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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
West Kirk 248 28 183 39 26 £367.15.0 £36.15.6
Cannongate 49 4 31 13 5 £72.0.0 £7.4.0
South Leith 35 3 31 4 £48.10.0 £4.17.0
North Leith 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
333 35 246 56 31 £489.10.0 £48.19.0
Lady Elizabeth Cunningham 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
334 35 247 56 31 £490.15.0 £49.1.6
Surcharges
21 Jan 1793 Dr [Doctor] Coventry Bristo Street 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Mrs Ainzlie Vint [Vintner] St James Square Waiter 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
William Sibbald Mert [Merchant] Leith 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Robert Kerr Mert [Merchant] Leith 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Earl of Wemys Cangte [Canongate] Robert Vernor Gamekeeper 1 1 £4.0.0 £0.8.0
Thomas Sivewright of South house John Rammadge Gamekeeper 1 1 1 £5.0.0 £0.10.0
D N Gibson of Pentland Thomas Pennycuick Gamekeeper 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
7 1 6 Carry over £21.10.0 £2.3.0

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247 at £1.5.0 is £308.15.0
56 at £1.10.0 is £84.0.0
31 at £1.15.0 is £54.5.0
£447.0.0
35 Bachelors at £1.5.0 is £43.15.0
10 Per cent upon this same is £49.1.6
Grand Total £539.16.6

I William Cunninghame Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful Ex
=amination I find these duties to amount to the sum of five hundred and thirty
nine pounds sixteen Shillings, & sixpence Str [Sterling] and that this same day being the 4th of [February]
1793 I did deliver into the office of George Cranstoun Esq Collector a full Duplicate
this accot [account] in which I certified that the Charges agt [against] the several Inhabitants were
made either from Returns by them to my Requisitions or from the best Information
I could receive where they failed to make such returns all which was duly
notified. William Cunningham

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