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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 Royal Burgh of Air
22 Jun 1797 Col. [Colonel] McKenzie Thomas Symington H. [House] Servant 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6 £0.2.6
Mrs. Crawford of Newfield Alexander Gibson H. [House] Servant 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6 £0.2.6
Charles Buchan Esq. Quintin Bone H. [House] Servant 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6 £0.2.6
Countess of Dumfries Hugh Paterson
John Baird
Coachman
Footman
2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0 £0.5.0
Dr. [Doctor] Bowie John Burgess H. [House] Servant 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6 £0.2.6
Dr. [Doctor]Charles Hugh McCreath H. [House] Servant 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6 £0.2.6
Mrs. Campbell of Skerrington John Lyon H. [House] Servant 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6 £0.2.6
23 Jun 1797 William Dunn Star Inn Gibson McGallan Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6 £0.2.6
James Sloan Kings Arms Charles Milns Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6 £0.2.6
26 Jun 1797 Hugh Hamilton Esqr. B. [Bachelor] David Muir
Alexander Rose
William Grieve
H. [House] Servant & Gamekeeper
Gardner
Postilion
3 3 3 £8.5.0 £0.16.6 £0.16.6
Mrs. Fergusson Doonholm Alexander Dickie
William Reid
Postilion
H. [House] Servant
2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0 £0.5.0
Countess of Crawford Walter Ainslie
James Wilson
John Beoch
William Campbell
Alexander Crawford
Hugh Anderson
Butler & Gamekeeper
Footman
Coachman
Postilion
Gardner
6 6 £10.10.0 £1.1.0 £1.1.0
John Ballantine Esq. B [Bachelor] William Smith Gardner 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0 £0.5.0
22 4 13 3 6 £36.5.0 £3.12.6 £3.12.6

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Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants within the Royal Burgh of Ayr from 5th April 1797 to 5th April 1798
By Robert Aiken Surveyor

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4 Batchelor Servants at £1.5.0 each is £5.0.0
13 Servants at £1.5.0 each is £16.5.0
3 Servants at £1.10.0 each is £4.10.0
6 Servants at £1.15.0 each is £10.10.0
...............................................£36.5.0
10 per cent per 31 Geo. III'd £3.12.6
10 per cent per 31 Geo. III'd £3.12.6
Total......................................£43.10.0


I Robert Aiken Surveyor Do hereby Certify that upon Careful
Examination of the foregoing Rates and Duties I find they Amount
to fourty three pounds ten shillings sterling by proof. And that
conform to his Receipts there was delivered to Mr Thomas McClelland
Collector of said Duties an Exact Duplicate of this Account which
Contained my Oath that Requisitions were delivered or left, And
that the Rates and Duties Charged in said Account were just and
true to the best of my Skill and knowledge and belief And no person
known to me, Omitted who ought to have been Charged -
Rob Aiken

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