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Archive Reference / Library Class No.Q/RM/2
TitleLists of hair powder certificates
Date1795-1797
DescriptionHair Powder Duty
Acts of 35 Geo III caps 49 and 112 (1795) required persons using hair powder to take out a certificate annually with a stamp duty of one guinea payable. The clergy, unless wealthy, and non-commissioned officers were exempt. Lists were to be sent by the commissioners to the Clerk of the Peace.
There are two kinds of lists represented here: those on printed forms giving number of certificate, date, name, description eg housekeeper [householder] or wife or son of.........., status or occupation, sub-divided by place, and more informal lists only giving name, description and place, possibly draft lists for the printed forms (old number Box 15)
LevelSubSeries
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorDerbyshire County Quarter Sessions
TermHairpowder tax
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