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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
North Leith
William Haggat 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Parishes Collected
West Kirk 254 27 190 37 27 £374.0.0 £37.8.0
Cannongate 48 6 30 7 5 £71.15.0 £7.3.6
South Leith 41 5 37 4 £58.10.0 £5.17.0
North Leith 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
344 39 264 48 32 £506.15.0 £50.13.6
Lord Stonfield Gamekeeper £1.15.0 £0.3.6
315 33 £508.10.0 £50.17.0
Proof
264 at £1.5.0 is £330.0.0
48 at £1.10.0 is £72.0.0
33 at £1.15.0 is £57.15.0
£459.15.0
39 Bachelors at £1.5.0 is £48.15.0
£508.10.0
10 per Cent upon this sum is £50.17.0
£559.7.0

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I William Cunningham Surveyor aforesaid do
hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find the Above duties to ammount to
the Sum of five hundred and fifty nine pounds and Seven Shillings and that this day
being the 6th of Jany [January] 1794 I did deliver into the office of George Cranstoun Esq Collector
a full duplicate of this Acct [Account] In which I certified that the Charges against the Several
inhabitants were made either in Consequence of Returns to my requisitions or from the best
possible Information I could get when they failed to make such returns
William Cunningham

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