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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 Creech Parish
21 Jun 1791 Major McKay H. Baillie Rosehall Groom 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Dornoch Parish
21 Jun 1791 George Demster Skibo Gardiner 1 1 £1.15.0 £0.3.6
Golspey Parish
20 Jun 1791 The Rt Honble [Right Honourable] Earl Gower Gardiner 1 1 £3.0.0 £0.6.0
Loth Parish
20 Jun 1791 Mr Dugald Gilchrist Loth Beg Groom 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Cap [Captain] John Gordon Carrol Groom 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
2 1 2 £3.15.0 £0.7.6
Strathnever Farr Parish
24 Jun 1791 Lord Reay Body Servant 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Reay Parish
25 Jun 1791 George McKay Bighouse Groom 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Parishes Collected
Creech Parish 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Dornoch Parish 1 1 £1.15.0 £0.3.6
Golspey Parish 1 1 £3.0.0 £0.6.0
Loth Parish 2 1 2 £3.15.0 £0.7.6
Farr Parish 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Reay Parish 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
7 3 5 1 1 £14.15.0 £1.9.6
10 pr [per] Cent £1.9.6
Total £16.4.6

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A Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. for the Shire of Sutherland
from 5 April 1791 to 5 April 1792 By David Brodie Surveyor


Proof
5 Servants at £1.5.0 Each is £6.5.0
1 Servant at £1.15.0 Each is £1.15.0
1 Servant at £3.0.0 Each is £3.0.0
3 Servants Bachelors at £1.5.0 Each is £3.15.0
......................................£14.15.0
10 per cent ......................£1.9.6
Total............................... £16.4.6

I David Brodie Surveyor do hereby certify,that upon careful Examination of the foregoing Rates and
Duties I find they amount in whole to sixteen Pounds four shillings and sixpence, and that upon the
1st Octr. [October] last I delivered to Mr Dugald Gilchrist Collector of the Said Duties an exact Duplicate of the
above Account Duly examined and Compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath, that
Requisitions were left with the Several Masters and Mistresses or at their Dwelling houses of the dates annexed
to their respective Names, that they were to be Charged with the sums hereby certified to be due from them.
[Signed] David Brodie Surveyor

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