Correspondence and Journal of Charles Talbot
(1674-1708)
Charles Talbot, earl and duke of Shrewsbury, served as Secretary of State, and this material includes his correspondence in that capacity from 1694 to 1700. He then proceeded on an extended tour of the Continent, from 1700 to 1706, of which he kept this journal. The collection also includes much personal correspondence, and some papers relating to the colonies in America and the West Indies.MACDONALD. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Harley family papers
(1690-1708)
This collection of letters and papers is particularly interesting in that it includes a file of petitions and memorials to queen Anne from 1704 to 1708, and a similar file of petitions to Robert Harley in his post as Secretary of State during the same years. The collection includes a few items earlier than 1690. Mostly relates to Britain and Ireland.MACDONALD. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Treasury Books
(1710)
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies, for 1710. These also include records of the appointment and replacement of customs officers such as tide waiters and surveyors.MACDONALD. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Treasury Books
(1713)
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies, for 1713. Also includes Queen Anne's Civil List (royal expenditure) Lottery papers: payment of the royal servants had fallen two years in arrear: Parliament passed an Act allowing the queen to raise half a million pounds by pledging 32 years' future income: she did this by means of a lottery.
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Treasury Books
(1717)
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies, for 1717. These also include records of the appointment and replacement of customs officers such as tide waiters and surveyors.MACDONALD. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Correspondence of Matthew Prior
(1685-1721)
Matthew Prior was secretary to the British embassy and minister ad interim at The Hague 1693 to 1697, secretary to the embassy at the Congress of Ryswick in 1697, and secretary to the embassy and minister ad interim at Paris 1698 to 1699. His papers survived among the archives of the Marquis of Bath at Longleat, and were edited for the Historical Manuscripts Commission by J. J. Cartwright, A. Maxwell-Lyte and J. M. Rigg, and published in 1909. The volume concludes with a journal and memoirs relating to the Treaty of Ryswick. Most of the correspondence selected deals with the Anglo-Dutch and Anglo-French diplomacy of the period.MACDONALD. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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 Masters and Apprentices
(1747)
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.MACDONALD. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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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.MACDONALD. 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.MACDONALD. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Hertfordshire Justices of the Peace
(1700-1752)
This is a list of Justices of the Peace for the County of Hertford mentioned in the Sessions Books for Hertfordshire sessions for the period.MACDONALD. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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