Minute books of the Guildhall Lodge (No. 3116).
Sans titreRecords of the Artists' Annuity and Benevolent Fund, including records relating to the establishment of the fund, and joint records of both branches; records of the Annuity Fund; records of the Benevolent Fund; and records relating to John Pye, a founder member of the fund.
Sans titreRecords of the London Committee for the Relief of the Distressed Irish including subscription books and papers 1822-3 (Mss 7440-3, 7469); general financial records 1822-4 (Mss 7444-7); Friendly Loan Society Bank accounts 1839-43 and indexes to loans 1837-43 (Mss 7448-50); letter books 1822-3 (Mss 7451-4); resolutions, some minutes and correspondence 1822-4 (Mss 7455-8); vouchers, receipts and miscellaneous papers 1822-3 (Mss 7459-64); agents' reports 1822 (Ms 7465) and reports and papers re local administration of relief, arranged by county, 1822-4 (Mss 7470-92); letters and reports of the British and Irish Ladies Association for Improving the Condition of Female Peasantry 1822-4 (Ms 7466); committee resolutions and correspondence of the Irish Peasantry Society 1822-4 (Ms 7467) and correspondence with the Irish Fishery Board 1822-3 (Ms 7468).
The collection was previously catalogued as the 'Irish Relief Fund' until 2007, when it was renamed 'The London Committee for the Relief of the Distressed Irish' following a reassessment of its contents.
Sans titreRecords of the London Meat Traders' and Drovers' Benevolent Association, including rules and regulations; correspondence; minutes of the committee; annual reports; financial papers; press cuttings and histories.
Sans titreRecords of the Mitchell City of London Charity and Educational Foundation comprising Charity Commission schemes 1900-6, 1956 (Ms 24503); agendas and minutes 1931-60 (Ms 24504-7); annual statements of accounts 1932-68 (Ms 24508); out-letter book 1901-24 (Ms 24509); register of assignments of tenancies of Foundation properties ca. 1905-63 (Ms 24510); deeds and correspondence re Foundation properties 1828-1953 (Ms 24511-19); microfilm of deeds of Foundation properties 1895-1906 as at 1941 (Ms 24520).
Sans titreRecords of the Turner Exhibition Fund, an educational charity, including papers of the governors of the fund; reports; applications for exhibitions; registers of awards made; correspondence; copies of the Charity Commissioners' schemes; financial accounts and history of the fund.
Sans titreDemise by the trustees of the Bedford Charity to Richard Morgan, mason, of a messuage in Harpur Street.
Sans titreMinute book of the Chartered Accountants' Charities Limited.
Sans titreMinutes of the General Federation of Trade Unions Friendly and Collecting Society.
Sans titreRecords of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, later the Licensed Victuallers' Benevolent Institution, comprising: abstract of the charter of incorporation and of rules, ordinances and by-laws, 1851 (Ms 21458); extracts from the charter of incorporation, [1860] (Ms 21459); and copy opinions concerning property, [1890] (Ms 21460). They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1985.
Sans titreMinute book of the Mining and Metallurgical Club, 1910-1916, with a note dated 2010.
Sans titreRecords relating to Richard Garford's Charity, comprising lists of the recipients of the Charity, 1693-1890; also copies of various documents relating to the Charity, [1677-1700].
Sans titreRecords of St Alphage Society comprising minutes 1782-1940 and agendas 1925-40 (Mss 7021, 10479); financial records 1800-1940 (Mss 7022, 10481, 18917); admissions register 1903-38 (Ms 10480); copy will of James White dated 1794 (Ms 7023); vouchers and correspondence 1880-1940 and counsel's opinion 1903 (Ms 10482-3); list of officers and subscribers 1891, and histories of the Society 1907 and 1910 (Ms 18917).
Sans titreLeases relating to properties owned by the St Bride Foundation Institute, in Stonecutter Street, Fleet Market, Farringdon Street, Fountain Court, Shoe Lane, Salisbury Court and St Bride's Churchyard.
Sans titreRecords of the Welcome Charitable Institute for Women and Girls, comprising minutes, reports, photographs and press cuttings and other administrative material.
Sans titreRecords of Barnard's Inn civil parish, comprising poor rate assessment book and overseer's book of receipts and payments.
Sans titreRecords of the Westminster and Middlesex Commission of Sewers, comprising sessions rolls and an enactment for the infilling of a dock in the Long Woolstaple, Westminster.
Sans titreRecords of Thavie's Inn civil parish, comprising minutes of parish meetings; overseers' book of receipts and payments; valuation lists and poor rate books.
Sans titreMemorandum book of the English Church in Siena, including agreement concerning the Protestant cemetery (1843), abstract of receipts and payments (1841-1846), correspondence and notes.
Sans titreCosta del Sol Chaplaincy records comprising account books and papers and service registers.
Sans titrePapers of the Manor of Lambeth, Surrey, comprising admission of tenant to land on Norwood Common, and entries in the tenants' court books of the manors of Lambeth and Croydon.
Sans titreRecords of Loughton Manor, Essex. The records comprise an account of waste inclosed (1841-1872), compiled c 1872.
Sans titreDeclaration by a court baron of the Manor of Stebunheath [Stepney], held at Whitechapel, as to six copyhold messuages in Hallowell Street, in the parish of St Leonard Shoreditch.
Sans titreRecords of the Dutch Church at Austin Friars, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; financial accounts; letter books; lists of members; council and committee minute books; memoranda books; legal papers; property records including title deeds; rules and regulations relating to the governance of the church.
Sans titreRecords of the Protestant Dissenting Deputies, comprising three series of committee minute books and one secretary's letter book.
Sans titreRecords of the Society of Friends Devonshire House meetings, comprising minutes and financial records only.
Sans titreRecords of the Nightingale Lane Congregational Church, East Smithfield, comprising a meeting book and a list of members only.
Sans titreRecords of the Shacklewell Baptist Church, Stoke Newington, including meeting minutes; register of members; and financial accounts.
Sans titreLease by the abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Graces beside the Tower of London of a tenement with a yard in Fenchurch Street.
Sans titreAdmission of Thomas Laurens and his wife as lay brother and sister by the Provincial of the Friars Minor in England.
Sans titrePapers of the Aldgate Ward School, City of London. The records comprise committee minutes, financial accounts, attendance registers and guarantees, lists of benefactors, correspondence and deeds.
Sans titreRecords of Christ's Hospital, the Blue Coat School. IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ACCESS: These records are stored at the Guildhall Library site rather than the LMA Clerkenwell site. Researchers wishing to access these records should do so at the Guildhall Library Rare Books table. The Library is open Monday to Saturday, 9:30 to 16:45. Researchers will need to have an Archives History Card or a Library Readers Card. An archivist will be available at Guildhall Library on Thursday mornings to answer any queries.
Records include: constitutional records, 17th-19th centuries; court records, 1552-1915; financial records, 1552-1960; administrative records, 1546-1930; records relating to carmen, 1582-1837; children, 1563-1980; general records of charities and endowments, 1546-1957; the original endowment and sites of Christ's Hospital, 1342-1964; maps and plans, 1597-1934; records of individual charities, late 12th century-1982; properties purchased, 1537-1971, and deeds and other papers relating to properties of unknown status, 13th century-1958.
PLEASE NOTE: Permission to photocopy or photograph items, or for access to CLC/210/F/MS22551, should be sought from Christ's Hospital (contact details may be obtained from staff).
The maps and plans are arranged as follows: plans of City of London properties, 17th century-1846; plans of City of Westminster properties, 17th century-[1913?]; plans of properties within Greater London, 17th century-1881; maps and plans of Christ's Hospital site in London, [1650]-1883; maps and plans relating to the exchange of properties between Christ's Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1796-1818; maps and plans relating to properties outside London, including the school sites at Hertford, Ware and Horsham, 1597-1934.
Records of Embroiderers' Almshouses, 1587 - 1890: David Smith, an embroiderer of London, bequeathed money to Christ's Hospital for the building of six almshouses for six poor widows. After the almshouses were sold in 1863-5 it appears that the widows continued to receive financial support. These records comprise: contemporary copy will of David Smith, [1587]; ordinances and rules, [1587]; correspondence and other papers relating to arrears in payments, boundary disputes etc, [1678]-1687, 1711-12, 1718; correspondence and other papers concerning the sale of the almshouses and investment of money, 1863-5, 1887; letter concerning payment of rates, 1857; and register of people receiving pensions, 1825-1908. Further references may also be found in other Christs' Hospital records such as minutes and accounts.
Sans titrePapers of the Coleman Street Ward Schools, comprising minutes, accounts, admission registers and log books, deeds and administrative papers.
Sans titreThe records of the Cripplegate Schools Foundation comprise minutes 1905-69 (Ms 6473-A, 35827); agendas 1915, 1929-32 (Ms 6473B) and financial records 1906-76 (Ms 20089, 35828-9). Ms 20087 includes particulars of the Foundation's constitution with list of meetings c 1951.
Records of the Red Cross Street Boys' School comprise a history of its foundation 1690-1749, which includes a list of pupils 1707-48 (Ms 75A); minutes 1809-1905 and agendas 1842-65 (Mss 6475-6); logbooks 1877-1904 (Ms 6477) and treasurers' accounts 1714-1868 (Ms 7029).
Records of Lady Holles School comprise minutes 1726-1904 (Mss 6473-4), treasurers' ledger and accounts 1710-1803, 1844-79 (Mss 10885, 20082-3). There are also some references to this school in Ms 75A. Mss 9412-3 comprise records relating to properties held by the trustees of the two schools, 1727-1853.
Sans titreMinutes of the Sir John Cass's Foundation, including Board minutes, Governors' declaration books, Estate Committee minutes, and various Committee minutes. The Board minutes include an alphabetical list of children admitted and discharged, 1749-56.
Sans titreFinancial accounts of Sir John Cass's Foundation, including Trustee's vouchers; account books; receipt books; bill books; estate and share ledgers; general ledgers; cash and petty cash books; estate cash books; estate ledgers; and rent cash books.
Sans titreRecords of the Cornhill and Lime Street Wards School, comprising minutes of the Committee of Management; treasurer's journals; financial accounts and roll commemorating laying of first stone of the new school building (1846).
Sans titreRecords of Cornhill, Lime Street and Langbourn Wards Schools, comprising girls admission register and log books.
Sans titreRecords of the Red Coat School, Stepney. They include minutes, admission registers, log books, financial accounts and some other administrative records. The earliest records are admission registers from 1776 (Ms 31190).
Sans titreThe records of St Dunstan's Educational Foundation are those of the office shared with the Cass Foundation (including minutes, accounts and some details of scholarships and exhibitions) and some estate records. The latter include registers of leases of the parish estate from 1581 (Ms 31258).
Sans titreRecords of Turner's Free School for Poor Boys including registers, minutes, accounts, administrative papers, copies of the Charity Commissioners' schemes, and notes on the history of the school.
Sans titreProtestant Dissenters' Charity School records comprising minutes, accounts and a list of pupils. They were catalogued by a member of the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library.
Sans titreCase book of London boys from the Ragged School Union, admitted to a collecting centre for assisted emigrants to Canada, possibly at Walton-on-Thames, containing photographs of the boys. Readers are asked to use the facsimile version of the case book (CLC/225/MS05754A).
Sans titreThe records comprise transcripts by Frederick Teague Cansick of monumental inscriptions in churchyards and burial grounds in Saint Andrew Holborn, Saint Giles in the Fields, All Hallows Bread Street, All Hallows London Wall, Christchurch Newgate Street, Saint Benet Paul's Wharf, Saint Botolph Aldersgate, Saint Mary Aldermary, Saint Mary Woolnoth, Saint Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street, Saint Mary Queenhithe, Saint Sepulchre, Saint James Pentonville Road, All Saints Edmonton and All Hallows Tottenham.
Sans titreCollection of maps, plans and documents relating to Epping Forest and district. The manuscript list, to which the numbers on the maps refer, is inserted in Ms 1371. The collection includes items which relate to the manors of Chigwell (Ms 1367-8, 1394); Loughton (Ms 1375-6, 1404-5); Sewardstone (Ms 1410); and Walthamstow (Ms 1369, 1372, 1378). See also Ms 1649/15 for extracts from Loughton court rolls (1570-1867), compiled ca. 1871-5; and Ms 1660 for and an account of waste inclosed in the Manor of Loughton (1841-72), compiled ca. 1872.
Sans titreExtracts from the wills of stationers of London, 1550-1664; and lists of apprentices bound to members of the Stationers' Company, 1555-1640.
Sans titreLetters and papers of and concerning Maria Hackett (of 8 Crosby Square, Bishopsgate, 1783-1874), and letters relating to church music. 1782-[1910]. Compiled and collected early 20th century.
Sans titreRecords of the Wright family comprising title deeds and related papers for premises in Crouch End, Muswell Hill, Hornsey, and Chiswick.
Sans titreRecords relating to estates owned by Christs Hospital in East Bedfont, including letters, reports, leases, deeds and valuations.
Sans titreRecords of the Tubbs family relating to property owned by them, primarily in Acton, Harlesden, and Willesden, but also in Fulham, Marylebone, Hammersmith, and Soho. The papers include deeds, leases, maps, financial accounts, bills, legal papers, family certificates (births, marriages, deaths), school reports, letters and wills.
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