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Contract (copy) between the International Ocean Telegraph Company and the India Rubber Gutta Percha & Telegraph Works Company for work on submarine cables between Havana, Cuba, and Key West [Florida], 1873.

Copy of the enrolment of a decree of the Court of Chancery in a dispute between copyhold tenants of the Manor of Isleworth Syon and the Earl of Northumberland and others, concerning heriots and customs of the manor, 1656.

Petition from certain ratepayers of Ealing against the formation of a police force, 1830.

Extracts from the court rolls of the Manor of Isleworth Syon relating to the ownership of property in Isleworth.

Records of J Lyons and Company Limited, food manufacturers and caterers, 1891-1995. The archives reflect all aspects of the company's history. There are some of the usual company records relating to management, shareholding and administration, but the collection is particularly strong in what may be termed ephemera. There are hundreds of photographs, from 1887 up to the present day, a few films and videos, and large collections of press cuttings, advertisements, menus and even a set of lithographs which were commissioned by the company after the Second World War as a way of brightening up Lyons Corner Houses.

Papers, 1799-1887, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising marriage settlements, receipts and memoranda.

Records of James F Fletcher Limited, funeral directors, 1808-1896. The records relate both to the firm, James F. Fletcher Limited, and to the Fletcher family and consist mainly of legal documents such as wills and leases.

Records of the novelist George Payne Rainsford James and his family, a total of about 350 items, with documents relating to other families, either short series or isolated items. There are several wills and settlements among the papers (ACC/0976/136-155). The manuscript of chapters 14-22 of the novel Ehrenstein is preserved among these archives (ACC/0976/163). There is a series of title deeds to an entailed estate at Hampton Wick and Teddington inherited by James; papers relating to law-suits with various publishers (ACC/0976/156-171); and a petition to the Foreign Secretary (ACC/0976/222).

Papers of Robert Rutson James, 1933-1945, comprising transcripts of sources relating to 17th and 18th century surgeons: transcripts of the Admiralty Surgeon's Passing Certificates, 1933-1934; transcripts of the Barber Surgeon's Apprentice Books, 1936; transcripts of the Freemen of the Barber Surgeon's Company, c 1936; transcripts of the Warden's Great Account Book, c 1930s; transcripts of the Lambeth Archbishop's Licences, 1937; transcripts of Fleet Prison Marriage Registers, 1930s-1940s; transcripts of Medical Wills, 1933; transcripts of the List of Marriage Licences from the Harleian Society, including some medical wills, 1933-1945; and transcripts of the St George's Hospital Pupil Register, c 1930.

Papers, 1882-1951, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising agreements relating to No. 35 Cumberland Park, Acton (formerly No. 5 Goldsmiths Gardens) and deeds relating to 'Hillside', later 'Hillbre' and 'High Trees' No. 9 Pinner Hill Road, Pinner.

Legal and educational papers of Sir (William) Ivor Jennings, 1928-1965; comprising: A. Education: material collected by Jennings as Vice-Chancellor of Ceylon University, Chairman of the Royal University of Malta Commission and a member of other educational bodies in or relating to Hong Kong, Jamaica, Kuwait, Malaya and Uganda. B. Constitutional issues: material on constitutional and legal issues in Australia, Canada, Ceylon, Cyprus, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Japan, Malaya, Maldives, Malta, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Singapore, South Africa, and Sudan; C. Books and other writings: including material relating to British Commonwealth of Nations, Colonial Constitution Law, Laws and Liberties of England, Road to Peradeniya (unpublished autobiography); D. Other material: material outside previous other categories, including British government publications and volumes of press cuttings.

Papers, 1835-1881, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Commercial Road, Mile End and Stepney, including leases, assignments of leases, mortgages, covenant for production of deeds and notices.

Papers of the Child and Jersey families, including household accounts of Robert Child comprising bills, receipts, and insurance policies for premises in St Clement Danes, Westminster; leases and agreements for premises in Westminster; household accounts for Lord Jersey including bills, receipts and expenses; papers relating to the Jersey estates including rentals, quit rents and fines for the manors of Northall, Norwood, Southall and Heston, and lists of the tenants; and maps of the Heston Enclosure Award 1818.

Records of the Child and Jersey families, including property transactions relating to properties in Norwood, Southall, Hanwell, Heston, Isleworth, and Saint George Hanover Square; sales particulars; tithe records; public utility undertakings; legal papers; estate papers; plans and rentals.

Records of the Child and Jersey families relating to their estates. Papers relating to the Manor of Osterley, Heston include wills, deeds, papers relating to the Jersey title to the manor, steward's accounts, fee books, quit rents, bailiffs bills, rent rolls, enclosure awards, plans, correspondence, sales particulars, court books, minute books, surrenders, licences to demise and warrants. Also papers relating to the Manor of Hayes with Norwood and Southall, including admissions, surrenders and enfranchisements, quit rents, and court papers; and "Isleworth Syon's Peace", volume of agreements dating to 1656.

Papers, 1870-1934, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to 178 and 180 High Street, Deptford; including leases and mortgages.

Mortgage and lease for Paradise Terrace, Milton Road, Hornsey, 1853 and 1855; leases for property in Shepperton; copies of court roll for Isleworth Syon Manor relating to parcel of land in Grosvenor Road, Twickenham with two messuages, stables, coach houses and buildings known as Grosvenor House and Grosvenor Cottage; and deed of composition and release releasing Joseph Blake of Harrow, linen draper, from his debts.

Papers of the Parkes family, 1634-1865. The main part of the collection consists of letters to Joseph Parkes. In addition, there are a few letters to his elder brother Josiah, to their father John, and to other members of the family. There are also a few miscellaneous papers. The Parkes family deeds are also part of the collection, consisting of family deeds, subsidiary title deeds, grants of mineral rights, deeds held as Trustees, and miscellaneous. The deeds are dated 1634-1800 and the correspondence is dated 1801-1865.

Records of Charles Johnston, businessman, including property transactions, probates and administrations; papers relating to Johnston's marriage settlement; correspondence; financial accounts; sales catalogues; papers relating to charities in Cheshunt; papers regarding Johnston's insanity and his financial affairs; letters to Johnston in his capacity as the chairman of the English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank; papers of the New Granada Company including annual reports, prospectus, correspondence, shares and papers relating to liquidation.

Also papers of Edmund Johnston including property transactions, financial records and papers relating to his estate.

Records of the Joint Medico-Legal Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Medical Defence Societies, 1985-1998, comprising correspondence files of the Committee, papers on the background to its establishment, some minutes of meetings and publications, including How to Avoid Medico-Legal Problems in Obstetrics and Gynaecology; edited by G Chamberlain & C Orr, 1990.

Two receipts signed by the deputies of the wards of Bridge and Candlewick for money received towards providing for the poor and list of jurors (inquest men) for the wards of Farringdon Within and Langbourn.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents, copies of court rolls from Ruislip Manor and the Manor of Harrow alias Sudbury, sale particulars, lease and releases, deeds, mortgages, conveyances, marriage settlements and assignments relating to properties in Acton, 1866-1903; Enfield, 1882-1920; Finchley, 1885-1912; Friern Barnet, 1887-1900; Harefield, 1767-1854; Hornsey and Tottenham, 1880-1919; Harrow and Ruislip, 1758-1913; Willesden, 1881-1900, and Stoke Newington, 1892-1910. Also business partnership agreements between Hodson, Smith Gale and others of Tottenham for brickmaking, building, selling and letting of houses.

Letter from H Jones of 54 Dorset Street, Fleet Street, London to Colonel [Charles Richard] Fox, 24 Jun 1841. Covering letter (written on behalf of the Property Tax Association) to a printed copy of Joshua Scholefield's speech, (made in the House of Commons on 23 Mar 1841) proposing that a property tax be substituted for the existing customs and excise taxes. Jones forecasts that the proposed property tax 'is likely to become a populat topic at the [forthcoming] elections' and expresses the hope that Fox would be elected MP for Tower Hamlets.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Thomas Joplin of Gravesend, [Kent] to Sir Edward Knatchbull, Baronet and MP, 14 Feb 1844. 'It is these distresses that give life and power to the Anti-Corn Law League, although the Corn Laws have nothing to do with them.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Thomas Joplin of Levant House, St Helens Place, [London] to Joseph Hume, Esq, MP, 7 May 1832. Accompanying a copy of Joplin's petition.

Autograph, with signature.

3 letters from Thomas Joplin of Levant House, St Helens Place, [London] to Joseph Hume, Esq, MP, Apr 1832.

(i) Presenting him with a copy of Analysis and History of the Currency Question, 6 Apr 1832.

(ii) Asking for an appointment to discuss certain propositions he intends to make to the 'committee which will be chosen on Bank affairs', Apr 1832.

(iii) Enclosing a copy of Joplin's petition, Apr 1832.

Autographs, with signatures.

Papers and correspondence, 1939-1981, of Professor Joseph Anthony Charles Thomas concerning his work, comprising manuscript and typescript notes for lectures attended while a student at Cambridge, 1939-1947; typescripts and manuscripts for The Institutes of Justinian; typescripts and manuscripts, including translations, for various articles, lectures and talks, some unpublished; texts for his lectures at Nottingham, 1953-1954, Glasgow, 1955-1961, and University College London, 1965-1980 and undated; general correspondence, 1953-1978, correspondence concerning book reviews, 1962-1980, correspondence concerning articles, 1966-1969, 1975-1981, and correspondence concerning outside talks, A Casebook on Contract, Textbook of Roman Law, and The Institutes of Justinian.

Papers, 1926-1984, of Alan James Juby, relating to the development of anaesthesia and anaesthetic apparatus.

Records relating to Juby's career comprise typescript lease of premises at no 34 Devonshire Street, St Marylebone, London, to Arthur Charles King, 1926; typescript financial accounts of A Charles King Ltd, 1942, 1946; printed catalogue with illustrations of anaesthetic apparatus produced by A Charles King Ltd, undated [mid-20th century]; typescript copy letter from I W Magill to the Editor of The Lancet, 1942, concerning A Charles King's inquiry in 1932 for rotameters for gas and oxygen rather than anaesthetic flowmeters then in use, and their subsequent adoption; records relating to patent specifications, including photographs of apparatus, for Juby's work for A Charles King and subsequently for the British Oxygen Company Ltd, for improvements in retaining devices for anaesthetic mouthpieces, 1929, a portable stand for gas cylinders, 1929, an instrument for introducing intra-tracheal catheters, 1929, improvements in endotracheal tubes, 1953, improvements in cuffed catheters, 1955, improvements in gas-administering apparatus, 1956, connectors for endotracheal tubes, 1959, and means for producing a spray of gas-entrained liquid, 1960.

Records relating to organisations comprise reports and notices of meetings, lectures and other events, 1937-1984, of organisations including the Royal Society of Medicine Section of Anaesthetists, the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, the Royal College of Surgeons Faculty of Anaesthetists, and the British Oxygen Company Ltd; dinner menus (some with collected signatures) and other ephemera, 1955-1971, including photographs including British Oxygen Company events, 1956-1957, and undated menu belonging to A Charles King.

Other records comprise printed booklets, articles, brochures, leaflets, diagrams and typescripts, 1939-1976, on subjects in anaesthetics including equipment (including apparatus produced by A Charles King Ltd and the British Oxygen Company Ltd), the development of anaesthetic techniques and drugs, and the history of anaesthesia and eminent anaesthetists including printed Inventory of the A Charles King Collection of early anaesthetic apparatus present to the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland by A Charles King March 6th 1953; copies of the K Bryn Thomas's article, 'The A Charles King Collection of early anaesthetic apparatus', Anaesthesia, vol xxv, no 4 (Oct 1970); and various British Standards, 1950-1970, on anaesthetic and other medical equipment.

Manuscript copy of 13 Charles II c.2, or 'An act for confirmation of judicial proceedings', enacted in Dublin' on 12 Jun 1661, and printed by William Bladen in 1661. The English act is 12 Charles II c.12. The manuscript may have been bound with the printed copy of the act, now item 6 in a Goldsmiths' Library volume (Ref: G.L. F) lettered 'Acts Charles II-1660-82'. The manuscript is accompanied by 8 leaves containing legal notes in a contemporary hand.

Papers, 1734-1906, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Ashford, Brentford, Harrow and Teddington.

Records of Justice and Pattenden, solicitors, 1849-1935. Records of the firm include day books, letter books, bill books and one account book. Clients' papers include deeds relating to property, mainly in London and family and estate papers.

A collection of deeds, wills and other documents including a declaration of trust, leases, a licence and a banquet invitation.

Records of the Kashrut Division of the London Beth Din, 1951-1983. The collection consists mainly of financial records together with some material on koshering work at private functions and newscuttings scrapbooks.

PLEASE NOTE: Written permission from the depositors is required to access this collection. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue, 735 High Road, North Finchley, London NW12 OUS.

Papers, 1871-1872, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising an abstract of title for The Woodside, Two Chimney House and properties and freehold lands adjoining Finchley Lodge; and plan of freehold building estate known as Torrington Park, Woodside, Finchley.

Documents relating to the Bentley Priory estate in Harrow and Aylwards estate in Great Stanmore; including mortgage, covenants, surrenders, lease and releases, plans, grants, and conveyances.

Papers collated by Terence Kelly relating mainly to radio broadcasting, [1970s-2001], comprising press cuttings and press releases relating to individual radio stations across Great Britain; cuttings and press releases relating to BBC radio; cuttings and releases concerning independent radio stations, on subjects including advertising, case studies, clearance, rules and regulations and sponsorship, as well as reports of the Radio Advertising Bureau; material relating to radio listenership, including BBC research and surveys, research methodology, details of figures for news listenership, and research reports and statistics of the Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR); material concerning related topics such as Australians in independent radio, complaints and standards, copyright, government policy, commercial radio and news and current affairs. The collection also contains Radio Authority and Independent Broadcasting Association (IBA) reports, Radio Academy and Festival reports on the future of radio, copies of applications for independent radio contracts or licences, and published books on broadcasting. There is also a box containing material relating to independent television and TV franchises.

Records of the Manor of Colkennington alias Kempton, comprising court rolls for views of frankpledge and courts baron, and a survey.

Court Leet Roll of the Manor of Keninghale, 1521-1547, presumably Kenninghall, Norfolk.

Records of Kensington Petty Sessional Division, 1890-1973, including court registers; registers of offences under the Education Acts; registers of offences under Weights, Food and Drugs regulations; minutes and registers relating to licensing; indexes of off-licensed premises; Justices signing-in books; court files; and records of the North-Western Sub-Committee of County of London Licensing Planning Committee.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

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.

This collection consists of legal and property papers relating mainly to London and Middlesex.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease and assignment for 8 Stanford Street, Pimlico, Westminster, with stable at rear of 9 Stanford Street, 1865-1873.

Papers of Lord Lloyd Kenyon relating to premises in Conduit Street, St George Hanover Square, Westminster.

Legal papers relating to this partnership and dispute between partners over credit for inventing plastic optical lens, 1935-1938, 1944.

Papers, 1761-1904, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Hertford Road, Edmonton, including conveyances, abstracts of title and building agreement. Also papers relating to the Wood family of Littleton, including lease, marriage settlement and will.

Records relating to land in Kilburn held by the Kilburn Brewery, 1832-1847, including conveyance, mortgage and abstract of title.

Patent, no 781237, granted to A C King for an appliance for administering chloroform as an anaesthetic in childbirth, with photographs of the appliance, 1933.

Writ of enquiry of damages issued to Sheriff of Middlesex; in case brought by Richard Biggs in Kings Bench against Ann Greenly, widow and Gabriel Ailice, executors of William Greenly, for money owed by the latter to Biggs.

Deed of dissolution of partnership between tailors Stephen Brown, 63 Buttesland St, Hoxton and Daniel Kirby, 43 Harmood St, Kentish Town, 1852.

(1) Lease and (2) Release, 19-20 Mar 1770, between Mary Lewis and Jacob Kirkman, concerning land in Walton-upon-Thames.
(3) Presentment, 1771, by Jacob Kirkman against Robert Falkener, for counterfeiting Kirkman's name on harpsichords sold by Falkener.

Papers of Labour Campaign for Criminal Justice, 1985-1999, include minutes, financial papers, newsletters and publications.