Liegemen and Traitors, Pirates and Spies
(1542-1547)
The Privy Council of Henry VIII was responsible for internal security in England and Wales, and dealt with all manner of special and urgent matters
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Liegemen and Traitors, Pirates and Spies
(1627-1628)
The Privy Council of Charles I was responsible for internal security in England and Wales, and dealt with all manner of special and urgent matters
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Wiltshire freeholders
(1625-1645)
Inquisitions post mortem were held after the death of freeholders who held their estates in capite or in chief, i. e., directly from the crown. The inquisition, held by the royal escheator upon the oath of jurors from the county who were also normally freeholders, recorded what estates the deceased had held, by what tenure, what they were worth, the date of death, who was the next heir, and whether the heir was of age. The sample scan shows an unusually brief inquisition: these abstracts usually run to two or three pages of print. HUGHS. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Diverse that Wait for the Lord Jesus in Denbighshire
(1653)
An undated loyal petition, of about 1653, 'A voice out of the hearts of diverse that waite for the Lord Jesus, in Denbighshire', to Lord General Cromwell and the officers of the army of the Commonwealth: 'for wee are fully assured that the late and long sitting Parliament was grown (as to the major part) too rusty for the high and supernaturall worke, now on the wheeles in the earth. Wee are also perswaded that in this matter your hearts are upright, and rule with God, and are found faithfull with the most holy.'HUGHS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Official Papers
(1655-1656)
The State Papers Domestic cover all manner of business relating to Britain, Ireland and the colonies, conducted in the office of the Secretary of State as well as other miscellaneous records. These records are from November 1655 to June 1656: there is also a set of abstracts of navy correspondence.
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London Marriage Allegations
(1611-1660)
London, Essex and part of Hertfordshire lay within the diocese of London. In the later 17th century the individual archdeaconry courts issued marriage licences, but for this period the only surviving material is from the overarching London Consistory court. The main series of marriage allegations from the consistory court was extracted by Colonel Joseph Lemuel Chester, and the text was edited by George J. Armytage and published by the Harleian Society in 1887. A typical later entry will give date; name, address and occupation of groom; name, address and condition of his intended bride, and/or, where she is a spinster, her father's name, address and occupation. Lastly we have the name of the church where the wedding was going to take place. For the later years Colonel Chester merely picked out items that he thought were of interest, and his selections continue as late as 1828, but the bulk of the licences abstracted here are from the 17th century.HUGHS. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Lancashire and Cheshire Marriage Licences
(1661-1667)
Licences for intended marriages in Chester archdeaconry, which covered Cheshire and Lancashire south of the Ribble (by far the most populous part of that county)HUGHS. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Cardiganshire Nonconformists (1672)
Calendar of licences to preach and teach issued to Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Independents and Anabaptists, and preserved among the State Papers Domestic
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Carmarthenshire Nonconformists (1672)
Calendar of licences to preach and teach issued to Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Independents and Anabaptists, and preserved among the State Papers Domestic
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Suffolk householders
(1674)
Hearth tax was raised by assessing each householder on the number of chimneys to the dwelling. This provided a simple way to make a rough judgment as to the value of the dwelling: paupers were issued exemption certificates, but they too were listed at the end of each return. The returns were made by township, grouped by hundred. A complete copy of the hearth tax return for each shire was sent to the Exchequer: this is the return for Suffolk for Lady Day (25 March) 1674 (E 179/257/14) as printed in 1905 as Suffolk Green Book no xi, vol. 13. The numbers given are the numbers of hearths: where two or more people are grouped together with one number, it may be assumed that they were heads of separate households sharing a single building with that number of chimneys.HUGHS. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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