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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
23 Jun 1791 The Burgh of Jedburgh
Thomas Waugh Esqr. in Jedburgh 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Mrs. Jardin Jedburgh 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
John Rutherford Ainzlie Jedburgh 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
3 1 3 £5.0.0 £0.10.0

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A Survey of the [MALE SERVANTS TAX.] in the Burgh of Jedburgh from the 5 of
Aprile 1791 to the 5 of Aprile 1792 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
£5.0.0
£5.0.0 @ Ten per Cent £0.10.0
Total £5.10.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby certify that upon carefull examination I find the above dutys amount to the Sum of Five pound
Ten Shillings and that upon the Twenty day of October I delivered to James Black Collector of said dutys for the Burgh aforesaid
an exact Duplicate of the above which containd my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants were duly Served with Requisitions of the dates aforsaid
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 anywhere Else and that the forgoing 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
William Brunton

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