The metaphone matching on forenames has been implemented in a different way. Tables of forename equivalents have been developed, grouping names such as Liz, Betty, and Eliza, with a full version of the relevant name. In this case Elizabeth. Searching for Elizabeth or any of its many variants should return all relevant results. In addition a metaphone search of forenames also implements a search for names that sound like the search term. As with metaphone surname searches, the initial letter and final s have been excluded. Within the City, beadles were long-established ward officers. The office was a full-time job with a salary, and many served in the post for years, sometimes also acting as constables. Many had subordinates, called warders, who acted as their assistants. Their responsibilities included a range of policing activities: organising and supervising the night watch; controlling crowds; prohibiting the sale of goods on Sundays; prosecuting nuisances; arresting and prosecuting prostitutes, beggars and vagrants; and even arresting men and women on more serious charges. The Minutes of the Bridewell Court of Governors (MG) include many men and women accused of petty offences who had been committed directly by ward beadles (from 1785, however, beadles lost the power to make commitments on their own).

Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London, 1690 to 1800 (since re-named London Lives), used recent technical advances in the creation and an London Metropolitan Archives (was London Metropolitan Archives), St Andrew Undershaft, Vestry Minutes, 1726-1759, Ms. 4118, vol. 2, p. 134. ⇑ With a perfectly clear and well-formed original text, an accuracy rate well over 99% was achieved. However, difficulties in deciphering 17th- and 18th-century handwriting, fading, tears and blots in the original, and distortions introduced by the processes of microfilming and image digitisation reduced the level of accuracy in some places. Where a perfectly accurate reading of the text is required, users are strongly advised to consult the original document images also provided in London Lives, or Westminster poll books (1820), London Metropolitan Archives: St Margaret and St John WR/PP/1820/1-8; St Anne, St Paul and St Martin-le-Grand WR/PP/1820/9-14; St James WR/PP/1820/15-21; St George WR/PP/1820/22-23, 26-29; St Martin WR/PP/1820/31-33; St Clement and St Mary WR/PP/1820/35-41. The Foundling Hospital, established in 1739 by Thomas Coram, a sea captain, for the care of infants abandoned by their parents.Subject Relationship: If the person in this entry was the subject of a baptism, marriage, or burial (and a Subject Person ID is provided), then this explains how this person was related to other named individuals in this database. Typically such entries take the form of daughter, son, or wife. To find the other names of these related people, find the Event ID for this entry and search for it using a keyword search, searching only in this database. This information was standardised during data inputting. St Clement Danes, Examinations Book, 1753-1755, Westminster Archives Centre, Ms. B1176, LL ref: WCCDEP35812, Tagging Level: B St Botolph Aldgate, Pauper Examination Book, 1765-68, London Metropolitan Archives, Ms. 2676/4, LL ref: GLBAEP10309, Tagging Level: A Almost any type of property could be insured, and the type of premises involved and their contents were normally specified in the policy. By the period covered by this dataset, the Sun Insurance Company had an almost complete monopoly on insuring industrial properties. St Botolph Aldgate, Pauper Examination Book, 1795-97, London Metropolitan Archives, Ms. 2676/21, LL ref: GLBAEP10303, Tagging Level: A

Many of the externally created datasets included in London Lives also include data on occupations. Those which include a significant number of occupations include: For a discussion of the Bristol Corporation see Mary Fissell, Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol (Cambridge, 1991), ch. 4. ⇑ Age: Mostly blank, but includes any information pertaining to age provided in the original source. This rarely takes the form of a precise number of years, and is more often a general descriptor such as child or infant. St Botolph Aldgate, Pauper Examination Book, 1783-84, London Metropolitan Archives, Ms. 2676/14, LL ref: GLBAEP10320, Tagging Level: A Evidence concerning the labour disputes which occurred in several trades in the eighteenth century can be found in the Old Bailey Proceedings and the Sessions Papers (PS), primarily in trials where workers were charged with riot, damaging property, or conspiracy (to force up wages).

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With the growth of associational charities in the eighteenth century, several hospitals were founded by philanthropic men who wished to ameliorate the lives of the poor, contribute to the increasing population and prosperity of the nation, and improve their own social position. These hospitals tended to be more selective than the royal hospitals in the range of people and conditions they cared for, and included: Corfield, P. J., Harvey, C. and Green, E. M. Westminster Man: Charles James Fox and his Electorate, 1780-1806. Parliamentary History, 20 (2001), pp. 157-85. In addition to the documents listed below, see also the separate database of St Martin's in the Fields Settlement Examinations. The second strand on “Voices” is developing from research for the Digital Panopticon research theme, Voices of Authority. I’m exploring the changing significance of defendants’ own words in court following the ‘coming of the lawyers’, from about 1750-1900. Work in Progress Westminster poll books (1802), London Metropolitan Archives: St Margaret and St John, WR/PP/1802/1-2; St Paul and St Martin-le-Grand, WR/PP/1802/3; St Anne, WR/PP/1802/4; St James, WR/PP/1802/5-6; St George, WR/PP/1802/7-8; St Martin, WR/PP/1802/9-10; St Clement and St Mary, WR/PP/1802/11.