Freemen of London
(1540-1550) The long series of mediaeval registers and books of admission of the freemen of London was destroyed by fire in 1786. Thirty surviving charred leaves were gathered together and rebound, becoming Egerton MS 2408 in the British Museum. The order is jumbled and generally speaking none can be dated with certainty, although all belong to the very end of the reign of Henry VIII and the start of the reign of his son, Edward VI. These are pages from the admission books. Each entry here usually gives the name of the person admitted to the freedom; his father's name, address and occupation; his entitlement to the freedom, usually by having served out an apprenticeship to a citizen, naming the master and his trade. Then there may follow a cross-reference to M. or N., being two volumes of another set of official books denoted by the letters of the alphabet, and following each other in chronological sequence, which evidently gave details of entries into apprenticeships. These other books no longer exist: but the dates given for entry do identify the start of the apprenticeship, and so give by implication a date for the eventual admission to freedom. In the margin is the name of the city ward and the total of the fee and fine paid on admission.ATKYNSON. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Cecil Manuscripts
(1590-1594) Letters and papers of William Cecil lord Burghley, Lord Treasurer of England.ATKYNSON. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Clerks and Clergy in Herefordshire, Shropshire and Gloucestershire
(1504-1516) The register of bishop Richard Mayew of Hereford, containing general diocesan business, but also including ordination lists for monks and clergy. Only a small proportion of the clerks went on to acquire benefices and remained celibate. Hereford diocese covered almost all Herefordshire, southern rural Shropshire, a westward arm of Worcestershire, and a northwestern slice of Gloucestershire.ATKYNSON. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Retired monks, nuns and chantry priests in the east Midlands
(1547-1551) Lists of pensions being paid to monks, nuns and chantry priests in the diocese of Lincoln after the dissolution of the monasteries and chantries. The diocese covered Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, part of Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire. Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Rutland, which had been shorn from the diocese, are not covered by these returns.
ATKYNSON. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Secretary of State's Papers
(1600) The letters and papers of sir Robert Cecil, Secretary of State, deal with all manner of government business in England, Ireland and abroad.ATKYNSON. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Yorkshire Feet of Fines
(1571-1584) Pedes Finium - law suits, or pretended suits, putting on record the ownership of land in YorkshireATKYNSON. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Official Papers
(1547-1580) The State Papers Domestic cover all manner of business relating to England, Ireland and the colonies, conducted in the office of the Secretary of State as well as other miscellaneous records.
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Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Osgoldcross wapentake
(1379) The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Pontefract.ATKYNSON. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Harthill wapentake
(1380) The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Market Weighton, Pocklington and South Cave.ATKYNSON. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Yorkshire: Claro wapentake
(1379) The poll tax returns for this wapentake, the area around Aldborough, Boroughbridge, Knaresborough and Wetherby.ATKYNSON. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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