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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 servants Five to seven servants Eight to ten servants Eleven or more servants Duty
Inveresk Parish 60 3 31 6 23 £68.16.3
Dalkeith 30 1 3 27 £64.10.0
Newton 7 2 5 £8.8.9
Newbottle 3 3 £3.7.6
5 Falla 1 1 £0.18.9
Dudingston 9 2 7 £9.15.0
Libberton 13 10 3 4 6 £24.11.3
Laswade 13 2 6 7 £15.7.6
Cramond 18 2 11 5 £20.16.3
10 Corstorphine 7 4 3 £7.2.6
Collington 7 1 4 3 £8.1.3
Currie 2 2 £1.17.6
Glencorse 5 2 3 £5.5.0
Pennycuick 1 1 £0.18.9
15 Midcalder 4 1 4 £4.13.9
Westcalder 2 1 2 £2.16.3
Kirknewton 4 1 3 £4.6.3
Ratho 13 3 6 7 £18.15.0
Carrington 3 3 £3.7.6
20 Cockpen 11 1 3 8 £15.15.0
Temple 3 3 £3.7.6
Borthwick 10 1 3 7 £12.18.9
Stow 4 1 3 £4.6.3
Crichton 1 1 £0.18.9
25 Cranston 9 4 1 8 £13.13.9
Canongate 100 25 45 17 14 9 15 £150.7.6
South Leith 41 5 33 3 5 £45.11.3
North Leith 3 3 £2.16.3
St. Cuthberts 266 27 177 59 10 16 4 £303.15.0
Grand Total is 650 85 337 152 82 33 46 £827.5.0

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Parishes Collected

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85 (Bachellors) Servts [Servants] at £0.18.9 each is £79.13.9
337 Servants at £0.18.9 each is £315.18.9
152 Servants at £1.2.6 each is £171.0.0
82 Servants at £1.6.3 each is £107.12.6
33 Servants at £1.10.0 each is £49.10.0
46 Servants at £2.5.0 each is £103.10.0
£827.5.0
N.B. Colonel Campbell in Geos Sq [Georges Square]
and James Hay in Canongate are booked
Bachellors owing to an erronious Return
When this is rectified Duty is £834.0.0 [minus] £3.15.0 [equals] £827.5.0


I John Wood Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That upon carefull Examination I find the above
Duties to amount to the Sum of eight hundred and thirty one pounds Stg [Sterling] And that upon this present
day being the eighteenth of March 1786 Years I did deliver to George Cranstoun Esq. Collector of the
Duties for this County an exact Duplicate of this Accot [Account] duly examined & compared & which contd [contained]
my oath that the above Charges were made on the dift [different] Inhabitants in Consequence of Returns made to
me by them [Signed] John Wood

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