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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
Parishes Collected
Hawick Parish 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Cavers Parish 7 3 4 £9.15.0 £0.19.6
Habkirk Parish 5 2 3 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
Country part of Jedburgh Parish 5 1 1 4 £8.10.0 £0.17.0
Kelso Parish 14 1 11 3 £20.5.0 £2.0.6
Ednam Parish 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Smealholm Parish 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Stichel Parish 5 5 £8.15.0 £0.17.6
McCarston Parish 4 4 £6.0.0 £0.12.0
Crylon Parish 8 4 8 £17.0.0 £1.14.0
Minto Parish 7 2 5 £11.5.0 £1.2.6
Roxburgh Parish 3 3 3 £8.5.0 £0.16.6
Ancrum Parish 6 2 2 4 £11.0.0 £1.2.0
Askirk Parish 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Wilton Parish 9 2 3 6 £15.5.0 £1.10.6
Lessuden Parish 4 4 £6.0.0 £0.12.0
Melrose Parish 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
85 13 32 40 13 £139.0.0 £13.18.0

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13 Male Servants at £1.5.0 Each is £16.5.0
32 Male Servants at £1.5.0 Each is £40.0.0
40 Male Servants at £1.10.0 Each is £60.0.0
13 Male Servants at £1.15.0 Each is £22.15.0
Total £139.0.0
£139.0.0 at Ten per Cent is £13.18.0
Sum Total £152.18.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find the above dutys amount to the Sum of One
Hundred and Fifty Two pounds Eighteen Shilling and that upon the Twenty day of October I delivered to John Rutherford
Collector of these dutys for the Shire aforesaid an exact Duplicat of the above which contained my Oath that the preceeding Inhabitants were duly served
with requisitions of the dates foresaid 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 fifth of Aprile Ninety one to the fifth of Aprile Ninety two
as well as an account of what Servants, horses and Carriages they might use and employ any where else and that the foregoing report was made up from
their several Attested Lists or returns to me from the best information I could procure or from my own certain knowledge of their respective Establishments.
[signed] Wm. Brunton

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