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Date Masters and mistresses names and 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 20% per 37 George III
1797 Whitburn Parish
9th Sep 1797 The Right Honle.[Honourable] Lord Polkemmit Alexander Hamilton
William Fortune
Walter Wilson
Coachman
Footman
Footman
3 3 £1.13.9 £0.6.9
Totall Totall 3 3 £1.13.9 £0.6.9
Parishes Collected
1 Linlithgow Parish 6 6 £2.5.0 £0.9.0
2 Borness Parish 2 2 £0.15.0 £0.3.0
3 Carridden Parish 5 2 3 £2.8.9 £0.9.9
4 Abbercorn Parish 24 2 3 19 £16.13.9 £3.6.9
5 Kirkliston Parish 9 4 5 £5.5.0 £1.1.0
6 Dalmaney Parish 7 7 £3.18.9 £0.15.9
7 Uphall Parish 2 2 £0.15.0 £0.3.0
8 Livingston Parish 4 4 £2.5.0 £0.9.0
9 Bathgate Parish 5 2 3 £2.8.9 £0.9.9
10 Whitburn Parish 3 3 £1.13.9 £0.6.9
Total 67 20 23 24 £38.8.9 £7.13.9
Proof
20 Servants @ £0.7.6 each being 9 months Duty £7.10.0
23 Servants @ £0.11.3 each being 9 months Duty £12.18.9
24 Servants @ £0.15.0 each being 9 months Duty £18.0.0
£38.8.9
To the 20 P Ct. [Per Cent] thereon £7.13.9
Total £46.2.6

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Linlithgow County MALE SERVANTS TAX. Survey Continued


I James Watson Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull examination of the
foregoing Rates and Duties find they amount in whole to the sum of Forty Six pounds two
shillings and six pence Str [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 several persons beforenamed
were duly served with Requisitions and Notices whereby they were to be charged with
the several Duties hereby Certified to be due by them
James Watson Surveyor
Linlithgow 5th. December
1797

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