Extracted from the U.K. and U.S. Directories, 1680-1830 data at Ancestry.com. (Originally published on CD as 'the Biography Database, 1680-1830' by Avero publications, Newcastle UK).

"Publication by subscription began in 1617, and lists proliferated from 1710. There were basically three kinds of books sold by this process: substantial works of national appeal and high cost; local works; and, later in the century, vanity publications, textbooks, and religious works."

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Heald, Whitley

Date: 1718
Societies/Clubs: St. John's College, Cambridge, Fellow
Education: M.A.

Subscribed to Poems on several occasions, 1718, PRIOR, Matthew. London
Subject: poetry

Title(s): Reverend
Date: 1721
Societies/Clubs: St. John's College, Cambridge, Fellow
Occupation(s): cleric(a)

Subscribed to Vita Johannis Barwick, S.T.P. ... Adjicitur appendix epistolarum tam ab ipso rege Carolo II. quam a suo Cancellario exulantibus, aliarumq; chartarum ad eandem historiam pertinentium. [Edited by Hilkiah Bedford. With portraits], 1721, BARWICK, Peter. London
Subject: biography

Date: 1727
Societies/Clubs: St. John's College, Cambridge, Fellow
Education: B.D.

Subscribed to De Legibus Hebraeorum ritualibus et earum rationibus libri quatuor ... Editos, MSS. cum testimoniis auctorum laudais, recensuit et indices adjecit L. Chappelow, 1727, CHAPPELOW, Leonard. Cambridge, London
Subject: religion

Title(s): Reverend
Date: 1727
Societies/Clubs: St. John's, Cambridge, Fellow
Occupation(s): cleric(a)
Clerical Office(s): Curate of St. George's, Southwark

Subscribed to A Treatise of the Laws of Nature ... Made English ... by John Maxwell ... To which is prefix'd, an introduction concerning the mistaken notions which the heathens had of the Deity, and the defects in their morality ... At the end is subjoin'd, an appendix, containing two discourses. 1. Concerning the immateriality of thinking substance. 2. Concerning the obligation, promulgation, and observance, of the law of nature, by the translator, 1727, MAXWELL, John. London
Subject: philosophy

Title(s): Reverend
Date: 1738
Occupation(s): cleric(a)
Clerical Office(s): Vicar of North-Stoke

Subscribed to Ordo Judiciorum; sive methodus procedendi in negotiis et litibus in foro ecclesiastico-civili Britannico et Hibernico (Vol. 2), 1738, OUGHTON, Thomas. London
Subject: law

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Heald, John

Heald, Mrs.

Heald, William

Heald, James

Heald, Timothy

Title(s): Reverend
Date: 1766
Societies/Clubs: C.C.C. Cambridge, Fellow
Occupation(s): cleric (a)

Subscribed to An Essay Towards reconciling the Numbers of Daniel and St. John, Determining the Birth of our Saviour, And fixing a precise Time for the Continuance of the Present Desolation of the Jews; with Some Conjectures and Calculations, Pointing out the Year 1764, to have been one of the Most remarkable Epochas in History. By the Rev. George Burton, M.A. Rector of Elden and Herringswell in Suffolk, 1766, BURTON, George. Norwich
Subject: religion

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Heald, Benjamin

Address(es): Broughton, Lincolnshire
Date: 1779

Subscribed to The Writer's Time Redeemed, and Speaker's Words Recalled, By a Pen shap'd both for oral Expedition, and the most legible Plainness and Punctuality: or Annet's Short-hand Perfected, Furthe enlarged and improved, in a Method strikingly easy, and engaging to the meanest Capacity. In two parts. PartI. Contains the Characters classed in their alphabetical and derivative order, together with the Rules of their Application, as far as necessary for the Student, Letter-writer, Merchant, &c. to take down their own Thoughts, or the copying any Book or Manuscript, in as punctual and legible a Manner as in common Writing; and upon Occasion, of sufficient Expedition for the taking down a Semon, Trial at Law, &c. as delivered at the Pulpit, Bar, &c. Part II. Contains Rules and Examples, with a special View to the following of a Speaker. - Together with sufficient Copper-plate Specimens to both Parts. ... This Short-hand will be of great Service to those who have already learned Byrom as well as Annet. By Thomas Hervey, of Underbarrow, near Kendal. Author of the English Climax, 1779, HERVEY, Thomas. Kendal, London
Subject: commerce

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Heald, W. (Male)

Heald, Doctor Preston (Male)

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