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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
Corstorphine 13 3 3 10 £22.10.0 £2.5.0
Crammond 23 8 15 £38.15.0 £3.16.0
Collington 18 3 10 8 £28.5.0 £2.16.0
Currie 4 1 1 3 £7.0.0 £0.14.0
Glencorse 7 7 £10.10.0 £1.1.0
Pennycuick 6 1 2 4 £9.15.0 £0.19.0
Duddingston 6 6 £9.0.0 £0.18.0
Libberton 30 7 10 10 10 £53.15.0 £5.7.0
Laswade 21 3 14 7 £31.15.0 £3.3.0
Carrington 2 2 2 £5.0.0 £0.10.0
Borthwick 17 1 8 8 £20.5.0 £2.18.0
Cockpen 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Stow 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Cranston 18 1 4 13 £30.0.0 £3.0.0
Crighton 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Kirkliston 3 3 £4.10.0 £0.9.0
Mid Calder 6 2 6 £10.0.0 £1.0.0
Weat Calder 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Kirknewton 2 2 2 £5.0.0 £0.10.0
Inveresk 43 1 15 17 11 £64.15.0 £6.9.0
Dalkeith 28 1 2 3 23 £77.5.0 £7.14.6
Newbattle 10 2 3 5 £15.15.0 £1.11.6
Newton 6 6 £10.10.0 £1.1.0
Ratho 3 3 £4.10.0 £0.9.0
272 26 77 104 60 8 23 £474.15.0 £47.9.6
Proof
77 at £1.5.0 is £96.5.0
104 at £1.10.0 is £156.5.0
60 at £1.15.0 is £105.0.0
8 at £2.0.0 is £16.0.0
23 at £3.0.0 is £69.0.0
£442.5.0
26 Bachelors at £1.5.0 £32.10.0
£474.15.0
10 per cent upon this sum £47.9.6
£522.4.6

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I John Wood Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful Examination
I find these duties to amount to the Sum of five Hundred and twenty two pounds four
Shillings and sixpence Str [Sterling] and that this day being the ninth of February 1795 I did
deliver into the office of George Cranston Esqr Collector a full Duplicate of this Acct [Account]
which I further certifyed that the Charges agt [against] the several Inhabitants were made [either]
from their Returns to my Requisitions or from the best possible Information I could
procure then they failed to make such Returns. John Wood

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