1791 DIRECTORY OF HULL & BEVERLEY and RECOLLECTIONS OF HULL 1884 ~ two books on one CD!

Description

The first Directory of Hull, first published in 1791-2, includes a directory of Beverley and a wealth of local information, including a table of Window Duty(a form of taxation, calculated on the number of windows in a house), and a list of stamp duties(another form of taxation), such as: Affidavit in court of law, 1s 6d; Apprentice indenture, 6s; duty for keeping a male servant, per annum 1l.5s (£1.5s), etc. Both the books on this CD are machine searchable.