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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
1792 Royal Burgh Irvine
20 - 21 Sep 1792 Captn [Captain] Davidson Br [Batchelor] William Johnston H [House] Servant 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
The Honble [Honourable] Patrick Boyle John Gillies
John Crawford
H [House] Servant
Driver
2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
John Bryan Vintner Robert Bankhead Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
4 1 4 £6.5.0 £0.12.6

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Royal Burgh of Irvine
Male Servants Tax
From 5 April 1792 to 5 April 1793 Robert Aiken Surveyor

Prooff
1 Bachs Servt [Bachelors Servant] £1.5.0
4 Servants £1.5.0 pr [per] £5.0.0
....................................£6.5.0
10 per cent thereon........£0.12.6
Total by prooff...............£6.17.6

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon careful Examination of
the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount to six pounds five shillings Sterling which with
the ten per Cent duty thereon being twelve shillings and sixpence Sterling makes them amount in whole to
Six pounds seventeen shillings and six pence Sterling and that upon the Twelfth day of
December Current I delivered to Mr John Watt Collector of said Taxes for said Burgh at his office an
exact Duplicate of and duly examined and compared with the foregoing account which contained my oath
that notifications were delivered or left of the dates foresaid and that the Rates and Duties charged in
said account were just and true charges to the best of my skill and knowledge and to the best of my belief
no person liable to be charged was omitted.
Robert Aiken

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