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        Marshall, John
        GB 0096 MS 756 · 1861-1862

        British and French patents, 1861-1862, for John Marshall's invention for 'the collection, concentration and transmission of sound, so as to facilitate the hearing.' Also includes a Belgian 'brevet d'importation.'

        Marshall , John , fl 1861-1862 , inventor
        GB 0074 ACC/1272 · Collection · 1706-1906

        Papers, 1706-1906, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to land and premises in Staines, Stanwell, Enfield and Tottenham, including mortgages, bonds, conveyances, wills, leases and releases, copies of court rolls from the manor of Staines and insurance policies.

        Marshall and Galpin , solicitors
        GB 0074 PS/MS · Collection · 1896-1991

        Records of Marlborough Street Magistrates Court, 1896-1991, including court registers; rates registers; registers of means enquiries; registers of ex-parte cases; registers of applications for time to pay; Married Women's Act orders; Guardianship of Infants Act orders; Affiliation orders and domestic proceedings registers.

        Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate.

        Domestic proceedings: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.

        Marlborough Street Magistrates Court
        GB 0074 ACC/3041 · Collection · 1888-1943

        Papers, 1888-1943, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising abstract of title and conveyances for No 10 Hillside Gardens, Edgware.

        Marks and Company , solicitors
        GB 0074 ACC/0951 · Collection · 1843-1881

        Papers, 1843-1881, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties mainly in Ealing, including agreements relating to premises adjoining the Great Western Railway and the premises of the Ealing Dean Church of England Schools.

        Markby, Stewart and Wadesons , solicitors
        GB 0074 ACC/0824 · Collection · 1814-1849

        Papers, 1814-1849, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and other legal documents relating to properties in Hendon and Edmonton; with a survey of Muswell Hill Farm, Friern Barnet.

        Markby, Stewart and Wadeson , solicitors
        GB 0074 ACC/0400 · Collection · 1587-1856

        Papers, 1587-1856, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including bargain and sales, bonds, copies of wills and probates, leases, releases, copies from court rolls, quitclaims, deeds, mortgages, feoffments, marriage settlements and assignments for property and land in Acton, Chiswick, Sutton, Ealing, Brentford, Hampton, Harefield, Harrow, Kenton, Wembley, Hendon, Hillingdon, Isleworth, Stanmore and Colham manor. Also sheet of 10 turnpike tickets for the "Middlesex and Essex Turnpike Roads", 1854.

        Marcham and Company , solicitors
        GB 0074 ACC/1458 · Collection · 1800-1896

        Papers, 1800-1896, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Old Park Estate, Enfield; Strawberry House, Chiswick and Stanwell, including probate of will, conveyances, mortagages, copies of court rolls and leases. Also papers of Lear Drew including licences to assign leases, agreements and leases.

        Maples, Teesdale and Company , solicitors
        GB 0074 ACC/3208 · Collection · 1892-1922

        Papers, 1892-1922, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds relating to Netherleigh Arms Coffee Tavern, Ealing Dean, Ealing .

        Maples Teesdale and Company , solicitors
        Manuscript Fragments
        GB 0103 MS FRAG · 12th century-19th century

        Fragments of mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts, primarily leaves from liturgical texts including missals, breviaries, psalters, bibles and biblical commentaries, but also including fragments of popular medieval textbooks including the Codex Justinianus and Graecismus . Also includes fragments of medieval music including noted missals, antiphonaries, graduals and noted breviaries. The music section includes fragments from two incunabula.

        c150 items
        CLA/004 · Collection · 1624-1990

        Papers relating to the Mansion House Justice Room, including records of cases brought before the Mayor, 1624-1990; administrative records; regulations and duties of the clerks and officers of the court, evidence produced at trials, rotas of attendance of justices, orders from the court of aldermen and other miscellaneous historical material.

        Corporation of London
        MANOR OF HANWELL
        GB 0074 ACC/0513 · Collection · 1737-1863

        Records relating to property ownership, including leases of premises in Ealing and Chiswick; probates of wills; and extracts from court rolls of the Manor of Hanwell.

        Manor of Hanwell
        MANN FAMILY
        GB 0074 ACC/0741 · Collection · 1799-1924

        Records of the Mann family, comprising title deeds for premises in Isleworth.

        Mann , family , market gardeners of Isleworth
        MAJOR, Henry (fl 1785)
        GB 0074 CLC/B/227-127 · Collection · 1785

        Account book, including client information, of Henry Major and Robert Slade, proctors.

        Major , Henry , fl 1785 , proctor Slade , Robert , fl 1785 , proctor
        GB 0074 O/239 · Collection · 1916-1940

        Records of the Majestic Cinema, Stoke Newington, including leases, fire insurance policies, aircraft insurance policy, consent for alterations and correspondence with solicitors, 1916-1940.

        Majestic Cinema , Stoke Newington x Vogue Cinema x Vogue Repertory Cinema x Vogue Continental
        GB 0074 ACC/0881 · Collection · 1888-1909

        Deeds and other legal documents relating to premises at Grove Park, Chiswick, 1888-1909, including papers relating to the Duke of Devonshire letting out Grove House to Joseph Atkins Borsley.

        Maddisons and Lambs , solicitors
        LYON FAMILY
        GB 0074 ACC/0346 · Collection · 1877-1881

        Papers relating to property owned by the Lyon family in Turnham Green, Chiswick, including assignments, mortgage, and demise.

        Lyon , family , of Turnham Green
        GB 0074 O/178 · Collection · 1753-1850

        Papers, 1753-1850, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising a release, a quitclaim, and two assignments, relating to property in Saint Marylebone and Worcestershire.

        Lucas and Wyllys , solicitors
        LUCAN (LORD)
        GB 0074 ACC/0493 · Collection · 1741-1908

        Records of the Bingham family, barons Lucan, relating to their estates in Laleham, Chertsey and Staines. The records include court rolls for the Manor of Laleham; estate correspondence; papers relating to the managements of the estate such as inventory of crops; financial records and accounts; rent accounts; plans of the Laleham estates; legal documents relating to title to the estates such as deeds, leases, wills and settlements; papers relating to leases of parts of the estate including advertisements and agreements; legal papers including King's Bench and Chancery proceedings.

        Bingham , family , of Laleham x barons Lucan
        LOWNDES, Richard
        GB 0074 ACC/0603 · Collection · 1748-1938

        Title deeds and plans concerning the estate of Richard Lowndes, relating to property in Carnaby Street, Chesham Street, William Street, William Mews, Harriet Mews and Lowndes Square; all in Westminster.

        Lowndes , family , of Westminster
        LORD AND BIDDER {SOLICITORS}
        GB 0074 ACC/1092 · Collection · 1863-1932

        Papers, 1863-1932, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds, correspondence and legal documents relating to property in Saint James Westminster, Edmonton and Highgate.

        Lord and Bidder , solicitors
        LONGMORE {SOLICITORS}
        GB 0074 ACC/0687 · Collection · 1764-1903

        Papers, 1764-1903, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to properties in South Mimms, Highgate, Edmonton, Whetstone, Enfield, Hornsey and Islington; with papers relating to cases at the Chancery Division and Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice.

        Longmore , solicitors
        LONDON GAS LIGHT COMPANY
        GB 0074 B/NTG-6 · Collection · 1833-1883 (property records span 1740-1902)

        Records of the London Gas Light Company, including half yearly reports and accounts submitted by the Directors of the Company to the Shareholders; contracts for lighting parts of Chelsea, Saint Pancras and the Tothill Fields districts; agreements with various road authorities concerning the laying down of gas mains in South London; and papers relating to premises in Lambeth and Battersea.

        London Gas Light and Coke Company
        GB 0074 A/LWC · Collection · 1889-1968

        Records of the London Diocesan Council for Welcare, 1889-1968, including Council minutes; Executive Committee minutes; Finance Committee minutes; Ladies' Committee minutes; Men's Committee minutes; annual reports of the Church of England Moral Welfare Council; press cuttings; scrapbook and history "The Wel-care Story: 75 years of Christian Social Service in London".

        Records of local branches of the London Diocesan Council for Welcare, including Ruri-decanal associations, Moral Welfare Councils, Associations for Moral Welfare, hostels, refuges and homes, and Preventative and Rescue Associations. Papers include financial accounts, annual reports and committee minutes. Also indoor case histories for Saint Agnes' Home, Hammersmith.

        London Diocesan Council for Welcare x London Diocesan Council for Penitentiary, Rescue and Preventative Work x London Diocesan Association for Moral Welfare
        GB 0074 LMA/4178 · Collection · 1962-1993

        Records of the London Diocesan Council for Welcare, 1962-1993, comprising annual reports of the London Diocesan Council for Moral Welfare, annual reports of the London Diocesan Council for Welcare and annual reports of local branch associations in Westminster, Willesden, Brent, Camden, Hampstead and Hounslow.

        London Diocesan Council for Welcare x London Diocesan Council for Penitentiary, Rescue and Preventative Work x London Diocesan Association for Moral Welfare
        LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL
        ACC/1409 · Collection · [1912]-1952

        London County Council register of tramway track lengths, recording description and lengths of route, street length, track length and remarks, such as "conversion to trolleybus", "abandoned" and so on, [1912-1952], with enclosures: photocopy of map of tramways in the London County Council area, revised to 1931; and diagrams of track lengths in Leyton and Hammersmith.

        LCC , London County Council x London County Council
        LONDON COOPERATIVE SOCIETY
        GB 0074 ACC/2459 · Collection · 1932-1977

        Records of the London Cooperative Society; comprising receipts listing deeds and documents concerning properties in Alperton, Edmonton, Hillingdon, Islington, Ruislip and Willesden, 1932-1936; and correspondence and papers concerning deeds for and valuations of property, 1971-1977.

        London Co-operative Society
        GB 0074 ACC/3400 · Collection · 1855-2008

        Records of the Court of the Chief Rabbi, London Beth Din, 1904-1988. The bulk of the archive transferred to London Metropolitan Archives are the administrative papers and general correspondence of the Court, and in particular that of the Clerks and Registrar. There are also files concerning consultations the Beth Din undertook with the Government on the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill in the 1980s. Some correspondence and rough notes of the individual Dayanim and records relating to work done with refugees in the Second World War have also been deposited.

        London Beth Din , Court of the Chief Rabbi
        GB 0074 O/504 · Collection · 1859-1878

        Records of the London and Surburban Land and Building Company, comprising deeds of covenant and conveyances for properties in Norwood, Lower Clapton and Bethnal Green, 1859-1878.

        London and Surburban Land and Building Company
        GB 0074 LMA/4028 · Collection · 1926-1944

        Records of London and North Eastern Railway Company, 1926-1944. This series consists of 45 deeds, leases and licences to sublet company land, particularly for the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, Blandford Square, Circus Road, Loudoun Road, Marlborough Hill, Wellington Road in St. Marylebone and Alexandra Road and Broadhurst Gardens in Hampstead. The majority of the deeds contain plans.

        London and North Eastern Railway Company
        Lomas, Elizabeth
        GB 0102 CWM/LMS Madagascar Personal Boxes 3-4 · 1846-1950s
        Part of COUNCIL FOR WORLD MISSION

        Papers, 1846-1950s, of Elizabeth Lomas, comprising certificates and testimonials for her education and teaching posts in England, 1888-1918; postcards of England; typescript and manuscript notes, addresses, stories, poems, etc, from her life in Madagascar [1919-1939]; diaries and notebooks including notes on personal and domestic matters, poetry, and press cuttings, 1920s-1930s; photographs of individuals, groups and places in Madagascar [1919-1939]; typescript circulars relating to missionary work in Madagascar, 1947-1950; various letters received, 1890s-1950s; various personal papers, 1900s-1950s; papers relating to Lomas family affairs, 1846-1916, including documents relating to probate and property and various certificates; photographs of her family and ancestors [19th-20th century].

        Lomas , Elizabeth , 1877-1959 , missionary
        LLOYD AND PRATT {SOLICITORS}
        GB 0074 ACC/2301 · Collection · 1852-1949

        Papers, 1852-1949, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties at 35-41 King David Lane, Shadwell and at James Smith's Estate at Peckham; including leases, mortgages, probates of wills, assignments, declarations, certificates, plans, abstracts of title, conveyances, deeds of covenant and death certificates.

        Lloyd and Pratt , solicitors
        GB 0074 O/111 · Collection · 1685-1783

        Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising an assignment of premises in Saint Katharine's Dock and a brewhouse in Smithfield, 1685; and extract of the will and probate of Dean Perkins of Newman Street, Saint Marylebone, 1781-1783.

        Llewellyn and Hann , solicitors
        Living Wills Project
        GB 0100 KCLCA 1996/KFLE · 1985-1992

        The records of the Living Wills Working Group and Living Wills Project at King's College London consist of correspondence and completed survey questionnaires, 1985-1992. These include correspondence concerning the Living Wills Working Party set up by the Centre and the charity, Age Concern, 1985-1989; correspondence and completed questionnaires of a survey of patients, doctors and nurses to assess the needs of HIV sufferers as part of the Living Wills Project run by the Centre in association with the Terrence Higgins Trust, 1991-1992.

        King's College London Centre for Medical Law and Ethics
        LEWIN, Julius (fl 1941-1958)
        GB 0101 ICS 48 · 1941-1966

        Papers of Julius Lewin and his wife Eleanor Hawarden on native law in South Africa, 1941-1966. Comprising copies of 18 articles by Lewin on native law, the legal status of African women, Africans and the police, political representation of Africans in South Africa, Britain's colour bar in Africa, inheritance in native law, marriage by natives in South Africa, and racial equality and Commonwealth universities. Two articles by Eleanor Hawarden on prejudice in the classroom and South African history and western civilisation, 1965-1966.

        Lewin , Julius , fl 1941-1955 , lecturer in native law, South Africa Hawarden , Eleanor , fl 1941-1966 , writer, wife of Julius Lewin
        LETHRIDGES {SOLICITORS}
        GB 0074 O/363 · Collection · 1750-1919

        Papers, 1750-1919, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to premises in Masons Yard, Duke Street, Piccadilly, Westminster.

        Lethridges , solicitors
        LETHBRIDGE FAMILY
        GB 0074 E/LET · Collection · 1608-1938

        Records of the Lethbridge family relating to their estates in Southwark and the City of London, including the Manor of Paris Garden.

        Various.
        GB 0074 ACC/0159 · Collection · 1708-1827

        Records relating to property, acquired by the solicitors in the course of their work. The records include mortgages, leases, lease and releases, fines, assignments of term, copies from baptism, marriage and burial registers, extracts from wills and correspondence; mainly relating to properties and persons in East Bedfont, but also Hatton, Heston, Egham, Leckhampstead, New Windsor, Wraysbury, Aldgate, and West Ham, 1708-1827.

        Lehman, Chapman and Harrison , solicitors
        GB 0074 ACC/1553 · Collection · 1868-1929

        Papers, 1868-1929, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Bethnal Green and Upper Holloway including sales particulars, leases, deeds of covenant and probate of will.

        Lee, Bygott and Ecclestone , solicitors
        LEE FAMILY
        GB 0074 ACC/0184 · Collection · 1788-1859

        Letters of the Lee family, comprising letter from Thomas Martyn to Sir William Lee of Aylesbury thanking him for having recommended him for the living of Edgware, 1788; letter to the Morning Herald newspaper regarding the building of almshouses at Edgware by Charles Day, probably written by Philadelphia Lee, 1828; and letter from Thomas Wall, vicar of Edgware, to John Lee, lord of manor of Edgware Boys, 1859.

        Various.
        LE NEVE FAMILY
        GB 0074 O/084 · Collection · 1763-1866

        Records of the Le Neve family, including deeds for properties in Southwark; documents relating to the bankruptcy of Edwin Morgan of 6 Three Crown Square, hop merchant; and agreement for custody of a mentally sick person.

        Various.
        LARMITE FAMILY
        GB 0074 ACC/0343 · Collection · 1716-1897

        Records of the Larmite family relating to premises in Finchley. Documents include conveyances, lease and releases, abstracts of title, wills and probates, bargain and sales, mortgages, feoffment and papers relating to enclosure.

        Various.
        LANE {SOLICITORS}
        GB 0074 ACC/0908 · Collection · 1763-1907

        Papers, 1763-1907, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to properties in Tottenham, East Acton, Harrow, Highgate, Stoke Newington, Twickenham, Acton, Ealing, Teddington and Kingston. Papers of the solicitors relating to the Chancery case of the heirs of Halifax and Atkinson concerning property in Enfield and Ottery Saint Mary, Devon, 1790-1805; and papers relating to the case of A. Turner v. J. Bingham for debt, held in King's Bench, 1796.

        Also the Sheriff of Middlesex's acknowledgment of the receipt into his custody of the bodies of persons charged by the outgoing Sheriff, 28 September 1794, with a schedule giving the name of defendants, date of arrest, plaintiffs, cause of action, sum sworn to be levied, name of process and their return and attorneys names. These are persons charged with debt, damages, bills of Middlesex, in King's Bench Prison; not criminal offences.

        John Lane , solicitor
        LAMBETH MAGISTRATES COURT
        GB 0074 PS/LAM · Collection · 1877-1964

        Records of Lambeth Magistrates Court, 1877-1964. This collection contains court registers, court minutes, and proforma complaints and orders related to domestic proceedings. Other miscellaneous records have also survived from Lambeth Magistrates Court. While these have not survived in sufficient numbers to elucidate fully the record-keeping activities of the Court, they have been preserved as examples of the kinds of records maintained by the Court Officers, including the Clerk, Gaoler and Warrant Officer.

        Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

        Domestic proceedings: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.

        Lambeth Magistrates Court
        LAKE FAMILY
        GB 0074 ACC/0138 · Collection · 1663-1793

        Records of the Lake family relating to a property in Hounslow, called the Longhouse, including extracts from court rolls for the Manor of Twickenham; bonds; agreements; and receipts for quit rent.

        Various.
        GB 1249 Kirkman · 1770-1771

        (1) Lease and (2) Release, 19-20 Mar 1770, between Mary Lewis and Jacob Kirkman, concerning land in Walton-upon-Thames.
        (3) Presentment, 1771, by Jacob Kirkman against Robert Falkener, for counterfeiting Kirkman's name on harpsichords sold by Falkener.

        Kirkman , Jacob , 1710-1792 , harpsichord manufacturer
        KING, A C (fl 1933): Patent
        GB 1538 S17 · 1933

        Patent, no 781237, granted to A C King for an appliance for administering chloroform as an anaesthetic in childbirth, with photographs of the appliance, 1933.

        King , A C , fl 1933
        KILBURN BREWERY
        GB 0074 ACC/0947 · Collection · 1832-1847

        Records relating to land in Kilburn held by the Kilburn Brewery, 1832-1847, including conveyance, mortgage and abstract of title.

        The Kilburn Brewery
        KIDD RAPINET {SOLICITORS}
        GB 0074 ACC/2916 · Collection · 1761-1904

        Papers, 1761-1904, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Hertford Road, Edmonton, including conveyances, abstracts of title and building agreement. Also papers relating to the Wood family of Littleton, including lease, marriage settlement and will.

        Kidd Rapinet , solicitors
        KENYON (LORD)
        GB 0074 E/KEN · Collection · 1717-1839

        Papers of Lord Lloyd Kenyon relating to premises in Conduit Street, St George Hanover Square, Westminster.

        Kenyon , Lloyd , 1732-1802 , first Baron Kenyon , judge