Curia Regis Rolls
(1196-1201)
The Curia Regis, king's court, of mediaeval England took cases from throughout the country, and its records are among the most important surviving from this early period.PEGRUM. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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 Masters and Apprentices
(1744)
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.PEGRUM. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Sailors on board H. M. S. Defence
(1796-1798)
His Majesty's ship the Defence took part in the destruction of the French fleet in Aboukir Bay at the mouth of the Nile ('the Battle of the Nile') on the evening of the 1st and morning of the 2nd August 1798. This is the muster book for 1 July to 31 August 1798: being a continuation book in a series covering wages and victualling from October 1796, it also includes the names of some men who had died, deserted or been discharged from the ship from then to July 1798. Of the ship's complement of 590, this index covers the sailors, volunteers, and boys: but not the marines, or the French prisoners taken after the battle. Usually each man's entry gives his birthplace, and also his age on entering the ship.PEGRUM. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices registered in Hertfordshire
(1798)
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 1/69PEGRUM. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Hertfordshire Sessions
(1752-1799)
Incidents from the Hertfordshire Sessions Books and Minute Books. These cover a wide range of criminal and civil business for the county: numerically, the most cases (362) concerned assaults and rioting, and larceny (378), but there is a large variety of other matter, as extensive as the jurisdiction of the courts. These highly condensed abstracts of the entries were prepared by William le Hardy, and published for the County Council in 1935. PEGRUM. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices and clerks
(1800)
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 1800. IR 1/38PEGRUM. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents
(1837)
Insolvency notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksPEGRUM. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankruptcy Meetings
(1844)
Meetings about bankrupts' estates in England and WalesPEGRUM. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Insolvents in Bankruptcy
(1844)
Insolvency in bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: insolvency often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost linksPEGRUM. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts in England and Wales petitioning for discharge
(1845)
Perry's Bankrupt and Insolvent Gazette, issued monthly, included lists of bankruptcies and stages in the liquidation of the estate, payment of dividends, and discharge. Towards the end of the process there was a Meeting for Allowance of Certificates, where the bankrupt applied for a certificate of discharge. This meeting sometimes took place many years after the bankruptcy procedure started: the details given are the year originally gazetted, name (surname first), address, and trade; and the date and time of the hearing. This is the index to the names of the bankrupts, from the issues from January to December 1845.PEGRUM. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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