Masters of Apprentices registered in Wiltshire
(1750-1754) 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. (The sample entry shown on this scan is taken from a Norfolk return)BUFFEN. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Sailors on board H. M. S. Theseus
(1796-1798) His Majesty's ship the Theseus 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 June to 31 July 1798: being a continuation book in a series covering wages and victualling from September 1796, it also includes the names of some men who had died, deserted or been discharged from the ship from then to June 1798. Usually each man's entry gives his birthplace, and also his age on entering the ship.BUFFEN. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Sailors on board H. M. S. Theseus
(1796-1798) His Majesty's ship the Theseus 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 August to 30 September 1798: being a continuation book in a series covering wages and victualling from September 1796, it also includes the names of some men who had died, deserted or been discharged from the ship from then to August 1798. Of the ship's complement of 590, this index covers the sailors, volunteers, and boys, as well as the supernumeraries: 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.BUFFEN. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Mariners' Church Donations
(1845) Each monthly issue of The Mariners' Church Soldiers' and Sailors' Gospel Temperance Magazine, published by the Temperance British and Foreign Seamen's, Soldiers' and Steamers' Friend Society, and Bethel Flag Union, to promote religious instruction and temperance moral reformation and general unsectarian missions in the British Empire, at home and abroad, contained a section of Acknowledgments of sums contributed by individuals or through the Bethel churches to the society's funds, and in support of the orphan home. BUFFEN. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Traders and professionals in London
(1851) The Post Office London Directory for 1851 includes this 'Commercial and Professional Directory', recording about 80,000 individuals. BUFFEN. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Debtors
(1880) Bills of sale (binding assets to a creditor/lender) in England and Wales, October to December 1880BUFFEN. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts, Assignees, Trustees and Solicitors
(1881) Bankruptcy notices in England and Wales, April to June 1881BUFFEN. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Debtors, Insolvents and Bankrupts
(1881) Bills of sale (binding assets to a creditor/lender), insolvencies and bankruptcies in England and Wales, January to March 1881BUFFEN. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Bankrupts, Assignees, Trustees and Solicitors
(1882) Bankruptcy notices in England and Wales. BUFFEN. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Debtors, Insolvents and Bankrupts
(1886) Bills of sale (binding assets to a creditor/lender), insolvencies and bankruptcies in England and Wales, April to June 1886BUFFEN. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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