Collection GB 0074 CLC/273 - CORN METER'S OFFICE

170 production units.

GB 0074 CLC/273 1722-1902 Collection 170 production units. City Chamberlain , Corporation of London

Duties were payments to the public revenue levied upon the import, export, manufacture, or sale of certain commodities while metage was a duty paid for the official measuring of dry or liquid goods, such as coal, grain, salt. A meter was responsible for seeing that commodities such as grain were traded according to the proper measure. The City Chamberlain's Office of the Corporation of London had responsibility for overseeing the work of meters in checking incoming grain and other goods, especially in the Port of London.

These records were donated to Guildhall Library in 1915 and were later transferred to the Corporation of London Records Office. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Records of the Corn Meter's Office, including lists of ships and barges entering the Port of London, giving description of the ship and the quantity of grain; Committee minute books and order books; amount of the grain weighed and certified by meters; account books for grain duty and metage; amount of grain weighed and measured entering the Port of London; names of the master corn meters; and papers relating to the Corn Meters Provident Fund.

CLC/273/MS01666 to MS01694, and MS02809.

Available for general access.

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

English

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

For records of the City Chamberlain relating to corn metage see COL/CHD/DM/09 (Corn Meter's Office) and COL/CHD/DM/10 (Corn Meter: Meters and Metage).

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

August to October 2010. Grain trade Agricultural products Crops Cereals Corn Public finance Local finance Finance Fiscal policy Taxation Coal duty Metage Agricultural economics Agricultural statistics Corn prices Trade (practice) Corn trade Food trade City Chamberlain , Corporation of London Port of London Authority , Corporation of London City of London London England UK Western Europe Europe

These records were donated to Guildhall Library in 1915 and were later transferred to the Corporation of London Records Office. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Records of the Corn Meter's Office, including lists of ships and barges entering the Port of London, giving description of the ship and the quantity of grain; Committee minute books and order books; amount of the grain weighed and certified by meters; account books for grain duty and metage; amount of grain weighed and measured entering the Port of London; names of the master corn meters; and papers relating to the Corn Meters Provident Fund.

CLC/273/MS01666 to MS01694, and MS02809.

Available for general access.

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

• anglais

• latin

English

For records of the City Chamberlain relating to corn metage see COL/CHD/DM/09 (Corn Meter's Office) and COL/CHD/DM/10 (Corn Meter: Meters and Metage).

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• anglais