 Masters and Apprentices
(1748)
Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade, address, and occupation, and the apprentice's father's name and address, as well as details of the date and length of the apprenticeship.DOCWRA. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters and Apprentices
(1749)
Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade, address, and occupation, and the apprentice's father's name and address, as well as details of the date and length of the apprenticeship.DOCWRA. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Hertfordshire Sessions
(1700-1752)
Incidents from the Hertfordshire Sessions Books and Minute Books. These cover a wide range of criminal and civil business for the county: numerically, the the most cases (240) concerned assaults; presentments about repairs to roads and bridges (67); larceny (63); unlicensed and disorderly alehouses (33); nuisances (28); and trading without due apprenticeship (24). This calendar gives abstracts of all entries in the Sessions Books and Minute Books for Hertfordshire sessions for the period.DOCWRA. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters of apprentices
(1755)
Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade, address, and occupation, and the apprentice's name, as well as details of the date and length of the apprenticeship. 1 January to 31 December 1755.DOCWRA. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters of clerks and apprentices
(1762)
Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty (late payment of the 6d rate attracted double duty (D D) of 12d): the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade, address, and occupation, and the apprentice's name, as well as details of the date and length of the apprenticeship. 1 January to 31 December 1762.DOCWRA. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices
(1778)
Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade, address, and occupation, and the apprentice's name, as well as details of the date and length of the apprenticeship. 2 January to 25 August 1778. IR 1/29DOCWRA. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Coggeshall, Essex, Owners and Occupiers
(1789)
The rental of the copyhold and freehold estates held of the manor of Coggeshall or Coggeshall Hall, gives for each holding the annual rent; the name of the owner of the estate at Michaelmas 1789; the name(s) of the occupier(s) at that time; and a description of the copyhold premises.DOCWRA. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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London Carriers
(1791)
A list of the proprietors of the different waggons and carts, with the towns their journeys end at, and the inns they set out from in London, from the Universal British DirectoryDOCWRA. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1793)
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military promotions, clerical preferments and domestic occurrences, as reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland, Scotland and abroad.
DOCWRA. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Royston in Hertfordshire
(1790-1797)
The provincial sections of the Universal British Directory include lists of gentry and traders from each town and the surrounding countryside, with names of local surgeons, lawyers, postmasters, carriers, &c. (the sample scan here is from the section for Nottingham). The directory started publication in 1791, but was not completed for some years, and the provincial lists, sent in by local agents, can date back as early as 1790 and as late as 1797.
DOCWRA. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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