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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 10% per 31 George III
1791 RENFREWshire
Page 1 Innerkip Parish 4 1 1 3 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
Greenock Town & Parish 10 2 7 3 £15.15.0 £1.11.06
Port Glasgow 5 5 £6.05.0 £0.12.06
Paisley 9 6 3 £12.0.0 £1.04.0
2 Abby Parish 25 11 7 7 £36.10.0 £3.13.0
Houstoun 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.05.0
Lochwinnoch 10 10 10 £32.10.0 £3.05.0
3 Erkine 9 4 5 £13.15.0 £1.07.06
Cathcart 3 3 £3.15.0 £0.07.06
Eastwood 4 3 1 3 £9.10.0 £0.19.0
4 Renfrew 16 6 3 8 5 £32.0.0 £3.04.0
Kilmacome 5 5 £8.15.0 £0.17.06
Mearns 6 3 3 £8.05.0 £0.16.06
Neilston 1 1 £1.05.0 £0.02.06
Kilbarchan 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.05.0
Grand Total 122 23 50 40 22 10 £209.15.0 £20.19.06
23 Bachelor Servants at 25 [shillings] each over and above £28.15.0
50 Servants @ 25 [shillings] each £62.10.0
40 Servants @ 30 [shillings] £60.0.0
22 Servants ' 35 [shillings] £38.10.0
10 Servants @ 40 [shillings] £20
122 Male Servants £209.15.0
Duty at 10 per cent on £209.15.0 £20.19.06
[TOTAL] £230.14.06

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I David Hutcheson Surveyor of the duties aforesaid upon carefull examination find
they amount in whole to the sum of Two hundred & thirty pounds fourteen shillings & sixpence sterling
and that this day I delivered to Mr John Gardner Collector of the said Duties for the Shire of Renfrew an Exact
duplicate of the above accounts duly examined and compared Which contained my oath that the foregoing
Inhabitants were duly served with requisitions and that they were to be and are charged conform to their returns
or my knowledge and belief that they were liable to the said duties - which is hereby certified to be due
[signed] David Hutcheson
At Glasgow this 29 day of December 1791

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