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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 Parishes Collected
Tarbat Parish 3 3 £4.10.0
Fearn Parish 2 2 £2.10.0
Loggie Parish 1 1 £1.5.0
Nigg Parish 1 1 £1.5.0
Rosskeen Parish 4 1 3 £5.15.0
Alness Parish 12 12 12 £51.0.0
Killtearn Parish 4 4 £5.0.0
Dingwall Parish 1 1 £1.5.0
Urray Parish 7 2 5 £11.5.0
Killmuir Wester Parish 3 3 £3.15.0
Avoch Parish 2 2 £2.10.0
Aplecross Parish 1 1 £1.5.0
Proof 41 12 18 6 5 12 £91.5.0
41 Servants
12 Batchelors at £1.5.0 each is £15.0.0
18 at £1.5.0 each £22.10.0
6 at £1.10.0 each £9.0.0
5 at £1.15.0 each £8.15.0
12 at £3.0.0 each £36.0.0
£91.5.0 Total £91.5.0

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Survey Continued

I John Barclay Surveyor Aforesaid, do hereby certify, That upon carefull examination of the foregoing
Rates & Duties I find they amount in whole to Ninty one pounds ,five Shillings, And that upon the [--]
day of Decr [December] currt. [current] I delivered to Roderick McKenzie of Scots burn Collector of said Duties for the [Shire]
aforesaid, an exact Duplicate of the Above Acct. [Account] Duly examined & compared with the foregoing, [which]
contained my Oath that the above Acct [account] contained the number of servants returned to me & that
kept by the different masters or mistress's according to the best of my know [knowledge] or Information.
[Tain] Decr [December] 1790 [signed] John Barclay

A Survey of the Duties
on Male Servants, Arisen
in the Shire of Ross
for the year ending
5 Apr 1791

Ross Shire
27 √ S.

[Page] 168

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