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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
Sep 1797 Torryburn
Sir William Erskine of Torry Bt. [Baronet] Joseph Wilzel
William Johnston
John Nicoll
John Gillespie
George Martine
Butler
Valet
Gardner
Groom
Groom
5 5 £3.15.0 £0.15.0
5 5 £3.15.0 £0.15.0
Strathmiglo
Mrs. Moncrieff Pitlour 2 2 £0.15.0 £0.3.0
2 2 £0.15.0 £0.3.0
Wemyss
William Wemyss of Wemyss Esqr. David Taylor
Adam Wilson
William Scott
James Smith
George Rae
Christian Funk
Butler
Gardner
2d Butler
Coachman
Groom
Gamekeeper
6 6 £4.10.0 £0.18.0
Abstract 6 6 £4.10.0 £0.18.0
Abbotshall 7 7 £5.5.0 £1.1.0
Aberdour 2 2 £0.15.0 £0.3.0
Dalgety 18 4 14 £12.15.0 £2.11.0
Dunfermline 9 6 3 £3.18.9 £0.15.9
Colessie 3 3 £1.13.9 £0.6.9
Kettle 3 3 £1.13.9 £0.6.9
Kirkaldy 5 5 £3.15.0 £0.15.0
Kinghorn 3 3 £1.13.9 £0.6.9
Falkland 2 2 £0.15.0 £0.3.0
Kinglassie 3 3 £1.13.9 £0.6.9
Leslie 6 6 £4.10.0 £0.18.0
Markinch 12 2 4 6 £7.10.0 £1.10.0
Newburgh 4 4 £1.10.0 £0.6.0
Torryburn 5 5 £3.15.0 £0.15.0
Strathmiglo 2 2 £0.15.0 £0.3.0
Wemyss 6 6 £4.10.0 £0.18.0
90 18 23 49 £56.8.9 £11.5.9
Proof 18 Servants at £0.7.6 each £6.15.0 Duty £56.8.9
23 Servants at £0.11.3 each £12.18.9 20 per Cent £11.5.9
49 Servants at £0.15.0 each £36.15.0 £67.14.6
20 per Cent £11.5.9 £67.14.6

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Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX. in the County of Fife Continued

I James Millar Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby Certify that upon careful Examination I find the foregoing Duties amount
to the Sum of Sixty Seven pounds fourteen shillings and six pence Sterling and that upon the [] Day
of Janry [January] 1798 I delivered to John Cheape Esqr. Collector of the said Duties an exact Duplicate hereof containing my Oath
that the foregoing Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions of the dates foresaid and that they were charged According
to their own Returns or according to be best information I could obtain James Millar Surveyor

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