Inhabitants of Cheshire and North Wales
(1390-1399) The county of Cheshire had palatine status, being in some measure independent of the rest of England: moreover, from the Statute of Wales of 1284, after king Edward I's subjugation of North Wales, until the union of England and Wales in 1536 to 1543, much of the administration of North Wales (county Flint in particular) was directed from Chester. When the Chester Recognizance Rolls were moved from Chester to the Public Record Office, they were placed among the Welsh Records. These rolls, so called because they do include recognizances (of debts &c.) among their contents, are in fact the Chancery Rolls of the palatinate, containing enrolments of charters, letters patent, commissions and other documents issued under the seal of the palatinate. Deeds and other evidences of a private nature were also enrolled on them. A calendar of the Recognizance Rolls from their commencement to the end of the reign of Henry IV was prepared by Peter Turner and included in the 36th Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in 1875. We have now indexed this, dividing the enrolments into decades. This is the period from the 13th year of king Richard II, who had intended to raise the earldom of Chester into a principality, to his overthrow by Henry IV.DAINTETH. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Lancashire and Cheshire Marriage Licences
(1606-1616) Licences for intended marriages in Chester archdeaconry, which covered Cheshire and Lancashire south of the Ribble (by far the most populous part of that county)DAINTETH. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Lancashire and Cheshire Marriage Licences
(1624-1632) Licences for intended marriages in Chester archdeaconry, which covered Cheshire and Lancashire south of the Ribble (by far the most populous part of that county)DAINTETH. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Lancashire and Cheshire Marriage Licences
(1639-1644) Licences for intended marriages in Chester archdeaconry, which covered Cheshire and Lancashire south of the Ribble (by far the most populous part of that county)DAINTETH. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Lancashire and Cheshire Marriage Licences
(1661-1667) Licences for intended marriages in Chester archdeaconry, which covered Cheshire and Lancashire south of the Ribble (by far the most populous part of that county)DAINTETH. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Lancashire and Cheshire Marriage Licences
(1667-1680) Licences for intended marriages in Chester archdeaconry, which covered Cheshire and Lancashire south of the Ribble (by far the most populous part of that county)DAINTETH. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Lancashire and Cheshire Marriage Licences
(1680-1691) Licences for intended marriages in Chester archdeaconry, which covered Cheshire and Lancashire south of the Ribble (by far the most populous part of that county)DAINTETH. Cost: £4.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Schoolmasters and trainees with Certificates of Merit
(1856) The Committee of Council on Education for England and Wales produced an annual report which included several lists of teachers and trainee teachers, including an Annual Calendar of Teachers who have Obtained Certificates of Merit (completed to 1 January 1856), from which this sample scan is taken. The teachers are listed alphabetically by surname and initial, with name of school, post town or county, and grade, as either certificate or class. Student teachers were classed at the end of each year of training, so the column for class shows a student's class (1, 2 or 3) at the end of their first or second year of training. The teacher may then be awarded a certificate of merit by Her Majesty's Inspector, in which case the class and division of the certificate awarded appears in the columns for Certificate. No certificate of merit was granted a student, as a teacher, until he or she had been for two years in charge of the same elementary school, and the certificate was granted on the basis of two reports of performance as a teacher in school. If the first report was favourable, the teacher was paid for the first year on the scale of the lowest class; if the second report was favourable, augmentation and class of certificate was fixed for the next five years, after which (and so on from time to time) the certificates were open to revision. The value of the certificate, in the first instance, was not fixed higher than the first division of the third class, for any student who had resided less than two years at a training school under inspection. This is the index to the schoolmasters and male students in training schools. DAINTETH. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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Voters in Macclesfield: South-West Ward
(1879-1880) The electoral register for 1879-1880, for part of Macclesfield, in Cheshire.DAINTETH. Cost: £6.00.  | Sample scan, click to enlarge
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