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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 242 31 176 37 29 £365.0.0 £36.10.0
Cannongate 42 5 30 4 8 £65.15.0 £6.11.6
South Leith 35 5 39 5 £52.10.0 £5.5.0
North Leith 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
321 41 238 41 34 8 £485.15.0 £48.11.0
Surcharges
Mrs Smith White House Toll 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Bently Gordon Bently Leith Walk 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Mrs Hay of Mountclaire Cannongate 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Mr James Craig Cannongate 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
4 4 £10.0.0 £1.0.0

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238 at £1.5.0 is £297.10.0
41 at £1.10.0 £61.10.0
34 £1.15.0 £59.10.0
8 £2.0.0 £16.0.0
£434.10.0
41 Bachelors £1.5.0 £51.5.0 10 per cent upon this sum £48.11.6
£534.6.6

I William Cunningham do hereby Certify that upon Carefull [examination]
I find the foregoing duties to Ammount to the sum of five hundred & thirty [four]
pounds Six Shillings & Sixpence, Sterg [Sterling] & that upon the -- day -- I [transmitted]
to Mr George Cranston collection a duplicate hereof containing my oath [that]
the preceeding inhabitants here duly Served with Reqn [Requisitions] of dates forsaid
and that they are Charged according to their own Returns or the best on [information]
[signed] William Cunningham

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