Masters of Apprentices registered at Cambridge
(1710-1712) 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. 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. May 1710 to January 1712. (The sample entry shown on this scan is taken from a Shropshire return)PRETLOVE. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters and Apprentices
(1721) 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. 2 January to 26 August 1721.PRETLOVE. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters and Apprentices
(1730) 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. 16 March to 31 December 1730.PRETLOVE. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters and Apprentices
(1743) 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. 13 June to 31 December 1743PRETLOVE. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters and Apprentices
(1747) 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.PRETLOVE. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Hertfordshire Sessions
(1700-1752) Incidents from the Hertfordshire Sessions Books and Minute Books. These cover a wide range of criminal and civil business for the county: numerically, the the most cases (240) concerned assaults; presentments about repairs to roads and bridges (67); larceny (63); unlicensed and disorderly alehouses (33); nuisances (28); and trading without due apprenticeship (24). This calendar gives abstracts of all entries in the Sessions Books and Minute Books for Hertfordshire sessions for the period.PRETLOVE. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices and articled clerks
(1766) Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty (late payment of the 6d rate attracted double duty (D D) of 12d): 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 15 July 1766.PRETLOVE. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Hertfordshire badgers, higglers and drovers
(1765-1767) Highly condensed abstracts of Hertfordshire Sessions Books and Minute Books were prepared by William le Hardy, and published for the County Council in 1935. Appendix IV is a list of licences granted to badgers, higglers and drovers: and this is the index to the licensees. In each case full name, parish, B. for badger, H. for higler, or D. for drover, and the year(s) (e. g., 65 for 1765), is given. Badgers were buyers of corn and other commodities; higglers bought up poultry and dairy produce, and also sold or exchanged smallware in return; drovers moved flocks of sheep and herds of cattle across the countryside. PRETLOVE. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices
(1769) Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty (late payment of the 6d rate attracted double duty (D D) of 12d): 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 1769.PRETLOVE. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices
(1771) Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty (late payment of the 6d rate attracted double duty (D D) of 12d): 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. 18 March to 31 December 1771.PRETLOVE. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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