Our indexes include entries for the spelling thornton. In the period you have requested, we have the following 1,844 records (displaying 511 to 520):
 Apprentices registered in Yorkshire
(1791)
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. There are central registers for collections of the stamp duty in London, as well as returns from collectors in the provinces. These collectors generally received duty just from their own county, but sometimes from further afield. The indentures themselves can date from a year or two earlier than this return. (The sample entry shown on this scan is taken from a Bristol return. Each entry has two scans, the other being the facing page with the details of the indenture, length of service, and payment of duty.) IR 1/66 | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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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 Bankers and Merchants
(1791)
The British Universal Directory lists the various British trading companies established by statute, starting with the Bank of England, the Million Bank, the East India Company, &c., and including insurance companies. Also included are His Majesty's Consuls Abroad for the Protection of Trade, in European countries, America and Barbary; receivers-general; and the Commissioners of Sewers, Lamps and Pavements for the 28 wards of the City of London. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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London Carriers
(1791)
A list of the proprietors of the different waggons and carts, with the towns their journeys end at, and the inns they set out from in London, from the Universal British Directory | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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London innkeepers and coach proprietors
(1791)
A list of the different London inns (each with the surname of the innkeeper), the proprietors of the coaches, machines, diligences and waggons going from each, and their hours of setting out, from the Universal British Directory | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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London Lieutenancy Commissioners and Militia Officers
(1791)
His Majesty's Commissioners of the Lieutenancy for the City of London; and field offocers and commanders of the six regiments of the London militia | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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London merchants and bankers
(1791)
This section of the Universal British Directory lists corporations, bankers, and army and navy agents | 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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Masters of apprentices and clerks
(1791)
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. 5 March to 31 December 1791. IR 1/35 | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c.
(1791)
The list of contributing members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce: those marked ** pay 5 guineas a year; * 3 guineas a year; those with P are perpetual members; those with a double dagger have served of office of steward; and those with a single dagger are stewards elect. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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