aprile 1791 By William Brunton Surveyor

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1 Male Servant @ £1.5.0 Each is £1.5.0
3 Male Servants @ £1.5.0 Each is £3.15.0
Sum Total £5.0.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find the above duties amount to
the Sum Five pound and that upon the -- day of -- I delivered to James Black Collector of these duties for the Burgh
aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above which Containd my Oath that the preceding Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions
of the dates aforesaid desiring them within fourteen days to deliver or cause to be delivered to me upon calling for that purpose
an Attested list of all the servants horses and Carriages used and employed by them from the 5 of Aprile 1789 to the 5 of Aprile 1790
as well as an acount of what Servants horses and Carriages they might use and employ any where else and that the forgoing
report is as made up from their Several attested lists or Returns to me from the best information I coud procure or from my own
certain knowledge of their respective Establishments
William Brunton

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The original Surveyor's declaration has been crossed out.

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