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Microfiche copy of the archive, 1910-1961, of the International Missionary Council, including records relating to early history and committees; staff and officers' correspondence; Committee on the Church and the Jewish People; papers on mission field subjects, industrial and social questions, war and missions, orphaned missions, intermission aid, missions and governments, alien missionaries, religious liberty, religious education, and Christian literature; finance papers; papers relating to the International Review of Missions; records of the Research Department, Department of Missionary Studies, and Study Centres; country files on Europe, Asia, East Asian Christian Conference, Burma, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Near and Middle East, Africa, North America, Latin America, Australia and the Pacific; records of the IMC assemblies at Jerusalem, 1928, Tambaram, 1938, Whitby, 1947, Willingen, 1952, and Ghana, 1957-1958; records of the Joint Committee relating to the integration of the IMC into the World Council of Churches; Commission on World Mission and Evangelism conferences at New Delhi, 1961, Mexico City, 1964, Bangkok, 1972-1973, and Melbourne, 1980; questionnaires and responses in preparation for the World Missionary Conference (Edinburgh, 1910).

Also the archive of the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches, 1906-1948.

Church Books containing various entries including brief history of the formation of the Church, minutes of Church meetings, membership rolls, marriages, baptisms and burials and other committee minutes, 1849-1919; Minute Books containing minutes for various Church committees, particularly Deacon's Meetings but also Church Meetings, Members' Meetings, Trustees Meetings and Church groups, 1875-1955; membership rolls, 1878-1919; financial accounts, 1876-1963; conveyance for land at the corner of Worton Road and Twickenham Road, Isleworth, 1920 and papers of the Sunday School, 1873-1958.

Registers of marriages, 1948-1965.

Records of Islington Central Methodist Church and its predecessors, including registers of baptisms for Drayton Park Methodist Church, Highbury, 1882-1931, and Islington Central Methodist Church, 1931-1963; minutes of Quarterly Meetings and Leader's Meetings; Trustees correspondence, minutes and financial accounts and papers relating to the Sunday School.

Minute book of the quarterly meetings of the Islington Circuit, First London District, 1883-1899, with enclosures including newspaper cuttings concerning the quarterly meetings, 1886 and the First London District Synod, 1898, printed notice concerning Islington Circuit Bazaar, 1880s and balance sheet of Islington Circuit Bazaar Account, 22 Sept 1897.

Records of Islington Congregational Chapel, Lower Street, including documents of title regarding the site of the meeting house and other church properties, 1744-1864; administrative papers, 1769-1837; financial statements, 1744 and 1795; papers relating to Lord Sidmouth's Bill for regulation of dissenting ministers, 1811 - 1812; minute books for meetings of managers, trustees, members and subscribers, 1746-1846 and treasurer's account books, 1790-1827.

Records of Islington Presbyterian Church including Court of Session minute books, 1829-1924; Deacons' Court minute books, 1865-1896; minute book of the General Congregational Meetings, the Congregational Committee and the Trustees, 1843-1866; Trustees' minute book, 1886-1880; Manager's minute books, 1880-1896 and 1902-1907; Manager's and Deacons' minute book, 1907-1923; Building Committee minute book, 1833-1835; Young Men's Fellowship Association minute book, 1886-1893; Communicants' roll book, 1835-1923; register of baptisms, 1829-1920; Sunday School admissions register, 1899-1906; register of financial contributions, 1885-1921 and 'Aemulus', a manuscript magazine supported by the members of the church and produced by the Young Men's Association, 1886.

Marriage register for Islington Presbyterian Church, City Road, 1900-1920.

Records, 1905-1987, of the Japan Evangelistic Band (JEB), relating to its structure and administration and its missionary activity, mainly to the British Home Council and its sub-committees, comprising British Home Council minutes, 1905-1961, and correspondence, 1921-1987; Sunrise Band minutes, correspondence, publications, photograph albums and artefacts, 1935-1980; Literature Committee minutes, correspondence, manuscripts and art work, c1947-1982; evangelical promotional material including tracts and hymn sheets; publications including JEB magazines, newsletters and promotional leaflets and histories of the JEB; newspaper cuttings; reference books; photographs and cine films; and personal papers of Janet Dann, including incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1950-1986, notebooks, 1956-1969, photographs, 1920s-1980s, and audio tapes of interviews with Dann.

The collection comprises correspondence, writings and administrative material relating to the Jenner family, particularly Dr. Edward Jenner (pioneer of smallpox vaccination) and the associated Black and Davies families, 1680-1877.

The material on Edward Jenner includes papers relating to organisations set up in the aftermath of his vaccination discoveries: the National Vaccine Establishment, the Royal Jennerian Society and the London Vaccine Institution.

Records of the Jerez de la Frontera Anglican Chaplaincy, Spain, comprising: register of baptisms, 1878-1966 (Ms 21026); and register of burials, 1873-1977 (Ms 21027). They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1984.

Correspondence of Christians in Jerusalem, 1828-1904, comprising a printed letter from William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Prelates of the Eastern Churches, concerning the new Anglican Bishopric in Jerusalem, 1841, and article by A L Tibawi (The Muslim World, lxxix, no 1, 1979) concerning the letter; manuscript letter from the Agent of the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, 1868; manuscript letters from Arab Protestants, one to the Church Missionary Society and one to Bishop Barclay, 1880; correspondence and papers exchanged between George Blyth, Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, and Khalil Sakakini, and Isa al-Isa, discussing activities of the Arabic Literary Club and various educational matters, 1903-1904.

Records of Jesus Church, Enfield, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, banns of marriage and church services; papers relating to the benefice and glebe lands; papers relating to the church building including correspondence regarding alterations and restorations, faculties, plans, reports and surveys; Churchwardens' annual reports; Vestry minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; papers relating to almshouses; and parish magazines.

Records of Jewin Street Wesleyan Chapel, comprising annual chapel trust schedules.

Marriage registers for John Knox Presbyterian Church, Stepney, 1900-1939.

Records of John Knox Presbyterian Church including Court of Session minute books, 1868-1917; Deacons' Court minute books, 1860-1927 and Communicants' roll book, 1877-1939 (with gaps).

Records of Presbyterian Church of England Johnson Road Mission, including Mission Committee minute books, 1904 and 1956-1972; Court of Session minute books, 1907-1972; Mission Finance Committee minute books, 1906-1972; Communicants' roll book, 1918-1937; register of baptisms, 1941-1972; Treasurer's account books, 1919-1974; correspondence relating to the Mission, 1926-1963; correspondence and information relating to the Mission constitution, 1912-1941; correspondence, information, plans and a schedule regarding the demolition and subsequent re-building of the Mission, and the re-development of the area, 1971-1974 and architectural plans and sketches of the new Mission building and site, 1972-1973.

Marriage registers for Junction Road Congregational Church, Upper Holloway, 1907-1977.

The records of the Jurisdiction of North and Central Europe are those of successive Bishops of Fulham rather than of the Bishops of London and are mainly concerned with the administration of the Jurisdiction, the oversight of chaplaincies and relations with other organisations working within north and central Europe and with other churches on the Continent. With a few exceptions the records date from the 1940s and 1950s.

It should be noted that many of the records are general files and contain information on a variety of topics e.g. administration, finance and chaplaincy. This is especially true of the large series of correspondence between the diocesan administration and the chaplaincies (MS32699/1-624). The latter series is part of the records of the Diocese in Europe but includes correspondence between the Bishops of Fulham and chaplaincies within the Jurisdiction.

Court of session minute books, 1889-1941; Managers minute book, 1916-1941; annual report for the Verulam Mission Church, 1883; Communicants' roll books, 1882-1941; disjunction certificate book, 1900-1926; register of baptisms for Verulam Scotch Church, Lambeth, 1831-1835 and register of baptisms, 1882-1939.

Minutes of Trustees' Meetings and related papers, 1919-1949; Treasurer's balance sheets, 1936-1938; Trust accounts, 1939-1940 and 1952-1962; receipts and payments, 1947-1948; cash book, 1898-1904; Treasurer's cash book, 1900-1912; Trustees Treasurer's account book, 1945-1964, including Paddington Circuit, Willesden Circuit and Kilburn and Hampstead Circuit; Trustees Treasurer's statements, cash accounts and other documents, 1923-1937; minutes of Kensal Rise organ trust, 1900-1907; scheme for debt clearing on organ and school building, 1907-1908; papers regarding organ reconstruction and other repairs to the Church, 1947-1960; trust papers, accounts, receipts and correspondence, 1923-1937; correspondence, 1945-1951; minutes of the Manse Trust, 1920-1958; correspondence, accounts, and other papers relating to the Manse trustees, 1922 and 1950-1957; minutes of Leaders' Meetings, 1900-1909; minutes of Leaders' Meetings and minutes of Annual Society Meetings, 1910-1936 and 1947-1965; minutes of Teachers' Meetings, 1894-1906; minutes of Finance Committee, 1935-1941; Class book, 1897-1899.

Records of Kensal Rise Methodist Church, 1946-1998, relating to Church groups, organisations and societies, including minutes of Leaders, Church Council and Trustees; minutes of the Finance Committee; papers of the Sisterhood, Womens Fellowship and Monday Fellowship groups; and Sunday School Council minutes.

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 Kentish Town Circuit, Methodist Church, 1866-1933, comprising Quarterly Meeting minute book; financial accounts; bills for work carried out and a resolution regarding church members serving in the Armed Forces, 1916.

Counterpart Lease for Land and Church buildings in Church Terrace, Kentish Town, Saint Pancras, 1849; counterpart lease for land in Congregational Church Avenue, Kentish Town, Saint Pancras, 1851; scrapbook containing notes, correspondence, membership cards, newspaper cuttings, programmes and similar, relating to the Church, Sunday School, Christian Endeavour Society, Total Abstinence Union and other Church societies, 1897-1905; Monthly Magazine, 1902-1903.

Records of Kenton Methodist Church, including booklet entitled "Our Golden Jubilee", 1977; Kenton Methodist Church Newsletters, 1946-1993; service of re-dedication following the redevelopment of the church, 1990; Trustees correspondence, 1938-1947; agendas, minutes and reports of Church Council meetings, 1981-1982; Church Directories, 1983 and 1992-1993.

Schedules of trust property and copies of statistical returns, 1961-1965.

Records of the King's Cross Central Methodist Mission, Crestfield Street, 1933-1956 including correspondence regarding the freehold and leasehold of the Church and adjoining properties, and correspondence regarding a proposed hostel and community centre.

Register of marriages, Kingsland Congregational Church and Institute, Hackney, 1936-1940.

Records of the Kingston and Surbiton Presbyterian Church including Court of Session minute books, including history of the chapel, 1876-1962; Deacons' Court minute books, 1873-1957; Bazaar Committee minute book, 1938; annual reports, 1879-1938 (some gaps); Communicants' roll books, 1876-1954; register of baptisms, 1873-1875; financial accounts, 1879-1946; and letter book, 1880-1888.

Records of the Kingston Road Methodist Chapel, Staines, comprising registers of marriages, 1900-1986.

Papers of Kingsway Hall Trust, 1870-1947; cash books, ledgers, vouchers and bank books, 1908-1914; cash book and ledger for Building Fund 1910, 1908-1913; bank books, 1908-1914; balance sheets, 1915-1938; Trustees minutes, 1929-1933; papers of the International Building Trust, 1909-1944; receipts and expenditure for Kingsway Hall, 1933-1938; account books for the Community Centre, 1947-1956; wages books, 1946-1954; collection journals, 1924-1955 and papers of the Kingsway Creche Committee, 1908-1960.

Notes, working papers and correspondence of the art historian Otto Kurz, c 1930-1975. Topics covered include: the Baroque, notably the painters Guido Reni, Carracci; faked art; critical edition of Marco Polo's 'Description of the World'; Christian manuscripts; 'Die Legende vom Künstler' (Historiography); astrological manuscripts; Eastern astrology; cultural history of material goods; costume and Jewish Art.

Papers of Lady Margaret Church, Chatham Street, Walworth including registers of baptisms, banns and marriages; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial records; church services registers; papers of church clubs and societies; faculties; a history of the church; and parish magazines.

Marriage registers for Lancaster Road, Congregational Church, Enfield, 1938-1943.

The archive consists of a photocopy of a typescript memoir (28 pages). In 1985 Lois Lang-Sims wrote this memoir about her aunt, Agnes Maude Royden (see also 7AMR) the suffragist and campaigner for the ordination of women.

Journals, pamphlets, leaflets, bulletins, handbooks, reports, congress reports, charters, academic papers issued by Amnesty International; Carrefour International; Congreso Latinoamericano de Trabajadores; Centro Libre de Experimentación Teatral y Artística; Comisión Evangélica Latinoamericana de Educación Cristiana; Conferencia Cristiana por la Paz de América Latina y el Caribe; Conferencia realizada por el Centro de Economía Mundial y Países en Desarrollo y el Centro de Economía Marítima de la Univ. Wilhelm Pieck (1988 : Rostock); Congreso Continental de Estudio; Congreso Latinamericano de Trabajadores; Continental Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean Region for Peace, National Sovereignty, and Economic Independence (1978 : Mexico City, Mexico); Continental Encounter Campaign, 500 Years of Indigenous, Black and Popular Resistance; Espacio de Laicos; Fe y Alegría. Asamblea General de Consulta (1a : 1978 : Panamá); Consulta Latino-Americana sobre Empresas Transnacionales (1980 : Itaici, São Paulo, Brazil); Federación Latinoamericana de Asociaciones de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos; Federación Universal de Movimientos Estudiantiles Cristianos(FUMEC); First Summit of Indigenous Peoples (1993 : Chimaltenango, Guatemala); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional Office for Latin America; Human Rights Watch; Independent Liaison Centre; International Alliance of the Indigenous-Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests; International Labor Office, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean; Joint Working Group for Refugees from Latin America; Labour Party (Great Britain) Executive Committee; Labour Party (Great Britain) Young Socialists; Leicester-Masaya Link-Group; MIEC-JECI (Perú); North American Congress on Latin America; PRIES-Cono Sur (Organization : Buenos Aires, Argentina); Russell Tribunal on the Rights of the Indians of the Americas (4th : 1980 : Rotterdam, Netherlands); Secretariado Latinoamericano de Derechos Humanos (SELADEH); Segunda Reunión de Pueblos Indígenas (1993 : Oaxtepec, Morelos); Semana Latinoamericana del Detenido Desaparecido (4th : 1985 : Costa Rica); Seminario de filosofía, ideología y política de la Indianidad (2nd : 1986 : Cosquín, Córdoba, Argentina;, Servicio Colombiano de Comunicación Social; Servicio Paz y Justicia en America Latina; South American Missionary Society; United Nations Conference of Trade and Development (VI : 1983 : Belgrade); UNESCO; World Council of Churches; World University Service (UK).

Marriage registers for Lavender Hill Congregational Church, Stormont Road, Battersea, 1917-1963.

Records of Lavender Hill Congregational Church, Stormont Road, near Clapham and Battersea, 1881-1976, including Church Meeting minutes; Deacons' (later Elders') Meeting minutes; Stormont Brotherhood minutes; membership rolls; journal of daily events; The Stormont Magazine and photographs of church buildings, church members and so on.

Records of the Association of Lay Preachers. This collection consists of administrative material - constitutions and amendments; correspondence; minutes and records of attendance at meetings. There are also publications - booklets of talks and lectures on religious themes, and newsletters.

The archive consists of one file relating to the dissolution of the League of Church Militant, including some information about its history, 1928.

Lectionarium Pro Sanctis Diebus Et Festis (lectionary for holy days and feasts). Apparently incomplete. On the modern binding is: Sermones de sanctis. saec. XII (12th century sermons on saints).

Manuscript volume containing transcripts of legal papers, 1686, mainly relating to the attempts of King James II to increase his powers as the Supreme Head of the Anglican Church, including papers appointing the Lords Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, 17 Jul 1686, and their proceedings against Henry Compton, Bishop of London, 9 Aug-6 Sep 1686; proceedings in the Court of King's Bench against Sir Edward Hales, Baronet, 1686, (where the judges found in favour of the king's power to excuse individuals from the Test Oath); observations on the case of customs cited in the Reports of Sir Edward Coke...of divers resolutions and judgments (W Lee, London, 1658), 1686; and notes on proceedings in the Court of King's Bench against Samuel Johnson, [1686].

Manuscript volume, 1462: Heiligenlegenden (Legends of the Saints). A parchment leaf at the end of the manuscript bears liturgical text in Latin in a 14th-century hand.

Papers, 1859-1897, of James and Hannah Legge, consisting primarily of letters written by James and Hannah Legge to their family, written between October 1859 and June 1897. These include those written by Hannah Legge from Hong Kong, 1859-1865, and those written by James Legge to his step-daughter Marian, 1866-1897 (lacking 1881-1889). Hannah Legge's letters give a vivid description of life in Hong Kong. She describes the Taiping Rebels, attitudes towards missionaries, and political and social events, in addition to giving graphic accounts of her trips to Chinese towns and provinces. His letters describe his life during his final residence in Hong Kong and upon his return to England as a University Professor. Also included in the collection are photocopied book extracts detailing missionary work in China and a pamphlet about Wang T'Ao, a scholar who helped Dr Legge in the translation of Chinese literature.

Acknowledgment by Edmund Scambler, bishop of Peterborough, of the receipt on 20 Oct 1571 of an instrument of resignation (with the attestation of Mark Broughton, notary public) of Dr James Ellis (Ellys) as rector of Middleton Cheney. Signed and sealed [seal wanting] at Northampton on 26 Oct 1572 [sic]. Endorsed: 'The bysshappe of Peterboroo Reyleyse for monny I pd' hym'.

Records of Hamilton Presbyterian Church, Lewes, Sussex including Court of Session minute book, 1860-1939 (including history of the chapel); Deacons' Court minute books, 1865-1912; register of baptisms, 1906-1938; disjunction certificate book, 1928-1939 and Manse and Church book containing legal information, papers relating to the church deed, plans and land registry information, 1874-1881.

Marriage registers for Lewisham High Road Congregational Church, Brockley, 1899-1966.

Records of the Leysian Mission Circuit; Leysian Mission; Haggerston Methodist Mission and Shoreditch Methodist Mission, 1870-1989.

Records of the Leysian Mission Circuit, 1885-1989, including Quarterly Meeting minutes; Circuit Meeting minutes; papers of the Home Mission; Christian Citizenship Committee minutes; papers regarding property and investments; financial accounts; Circuit newsletters; annual reports; plans of chapels and halls; orders of service for special occasions; papers regarding the Mission including Executive Committee minutes and papers regarding Resthaven Holiday Home.

Records of the Leysian Mission, 1889-1989, including Trustees Meeting minutes; Leaders' Meeting minutes; Executive Committee minutes; Relief Committee minutes and papers; financial records; papers regarding staff; annual reports; membership registers; Sunday School registers and other papers; Brass Band Committee minutes; Men's Club Committee minutes and papers; papers of various other Mission groups and societies; issues of the "Leysian Mission Magazine"; publications and reports about the work of the Mission.

Records of the Haggerston Methodist Mission, Brownlow Street, 1870-1989, including Trustees Meeting minutes; Leaders Meeting minutes; collection journals and other financial records; correspondence; papers regarding the Sunday School; papers of various other Mission groups and societies and Temperance Roll pledge book.

Records of the Shoreditch Methodist Mission, Nichols Square, Hackney Road, 1941-1972, including cash book and administrative papers.

Marriage registers of Leysian Mission Hall, City Road, London, 1910-1987.