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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
Brought forward 84 18 81 3 . . . £128.5.0 £12.6.6
Robert Sinclair Esq James Dempster
Peter Goodsir
ho: Servt [house Servant]
footman
2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
William Molle writer George Nimmo ho: Servt [house Servant] 1 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Miss Maxwell Robert Kirkland ho: Servt [house Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Kenneth Mckenzie writer Daniel Sutherland ho: Servt [house Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
James Thomson writer Alexander Low ho: Servt [house Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Cap [Captain] Brown ho: Servt [house Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Robert Davidson Advte [Advocate] ho: Servt [house Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Thomas Cranstoun writer John Robertson ho: Servt [house Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Mr James Davidson Robert Gibson ho: Servt [house Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
James Stodart Esq ho: Servt [house Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Mrs Ouchterlony ho: Servt [house Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Henry Jardine Esq James McIntosh ho: Servt [house Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Mrs Mcdowall of Castlesemple 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Mrs Daniel Robertson lodging wt [with] William Robertson Advte [Advocate] Queen St 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
3d Division 100 21 97 3 . . . £152.0.0 £15.4.0
Abstract
1st Division to Page 4 181 34 157 16 8 . . £276.15.0 £27.13.6
2d Division to Page 8 197 26 162 23 12 . . £290.10.0 £29.1.0
3d Division to Page 11 100 21 97 3 . . . £152.0.0 £15.4.0
Total 478 81 416 42 20 . . £719.5.0 £71.18.6
81 Bachelor's Servants at £1.5.0 each £101.5.0 £10.2.6
416 Servants at £1.5.0 each £520.0.0 £52.0.0
42 Servants at £1.10.0 each £63.0.0 £6.6.0
Proof 20 Servants at £1.15.0 each £35.0.0 £3.10.0
£719.5.0 £71.18.6
£719.5.0 at the Rate of £10 of Cent £71.18.6
Total £791.3.6
Surcharges Viz
25 Mar 1794 6th John Mckay Innkeeper Grass Market 1 1 1 £5.0.0 £0.10.0
Mr Walter Ferguson Buchanan's Court 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
2 1 2 £7.10.0 £0.15.0
£0.15.0
Total £8.5.0
RM Survr [R Maughan Surveyor]

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I R Maughan Surveyor do hereby certify that upon careful examination of the foregoing Rates and
Duties I find they amount in whole to Seven hundred and Ninety one Pounds Three Shillings
and Sixpence Sterling and that upon the 28th day of February 1795 I delivered to Messrs
George and Daniel McQueen Collectors of said Duties for the City of Edinburgh an exact
Duplicate of the foregoing Account duly examined and compared which contained my
certificate that requisitions were left with the several Inhabitants or at their dwellings houses
of the dates annexed to their respective Names
R Maughan Surveyor

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