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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 County of Banff
Jun 1791 Duke of Gordon James Loggie etc etc footm [footman] 25 25 £75.0.0 £7.10.0
Mrs Gordon Litchison 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
John Gordon Cairnfield Andrew Hay 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
James Gordon Lettesfurie John Grant 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Capt. [Captain] Abercrombie Glassa 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Mrs Paterson John Milne Etc Gardner & Driver 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Capt. [Captain] Booker 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Lord Fife Mr Harden etc footmen 11 11 £33.0.0 £3.6.0
Lord Gardenston Froop 2 2 2 £5.0.0 £0.10.0
Lord Banff 2 2 2 £5.0.0 £0.10.0
Sir Ernest Gordon [Andrew] Sim &c Driver & But. [Butler] 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Miss Gordon Achintoul James Gordon footm [footman] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
James Gordon Ardmillie John Grant &c 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Major Duff Mayne James Innes &c 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
56 4 20 36 £138.0.0 £13.16.0

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Survey of Male Servants Tax Arising in the County of Banff from
5th April 1791 to 5th April 1792 By Patrick Mcdonald Surveyor

Prooff
4 Batchelor Servants @ £2.10.0 each for a year is £10.0.0
16 Servants @ £1.5.0 each for a year is £20.0.0 Duty on Servants £138.0.0
36 Servants at £3.0.0 each for a year is £108.0.0 Ten per Cent £16.16.0
£138.0.0 Total £2.15.0
Ten Per Cent £16.16.0 T cent £157.11.0
Total Amt. [Amount] £154.16.0
Ten Per Cent on £2.10.0 is [--]
Total Amount £157.11.0

Duty on Servants £138.0.0


I Patrick Mdonald Sury [Surveyor] do hereby Certify that Upon carefull examination of the foregoing Rates and duties
I find they Amount in whole to One hundred and fifty Seven pounds Eleven Shillings and that upon the 12
Nov.[November] I have transmitted John Reid Collector of Said duties for the County of Banff an exact duplicate of the
Above Acct. [Account] examined And compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath that the Several
Inhabitants were Served with Requisitions and the Assessment Made up from the lists and answers in
my Possession. Patrick Mdonald Survy [Surveyor]

Amount of foregoing Sury. [Survey] £157.11.0
Sworn before me at Invess [Inverness]
8th Nov. [November[ 1791 Thomas Young Bailie

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