Inhabitants of Leicester
(1327-1509) The Corporation of Leicester commissioned the publication (in 1901) of extracts from the borough archives of 1327 to 1509, edited by Mary Bateson. This volume brings together several important sources: a coroner's roll of 1327; the merchant gild rolls; tax returns; court rolls; rentals; mayoral accounts, &c. All the Latin and French texts are accompanied by English translations. Not all the tax rolls surviving for this period are printed: but full lists of names are given for tallages of 1336 (pp. 34-40); 1347-8 (69-71); and 1354 (93-99); subsidy rolls of 1492 (331-334) and 1497 (351-353); and a benevolence roll of 1505 (370-374). There is a calendar of conveyances (388-446), and a list of mayors, bailiffs, and other officials (447-462); and, finally, entrants into the merchant gild
from 1465 to 1510. Membership of the merchant gild was by right of inheritance (s. p. = sede patris, in his father's seat), or by payment of a fee called a 'bull' (taurus). Those marked * paid their bull, and were thus, by implication, not natives, or at least not belonging to gild merchant families. By 1400 membership of the gild merchant had become the equivalent of gaining freedom of the borough (being a free burgess): but thitherto the two were not necessarily the same, and some of the merchant gild members were not resident in the borough, merely traded there.BER. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters and Apprentices
(1714) 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. 1 January to 10 April 1714.BER. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Dorset
(1830) Pigot & Co.'s National Commercial Directory lists traders, farmers and private residents in the county.BER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts
(1838) Bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
BER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts
(1839) Bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
BER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Dividends of bankrupts' estates
(1839) Dividends from moneys raised from bankrupts' estates in England and WalesBER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts
(1840) Lists of dividends from bankrupts' estates for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
BER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts
(1840) Bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
BER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankruptcy Meetings
(1841) Meetings about bankrupts' estates in England and WalesBER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts
(1841) Bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
BER. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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