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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
2 Jul 1789 Hugh Bell Brewer Pleasance 1 1 1 £2.10.0
3 Jul 1789 George Innes Esqr. 1 1 £1.5.0
Lady Dick James [Greig] [House servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr Robert Biggar Junr [Junior] 1 1 £1.5.0
Peter Robison Goldsmith Alexander [Stewart] [House servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
William Hay writer sigt. [writer to the signet] 1 1 £1.5.0
4 Jul 1789 Proffr. [Professor] Ferguson [House servant] 1 1 £1.5.0
James Seton lodger with Mr Grant Seton Peter [Hall 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Coling Young Archers Hall Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0
6 Jul 1789 Mrs. Maxwell James Greig [Butler] 1 1 £1.5.0
8 Jul 1789 Lawrance Inglis writer John McBeath 1 1 £1.5.0
Proffr. [Professor] Robertson John Lawson 1 1 £1.5.0
10 Jul 1789 David Erskine writer sigt [writer to the signet] John Anderson
Thomas Robb
Footman
Footman
2 2 £2.10.0
William Fullerton Esq. Walter Wood
Adan [Hudson]
John [Millar ]
Robert [ Sowden]
Coach
[Footman]
[Footman]
[Gardner]
4 4 £6.0.0
Dr [Doctor] Black James [Cummin] [House Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0
Mrs Graham James [Hall]
Daniel
[Coachman] 2 2 £2.10.0
Mr Robert Playfair 1 1 £1.5.0
Revd. Dr [Reverend Doctor] McNight 1 1 £1.5.0
Sir James Wymess 1 1 1 £2.10.0
24 4 20 4 £35.0.0

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1 MIDLOTHIAN & (interior) 12
Survey of the Male Servants Tax in the Exterior by John Taitt Surveyor
Parishes of the Shire of Edinburgh
[Page] 63

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Centre and right hand side of the page are decayed away or in poor state of preservation. Masters and Mistresses names are present, although faint, and some servant names or partial names are also present.

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