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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 10% per 31 George III
Cupar
7 Aug 1794 Mr William Peaston John Gulen Gardner 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Capt [Captain] Robert Kerr 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Major Horseburgh 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
David Methven Vintner a Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Capt [Captain] Charles Bell 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6.
Miss Skene 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
George Sandilands Esqr 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
8 8 £10.0.0 £1.0.0
Duty £10.0.0
10 pr Cents [percent] 10 pr Cents [percent] £1.0.0
£11.0.0
Proof 8 Servants at £1.5.0 each is £10.0.0
10 per Cents [percent] is £1.0.0
£11.0.0

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MALE SERVANTS TAX in Cupar for the Year
Ending 5th April 1795 By Peter Colvile Surveyor

I Peter Colvile Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify That the foregoing Duties amount to the Sum
of Eleven Pounds Sterling and I hereby make Oath That the foregoing Inhabitants were duly served with
Requisitions of the dates foresaid, and That they were charged according to their several returns to me or from
the best information
Peter Colvile Surveyor
Alexander Simpson Collector

At Torryburn the 8th
day of Novr [November] 1794 Years
Before me Charles Preston J:P: [Justice of the Peace]

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