People in the News
(1788)
The Annual Register for 1788 contained a section entitled 'Chronicle', summarizing the year's major events in London, Britain and abroad: and to this was added an appendix containing the texts of interesting dispatches from correspondents.COMBE. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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 Apprentices and clerks
(1789)
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 1789. IR 1/34COMBE. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Masters of apprentices and clerks
(1790)
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 1790. IR 1/34COMBE. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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London Attorneys
(1791)
A list of attorneys residing in London, Westminster, the borough of Southwark and their environs, from the Universal British Directory. Those without a mark before the name practised in the King's Bench; those with a (C) in the Common Pleas; and those with a * in both courts.COMBE. Cost: £6.00. | 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.COMBE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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London Medical Men
(1791)
Fellows, candidates and licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians; London surgeons and apothecaries, from the Universal British DirectoryCOMBE. Cost: £6.00. | 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 agentsCOMBE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Officers and patrons of learned and artistic societies
(1791)
Various cultural bodies - Gresham College, The Royal Society, Antiquary Society, The British Museum, Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce, Society of Artists, Royal Academy of Arts, and the Board of Works - covered by the Universal British DirectoryCOMBE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Patrons and officers of hospitals and public charities
(1791)
Lists from the Royal Hospitals at Greenwich, Chelsea, Haslar and Plymouth; Charter House; St Bartholomew's; Christ's Hospital; Bethlem; St Thomas's; Guy's; Westminster Infirmary; St George's; the Foundling Hospital; the Lying-in Charity; London Hospital; Middlesex Hospital; Smallpox Hospital; Hospital for French Protestants; Lock Hospital; Corporation of Sick and Maimed Seamen; the British Lying-in Hospital; the City of London Lying-in Hospital, &c. &c., from the Universal British DirectoryCOMBE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Unclaimed Dividends: Consolidated 3 Per Cent Annuities
(1791)
In Spring 1791 this list was issued, of the 'Names and Descriptions of the Proprietors of Unclaimed Dividends on the Public Funds Transferable at the Bank of England, Which became due before the 31st of December, 1780, and remained unpaid the 31st of December, 1790. With the Dates when the first Dividends respectively became payable, and the number of Dividends due thereon.' COMBE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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