Subscribers to Ann Yearsley's Poems on Several Occasions
(1785) This book of poetry by 'Ann Yearsley, a Milkwoman of Bristol', received great critical acclaim and was rapidly reprinted. The third edition included these subscription lists for the first two editions.JOHNSTONE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Clerks and apprentices
(1786) 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. 10 February to 31 December 1786. IR 1/33JOHNSTONE. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Manners family correspondence
(1771-1787) Volumes 26 to 36 of the letters and papers of the Manners family of Belvoir consist largely of the correspondence of lord Robert Manners, naval captain, and his brother Charles marquess of Gransby, subsequently 4th duke of Rutland, who served for a period as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. This printed report dwells mainly on the political rather than domestic content of the manuscripts.
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Clerks and apprentices
(1788) 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 23 August 1788. IR 1/33JOHNSTONE. Cost: £8.00. | 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 1/34JOHNSTONE. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
(1789) Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military promotions, clerical preferments, and bankrupts, as reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland, Scotland and abroad.
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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.JOHNSTONE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c.
(1791) The list of contributing members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce: those marked ** pay 5 guineas a year; * 3 guineas a year; those with P are perpetual members; those with a double dagger have served of office of steward; and those with a single dagger are stewards elect.JOHNSTONE. Cost: £4.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Traders and Merchants in London
(1791) The Universal British Directory was published in five volumes, starting in 1791. The professions included in the London section are very diverse: the addresses are mostly from central London. Some are marked 'F. M.', meaning Freeholder of Middlesex.JOHNSTONE. Cost: £6.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Apprentices registered in Scotland
(1793) 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. 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 1/66JOHNSTONE. Cost: £8.00. | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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