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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
1797 Parishes Collected
1. Linlithgow parish 7 4 7 £13.15.0 £1.7.6 £1.7.6
2. Borness Parish 4 4 £5.0.0 £0.10.0 £0.10.0
3. Carridden Parish 5 2 2 3 £9.10.0 £0.19.0 £0.19.0
4. Abbercorn Parish 26 5 4 3 19 £72.15.0 £7.5.6 £7.5.6
5. Kirkliston Parish 10 1 5 5 £16.5.0 £1.12.6 £1.12.6
6. Dalmaney Parish 8 1 7 £11.15.0 £1.3.6 £1.3.6
7. Uphall Parish 3 3 £3.15.0 £0.7.6 £0.7.6
8. Livingston Parish 6 2 4 £8.10.0 £0.17.0 £0.17.0
9. Bathgate Parish 6 3 3 3 £12.0.0 £1.4.0 £1.4.0
10. Torphichen Parish 3 3 £3.15.0 £0.7.6 £0.7.6
11. Whitburn Parish 3 3 £4.10.0 £0.9.0 £0.9.0
Total 81 15 34 23 5 19 £161.10.0 £16.3.0 £16.3.0

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Linlithgow County MALE SERVANTS TAX Survey Continued

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Proof
34 Servants @ £1.5.0 each £42.10.0
23 Servants @ £1.10.0 each £34.10.0
5 Servants @ £1.15.0 each £ 8.15.0
19 Servants @ £3.0.0 each £57.0.0
15 Batchelors @ £1.5.0 each £18.15.0
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£161.10.0
To the 1st 10 per cent £16.3.0
To the 2nd 10 per cent £16.3.0
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Total £193.16.0


I James Watson Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of
the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they amount in whole to the sum of One hundred
and ninety three pounds Sixteen shillings Sterl [Sterling]. And that upon the Eight day of
November last I delivered to Mr. James Taylor Junr.[Junior] Collector for the said County of
Linlithgow an exact Dupplicate of the foregoing Survey which contained my Oath that
the severale persons beforenamed were duly served with Requisitions & Notices
whereby they were to be charged with the several Duties hereby Certified to be due by them.

Linlithgow 5th December 1797 James Watson Surveyor

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