Our indexes include entries for the spelling barre. In the period you have requested, we have the following 148 records (displaying 121 to 130):
People in the News
(1775) Births, marriages and deaths, reports of crimes, trials and hangings, and general news, mainly from England, reported in the Chronicle section of the Annual Register | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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British administration in North America
(1755-1776) The papers of the 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, who served as Secretary of State for the American Department, contain correspondence relating to North America and the West Indies. They include some material earlier than 1755. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Clerks and apprentices
(1779) 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 31 December 1779. IR 1/30 | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Memoirs and correspondence of the 1st Earl of Charlemont
(1745-1783) James Caulfeild, first Earl of Charlemont, worked for the emancipation of Ireland from the control of the parliament of England, and was commander-in-chief of the Ulster Volunteers. Here are his political memoirs, a calendar of his correspondence, and copies of many letters in full. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Soldiers, administrators, refugees and merchants in America
(1782-1783) These are the headquarters papers of sir Guy Carleton, British commander-in-chief during the American war of independence. Many of the individuals recorded were part of the British military administration, but others are refugees and merchants whose lives had been disrupted by the conflict. These records cover July 1782 to March 1783. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Members of Parliament
(1785) The Daily Universal Register of London printed a list of members of parliament voting with Pitt in his motion for a parliamentary reform 18 April 1785, and those voting against (as well as those paired off). | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Manners family correspondence
(1771-1787) Volumes 26 to 36 of the letters and papers of the Manners family of Belvoir consist largely of the correspondence of lord Robert Manners, naval captain, and his brother Charles marquess of Gransby, subsequently 4th duke of Rutland, who served for a period as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. This printed report dwells mainly on the political rather than domestic content of the manuscripts.
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English Civil Servants
(1791) Officers and officials of the various government departments, mostly in London, listed in the Universal British Directory. It includes the royal household, the departments of state, and public offices | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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London nobility and gentry
(1791) The Universal British Directory includes a list of the nobility, gentry, &c. in London and Westminster: esquires, i. e., gentlemen without titles, are sometimes listed without their christian names. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Sackville papers
(1685-1799) R. B. Knowles of the Historical Manuscripts Commission was invited by Mrs Stopford-Sackville to examine her family papers at Drayton House in Northamptonshire; and after his death the work was continued by W. O. Hewlett and published in 1904. These were chiefly letters, reports and other official documents from and to lord George Sackville, the third son of Lionel first duke of Dorset. The papers edited in this volume relate to the Monmouth insurrection 1685-1686; letters of Mary princess of Orange to lady Mary Forester; Sackville family papers and letters 1706-1799; home affairs 1755-1784; letters from lord George to General Irwin 1761-1784; Ireland 1731-1783; the war of the Austrian Succession 1743-1748; Cherbourgh and St Malo 1758; the Seven Years War 1758-1759; Minden 1759-1760; Spain 1778-1780; prince William Henry duke of Gloucester 1771-1779; India 1776-1784; and Minorca 1776-1782. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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