Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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This indenture made the four and twentieth day of May … between William Shaw, of the city of York, mercer, on the one part, and Abraham Sharp, son of John Sharp, of Little Horton in the county of York, clothier, on the other part:

Witnesseth that the said Abraham Sharp hath put and bound himself apprentice unto the said William Shaw and after the manner of an apprentice with him to dwell from the making hereof unto the full end and term of eight years from thence next ensuing fully to be complete and ended, during all which said time the said Abraham Sharp the apprentice him the said William Shaw as his master well and truly shall serve, his secrets shall keep, his commandments lawful and honest everywhere shall do, fornication in the house of his said master nor without he shall not commit, hurt unto his said master he shall not do, nor consent to be done, but to his power shall it not, and forthwith give his said master warning thereof; taverns of custom he shall not haunt, unless it be about his said master’s business there to be doing; at cards, dice, or any other unlawful games he shall not play, the goods of his said master inordinately he shall not waste, nor them to any other person send without his said master’s licence, nor shall trade for himself or any other person except for his said master in any kind of merchandise neither beyond the seas nor at home during the said term without his said master’s licence; matrimony with any woman he shall not contract, nor any marry or take to wife within the said term without his said master’s licence; from his said master’s service he shall not absent himself either by day or night, but shall behave himself as a true and faithful servant ought to do as well in words as in deeds, yielding to his said master a just and true account so often as he shall be required during the said terme, and in which said terme the said William Shaw, the master, him the said Abraham Sharp, his apprentice, in the trade or mystery of a mercer which he now useth, and shall teach and inform or cause to be taught and informed, and in due manner shall chastise him, finding to his said apprentice meat, drink, and cloth linen and all other things necessary for such apprentice after the custom of the Citie of York; and shall give yearly to his said apprentice during the said term six pence in the name of his stipend or salary.

In witness whereof the parties named in these present indentures interchangeably have set their hands and seals the day and yeare first above written, Anno Domini, 1669.

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To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

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£20 was paid for the pleasure, but Sharp didn’t complete his term.

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To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

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£20 was paid for the pleasure, but Sharp didn’t complete his term.

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To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

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Ibbetson also quotes census data 1801-1841 for the borough and for the 12 other townships that constitute the parish of Bradford, showing an increase in the century of 253% and in the decade 1831-1841 of 32%:

POPULATION IN A.D.	1801	1811	1821	1831	1841
Allerton township	809	1093	1488	1733	1914
Bierley North township	3820	4766	6070	7254	9511
Bowling township	2055	2226	3579	5958	8918
BRADFORD township	6393	7767	13054	23223	34560
Clayton township	2040	2469	3609	4459	4347
Ecclesoill township	1351	1608	2176	2570	3008
Haworth chapelry	3164	3971	4668	5835	6303
Heaton township	951	1088	1217	1452	1573
Horton chapelry	3459	4423	7192	10782	17618
Manningham township	1357	1596	2474	3594	5662
Shipley township	1008	1214	1606	1926	2413
Thornton chapelry	2474	4016	4100	5968	6788
Wilsden township	913	1121	1711	2242	1684
Totals	29794	36358	52954	76976	105259

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