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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
Hawick Parish 3 3 £3.15.0 £0.7.6
Cavers Parish 9 4 5 £14.15.0 £1.9.6
Habkirk Parish 3 3 £3.15.0 £0.7.6
Country Part of Jedburgh Parish 5 1 1 4 £8.10.0 £0.17.0
Hunam Parish 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Kelso Parish 14 1 14 £18.15.0 £1.17.6
Linton Parish 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Ednam parish 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Smealholm Parish 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Stichel Parish 5 5 £8.15.0 £0.17.6
McCarston Parish 4 4 £6.0.0 £0.12.0
Crylon Parish 7 7 £10.10.0 £1.1.0
Minto Parish 8 2 6 £13.0.0 £1.6.0
Roxburgh Parish 4 4 £6.0.0 £0.12.0
Ancrum Parish 6 6 £9.0.0 £0.18.0
Askirk Parish 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Wilton Parish 8 5 3 £10.15.0 £1.1.6
Lessuden Parish 4 4 £6.0.0 £0.12.0
Melrose Parish 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
88 2 36 36 16 £129.10.0 £12.19.0
NB Habkirk Parish forgot William Oliver Esqr. of Wiens 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
90 2 38 36 16 £132.0.0 £13.4.0

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2 Servants at £1.5.0 Each is £2.10.0
36 Servants at £1.5.0 Each is £45.0.0
36 Servants at £1.10.0 Each is £54.0.0
16 Servants at £.15.0 Each is £28.0.0
£129.10.0

£129.10.0 @ Ten per Cent is £12.19.0
Sum Total £142.9.0

I William Brunton Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination I find the above duties Amount to the Sum of One Hundred and Forty Two pounds Nine Shillings and that upon the Twenty Fourth day of October I delivered to John Rutherford Collector
of these duties for the Shire aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above which contained my Oath that the preceeding inhabitants were duly Served with Requisitions of the dates forsaid 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 5 of April Ninety three to the 5 of April Ninety four as well as an account of what Servants Horses and Carriages they might use and employ any where Else and that the forgoing Report was made up from their Sevaral Attested lists or returns to me from the best information I could procure or from my own personal knowledge of their Respective Establishments. William Brunton

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