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Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to apprenticeship, including enrolments of apprentices' indentures, 1786-1974; enrolment account books, including name of apprentice, name and address of father, master and company, date of binding, term of service, and apprentices' fees, 1786-1820; alphabet of enrolment, 1786-1959; registers of apprenticeship bindings, 1787-1978 (with gaps); complaints books, 1786-1917; judgements of the Mayor's Court for discharge of apprentices, 1794-1973 and commitment books (names of apprentices sent to Bridewell), 1837-1916.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to the City's Cash (the monies of the Corporation of London), including accounts, 1633-1942; draft accounts, 1535-1586; pie accounts, 1783-1847; receipt and payment ledgers, 1860-1906; estates and markets ledgers, 1939-1960; administration ledgers, 1939-1960; capital ledgers, 1939-1983; sinking fund ledger, 1932-1947; statements, 1779-1901; articles and notes on history and precedent, 1633-1731 and 1974.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to duties [a payment to the public revenue levied upon the import, export, manufacture, or sale of certain commodities] and metage [a duty paid for the official measuring of dry or liquid goods, such as coal, grain, salt], including account books, 1667-1688; coal duty account books, 1667-1676; posting books, 1670-1684; monthly returns of cash paid into the Chamber, 1841-1887; acquittance books, 1672-1687; loans advanced on credit of the Coal Duties, 1698-1701; accounts, 1861-1890; interest on loans, 1861-1881; daily receipts, 1875-1888; accounts of the 9d coal duty and the wine duty, 1861-1889; coal duties collector's returns, 1674-1790 and 1837-1845; reports on coal accounts, 1669-1673; papers and accounts relating to the drawback expenses fund, 1838-1891; coal duties expenses fund, 1857-1890; received accounts of tolls for the groundage of colliers and water bailliage of sea coal, 1791-1831; register of colliers arriving in the Port of London and duty payable, 1811-1826; monthly accounts of money paid into the Chamber for tolls, 1822-1826; account of the origin, establishment and working of the office for the registration and regulation of Coal Whippers of the Port of London, 1851; minute books, 1843-1856; papers relating to the coal trade, 1666-1861, including orders, legal cases, accounts and registers; sea coal meters, 1663-1703; coal metage accounts, 1809-1832; returns of clerks to the sea coal meters, 1675-1687.

Papers relating to the corn duty, 1709-1814, including article on the history of the corn supply, 1993; minute books of the corn meters office, 1772-1873; papers of the Metage on Grain Committee, 1872-1896; grain barges entering the Port of London, 1879-1897; grain ships entering the Port of London, 1880-1901; British and foreign grain ships and barges entering the Port of London, 1872-1898; account book of meter's earnings, 1825-1902; amount of work done by each meter on the unloading of a barge with meters' change, 1871-1894; weekly totals and payments into the Chamber, 1872-1903; compulsory metage on grain made by meters for measuring grain on ships at 1/-, 1845-1860; amount of merchandise weighed and certified by meters, 1872-1902; abstract of grain duty bills to merchants, 1878-1901; account books of the annual grant made by the Corporation to the Crown Meters in lieu of all expenses, 1809-1872; monthly account books of grain duty charged to merchants, 1872-1903; various other accounts and papers relating to the Corn Meters Office, including legal cases and fees; wine duties accounts, 1847-1881; Gauger's Officer papers including accounts, ledgers and reports, 1784-1863; papers relating to cocket duties [customs duties] including accounts, 1676-1849.

Papers relating to scavage [a toll on goods sold by merchants who came from outside London], package [the duty paid for the privilege of overseeing the packing of certain categories of cloth or other goods brought into the port of London ] and alien porterage [a charge for the transportation of imported goods], including accounts, reports, legal cases and minutes, 1628-1934 and papers regarding the fruit, oyster and salt meters, 1469-1920.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department regarding pensions, including cash books, journals, acquittance books, registers of contributions and collection books for the officer's fund, 1893-1922; applications by new staff to become contributors to the pension fund, 1897-1922; cash books, collection books, acquittance books, pensions books and ledgers for the officer's superannuation fund, 1913-1983 (closed from 1932 onwards); cash books, collection books and acquittance books for the servant's fund, 1913-1926; reports of the Solicitor to the Officers and Clerks Committee on the amendment of the rules of the Officers Pension Funds, 1908; report of the Town Clerk on the establishment of Pension Funds for Officers employed in the Public Health and Valuation and Rating Departments under the City of London Various Powers Act, 1912; City of London Police pensions book, 1947-1961 (closed until 2037) and check sheets, police superannuation fund, 1941-1959 (closed until 2035).

Administrative records of the Libraries and Art Galleries Department, comprising biographical note on William Herbert, the first Guildhall librarian, with list of the books he wrote, edited or part edited and the periodicals to which he contributed, 22 May 1830; article Whittington's Vision: Guildhall Library Past & Present by Melvyn Barnes, Guildhall Librarian, 1985; papers relating to the English Philological Endowment, 1896 - 1942 and report by the Librarian on the City Lending Library Service, 1965.

Administrative files from Mansion House, 1931-1962, on subjects including schools and hospitals; Mayoral receptions, lunches and dinners; the Armed Forces and Armed Services Associations; clubs and societies; exhibitions; the Guildhall; the King George VI Memorial Fund and other charitable funds, patronage; boroughs; the Commonwealth; social services; the Second World War; the unveiling of the Cenotaph; the City press; expenses; visits of Royalty and Heads of State; the Bishop of London and other matters relating to the clergy; the National Savings movement; the Police; refugees; the Royal Exchange; St Paul's Cathedral; sheriffs and state banquets.

Also papers relating to charitable funds organised by the Mayor, 1885-1992. Funds include the National Memorial to General Gordon fund, 1885; the fund for the relief of widows and dependants of sailors and others on the HMS Victoria, sunk in 1893; the Transvaal War fund, 1899; the Queen Victoria memorial fund, 1901-1913; the Titanic Disaster fund (later the National Disasters Relief fund), 1912-1959; the St. Vincent Disaster Relief Fund in aid of Sufferers by Eruption, 1902; the Air Raid Distress fund, 1940-1953; the National Hungarian and Central European Relief Fund, 1956-1958; the Attlee Memorial Appeal, 1967; the Save St Paul's fund, 1971-1973 and the Gresford Colliery Relief Fund, 1988-1992 (the Gresford Colliery files are closed until 2022).

Administrative records of the Surveyor's Department, Corporation of London, including papers on Bridge House assignments, 1937-1972; reports to various Committees, 1941-1962; site histories, providing details of architects, costs, chronology of the planning process and progress of the construction of the buildings, [1951-1964]; day book providing costs of acquisition of properties, 1947; compulsory purchase order day book, 1960s-1970s; redevelopment units record book, 1950s; valuation book for properties purchased under the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947; compulsory purchase orders (highways), 1971-1974; compulsory purchase orders, 1965-1968; details of Bridge House rentals and leases, [1921-1956]; City and counties rentals, [19410s-1956]; markets rentals, [1941-1964]; City Lands rentals, [1932-1956]; tenders for contracts, 1958-1972; orders for payment to John Oliver and Robert Hooke, City Surveyors, 1679-1680 and article Robert Hooke's Work as Surveyor for the City of London in the aftermath of the Great Five. Part One: Robert Hooke's First Surveys for the City of London by M.A.R. Cooper, 1997.

Technical Services Department building project files created to manage individual construction projects undertaken by the Corporation of London. Files for the City of London School rebuilding, 1983-1986, including project background file giving information about the historical evolution of the project, 1968-1982, and the project manual which provides general information on the running of the project, as well as progress reports, technical information, architectural sketches, correspondence, plans, archaeological details and legal papers, 1973-1991. Also files for the Craft, Design and Technology (CDT) block, constructed 1990-1993, including design notes and sketches, reports, correspondence, certificates, bills, tenders and technical information, 1984-1995.

Also files for the conversion of the National Safe Deposit into the City of London Magistrate's Court, 1988-1991, including plans, reports, minutes of meetings, correspondence, diagrams, technical information and the project manual, 1986-1997.

Papers relating to the District Surveyor, Technical Services Department, comprising diaries, 1965-1986.

Registers and day books of burials in consecrated or church ground and unconsecrated or chapel ground, 1841-1952, showing name, abode, when buried, age, place of burial, when and by whom buried, private vault or grave, purchased monuments and where placed (registers are not available for consultation, please use microfilms X64/1-41); fee books, 1902-1966, including remarks, registrar, sub-district, date of certificate, digger, stone, bill number, name of deceased, age, time, depth, received by, minister, undertaker, secretary's signature, price, description of graves, square position (not always), size of coffin, undertaker's commission, amount; registers of private graves, 1841-1941, showing number of graves, description of place of burial, date and consideration of grant, names and addresses of purchasers, name and description of person interred, year and number (registers are not available for consultation, please use microfilms X64/42-46); registers of public graves, 1900-1965, showing number, date, name, age and time of burial (registers are not available for consultation, please use microfilm X64/47); register of private grave transfers, 1938-1966, showing transfer number, date, grave number, transfer from/to, address and remarks; correspondence relating to private graves; incumbents' account book, divided parish by parish, 1922-1966, and plans of the graves.

Also deeds and legal papers, 1841-1898; report to Directors by Committee of Proprietors appointed by an Extraordinary Court, to investigate expenditure and general state of the Company's affairs, 1843; report to Directors by Henry George Haywood on proposals for draining the cemetery, 1857; correspondence relating to staffing, sewers and the East London Eastern Extension Railway, 1849-1871; bills, 1841-1897; specification for sewers and roads, with sections, 1884; plans of cemetery including proposed southern extension, 1800s; impression in red wax of seal of Company, 1841; legal records, 1844-1942.

Records of the Fulham Poor Law Union, 1842-1931; including minutes of meetings of the Boards of Guardians; minutes and reports of various Committees; financial accounts; staff records; correspondence with and orders from Government departments; general correspondence, particularly relating to the Belmont Institution; plans of Fulham Workhouse; contracts; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers of lunatics; receiving officer's report on lunatics; registers of Fulham Palace Road Workhouse and Saint Dunstan's Road Infirmary; registers of apprentices; registers of children in various schools, institutions and children's homes.

Signed minutes of the Finsbury School District Board of Management, 1868-1869.

Honourable Board of Loyal Brotherhood minute book and record of bets made.

Records of the Broad Street/Richmond Line Joint Committee, including minutes of meeting of the Joint Committee; minutes of meetings with Members of Parliament including the Minister of Transport; correspondence; press releases and publicity material; financial records; Hansard reports on the Parliamentary debate on railways; and press cuttings.

Records of the Festival of the Sons of the Clergy, including minutes and agendas; correspondence; memoranda; financial accounts; sermons; reports; advertising material; scrapbooks; and ephemera relating to the festival (handbills, orders of service, tickets, invitations and so on).

Records of the Family Welfare Association (FWA), formerly the Charity Organisation Society (COS), comprising records of the Central Office (Ref: A/FWA/C) and records of six FWA Areas in London and their predecessor district committees of the COS (Ref: A/FWA/GL, A/FWA/HF, A/FWA/KW, A/FWA/LS, A/FWA/TH, A/FWA/WA).

The records including administrative papers, annual reports, papers of the Secretary and Director, papers of the Enquiry Department and Registration Department; publications; papers of the Grants Department; papers of the Almshouses Department; case files and financial records.

Records of the Havering-Hornchurch Constituency Labour Party, including minutes of the General Management, Executive and Committees; annual reports and statements of account.

Records of the Hornchurch Constituency Labour Party comprising ward and branch minutes.

Records of the Havering Council Labour (Administration) Group comprising minute book.

Records of John Marshall's Charity, including administrative records; papers relating to estates and property; papers relating to work in the parish of Christ Church, Southwark; records of funding for education; receipts and bills; acts and legislation; maps and plans. Also papers of the Commissioners of Sewers for Surrey and Kent, the Militia Commissioners for Southwark, and Borough Market.

Records of Kennington National Schools, later known as Saint Mark Kennington Schools, including records relating to the management of the schools such as minutes of the Management Committee and correspondence; financial records; pupils' records including log books and admission registers and a history of the schools.

Records of the Kensington Welfare Association and other related welfare associations, 1936-1977.

Minute book of the Kensington Welfare Association, 1955-1966. Annual reports of the Kensington Association for Rescue and Preventative Work, 1936-1945. Annual reports of the Kensington Association for Moral Welfare, 1946-1966. Annual reports of the Kensington and Chelsea Deaneries Welcare Association, 1969-1977. Annual report of the Fulham Ruri-Decanal Council for Moral Welfare Work, 1949-1950.

Circular of the Deanery Association for Moral Welfare Work, 1955. Annual reports of the London Diocesan Council for Moral Welfare, 1959-1963. Annual reports of the London Diocesan Council for Wel-care, 1972-1977. Annual report of the London Council for Welfare of Women and Girls, 1965-1966.

Records of the London Chess Club, including volume of minutes; lists of members and financial accounts.

Records of the British Anti-State Church Association, later known as the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State-Patronage and Control or the Liberation Society. Records include minutes of the Executive Committee and the Parliamentary Committee; reports and memoranda; annual reports; lists of members, officers and executive; correspondence relating to legacies; financial records; leases for offices; legal opinions; papers relating to burial grounds; copies of relevant Acts of Parliament; printed material such as publications, magazines, addresses, circulars and pamphlets; photographs; and press cuttings.

Records of the National Education Association, including minutes; papers relating to the formation and endowment of the Association; financial accounts; annual reports; correspondence; case files; NEA publications; other publications; Parliamentary publications; circulars from the Ministry of Education; education pamphlets and reference papers.

Records of the London Council for the Promotion of Public Morality, later known as the Public Morality Council. Scarcely any of the early records survive, the earliest useful series being the annual reports, 1901-1913 and 1932-1954. Minutes of the council and its sub-committees cover 1940-1965.

Records include constitution of the Council; Council and committees minutes and papers; membership lists for the council and committees; annual reports; papers relating to annual public meetings and Hyde Park meetings; paper relating to conferences and talks; general correspondence; financial accounts; records relating to links with other societies, both national and international; PMC publications and related magazines, films and other publications.

Records of the Society for the Relief of Persons Confined for Small Debts, including minutes; extracts of proceedings; Acts of Parliament; papers concerning J C Neild; financial accounts including legacy books, income books, general expenditure books, annual accounts and auditor's reports; papers regarding the disposal of surplus funds; bequests; press cuttings; correspondence; and histories of the Society.

The minutes contain reports of visits of inspection as well as names and numbers of prisoners assisted. A number of the papers relate to the destruction of the book containing the minutes and accounts of the Society 4 Mar 1818 to 5 Apr 1826 by John Camden Neild, treasurer 1814-1827.

Records of the Surrey Dispensary, Southwark, including rules and regulations; minutes of the Governing Committee; minutes of the Court and Committees; House Visitor's books; subscription books; registers of patients admitted; registers of patients visited at home; annual reports; leases; correspondence files; financial accounts and insurance policies.

Records of the County of London Territorial Army and Air Force Association. The collection comprises minutes, accounts and transcripts of association meetings and general purpose committee meetings.

Records of Toynbee Hall university settlement, including Education Committee minutes; Residents Meetings minutes; correspondence; annual reports; financial reports; memorandum and articles of association; educational syllabuses and evening courses; papers of clubs and societies; visitors' books; press cuttings; magazines; pamphlets; plans; photographs and slides.

Records of the Union Club including administrative records such as minutes, reports, and correspondence; financial records; membership records and a history of the Club.

Printed sheet of orders issued by the Committee for the Militia of the County of Middlesex, ordering lists of able-bodied men to be made, and 'watches' to be raised and armed when necessary.

Legal papers, such as court rolls, feoffments, lease and releases, assignments, agreements, bargain and sales, grants, mortgages and common recoverys, relating to properties in Stanwell; Harlington; Cranford; Heston; Uxbridge; Denham, Buckinghamshire; Brentford; Hendon; Hampstead; Cowley; Rickmansworth; Willesden; Tilehurst and Bradfield, Berkshire; St. Margaret's Westminster and Shinfield, Berkshire.

Records relating to enclosure in Teddington, comprising copy of a Private Act of Parliament (39 George III, Cap. 101) for dividing and otherwise improving all the Common Fields, Commons, Wastes and other Commonable lands and grounds within the Manor, Parish of Teddington, Middlesex, 1799.

Papers relating to apprentices, comprising conditions of employment of journeymen regarding trade secrets for the printing, colouring and staining of silks, linens and calicos, 1715; and apprenticeship indenture for Moses Kendall to Francis Church, timber merchant, 1736.

Agreements regarding business partnerships, including agreement for draper John Mosden, painter Edward Baugh and grocer Matthew Hewytt to establish business of Mercer, 1729; agreement that John Chaplyn, haberdasher, and George Kent, mercer, will trade jointly as mercers, 1729; agreement of co-partnership between John Purcas and Abraham Purcas, merchants, 1732. Also bond and receipts.

Extract of the Court Roll for the Manor of Hampstead, regarding a tenement with garden and stables on 24 rods of ground on Hampstead Heath.

Papers relating to the Manor of Hendon, comprising extracts from court rolls and a rent roll. Also an extract from a court roll for the Manor of Ruislip.

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.

Records of the Dixon family, including exemplification of a common recovery for premises in Kensington Square; and marriage settlement relating to premises at Winchmore Hill.

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.

Records of Truman Hanbury Buxton and Co Ltd, 1818-1905, comprising deeds of public houses including the 'Red Lion', New Brentford, 1818; the 'Red Lion', 'Enfield Arms', and 'Royal Small Arms', Enfield, 1860-1870; and the 'Prince Arthur', Tottenham, 1886-1905.

Title deeds of the Cooke family relating to premises owned by them in Charing Cross, Westminster, including bargain and sales; leases; mortgages and probates.

Documents acquired by the solicitors during the course of their work, comprising plan of Isleworth and part of Twickenham, showing plots and plot numbers, some occupiers' names, roads, buildings, streams and bridges, 1850?; counsel's opinion regarding liability for flooding of Duke of Northumberland's river, 1903 and list of tenants, with rents and terms, of the Whitton estate of Charles Seale-Haynes M.P., 1903?

Document acquired by the solictors in the course of their work, comprising plan of a freehold estate at Ponders End, Enfield, 1872.

Records of the Meniconi family relating to property owned by them at Ashford, Shepperton, Staines and Sunbury. Documents include extracts from court rolls for the Manor of Sunbury; copies of wills; title deeds; plans and abstracts of title.

Records of Charlton Manor, Sunbury, comprising court books and a rent and fines book.

Papers and maps of George James Brown, land agent and surveyor, relating to premises in Ealing, Hanworth, Hampton and South Mimms, 1894-1900; including report, with plan, presenting case for damages to value of Mr. Wood's estate east of Hangar Lane, Ealing, caused by construction of Ealing and South Harrow Railway, 1899; papers relating to a dispute between The New River Company and The Gye Process Fresh Foods Co. Ltd over the purchase of land in Hanworth, with plan of the disputed premises, 1899-1900; particulars, plan and illustrations of building land for sale on the Marling Park Estate, Hampton, 1900; and Ordnance Survey maps, with annotations.

This collection consists of title deeds relating to property in Hendon and Totteridge owned by the Nicoll family.

Title deeds of the Dinsdale family relating to properties in Shoreditch, Hackney and Bethnal Green, including leases, conveyances, assignments and abstract of title.

Papers relating to enclosure in Ruislip, including a copy of the Ruislip Enclosure award and a survey of Ruislip as inclosed by Act of Parliament.

Papers, 1663-1889, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including conveyances by lease and release, wills and bequests, bonds, indentures of fine, mortgages and exemplifications of common recovery relating to the Cross Keys Inn and adjoining premises, Uxbridge. Also sales catalogues for various properties and copies of wills.

Records of the Westen family relating to property in Staines and Stanwell, including leases, lease and releases, copies of wills, bonds, conveyances, and deed of feoffment.