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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 Five to seven Eight to ten Eleven or more Duty 10% per 31 George III 10% per 36 George III
Abstract
Abbay 30 13 10 7 £43.10.0 £4.7.0 £4.7.0
Paisley 9 6 3 £12.0.0 £1.4.0 £1.4.0
Mearns 6 3 3 £8.5.0 £0.16.6 £0.16.6
Houstown 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0 £0.5.0
Lochwinnoch 10 10 10 £32.10.0 £3.5.0 £3.5.0
Kilbarchan 13 4 3 4 6 £25.5.0 £2.10.6 £2.10.6
Erskine 8 5 8 £16.5.0 £1.12.6 £1.12.6
Greenock 12 1 9 3 £17.0.0 £1.14.0 £1.14.0
Port Glasgow 3 3 £3.15.0 £0.7.6 £0.7.6
Inchinan 9 2 7 £13.0.0 £1.6.0 £1.6.0
Inverkip 13 3 3 7 £20.10.0 £2.1.0 £2.1.0
Renfrew 23 4 7 16 £43.10.0 £4.7.0 £4.7.0
[Total] 138 24 52 40 36 10 £238.0.0 £23.16.0 £23.16.0
10 PerCent thereon per 31 Geo [George] 3 £23.16.0
10 PerCent [thereon per] 36 G [George] 3 £23.16.0
[Grand Total] £285.12.0

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52 Servants at £1.5.0 £65.0.0
40 [Servants at] £1.10.0 £60.0.0
36 [Servants at] £1.15.0 £63.0.0
10 [Servants at] £2.0.0 £20.0.0
138 [Total servants]
24 Batchelors £1.5.0 £30.0.0
[Total] £238.0.0
10 PerCent thereon per 31 G [George] 3 £23.16.0
10 PerCent [thereon] per 36 G [George] 3 £23.16.0
[Grand Total] £285.12.0

[I] David Hutcheson Surveyor aforesaid Do Certify That upon examination I find the above duties
a]mount to two hundred & eighty four pounds twelve shillings Sterling and that this day I
delivered to John Wyllie Collector of these duties a duplicate of this account duly compared
which contained my oath That the Several Inhabitants are charged the sums to their names
severally Sett conform to their returns to my Requisitions or to the best of my information
[or] belief that they are liable thereon by law
[signed] David Hutcheson
Glasgow 28 Feb. [February] 1798


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