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      GB 0096 MS 41 · 1662-1785

      Manuscript volume containing tables giving a statement of the [English] excise revenue from Michaelmas 1662 to [Jul 1875]. There is a possibility that this manuscript was created by Sir Grey Cooper, Secretary to the Treasury.

      Unknown
      GB 0096 MS 203 · [1763]

      Manuscript volume containing an 'Account of the gross produce of the several duties under the management of Excise, with their respective appropriations and rates, and the times of their commencement', written in [1763], and covering the period 1662 to 1763. There is a possibility that this manuscript was created by James Bindley, Commissioner of Stamp Duties, 1765-1818.

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      GB 0096 MS 40 · 1662-1763

      Manuscript volume containing tables giving a statement of [English] excise revenue from Michaelmas 1662 to [Jun 1763]. There is a possibility that this manuscript was created by John Bindley, a Commissioner of the Excise Office.

      Unknown
      GB 0096 MS 39 · 1662-1730

      Manuscript volume containing tables giving a statement of English excise revenue from Michaelmas 1662 to 1730. The earlier tables are in summary form, but from 1693 to 1730 a full account is given.

      Unknown
      GB 0096 MS 90 · 1662-1713

      Manuscript volume containing a statement of the revenue managed by the Commissioners of Excise, 1662-1713, including an account of the numbers of common brewers, victuallers and distillers in England, Wales and Berwick, and the quantities of exciseable liquors made and imported by them. Includes a statement of parliamentary appropriations from the excise revenue.

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      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
      Edinburgh poor relief papers
      GB 0096 MS 629 · [1750-1754]

      Collection of transcripts, all written in the same hand in [1750], of papers relating chiefly to the administration of poor relief and vagrancy in Edinburgh from 1594-1750, including an Act to impose stent of £500 p.a. for 3 years for cleansing the town, 1687; a 'Report from the committee of the lords appointed to consider the proper method for providing the poor', 1731; an Act of Sederunt imposing stent for 2% on members of the College of Justice for the maintenance of the poor, 1732; a contract between the Council of Edinburgh and the Kirk Sessions for the upkeep of 'a large hospitall or work house... for the more regular maintenance and employment of the whole poor of the...city', 1740; a confirmation of the erection of 'the burgh of the Canongate', 1594; an Act in favour of 'the burgh of Edinburgh anent the annuity' 1661; a report of the 'annexation of the lands and annualls mortifyed to the ministers and hospital of Edinburgh', undated; and a report of the Lords of Council and Session on method for support and maintenance of the begging poor in the charity work house, 1749. There are also additions of 1752 and 1754, the latter being the estimate of the expense of the City Guard for 1745-1746.

      Unknown
      GB 0096 MS 643 · [1760]

      Transcripts relating to local taxation in Edinburgh from 1745 to 1760, including:

      1. 'Memorandum offered by the members of the College of Justice appointed by the Faculty of Advocates and Society of Writers to the Signet to the preses and other remanent stent-masters of the city of Edinburgh in relation to the imposing the stent on the inhabitants of the town for the year 1749'. The memorandum, dated 18 July 1749, contains eight questions put to the stent-masters, and these are answered in the following eight pages of the manuscript, written for the most part in another hand, and dated 19 July 1749.
      2. A 'Report to the Faculty of Advocates of the stent-masters appointed by them to meet with the stent-masters of the town of Edinburgh for imposing the stent or cess for the year 1749', written in the second hand. A note in the original hand says that the reports were 'drop'd'.
      3. Comments on the collusion between the Faculty of Advocates and the Town Council regarding the stent-masters, with a copy of a letter to George Chalmers, writer to the Signet, from Robert Thomson of Aberdeen, dated 13 Feb 1745, concerning stents at Aberdeen.
        1. The final leaf, dated 14 Jul 1760, contains in a third hand an 'Estimate of the land cess and trade stent to be imposed by the...Magistrats & Town Council of Edinburgh for the service of the year, viz. from 25 March 1759 to 25 March 1760'.
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      EALING
      ACC/0491 · Collection · 1950

      Diagrammatic plan of Ealing, then part of the County of Middlesex, showing locations of existing and proposed schools, 1950.

      Ealing Metropolitan Borough Council x Ealing London Borough Council
      DUNCH, Edward (1602-1678)
      GB 0074 ACC/0447 · Collection · 1639

      Royal Writ of Privy Seal proclaiming Edmund Dunch a rebel because of his non-appearance at the Court of the King's Council at Whitehall, and ordering that he be arrested, 1639.

      Privy Council
      GB 0074 ACC/0140 · Collection · 1739-1883

      Legal documents, acquired by the solicitor's office in the course of their work, relating to the manor of Hanwell, 1739-1869, including deeds and copies of deeds, extracts from court rolls, and mortgage agreements; copies of wills and administrations, mainly for residents of Hanwell; copies of land tax redemption certificates for land in Hanwell; copies of orders in Chancery relating to Hanwell.

      Also papers relating to the Coleraine Park Estate, Tottenham, 1880-1883 and Ponders End, Enfield, 1861-1873.

      Druces and Attlee , solicitors
      DOWGATE WARD
      GB 0074 CLC/W/IA · Collection · 1761-1940

      Records of Dowgate Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise wardmote minutes, rate assessments and accounts, and petitions. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library at various dates.

      Dowgate Ward , Corporation of London
      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
      GB 0096 MS 426 · 1717-1725

      Bound volume containing file copies of decrees relating to commerce collected between 1717 and 1725 by a Paris office of the Compagnie des Fermiers-Généraux, which was a company trading with the Levant. All are printed excepting the following manuscript transcripts concerning the regulation of trade: 1)An extract of the declaration given to the Ministers of Holland and England by the Plenipotentaries of the King, 4 January 1717, including a note that 'this copy was given to the Company on 11 March 1718, in consequence of a letter written by M. Piquet, Keeper of the Seal at the Council of Foreign Affairs'. 2) A decree, dated 7 October 1717, on the laws governing duties on butter and cheeses. 3) Decree headed 'Cires', 1719, beginning 'The King wishes to treat favourably the manufacture established at Limoges...', and transcribed on the last page of a printed decree of 30 March 1719. 4) Decree, dated 1 August 1720, relating to the sawing and merchandising of merain wood, transcribed on the last page of a printed decree of 9 July 1720. 5) Copy of a letter written by the Companie des Fermiers-Généraux to Sr. Savalette, Receiver at St Valery concerning the liability of duty to goods imported from the Levant.

      Compagnie des Fermiers-Généraux
      GB 0074 ACC/0373 · Collection · 1680-1823

      Papers collected by the antiquarian dealer in the course of his work, comprising article of agreement, assignment and surrender of leases relating to premises in Saint Mary, Whitechapel, 1680-1694; receipts for rates for paving, lighting, cleansing and watch, and demand for poor rate, for premises in Saint Dunstan in the West, Fleet Street, City of London, 1822-1823.

      Unknown
      GB 0074 LMA/4675 · Collection · 1816-1983

      Records of the Customs Annuity and Benevolent Fund Incorporated including minutes of Court with expenditure accounts; 'T,MandS' Committee minutes; balance sheets and Board of Trade Returns; Benevolent grants; Rules and rates, and Register of assurances and profit (with separate index volumes).

      The records document benevolent payments to individuals and their families. The main series which can be used are the Court minutes (1816-1983) (LMA/4575/01/01) and the indexes to insurance holders (1891-198-) (LMA/4675/02/03).

      The Court minutes contain letters to Committee and presentations to the Board giving proposals for insurance received from individuals; life losses; surrenders; mortgages and reversions; cash statements and expenditure and details of benevolent loans including amounts advanced, paid and outstanding.

      The records provide an insight into the types of proposals for support received and whether these met with success. In minutes of 5 Sep 1889 a Benevolent Grant is ordered to be paid to the widow of John Fox of Liverpool, being the amount of Poundage contributed (£5.8.10). In minutes of 10 Apr 1890 an application is shown to have been received from Henry Casserley for a loan of £20 in consideration of his being insured No.1318 (for repayment by instalments). Decision recorded that there is no power to make such a loan but that he may commute under Rule 6. An Index of insurance holders [LMA/4675/02/03/001] confirms just the one insurance number 1318 for Henry Casserley.

      Customs Annuity and Benevolent Fund Incorporated x Customs Fund
      GB 0096 MS 784 · 1801

      Tables headed 'An Account of the revenues of the British Empire collected in the year 1800, distinguishing the gross and net produce, charges of management etc., and payments into the Exchequer of each respective branch Together with a general view of the revenues from the first stage of collection, with the various deductions therefrom, until the several sums were paid into the Exchequer', organised under the main headings of Customs; Excise; Stamps; Taxes; Post Office; Hackney coaches; 'Hawkers & Pedlers'; and 'General View'.

      Unknown
      Customs account of London
      GB 0096 MS 745 · 1672

      'An accompt of his Majesties customes in the Port of London inwards and outwards from Lady-day 1672 to Midsumer following'. The document names John Thorpe, Philip Marsh, Michael Wicks and Euclid Speidell, and shows the sums paid on Spanish and sweet wines, French and Rhenish wines, currants, vinegar, cloth, calf-skins and leather, to a total of £78,391 1s. 3d. On the dorse is 'An accompt of the new impost coynage duty and petty farmes in the Port of London from Lady-day 1672 to Midsumer following'. Imposts are shown as being levied on many of the same articles, but include also coinage duty, wood, salt and spice farms, potashes, to a total of £23,015 13s. 0½d.

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      CRIPPLEGATE WITHOUT WARD
      GB 0074 CLC/W/HI · Collection · 1732-1966

      These records are exclusively for the part of Cripplegate Ward lying outside the City wall. The records comprise wardmote minutes and accounts, rate assessments, presentments and returns, plans of the ward and other administrative papers.

      Cripplegate Without Ward , Corporation of London
      CRIPPLEGATE WITHIN WARD
      GB 0074 CLC/W/HH · Collection · 1625-1967

      These records are exclusively for the part of Cripplegate Ward lying inside the City wall. The records comprise wardmote minutes, accounts and rate assessments. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

      Cripplegate Within Ward , Corporation of London
      COL/CC/VAC · Subfonds · 1939-1949
      Part of CORPORATION OF LONDON

      Records of the Valuation Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1939-1949; sub-committee minutes, 1939-1947; committee files, 1939-1949, on subjects including financial accounts, audits, bills in Parliament, rates, contributions and assessments, reports, parishes, expenditure, maintenance of churchyards, Secondary's department, valuation, Valuation department staff and officers, wards, transfer of liquor licences, the Rates Finance Committee, blind persons, railway assessment authority and births, marriages and deaths; papers regarding railway assessment, 1930-1944 and papers regarding remission of rates, 1943-1947.

      Corporation of London
      COL/CC/TIC · Subfonds · 1804-1836
      Part of CORPORATION OF LONDON

      Records of the Tithe Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes and committee papers, 1811-1836; rough minutes and papers of Committee appointed to consider a Bill before Parliament for the relief of certain Incumbents of Livings in the City of London, 1804 and rough report of Committee concerning the action of the Rector of St. Andrew, Holborn, who instituted proceedings in the Court of Exchequer to enforce the payment of 2/9 in the pound.

      Corporation of London
      COL/CC/RFC · Subfonds · 1936-1968
      Part of CORPORATION OF LONDON

      Records of Rates Finance Committee, Court of Common Council, comprising minutes, 1936-1968 and committee papers, 1948-1957. Please note that minutes 1930-1936 were destroyed by enemy action.

      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/CPR · Subfonds · 1837-1861
      Part of CORPORATION OF LONDON

      Records of the Enquiries into the Constitution of the Corporation Committee, Court of Common Council, including minute books and papers, 1837-1840; minute book and papers, including Police Rate Assessments and returns of wards with lists of municipal election voters, 1852-1853 and minute books and papers, 1856-1861.

      Corporation of London
      COL/CC/MIN · Subfonds · 1668-1990
      Part of CORPORATION OF LONDON

      Minutes and papers of various small, temporary committees of the Court of Common Council, 1668-1990. The Committees were formed to consider various matters including the election, remuneration and behaviour of officers and staff of the Corporation of London; consideration of the effects of various Parliamentary Acts and Bills; the historical rights and privileges of the City of London; the provision of cemeteries; parishes and benefices; metage, particularly of coal and corn; the reform of the Corporation; markets; building maintenance and preservation; debtors, insolvency and bankruptcy; the Gresham bequest; food imports; transport including railways; presentation of the Freedom to William Pitt; militia; the erection of monuments and statues; the funerals of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and Horatio, Viscount Nelson; legacies and bequests; care of orphans; poor relief; estate management; schools and libraries; City finances; water and gas supply; Port of London; sewers; regulation of trade and licensing; street lighting; prisons and compters.

      Also papers relating to the general organisation and running of Court of Common Council Committees, including the decision to allow public and press to attend certain committees, 1974; lists of committee Chairmen and members for various years; committee books, 1690-1727 and 1813-1990; bills books, 1873-1884; notes on the historical powers of the Court of Common Council and the Court of Aldermen and notes on the streamlining of committees and administration, 1835-1965.

      Corporation of London
      COL/CC/CCF · Subfonds · 1787-1968
      Part of CORPORATION OF LONDON

      Records of the Coal, Corn and Finance Committee, Court of Common Council, including journals, 1833-1858; minutes, 1835-1968; committee papers, 1835-1957; rough minutes, 1787-1815; report books, 1905-1936; corn returns, 1787-1852; papers relating to the Manor of Allerds and Burnham Beeches, 1881-1943; petitions for appointments as deputy corn meters, deputy sea coal meters, labouring land coal meters, inspector of coal ships and inspector of coal traffic, 1787-1866; securities, 1886, 1901, 1918-1919 and 1943; standing orders affecting the Committee, 1835-1840; papers regarding the Coal and Line Dues continuance, 1883-1892; papers regarding the City of London Parochial Charities, 1881-1891; papers relating to various open spaces including Highgate Woods, Shiplake Island, St Paul's Churchyard, Queen's Park, Kilburn, Postmen's Park (St Botolph Aldersgate Churchyard) and Farthing Down, Croydon, 1880-1954; papers regarding the utilisation and disposal of metropolitan sewage, 1864-1865; historical notes on the Coal Exchange, 1950; income tax on Corporation funds, 1946-1954; papers on the rebuilding of St. Lawrence Jewry, 1954-1957 and Tower Hill improvements, 1934-1944.

      Corporation of London
      GB 0074 CLC/281 · Collection · 1559-1953

      Records of the City Chamberlain, Corporation of London, including return of pensions paid by the Corporation; receipts for rents and rates paid; papers relating to Freedoms of the City of London; assessments of subsidies; quinquennial valuation lists; papers relating to duties and rates.

      City Chamberlain , Corporation of London
      COMMITTEE MINUTES
      MCC/MIN-1 · Subfonds · 1889-1965
      Part of MIDDLESEX COUNTY COUNCIL

      Minutes and presented papers of meetings of the Middlesex County Council, 1889-1965. Also minutes and presented papers of Middlesex County Council Committees, as follows:

      Aerodromes and Development Committee

      Agriculture Committee

      Air Raid Precautions Committee

      Asylums Committee

      Buildings Committee

      Children's Committee

      Civil Defence Committee

      Coordinating Committee

      Costs and Policy Review Committee

      Diseases of Animals Committee

      Drainage Committee

      Education Committee

      Emergency Committee

      Establishment Committee

      Estates Committee

      Finance Committee

      Fire Brigade Committee

      General Purposes Committee

      Highways Committee

      Housing Committee

      Industrial Schools Committee

      Land Committee

      Licensing Committee

      Light Railways Committee

      Local Government Committee

      Luncheon Club Committee

      Maternity Committee

      Office Accommodation Committee

      Parliamentary Committee

      Planning Committee

      Public Health Committee

      Rates Committee

      Rivers Committee

      Selection Committee

      Small Dwellings Committee

      Small Holdings Committee

      Staff Committee

      Standing Orders Committee

      Supplies Committee

      Taxation Committee

      Valuation Committee

      War Committee

      Welfare Committee

      MCC , Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council
      GB 0074 CLC/272 · Collection · 1771-1908

      Records of the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London. The records comprise: official documents relating to the case of the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London v William Bulkeley Glasse and others; sewer rate books, 1771-1874; consolidated rate books, 1790-1908; and Metropolis Main Drainage rate books, 1858-1869.

      Commissioners of Sewers , Corporation of London x Public Health Department
      COMMISSIONERS OF LAND TAX
      GB 0074 LT/85 · Collection · 1804-1910

      Land tax assessments for the Liberty of Lambeth Dean, Brixton Ward and Norwood Ward, 1804-1910.

      Land Tax Commissioners for Surrey , Third East Brixton Division
      Commissioners of Excise
      GB 0096 MS 204 · [1664]

      Manuscript volume containing 'A particular of the several sets of Commissioners [of Excise] that have been commissionated from the first setting up of the duty', [1664], comprising a list of Commissioners from 11 Sep 1643 to 20 Mar 1664.

      Unknown
      GB 0074 TC · Collection · 1745-1955

      Papers of the Land Tax Commissioners including minutes, assessments, registers of assessments, redemption certificates, reports on cases determined by judges, and Ordnance Survey plans showing land tax areas.

      Land Tax Commissioners
      GB 0101 ICS 112 · 1933-1950

      Three petitions submitted to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, containing text of petition and names and details of signatories: Petition by members of the Legislative Council in Kenya Colony, and colonists of Kenya representing trade, commerce and agriculture, objecting to a Bill to impose Income Tax in the Colony, 1933; petition of individuals, companies and associations of the Straits Settlements, objecting to proposals to introduce Income Tax in the Colony, 1940; petition by members of the South Indian Community in Fiji for the freedom of teaching Tamil, Telegu and Malayam languages in schools instead of Hindustani only, and for the provision of training in the teaching of those languages. The signatories (numbering over 5000) give name, language, occupation, village, district, and signature or thumb mark.

      Colonial Office
      COLEMAN STREET WARD
      GB 0074 CLC/W/HD · Collection · 1747-1885

      Records of Coleman Street Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise wardmote minutes, rate assessments and accounts, and lists of jurymen and inquest men. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

      Coleman Street Ward , Corporation of London
      GB 0096 AL38 · Fonds · 1861

      Letter from Richard Cobden of Midhurst, [Sussex] to T G Shaw, Esq, 27 Sep 1861. On wine duties.

      Autograph, with signature. Annotated with comments in Shaw's hand.

      Cobden , Richard , 1804-1865 , statesman and businessman
      GB 0096 AL351 · Fonds · 1863

      Letter from Richard Cobden of London to C E Macqueen, [Secretary of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association], 11 May 1863. '... I hope before the close of the session to be able to offer some remarks on finance, and to urge a reduction of taxation... In my opinion the only way of enforcing economy is by witholding the means of extravagance...'.

      Autograph, with signature.

      Cobden , Richard , 1804-1865 , statesman and businessman
      COAL METERS COMMITTEE
      GB 0074 CLC/B/052 · Collection · 1702-1990

      Papers of the Coal Meters' Committee, including minutes, letter books, cash books, ledgers, books of notices and orders, ships' registers, records of coal exports and imports, and papers relating to the reorganisation of the Coal Meters' Office.

      The records of the Coal Meters' Benefit Society, the Coal Meters' Provident Club and the Coal Meters' Office Protection Branch also form part of the archives of the Coal Meters' Committee. The Benefit Society records consist chiefly of minutes, resolutions touching amendments to the constitution, statements of account and correspondence relating to the Coal Meters' Benefit Society and Widows' Aid Fund. The Provident Club records contain a copy of rules, nomination form counterfoil book and account book. The Protection Branch records consist of annual reports, ledger accounts and cash books.

      Coal Meters' Committee
      GB 0074 CLC/052 · Collection · 1849-1851

      Minute book of the City of London Union Rating Association.

      City of London Union Rating Association
      CITY OF LONDON POLICE
      CLA/048 · Collection · 1520-2000

      Records of the City of London Police, 1520-2000, including papers of the Chief officer and Police Commissioner; orders and regulations; papers relating to the building and maintenance of police stations; correspondence; press cuttings; reports; leaflets and brochures; issues of Citywatch, the City of London Police Magazine; papers relating to the City of London Police Reserve (Special Constabulary); papers relating to the Detective Division; manuals and orders; papers relating to the police force during World War Two, including Police War Duties Committee minutes; papers, including photographs and plans, relating to the Houndsditch murders, 1910-1911; record of the inquest held in 1888 by the Coroner of the City of London on Catherine Eddowes, one of the victims of 'Jack the Ripper', and other correspondence relating to the 'Jack the Ripper' murders; records of predecessors to the City of London Police including constables and watch and ward; and financial accounts.

      Corporation of London
      GB 0074 P92/CTC · Collection · 1671-1996

      Records of the parish of Christ Church, Blackfriars Road, Southwark, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; papers relating to the burial ground; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; church services registers; maps of the parish; papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; prints of the church interior and exterior; financial records; papers relating to parish charities and schools; and historical notes.

      Also records relating to local taxation including poor rate books; church rate books; minister's rate books; church yard/burial ground rate books, highways rate books, watching and lighting rate books, sewers and draingage rate books.

      Parish of Christ Church, Southwark , Church of England
      GB 0074 P69/CTC · Collection · 1538-1951

      Records of the parish of Christ Church, Newgate Street, City of London, including some records for Saint Nicholas Shambles (1538-1547 only). Records include parish registers from 1547-88 and then from 1724 (baptisms, banns, marriages); Vestry minutes from 1869; Churchwardens' accounts from 1891; church rate and tithe rate assessments books; and poor rate assessment books.

      Parish of Christ Church, Newgate Street, City of London , Church of England Parish of Saint Nicholas Shambles, City of London , Church of England