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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
1790 South Leith
Brought forward 35 3 31 4 £48.10.0
John Jamieson Links 1 1 £1.5.0
James Rannie Wine Mert [Merchant] 1 1 £1.5.0
Captain Macrae James Henderson Gardner 1 1 £1.5.0
Mr. Simpson Parsons green Charles Wood Gardener £1.5.0
James Chamers North Leith 1 1 £1.5.0
40 3 36 4 £54.15.0
West Kirk from Page 8th 261 35 178 52 23 8 £400.10.0
Cannongate from Page 9th 45 6 40 5 £65.0.0
346 44 254 61 23 8 £520.5.0

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Prooff 44 Servants at £1.5.0 is £55.0.0
254 Servants at £1.5.0 is £317.10.0
61 Servants at £1.10.0 is £91.10.0
23 Servants at £1.15.0 is £40.5.0
8 Servants at £2.0.0 is £10.0.0
£520.5.0

I John Taitt Surveyor aforesaid hereby certify, the above duties do amount to the Sum of Five
Hundred & twenty pounds five Shillings. Sterling, and that upon the 9 Feby [February] 1791, delivered to Mr
George McQueen Collector, an exact duplicate of the above Accompt, certifying that the foregoing
Inhabitants were duly served with Requisitions, and that they are Charged conform to their
own Returns, or the best Information I could procure.
John Taitt

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