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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
1793 Creech Parish
23 Aug 1793 Col. [Colonel] McKay Hugh Baillie Rosehall Groom 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Dornoch Parish
22 Aug 1793 George Dempster Esqr. Skelbo Gardener 1 1 £1.15.0 £0.3.6
Golspey Parish
22 Aug 1793 Rt. Honable. [Right Honourable] Earl Gower Dunrobin Gardener & Gamekeeper 2 2 £6.0.0 £0.12.0
G: Sackville Sutherland Esq Uppet Groom 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
3 1 2 £7.5.0 £0.14.6
Loth Parish
20 Aug 1793 Dugald Gilchrist Esqr. L: [Loth] Beg Groom 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Capt [Captain] Gordon of Carrol Groom 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
2 1 2 £3.15.0 £0.7.6
Strath- never Farr Parish
6 Aug 1793 Lord Reay at Skerra Body Servt: [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Reay Parish
24 Aug 1793 George McKay Esqr of Bighouse Groom 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Parishes Collected
Creech Parish 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Dornoch Parish 1 1 £1.15.0 £0.3.6
Golspey Parish 3 1 2 £7.5.0 £0.14.6
Loth Parish 2 1 2 £3.15.0 £0.7.6
Farr Parish 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Reay Parish 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
9 3 6 1 2 £19.0.0 £1.18.0
10 pr [per] Cent £1.18.0
£20.18.0 Total

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A Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. for the Shire of Sutherland
From 5 April 1793 to 5 April 1793 to 5 April 1794 By David Brodie Surveyor


Proof
2 Servants at £3.0.0 each is........................................ £6.0.0
1 Servant at £1.15.0. each is...................................... £1.15.0
6 Servants at £1.5.0. each is...................................... £7.10.0
3 Servants Bach. [Bachelors] at £1.5.0. over & above £3.15.0
.................................................................................... £19.0.0
10 pr [per] Cent............................................................£1.18.0
................................................................................. £20.18.0. Total

I David Brodie Surveyor do, hereby certify That, upon careful examination of the
foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount in Whole to Twenty pounds eighteen
shillings, and that upon the 19 October last I delivered to Mr Dugald Gilchrist
Collecter of the Said dutis an Exact Duplicate of the above Acct [Account] Duly examined and compared
with the foregoing, which contained My Oath that Requisitions were Left with the
several Masters and Mistresses or at their Dwelling-houses of the Dates annexed to their
Respective Names that they were to be charged with the Sums hereby certified to be
due from them. [Signed] David Brodie Surveyor

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