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        Forbes, Admiral John
        GB 0096 MS 497 · 1757

        Manuscript justification written by Admiral John Forbes of his attitude in refusing to sign the warrant for the execution of Admiral Byng on a charge of neglect of duty in the face of the French fleet off Minorca in 1756. Signed 'J.F.' 16 February 1757.

        Forbes , John , 1714-1796 , Admiral of the Fleet
        FIRE JUDGES COURT
        GB 0074 CLC/299 · Collection · 1667

        Papers of the Fire Judges Court, comprising decree in the cause of Sir Richard Betenson, petitioner, against Richard Betenson, his son, and others, concerning burnt houses in Cheapside, in the parish of St Mary le Bow.

        Fire Court x Court of Judicature , Corporation of London
        FIRE COURT
        GB 0074 CLC/300 · Collection · 1671

        Proceedings of the Fire Judges' Court, in the case of John Wall and Sir Paul Niele and others.

        Fire Court x Court of Judicature , Corporation of London
        GB 0074 PS/FIN · Collection · 1841-1956

        Records of Finsbury Petty Sessions Division, 1841-1956, comprising court minutes, court registers and licensing 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. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

        Finsbury Petty Sessional Division
        Faversham Manor, Kent
        GB 0096 MS 261 · 1766-1792

        A Minute Book, 1766-92 of the Water Court of the Manor and Hundred of Faversham.

        Manor of Faversham , Water Court
        Fage, Professor John D
        GB 0102 MS 380478 · [1940s]

        Research papers [1940s] of John Fage on the development of Southern Rhodesia (presumably for his PhD), largely covering the period from the 1890s to the 1930s, comprising notes, largely manuscript but including some typescripts, of primary and secondary sources including official sources, among them British parliamentary papers, Colonial Office correspondence, records of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Southern Rhodesia and its High Court, also including a bibliography. The subjects include pre-history, geography and geology, colonial administration, the British South Africa Company, economics, indigenous affairs, labour, and land tenure.

        Fage , John Donnelly , b 1921 , Professor of African history
        GB 0074 ACC/1915 · Collection · 1837-1859

        Records of Edmonton Petty Sessional Division, comprising minutes of summary proceedings held at Watch House and Angel Inn, Edmonton, 2 Jan 1837 - 21 Dec 1838. Cases heard include felonies, assault, larceny, highway offences, retailing beer etc. without licence, obstruction, injury to property etc. Volume records detailed statements by witnesses, statutes governing cases, outcome of each case. At rear of volume is a summary of cases heard with details of fines etc. Name index at front of volume. Volume also includes records of medical prescriptions prepared for named persons, January 1859.

        Edmonton Petty Sessional Division
        EDMONTON HUNDRED
        GB 0074 ACC/0581 · Collection · 1769

        Copy of certificate issued by Richard Hassell to William Spencer of South Mimms relating to the privileges of tenants of the Duchy of Lancaster (including exemption from tolls).

        Richard Hassell, Justice of the Peace for Edmonton Hundred
        EDMONTON COUNTY COURT
        GB 0074 CCT/AK/46 · Collection · 1894-1944

        Records of Edmonton County Court, 1894-1944, comprising plaint and minute book and ordinary action book.

        Edmonton County Court
        EDGWARE AND BOYS MANOR
        GB 0074 ACC/1424 · Collection · 1859-1932

        Records of the Manor of Edgware Boys, including schedule of houses in the manor; papers relating to quit rents and fines; list of tenants; papers relating to the appointment of a steward; copies of court rolls; and papers relating to property in Edgware.

        Manor of Edgware Boys
        GB 0099 KCLMA Eaton · 1945-1972

        Papers relating to V Adm Sir John Wilson Musgrave Eaton's life and career, 1945-1972, including typescript copy of Night Order Book, HMS SHEFFIELD, May-Jun 1945; photographs, press cuttings and printed material relating to Eaton's service as Capt of HMS ST VINCENT, RN Boys Training Establishment, Gosport, Hampshire, 1947; typescript volume entitled 'Naval Staff Handbook', Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich, 1950; texts of lectures by Eaton, RN Staff College, Greenwich, including 'Grand strategy: its background and application in a future war' and 'The principles of war', 1950-1951; typescript texts of speeches and lectures, [1952]-1960, including Empire Day speech to the Royal Yacht Sqn, Australia [1952], and lecture on the capture of Gibraltar, 1704, to the RN Club, 1960; newspaper cuttings relating to the Court Martial of Able Seaman James McNiven McSporran for an assault on V Adm Eaton during an inspection, 1955; Civil Defence manuals and naval publications, 1956-1958; edition of Log of the President's cruise in the USS CANBERRA (CAG2), edited by Capt E P Aurand, US Navy, Naval Aide to US President Dwight David Eisenhower, 14-20 Mar 1957; photographs of Eisenhower with Eaton and US Adm Jerauld Wright, Supreme Allied Commander's Headquarters, Norfolk, Virginia, USA [1957]; typescript letters to retired senior officers from the First Sea Lord, 1959, 1970 and 1972, from AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 23 Apr 1959, Adm Sir Michael Le Fanu, 1 Jun 1970, and Adm Sir Michael (Patrick) Pollock, 2 Nov 1972; printed plan of Admiralty organisation, Jan 1960; typescript statement of evidence by Eaton, as then commanding destroyer HMS SOMALI, on Cdr (Jack) John Egerton Broome's command of convoy PQ.17, 4 Jul 1942, statement prepared for a libel action brought by Broome against David John Cawdell Irving, Jan 1970, in relation to his book The destruction of convoy PQ.17 (Cassell, London, 1968).

        Eaton , Sir , John Wilson Musgrave , 1902-1981 , Knight , Vice Admiral
        GB 0074 CLC/168 · Collection · 1728-1877

        Records of the Manor of East Smithfield, City of London. The records comprise: court leet books, 1728-88; and court rolls, 1763-1862.

        Manor of East Smithfield , City of London
        GB 0101 ICS 16 · 1910-1929

        Papers of Edward Trevor Dyson on his time in the Ceylon Civil Service, 1910-1929; comprising report 'The Spirit of Trincomalee', a description of Trincomalee at the end of 1910, including comments on visit by the Crown Prince of Germany, Prince Wilhelm; report 'The Bo Tree Incident', describing events after the cutting down of a sacred Bo Tree at Anuradhapura, 1929; letters to Bertha [the future Mrs Dyson], 1911, including description of journey to Kantalai, and the area around Kantalai, and account of journey from Trincomalee to Batticaloa, with account of his first visit to the prison at Batticaloa in his capacity as Assistant Inspector of Prisons, and of a case in court where he presided as magistrate.

        Dyson , Edward Trevor , b 1886 , civil servant in Ceylon
        GB 0074 ACC/0133 · Collection · 1689 - 1905

        Records of the Manor of Durants and Garton, Enfield, 1689-1905, including Court Baron and Special Court book with minutes.

        Durants and Gartons Manor , Enfield , Middlesex
        DUNSFORD MANOR
        GB 0074 ACC/1720 · Collection · 1680-1889

        Records of the Manor of Dunsford, Wandsworth, including court books, conveyances, declarations, mortgages, enfranchisements, maps and plans.

        Manor of Dunsford , Wandsworth
        GB 0074 COR/DOL · Collection · 1884-1932

        Records of the Duchy of Lancaster Coroner's District, comprising case papers, 1884-1932.

        Coroner for the Jurisdiction of the Liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster
        DIOCESE OF WINCHESTER
        GB 0074 DW · Collection · 1480-1936

        Records of the Diocese of Winchester, 1480-1936. The archive collections relate mainly to parishes in the ancient county of Surrey, now in the dioceses of Guildford and Southwark and include: the records of the Archdeaconry of Surrey which had jurisdiction over the parishes in the ancient county of Surrey excluding 13 peculiars (administrative areas outside the jurisdiction of the bishop), including Bishop's Transcripts for parishes in the archdeaconry, the issue of licences including marriage bonds and allegations and clergy's licences, registry material, church consecrations and dedications, dissenters' meeting house certificates, and terriers of church property in each parish.

        Also the records of the Archdeaconry Court of Surrey, consisting of court probate material including wills; the records of the Commissary Court of Surrey, including the bishop's commissary court probate records including wills and cause papers in court proceedings; and a small collection of office papers of the Archdeaconry of Winchester relating to parishes in Hampshire.

        Diocese of Winchester, Church of England
        DIOCESE OF LONDON
        GB 0074 DL · Collection · [1271]-2011

        Records of the Diocese of London, 1467-1976, held at the London Metropolitan Archives include:

        • records of the Archdeaconry of Hampstead (induction mandates, visitation papers)
        • records of the Archdeaconry of Hackney (visitation papers)
        • records of the Archdeaconry of Middlesex (assignation books, churchwardens' presentments, financial papers, calendars, probate books and probate inventories, caveat books, registers of wills, administration bonds, renunciations, warrants, original wills, visitation books)
        • records of the Consistory Court of London (Acts of Court, assignation books, deposition books, Vicar General's books, registers of wills, original wills, matrimonial and testamentary cause papers, appointments of proctors, caveat books, Chancellor's notebooks, statistics)
        • papers of various rural deaneries (Paddington, Spitalfields, Bethnal Green, Saint Pancras, Enfield, Chelsea, Tottenham, Shoreditch, Saint Marylebone)
        • bishop's transcripts from the County of Middlesex and the County of London
        • papers relating to tithes (maps, apportionments, altered apportionments, certificates of capital value, awards of exchange, redemption certificates).

          Records of the Diocese of London, 1306-1996, (held at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section but currently accessible through the LMA) include:

        • Bishops' registers
        • Vicar Generals' books
        • Bishops' Act books
        • Ordination papers and Ordination registers
        • Licensing papers for curates, lecturers, institutional chaplains, parish clerks, midwives, physicians and surgeons, schoolmasters
        • Marriage allegations and marriage bonds
        • Parish files (of church deeds, consecration papers, plans and so on.)
        • Faculty papers, by parish.
        • Subscription books.
        • Parish register transcripts
        • Episcopal visitation records
        • Records of jurisdiction:-
        • Commissary Court records including court books, probate records, original wills, probate and administration act books, probate inventories
        • Estate records for property and manors in the City of London, Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex, Westminster and Worcester.

          Also papers relating to the Bishop of London's jurisdiction overseas. The Bishop of London was held to exercise responsibility for Anglican churches overseas where no other bishop had been appointed. He retained responsibility for churches in northern and central Europe until 1980, but his jurisdiction in southern Europe ceased in 1842 on the creation of the diocese of Gibraltar. In 1980, the Bishop of London divested himself of all overseas jurisdiction and a new diocese of 'Gibraltar in Europe' was established. Records include:-

        • Ordination and licensing records
        • Consecration papers and chaplaincy deeds
        • Foreign register transcripts
        • issues of the "Gibraltar and Fulham Diocesan Gazette"
        • Foreign chaplaincy archives for the chaplaincies of:
          Adelboden, Switzerland
          Aix les Bains, France
          Alassio, Italy
          Archangel, Russia
          Athens, Greece
          Balestrand, Norway
          Biarritz, France
          Bologna, Italy
          Bordighera, Italy
          Boulogne, France
          Bucharest, Romania
          Bucharest and Lower Danubian ports, Romania
          Burgenstock, Switzerland
          Calais, France
          Cannes, France
          Cap d'Antibes, France
          Cartagena, Spain
          Champery, Switzerland
          Chantilly, France
          Corfu, Greece
          Davos, Switzerland
          Ferrol, Spain
          Florence, Italy
          Fray Bentos, Uruguay
          Geneva, Switzerland
          Ghent, Belgium
          Grindelwald, Switzerland
          Haarlem, Netherlands
          Hamburg, Germany
          Helsinki, Finland
          Hughesovka, Russia
          Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
          Leghorn, Italy
          Leysin, Switzerland
          Libau, Latvia
          Lisbon, Portugal
          Lucerne, Switzerland
          Lyons, France
          Messina, Sicily, Italy
          Minas de Riotinto, Spain
          Monte Carlo, Monaco
          Moscow, Russia
          Nantes, North West France
          Odessa and South Russia
          Oporto, Portugal
          Ostend, Belgium
          Palermo, Italy
          Pisa and Bagni di Lucca, Italy
          Ponta Delgada, Azores
          Riga, Latvia
          Rigi-Kaltbad, Switzerland
          Saas Fee, Switzerland
          St Servan, France
          Seville, Spain
          Spiez, Switzerland
          Stockholm, Sweden
          Stresa, Italy
          Syra, Greece
          Tamaris sur mer, Toulon, France
          Taormina, Sicily
          Trieste, Italy
          Ulvik, Norway
          Versailles, France
          Viareggio, Italy
          Vitznau, Switzerland
          Wengen, Switzerland
          Zermatt, Switzerland
        Diocese of London , Church of England
        DEWELL FAMILY
        GB 0074 ACC/0345 · Collection · 1719-1822

        Records of the Dewell family of Brentford, relating to property in Old Brentford, New Brentford, Hanwell, Chiswick and Isleworth, including wills, leases, extracts from court rolls and legal opinion.

        Various.
        GB 0074 ACC/2805/05 · Collection · 1942-1950

        Records of the Deputy for the Chief Rabbi, 1942-1950, comprising correspondence with various individuals and organisations, including provincial congregations in Wales and England and congregations in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Palestine, Russia, South Africa and the United States of America.

        PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, Office of Chief Rabbi, 735 High Road, North Finchley, London NW12 OUS.

        Lazarus , Harris Meyer , 1878-1962 , rabbi
        DENCE, John
        GB 0074 O/057 · Collection · 1804-1877

        Records of John Dence relating to properties in Sydenham, Lewisham, the City of London, Holborn, and the Strand.

        Various.
        GB 0074 ACC/2011 · Collection · 1863-1895

        Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising admission of John Durham, junior of 10 Great James Street, Bedford Row, as solicitor in court of Chancery, 8 May 1863, signed by John Romilly, Master of the Rolls; admission of John Durham as solicitor in Court of Queen's Bench, 8 May 1863. Also leases for 108 Stroud Green Road (formerly called Osborne House), Hornsey, 1887 and 1895.

        Davis, Foster and Finlay , solicitors
        COWLEY PEACHEY MANOR
        GB 0074 ACC/0374 · Collection · 1636-1826

        Records of the Manor of Cowley Peachey, Colham, Hillingdon; comprising court book for views of frankpledge with courts baron; rental and survey; and statement of quit rents.

        Manor of Cowley Peachey
        GB 0074 CLC/312 · Collection · 1684-1899

        Records of the Quarter Sessions for London and Middlesex, including certificate of conviction; examination book of vagabonds apprehended in the City of London; Newgate gaol calendars; and petition for victualling licence.

        London Quarter Sessions of the Peace Middlesex Quarter Sessions of the Peace
        COURTS OF LAW
        CLA/040 · Collection · 1301-1965

        Records of various City of London Courts of Law, 1301-1965, including the Royal Courts, Nuisance Assizes, Court of Judicature, Borough Court of Record, Southwark, the Central Criminal Court, Assize of Bread and Possessory Assizes.

        Records of the Royal Courts include plea rolls, escheat rolls, inquisitions post mortem, writs, proceedings, and articles relating to the history of the court, while the records of the Possessory Assizes, comprising the Assizes of Novel Disseisin, Fresh Force and Mort d'Ancestor, include rolls of assizes and precedent books.

        Records of the Civic courts (Nuisance Assizes, Court of Judicature, Borough Court of Record, Southwark) include pleas of nuisance, Southwark fire decrees and court books.

        Records of the Central Criminal Court include registers of felons' gods, petitions for return of goods, auction catalogues, prints and photographs, financial accounts, statistics and papers relating to civil defence duties during World War Two.

        Records of the Assize of Bread include mealweighters books, including quantities of wheat sold and delivered; register of bakers and cornfactors, prices of wheat and flour and papers of the Committee on the Assize of Bread.

        Also papers relating to cases of bankruptcy and debt, papers of the London Chamber of Arbitration and other legal records and administrative papers.

        Corporation of London
        GB 0074 CLC/309 · Collection · 1500-1899

        Collection of documents relating to courts and legal proceedings in London, including notes on jurisdiction and procedures; historical notes; reports on cases; briefs, case notes and proceedings; correspondence and financial accounts for various courts including the Court of Star Chamber, the Court of Exchequer, the Court of Chancery, the Court of King's Bench and Queen's Bench, and legal institutions such as Furnival's Inn, the King's Bench Prison, the Old Bailey and Marshalsea Prison.

        Various.
        Court proceedings
        GB 0096 MS 751 · [1590-1600]

        Manuscript volume of extracts from the record of the Court of Queen's (and King's) Bench, and also from the Court of Common Pleas, for proceedings from the 15th century to the reign of Elizabeth, probably compiled c1590-1600. The extracts include pleas, posteas and memoranda of the 15th and 16th centuries, with marginal notes describing the subjects of the pleas, and perhaps acted as a lawyer's precedent book. References to the original court rolls are sometimes given.

        Unknown
        COURT OF WARDS AND LIVERIES
        GB 0074 CLC/301 · Collection · 1631

        Record of the Court of Wards and Liveries, comprising examinations of defendants in a court case concerning commodities in a court yard adjoining the Bull Head Tavern in Cheapside, October-November 1631.

        Court of Wards and Liveries
        Court of Wards
        GB 0096 MS 194 · (1620), 1581-1622

        Manuscript volume containing transcripts of documents relating to the Court of Wards, [1620], namely a selection of decrees from 1553 made by John Hare, headed 'Le Court des Gards', dated [12 Jul] 1581; reports of cases of the Court of Wards, dated 1605-1610; 'Instructions for the Master of our Wards and Liveryes', [by James Ley, 1st Earl of Marlborough, dated [Dec, 1618]; an account [by William Rastell] of procedure in the Court of Wards, with a table of fees and a table of contents, dated [1622].

        Unknown
        CLA/038 · Collection · 1595-1853

        Records of the Court of Requests, City of London, 1595-1853, including committee reports; petitions; regulations; appointment of Commissioners; accounts ledgers; cash books; record of fees; summons books; warrant books; bonds and promissory notes, and other administrative papers.

        Corporation of London
        COURT OF REQUESTS
        GB 0074 CLC/302 · Collection · 1655-1658

        Orders of the Commissioners of the Court of Requests ordering the arrest of certain persons for non-appearance at court; and to commit to prison in one of the City Compters Robert Weddall, throster, for failing to appear in court.

        Court of Requests , Corporation of London x Sheriff's Court
        GB 0074 CLC/310 · Collection · 1832

        Calendar of gaol delivery for the Middlesex House of Correction, known as Cold Bath Fields Prison, 1832.

        Middlesex Quarter Sessions of the Peace
        GB 0074 CLC/311 · Collection · 1747-1750

        Records of the court of Quarter Sessions, London, comprising lists of jurors for Bridge Ward, Aldgate Ward, Bassishaw Ward and Farringdon Within Ward.

        London Quarter Sessions of the Peace
        CLA/039 · Collection · 1666-1673

        Records of the Court of Judicature, or 'Fire Court', City of London, 1666-1673, including fire decrees (judgements of the court) and other records of court proceedings.

        Corporation of London
        CLA/023 · Collection · 1100-1990

        Records of the Court of Husting, 1100-1990, including deeds and wills; Husting books containing records of proceedings; material relating to Pleas of Land including court rolls and writs of right patent and proceedings; material relating to Common Pleas including court rolls, writs and proceedings; charters relating to the Court and offprints of articles about the Court of Husting.

        Corporation of London
        COURT OF EXCHEQUER
        GB 0074 CLC/305 · Collection · 1671-1833

        Records of the Court of Exchequer, comprising Exchequer bill; roll of estreats of fines and forfeitures at the sessions of the peace for London and Middlesex; and record book relating to the King's revenue.

        Court of Exchequer
        COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
        GB 0074 CLC/306 · Collection · 1765

        Record of the Court of Common Pleas, comprising a brief for the defendants in an action for impounding and ill-treating cattle coming to Smithfield Market. The case arose from numerous complaints about the nuisance caused in Smithfield and other streets in the city by cattle dealers driving cattle and sheep on Sunday evenings into Smithfield in order to get the best stands and pens.

        Court of Common Pleas
        COL/CC/SCC · Subfonds · 1856-1870
        Part of CORPORATION OF LONDON

        Records of the Special (City of London Court) Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes and rough minutes, 1869-1870; committee papers, 1856-1870, particularly relating to Court fees, the Admiralty jurisdiction and the duties of judges; and outstanding references and proceedings, 1867-1869.

        Corporation of London
        COL/CC/JTC · Subfonds · 1875-1945
        Part of CORPORATION OF LONDON

        Minute books containing the minutes of various ad hoc Joint Committees:

        Joint Committee of the Officers and Clerks and the Law, (Parliamentary) and City Courts Committees regarding Admiralty jurisdiction in the City of London Court, 1875; the impact of the Supreme Court of Judicature Acts of 1870 and 1875 and reforms to the practice and pleading of the Mayor's Court, 1875; reform of the Mayor's Court and City of London Court, 1880; the duties of and the pension to be awarded to City of London Court judges, 1894-1895; the nature, duties and emoluments of the Secondary and elections in Common Hall, 1897-1898.

        Joint Committee of the Officers and Clerks and the Port of London Sanitary Committees regarding the salary of Harry Leach, Medical Officer of Health for the Port of London, 1875.

        Joint Committee of the General Purposes and the Special Tithes Committees regarding matters relating to livings and benefices, 1875.

        Joint Committee of the Coal, Corn and Finance and the Officers and Clerks Committees regarding the salary of William Payne, Chamber Principal Clerk, 1878; the nature, duties and emoluments of the Office of Chamberlain and his staff, 1892-1898; the nature, duties and emoluments of the City Solicitor and City Surveyor, 1895.

        Joint Committee of the Law and City Courts and the Local Government and Taxation Committees regarding taking action against the Toll Bridges/River Thames Bill which aimed to free the toll bridges, 1876-1877; and the Supreme Court of Judicature, 1883.

        Joint Committee of the Gas and Water and the Local Government and Taxation Committees regarding the progress of the Metropolis Waterworks Purchase Bill, 1880.

        Joint Committee of the City Lands and the Law and City Courts Committees regarding finding accommodation for the hearing of special jury cases, 1891

        Joint Committee of the City Lands and the Coal, Corn and Finance Committees regarding finding a site for the construction of a new British School of Art (Tate Gallery), 1891.

        Joint Committee of the Coal, Corn and Finance and the Billingsgate and Leadenhall Markets Committees regarding reduction of tolls on fish brought to Billingsgate market, 1894.

        Joint Committee of the Officers and Clerks and the and the Improvements and Finance Committees regarding the retirement of Principal Clerk of the Public Health Department, 1899.

        Joint Committee of the City Lands and the Improvements and Finance Committees regarding cooperation with the London County Council to preserve the historic building at 17 Fleet Street (Prince Henry's Room, part of an inn that was one of the few buildings to survive the Great Fire of London), 1899-1900.

        Joint Committee of Coal and Corn and Finance and Officers and Clerks Committees, ordered to enquire into the nature, duties and emoluments of the office of Chamberlain, to reconsider the terms and conditions of the appointment and to recommend any necessary reform, Sept 1943-Feb 1945.

        Corporation of London
        COL/CC/CRC · Subfonds · 1756-1836
        Part of CORPORATION OF LONDON

        Records of the Court of Requests Committee, Court of Common Council, comprising rough minutes and papers of a Committee appointed to examine the practice and fees of the Court of Requests, 1756-61; printed Report to Common Council, 1759; rough minutes and papers of a Committee to consider a Memorial from the Commissioners of Requests, 1768; minutes of a Committee to enquire into the practice and fees of the Court of Requests and the abuses of its officers, 1774-1788; minutes of the committee appointed to consider the propriety of an application to Parliament for an enlargement of the powers of the Court of Requests, 1830-1836 and committee papers, 1773-1788.

        Corporation of London
        COL/CC/CRN · Subfonds · 1959-1966
        Part of CORPORATION OF LONDON

        Records of the Newson-Smith Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1960-1961; report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Business of Criminal Courts, presented to Parliament in 1961; report of the Newson-Smith Committee, 1961; typed minutes, agenda, memoranda, correspondence and reports, 1959-1961; correspondence, 1960-1961; correspondence and memoranda regarding the re-convening of the Newson-Smith Committee to discuss the extension of the Central Criminal Court, 1966.

        Corporation of London
        COURT OF CHANCERY
        GB 0074 CLC/307 · Collection · 1712 Mar 24

        Exemplification of proceedings in Chancery in the cause: the executors of the will of William Sherington, of Red Lion Square, Holborn versus Dame Mary Luckyn, widow and relict of Sir William Luckyn, of Messing Hall, Essex, and Richard Nicholls, contesting the will.

        Court of Chancery
        COL/CA/MIN · Subfonds · 1705-1865
        Part of CORPORATION OF LONDON

        Records of various temporary committees of the Court of Aldermen, 1705-1865, including minutes of all the Aldermanic committees, particularly Gaol, with other subjects such as Cattle, Saltmeters, Watermen, petition of Drysalters against Brokers, Ganger and Riots, 1790-1794 and 1808-1815; papers of the Assize of Bread Committee, 1795; papers of the committee to enquire into the complaints touching several extensive fees demanded and received in the outer Chamber, at the binding of Apprentices and in making free, 1705-1706; minutes of Committee to consider of the duty and nature of the office of Chamberlain, 1727; papers of the Committee on the Chamberlain's income, 1843; papers of Committee of Aldermen on convicts, 1786-1787; minutes of the Committee of Aldermen to prepare a petition to the House of Commons to stop exportation of corn, 1765; minutes of Committees regarding the election of Aldermen, 1710 and 1769; minutes of Committee to consider the conduct of Marshalmen, 1798; papers of a Committee of Aldermen to take into consideration the state of the unclaimed dividend of the orphans fund, 1802; minutes of Committee regarding Oyster grounds, 1775; minutes of a Committee to provide plate for use of Lord Mayor, 1770-1771; report and papers of a Committee appointed to consider necessary repairs and additions to the Mansion House plate, 1842; proceedings of the Shipwrights Petition Committee, 1782; minutes of a Committee to examine Wardmote Presentments, Jan 1738/39 - May 1739, with summary of Wardmote Presentments to be examined, 1738-1741; letters and regulations regarding street traffic, 1851-1865.

        Corporation of London
        Court Baron Roll, [1719]
        GB 0096 MS 442 · [c 1719]

        Copy of a Court Baron roll, containing a surrender by William Draper of all his messuages, lands, tenements, etc., to the uses of his will. Signed by Edmund Littler, deputy steward of the manor, and dated before 17 August 1719.

        Unknown
        GB 0096 MS 441 · [1400-1425]

        Copy of a Court Roll containing a grant to John Emyford, clerk, of 5 pieces of arable land of the lord's demesne, formerly in the farm of Thomas Dowe and recently in the farm of Gregory Brandon, by the annual farm of 10d. for each acre annually. The roll also includes livery of seisin to John Emyford, clerk, at the same court. The annual rent is 4s.9d. The document is dated 'Thursday after 6 October, temp. Henry [IV?]', probably [1400-1425].

        Unknown
        GB 0074 COR/PA · Collection · 1878-1966

        Records relating to the inquest on the victims of the wreck of the steamship "Princess Alice", 1878-1966. Records include inquisition giving names, ages, relationship and occupations of deceased; sworn statements of witnesses; verbatim report of inquest proceedings at Town Hall, Woolwich; indexes of witnesses; list of persons saved from the "Princess Alice"; correspondence; report of the Board of Trade investigation into the wreck of the "Princess Alice"; supporting documentation including maps of the area and navigation regulations.

        Also items relating to the disaster including memorial cards, songs, press cuttings and notes made by Gavin Thurston in preparation for his book The Great Thames Disaster.

        Coroner for the Jurisdiction of the Eastern District of the County of London
        GB 0074 ACC/0218 · Collection · 1849-1851

        Brief for plaintiff in Court of Common Pleas (John Gandar, plaintiff, and Richard Henry Sheldrick, defendant), with note of fees in the case of Gandar v. Sheldrick, an action to recover damages for seizure of household goods and furniture under execution issued from Palace Court in action at suit of defendant v. William Charles Fisher, landlord of plaintiff; and letter from Gandar to attorney enquiring how the case is progressing and commenting on compensation to officers of the defunct Palace Court.

        Court of Common Pleas