Apprentices registered at Lichfield in Staffordshire
(1758) 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 1/53HOLLIES. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters of clerks and apprentices
(1778) 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. 26 August to 30 December 1778. IR 1/30HOLLIES. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Staffordshire Inquests
(1836) The accounts of expenses incurred by Henry Smith of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire coroner, list the full names of the deceased, the date and place of each inquest. January to December 1836HOLLIES. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Hertfordshire Sessions
(1699-1850) Incidents from the Hertfordshire Sessions Rolls. These cover a wide range of criminal and civil business for the county, with presentments, petitions, and recognizances to appear as witnesses: many of the records concern the county authorities dealing with regulation of alehouses, religious conventicles, absence from church, highways, poaching, profanation of the Sabbath, exercising trades without due apprenticeship &c. Unlike the Sessions Books, the decisions of the justices are not recorded on the rolls, which serve more as a record of evidence and allegations. This is a calendar of abstracts of extracts: it is by no means a completely comprehensive record of the surviving Hertfordshire sessions rolls of the period, but coverage is good. HOLLIES. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Dragoon guards fighting in China
(1860) The China Medal was awarded to soldiers and sailors who took part in the prosecution of the war against the Chinese from 1856 to 1860. Separate clasps were awarded for men who had been in receipt of the China Medal of 1842; for being actually present at Canton on 28 and 29 December 1857, when that city was bombarded and finally captured; for being actually engaged in the operations which ceased with the first capture of the Taku Forts, 20 May 1858, and led to the Treaty of Tientsin; for being actually present at the capture of the Taku Forts 21 August 1860; and for being actually present before Pekin the day the gate of that city was given up to the allied (British and French) army, viz. on 13 October 1860. The 1st (The King's) Regiment of Dragoon Guards (based in Canterbury) returned from the Crimea in July 1856, embarked for India 24 August 1857, and from there was transferred to China. The regiment took part in the capture of the Taku Forts and that of Pekin.HOLLIES. Cost: £8.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Residents and Traders in Birmingham
(1861) William Cornish's Corporation General and Trades Directory covered Birmingham, Coventry and the towns of the Black Country. The Birmingham section contains both street lists and this general alphabetical directory. HOLLIES. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Dudley in Worcestershire
(1868) Gentry, farmers and traders listed in J. E. R. Kelly's Post Office Directory of Worcestershire. (The sample scan is of the section for the little parish of Hadzor)HOLLIES. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Halesowen in Worcestershire
(1868) Gentry, farmers and traders listed in J. E. R. Kelly's Post Office Directory of Worcestershire. (The sample scan is of the section for the little parish of Hadzor)HOLLIES. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Inhabitants of Northfield in Worcestershire
(1868) Gentry, farmers and traders listed in J. E. R. Kelly's Post Office Directory of Worcestershire. (The sample scan is of the section for the little parish of Hadzor)HOLLIES. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Baptists
(1876) The Baptist was a weekly newspaper, with some general news and political coverage, but mainly devoted to chronicling Denominational Intelligence, i. e. the doings of the Baptist churches in Britain and Ireland. July to December 1876.HOLLIES. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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