DH's grandfather was an antiques dealer in a Tudor house in a town in Bucks. I have the indenture signed and sealed when it changed hands in the mid 17th century.
My MiL borrowed it from her brothers who took over the shop when their father retired so that I could transcribe it, she told me to keep it, as she was worried her brothers did not realise its importance and the wife of one in particular would just throw it away.
I also have the certificate that my great grandfather was given when he became a freeman of the City of London. It dates to the late 1970s. Unlike today, when to be given the Freedom of the City is a an honour.
In the 1870s, everyone who was employed by the City Corporation was automatically made a Freeman. My great grandfather, an Irish immigrant, was employed as a general labourer.