Records of the Improvements and Town Planning Committee, Commissioners of Sewers / Public Health Department, including minute books, 1853-1898, of the Improvement Committee of the Commissioners of Sewers (1853-1866), later the Finance and Improvements Committee (1866-1897); minute books of the Improvements and Finance Committee (1897-1930), later the Improvements Committee (1930-1941) and later the Improvements and Town Planning Committee (1941-1968), 1898-1968; committee papers, 1915-1964; papers relating to post-war reconstruction, 1941-1945 and report books, 1853-1947.
Sem títuloMinutes and files of the Litter Act Committee, Court of Common Council, 1959-1972.
Sem títuloRecords of the Local Government Taxation Committee comprising minutes, 1866-1897 and committee papers, 1866-1895.
Sem títuloMinutes of the Midsummer Prize Committee, Court of Common Council, 1975-1982. Please note these records are closed until 2013.
Sem títuloMinute book of the Joint Markets Advisory Committee, Court of Common Council, 1951-1975.
Sem títuloMinute Book of the 800th Anniversary of the Mayoralty Committee, Court of Common Council, 1988-1990. Please note these records are closed until 2021.
Sem títuloPapers of the Newgate Gaol Committees, Court of Common Council, including minutes, rough minutes and papers of the Committee to enquire into the state of Newgate Gaol and how the same may be enlarged, 1755-1766, and minutes, rough minutes, papers and journals of the Committee for rebuilding Newgate, 1767-1831, including certificates of work done, financial accounts, bills, proposals and letters.
Sem títuloRecords of the Sanitary Committee (1866-1897) and the Public Health Committee (1898-1956) including minutes, 1866-1956; committee papers, 1906-1956; report books, 1866-1956; Burial Board letter books, 1948-1956 and subject files, 1867-1955. Subjects include handling of condemned food; house drainage; sanitary inspectors; slaughter houses; bacteriologists; pigeon nuisance; the Housing Act 1936; the National Health Service; the London County Council health committee; smoke abatement and the City of London Cemetery including footpaths, boundaries, fees for internment, maintenance and arrangements for civilian deaths during the Second World War.
Sem títuloMinutes of the City of London School Committee, Court of Common Council, 1973-1979.
Sem títuloRecords of the Special (Emergency) Committee, Court of Common Council, including minute book, 1939-1945 and committee papers, 1940-1941.
Sem títuloRecords of the Special Housing Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1920-1927, committee papers, 1927, and report book, 1920-1927.
Sem títuloRecords of the Streets Committee, Commissioners of Sewers/Public Health Department, including minutes, 1865-1968; minute book of sub-committee on wharves, 1881-1897; minute book of sub-committee on contracts, 1898-1900; minute book of Parliamentary sub-committee, 1905-1915; committee papers, 1916-1958; report books, 1866-1947. Committee papers include files on various topics relating to public health, including: drainage and sewage works; subways; electric and gas lighting; gas and electricity supply; personnel issues including uniforms; telephone kiosks, byelaws for control of flags and banners; paving works; street cleaning; horses; refuse removal; destruction of bad eggs, Bermondsey; byelaws as to removal of house refuse and London traffic; waste paper; street numbering; dangerous structures; street accidents in Greater London; pedestrian crossing places; burial grounds; City gardens; snow removal; street lighting; mechanical cleaning vehicles; traffic control and statues and monuments.
Sem títuloRecords 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.
Sem títuloRecords of the Committee of the Whole Court of Common Council including minutes 1874-1999 (closed from 1927 onwards); minutes of Committee of the Whole Court to consider the evidence laid before the Commissioners regarding Municipal Institutions, 1834-1836; minutes and papers regarding London Corporation Bills, 1854-1858 and committee papers, 1874-1960 (closed from 1933 onwards).
Sem títuloRecords of the Committee of Managers of West Ham Park, including minutes, 1874-2004 (closed from 1971 onwards); committee papers, 1873-1957 (papers for 1936-1940 were destroyed by enemy action); letter books, 1927-1996 (closed from 1967 onwards); cash book, 1937-1955; wages sheets, 1951-1957 and handbook containing a short history of the park, abridged conveyance and trust deed and map, 1953.
Sem títuloMinutes and papers of the Special Day Police and Nightly Watch Committee, 1832-1838.
Sem títuloCharters of the City of London with related papers, 1067-1980.
Charters, grants and letters patent include the 'William Charter' of 1067?, a royal writ from William the Conqueror guaranteeing the citizens' rights as they were in the time of Edward the Confessor; a grant to Deorman (supervisor of the mint) of a hide of land in Essex, 1070?; charter confirming rights and liberties, 1155?; charter ordering the removal of weirs from the Thames, 1197; charter granting shrievalty (the right to have sheriffs), 1199; charter confirming the removal of the Guild of Weavers from London, 1202; charter granting the citizens the right to choose their mayor, 1215; charter granting archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons, knights, freeholders and all in the county of Middlesex the liberty of the Warren of Staines (a warren was land enclosed for breeding game), 1227; covenant between Richard, Earl of Cornwall and the City to lease Queenhithe Dock to the City, 1246; charter ordering that the mayor be confirmed in post by the barons of the Exchequer in lieu of the King, 1253; charter granting the citizens remission and forgiveness for misdemeanours, 1266; charter from the City of London granting tenement in Bassishaw (a ward of London) to John de Bauquelle, 1268; letters patent confirming the liberties of England as described in the Magna Carta, 1297; letters patent granting constitutions for the regular government of the City of London, 1319; letters patent ordering that charging murage (a tax levied for the building or repairing of town walls) should cease, 1319; letters patent granting royal pardon for those neglecting to keep watch on those who claim sanctuary, 1321; charter thanking the citizens for sending armed men to Leeds Castle, Kent, and offering reassurance that this will not be used as a precedent for further requests, 1321; letters patent regarding Stocks Market and the maintenance of London Bridge, 1324; letters patent granting pardon for trespasses, 1327; letters patent releasing the citizens from obligations to th e late King Edward II, 1327; charter regarding markets, gaol delivery and infangthief (jurisdiction over apprehended thieves), 1327; charter granting the bailiwick (district under the jurisdiction of a bailiff) of Southwark to the citizens of London, 1327; confirmation of ordinances regarding punishment of bakers and brewers, 1327; charter confirming the liberties granted to the City of London in Magna Carta, particularly regarding trade, 1337; letters patent regarding the conservation of the peace within the City on the King going out of the kingdom, 1340; letters patent granting the right to bear maces of gold and silver, 1354; charter granting the City's right to the soil of the Thames, 1444; letters patent granting the Corporation package (the privilege of overseeing the package of cloth brought into the Port of London) and scavage (tolls levied on merchants) as well as the office of gauger (exciseman), 1461; letters patent granting licence to citizens to purchase mortmain (lands held by a corporation) to the value of 200 marks a year, 1478; letters patent granting the removal of court sessions from St Martin's Le Grand to Guildhall, 1518; letters patent regarding the custom of the City in not presenting attaints within the City (attaint was a legal process instituted for reversing a false verdict and convicting the jurors), 1526; letters patent restoring the office of Keeper of the Great Beam and Common Balance, 1531; grants of land in Essex to Sir Richard Rich, Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, 1539; grant of St Nicholas Shambles by Bishop of Westminster, 1550; letters patent granting pardon to the City, the Irish Society and the Companies for acts of misgovernment in Ireland, 1638; letters patent granting commission of militia, 1669; letters patent regarding the water line of the Thames Embankment, 1671; remission of Quo Warranto judgement, 1688 and letters patent appointing all Aldermen as Justices of the Peace, 1741.
Also transcripts and translations of early charters, made between 1582 and 1834; volume containing manuscript copies of 17th century Livery Charters; facsimiles of relevant charters held in other repositories and articles about the history of the charters, 1973 and 1980.
Records relating to the 'Quo Warranto' controversy, 1683-1692, including legal notes, opinions of counsel, petitions and commissions for the regulation, ordering and governing of the City of London by the officers appointed by the King.
Sem títuloRecords of the Chamberlain's Department relating to the Chamberlain's Court, including notes, press cuttings, reports, correspondence, photographs, articles, certificates and office papers relating to Freedom applications and admissions including historical procedures and precedents, 1712-1993. Please note the majority of these records are closed.
Sem títuloRecords of the Chamberlain's Department relating to loans and assessments, including accounts and other financial papers regarding loans for the City's use, 1648-1692 and 1750-1835; papers relating to the Poll Tax, 1660-1673; assessment receipts (including for Land Tax and Poll Tax), 1660-1666 and 1689- 1707; papers relating to loans, 1660-1714; papers relating to Royal aid, 1665-1668; estreats [fines] and abatements, 1696-1703; Land Tax accounts, 1703-1760; Exchequer Bills, 1697-1712; marriage assessments, lists of the inhabitants of each house in each parish, May-June 1695 and indexes to the marriage assessments.
Sem títuloRecords of the Chamberlain's Department regarding the armed forces, including papers relating to payments to servicemen in the Army and Navy (including wages, pensions, bounties and relief for the poor and maimed), 1661-1793; papers of the 'Committee for supplying the British troops now serving on the Continent with comfortable clothing, etc.', 1793-1794; accounts of money received for poor relief, 1789-1795; certificates for payment of bounty money, 1795; lists of men and money raised in the City for the Army and Navy, 1794-1807; account of men raised for the Army Reserve, 1804-1806; Army deserters expenses book containing the names and regiments of deserters and absentees apprehended by the City police, 1904-1916; proposal to establish a fund to equip privateers with carriage guns, 1757; money paid for recruit warrants, 1709-1711; order for the 'speedy raising of the money for the Advancing of the Scotch Army', 7 Oct 1643; extracts and notes including on the security of the City of London during the Civil War, 1643-1690; financial papers relating to the City of London Militia, including expenses incurred during the Civil War and the relief of widows, 1640-1813.
Sem títuloRecords of the Chamberlain's Department relating to the Orphan's Fund, 1545-1983, including Finding Money account books, recording money paid to persons for the maintenance of orphans in their care, 1643-1678; Finding Acquittance books containing receipts for Finding Money paid out, 1668-1694; account book of dates of deposits of money in the Chamber, 1656-1677; casting books in which interest due to orphans was calculated, 1660-1699; Orphan's Journals, entries of receipts of money for the use of orphans, 1661-1692; Orphan's Ledgers, entries of money received for the benefit of orphans and money paid out to them, 1627-1683; Orphan's Fund cash books, 1694-1832; accounts ledgers, 1694, showing all money owed to orphans at the time of the Orphan's Act of 1694 [when the City of London suffered a financial collapse and was not able to pay orphans what they were owed]; accounts ledgers containing receipts and payments to the Orphan's Fund, 1694-1762; Grand Ledger of orphans, 1694-1817, with indexes; ledger of orphans holding orphanage stock, 1732-1788; orphan's journals, 1729-1817; journals of the accounts of Orphan's Fund creditors, 1694-1729; payments accounts books, 1694-1790; abstract of the produce and expenditure of the duties payable to the Orphan's Fund and of the surplus of the Fund, 1694-1832; statements of produce and expenditure, 1793-1837; papers and accounts regarding the Act of Common Council for raising £2000 a year from the inhabitants of the City payable to the orphans, 1696-1795; papers relating to Orphan's Fund Stocks including accounts of money received, 1717-1818; Act of Parliament of 1693 (5 and 6 William and Mary) for the relief of the orphans and other creditors of the City with related papers including register of assignments of orphan's stock, 1694-1818; deeds of grant, assignments and Chamberlain's memos, 1700-1810; accounts regarding interest on the Orphan's Fund, including dividends on orphan stock, 1732-1819; receipts on duties and duties posting books, 1694-1834 and accounts of receipts and payments of surpluses, 1793-1853.
Also accounts of the fees paid to Corporation of London Officers for dealing with Orphan Fund matters, 1672-1678; petition by the Chamberlain for an increase of salary for himself and his clerks for their work on the Orphan's Fund, with a history of the Fund, 1821; "The Case of the City of London in reference to Debt to the Orphans and otherwise, how it was incurred and what amount has been repaid", 1691; reports of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Orphan's Fund, 1812, 1822 and 1829; and article on the origin and history of the Orphan's Fund, 1983.
Sem títuloRecords of the Chamberlain's Department regarding poor relief, including financial accounts of collections for the poor, 1659-1665, 1690-1703, 1776 and 1795; money received towards raising a Regiment of Horse and Dragoons, 1690; papers relating to collections and distributions on the King's Letter, including parish returns, 1690-1829; warrants, signed by the Lord Mayor and Bishop of London, for payment of monies out of the Chamber, 1688 and 1694; receipts of parishes for monies received out of the Chamber, 1726-1742; notice of the opening of a fund for the relief of the poor, £1000 being subscribed by Common Council, 1767; petitions and orders for payment of gifts and pensions to poor people in distress by the Courts of Aldermen and Common Council, 1676-1800?; orders of Poor Law Commissioners for the valuation, assessment and appointment of Guardians for various parishes in the City of London, East London and West London Unions, 1837-1838; report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law and Relief of Distress, 1909; papers relating to the distribution of coal and wood to the poor, 1606-1763; precepts, 1717-1761; account of money received for providing lodging houses for the poor, 1852-1858; case notes regarding the disposition of property of the Guardians of the Poor of the City of London Union, on the passing of the 1929 Local Government Act, 1930; Acts of Common Council for assessing the parishes of the City towards the further employing the Poor of the City of London, 1698-1823 and various other correspondence, petitions and orders relating to poor relief.
Also papers relating to the collection of alms for the relief of French Protestants (Huguenots), including returns for parishes in the Diocese of Ely, Cambridgeshire, Diocese of Winchester, Hampshire (including Isle of Wight), Peculiar of Canterbury, Kent, Peculiars of Canterbury, Sussex, Diocese of Chichester, Sussex, Diocese of Lincoln, Hertfordshire, Diocese of London, Essex and Diocese of Rochester, Kent, 1688; accounts and acquittances of money received and distributed, 1693-1704; orders to the Chamberlain for payments out of the collection for the relief of French Protestants, 1681-1706; articles on the Huguenots in London, 1976.
Also accounts of money collected and paid on the royal brief for 'the redemption of captives taken by the Turks and Moors' along the African coast, 1670-1705, with chamber vouchers [orders for payment] and returns of collections.
Sem títuloRecords of the Chamberlain's Department regarding rates and assessments, including cemetery ledgers, 1856-1931; consolidated ledgers, 1844-1876; general ledgers, 1876-1931; ledgers relating to the financial accounts for housing projects and improvement schemes, 1919-1935; improvements (buildings maintenance) ledgers, 1875-1937; Public Health (Sanitation) Committee ledgers, 1931-1937; Sewers ledgers, 1850-1932; Streets Committee ledgers, 1931-1937; rate books, generally providing information including, occupier, description and situation of the property, valuation, amount of individual rates and arrears, 1908-1985 (please note that rate books are closed for 30 years from last date in volume); cash books of receipts and payments, 1851-1903; rates accounts books, Public Health Department, 1899-1907; consolidated rate audit books, 1848-1859; consolidated accounts, 1865-1906; collector's accounts for consolidated rates, 1848-1903; warrants for payments from the consolidated rate, 1849-1857; Paving rates ledgers and warrants, 1766-1849; account of money paid into the Chamber by persons purchasing annuities under the Act for Paving, 1766-1786; receipts of annuitants for dividends on money lent for paving, cleaning and enlightening the City of London, 1767-1827; Paving rate audit books, 1771-1848; Chamberlain's Pavement rate accounts, 1766-1850; paving account bonds, 1776-1789; lamp contracts, 1766-1788; receipts and payments, lamp accounts [tax for lighting the streets with lamps] 1736-1766; cash books, lamp accounts, 1736-1766 and other papers relating to lighting the streets, 1749-1764.
Sem títuloRecords relating to Common Hall, Corporation of London, including minutes, 1642-1996; summary or rough index to the Common Hall minutes, 1642-1660 and 1718-1843, compiled by W T Alchin in 1843; papers, 1641-2000 (closed from 1977 onwards); registers of liverymen entitled to vote at Common Hall, 1887-2001; statements on a variety of topics, mainly aspects of the history of the City of London, read by the Deputy Town Clerk while the Liverymen await the decision of the Court of Aldermen as to the choice of Lord Mayor, 1968-1995; 'Acts and Ordinances of Common Hall and Common Council relative to the original institution and powers of the Livery of London in Common Hall assembled, 1347-1475', and 'Instances of Extraordinary Common Hall held for purposes other than elections, 1403-1772', both compiled in 1810?; copy order of the Common Council that the Chamberlain, Bridgemasters, Auditors and Aleconners should in future be elected on Midsummer day instead of 1 August, 1586; list of Acts of Parliament and of Common Council concerning elections in Common Hall, 1694-1937 and various other legal and administrative papers.
Sem títuloLivery Consultative Committee, Common Hall, 1981-1992, comprising minutes 1981-1992 (closed until 2023); report on the terms of reference of the Committee, 1981 (closed until 2012) and Livery Information Leaflets on the image of the livery, internal communication, liaison between Livery companies and training and education, 1988-1990.
Sem títuloRecords of the Corporation of London relating to Charities, including lists of charities under the control of the Corporation, 1829, 1833, 1868, 1903-1904 and 1956-1961; notes on charitable payments made in the year 1632; report by the Charity Commissioners, 1837; report by the Royal City Parochial Charities Commission, 1880; summary of the Charitable Trusts Bill, 1881; minutes, papers, annual reports and accounts relating to the Sir William Coxen trust fund (for the benefit of any orthopaedic hospital in England, and other hospitals or charitable institutions carrying on similar work, with preference being given to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital of Great Portland Street, London), 1946-1994; papers relating to the Signor Pasquale Favale Bequest (a bequest of 18,000 Italian lira to provide marriage dowries to help 'poor, honest and young' women set up home), 1882-1947; papers and financial accounts relating to Sir John Langham's Charity for the relief of poor distressed soldiers and seamen and their families, 1768-1976, including petitions from individual sailors, marines and soldiers seeking financial assistance, dating from 1771 onwards.
Legal papers, reports and correspondence relating to the bequest of Thomas Alexander Mitchell, MP, (to found the Mitchell City of London Charity for the provision of educational grants) 1876-1945; minute books, financial accounts and correspondence for the Wilson's (Dinner and Ring) Trust, 1881-1995 (please note these records are closed); minute books, letter books, papers, financial accounts, administrative and staff records for the Wilson's Loan Trust (providing loans for young people about to set up in some trade, manufacture, business or profession in the area of Greater London or the Counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex, Kent, Hertfordshire, Surrey, East Sussex or West Sussex), 1786-1988 (please note some of these records are closed); notes on the history of the Wilson's Loan Trust, including extract from Samuel Wilson's will of 1766, compiled 1979-1990; papers relating to the Sheriffs' Fund Society, founded by Alderman Christopher Smith and Sir Richard Phillips, Sheriffs in 1807-1808, to help distressed prisoners and their families, including annual reports, rules of the fund, agendas and minutes, financial accounts, administrative papers, papers relating to legacies and grants and papers relating to appeals and case notes, 1810-1997.
Also papers relating to individual charities including the Ada Lewis Winter Distress Fund, 1908-1958; Sheriff's Fund Society, 1940; Lady Catherine Barnardiston's Prison Charity, 1889; letters between the City and Blandford, Tiverton and Ramsey relative to losses sustained by fires and the distribution of the money collected in London for relief of the sufferers, 1731-1734; bequest of A B Bosher, 1926-1930; Sir Martin Bowes' Charity for the maintenance of conduits in the City, 1864 and 1997; distribution of sea coal to the poor under the bequest of Sir J. Cambell, 1676-1678; the Thomas Carpenter Educational and Apprenticing Foundation, 1960; the Sir John Cass Charity, 1873 - 1898; the City Parochial Foundation, 1891-1958; Costin's Bequest for the distribution of coal, 1666-1737; Baron Hilton's Charity, 1675- 1685; the gift of William Lambe, citizen and clothworker of London, 1568; the Lord Mayor Treloar Trust, 1970?; Robert Smyths' gifts for the preacher and school master at Market Harborough, 1666-1816; Walthamstow Monoux Almshouse and Grammar School, 1636-1655; the Leonidas Alcibiades Oldfield bequest, 1949- 1988 (some files are closed); United Society of St. George's, Southwark, and St. Antholin's, Walting Street for relieving the sick and others in circumstances of distress, 1805? and William Ward's bequest for the founding of the City of London School for Girls, 1940s.
Sem títuloAdministrative 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.
Sem títuloRecords of the Guildhall Library, comprising office files on various subjects including staff instructions for air raids, evacuation of books, manuscripts and artworks and their storage during World War Two, damage sustained during World War Two and the subsequent reconstruction of the Library, list of artworks destroyed during World War Two, Public Libraries Acts 1892-1919, maintenance, notable collections, inventory and valuation of furniture and fittings, duties of the librarians, staff entertainments including annual staff dinners, relevant byelaws, insurance policies, donations, deposits and bequests, Art Gallery bequests and deposits and guidebooks and brochures.
Also petition asking for longer evening opening hours, 1875; petition in favour of Sunday opening, 1879 and petition opposing Sunday opening, 1879.
Sem títuloGuildhall Museum accessions register, a list of the items that formed the permanent collection of the Guildhall Museum, giving the date of acquisition, accession number, and by what means acquired (eg.purchase etc), 1972.
Sem títuloRecords relating to the Lord Mayor, including articles on the history and duties of the Mayoralty, 1972, 1986, 1988 and 1992; lists of the Lord Mayors, 1189-1951; notes and historical extracts on the appointment of a locum to stand in for the Lord Mayor, compiled 1960; papers relating to the election and admission of the Lord Mayor, 1546-1999, including ballot papers; affidavits sworn before the Lord Mayor, 1758-1805; papers relating to the Lord Mayor's chaplain, 1805-1807, 1953 and 1982; papers relating to the Lord Mayor's Coach, 1757-1990, including agreements with the coachmaker and information sheets about the coach; notes on the proceedings following the death of a Lord Mayor while in office, 1885?; duties of the Mayor, 1665; bill for a purple robe trimmed with fur made for the Lord Mayor, 1861; speeches given at the presentation of the Lord Mayor to the Judges of the Queen's Bench, 1803-1991; papers relating to State Visits by Lord Mayors, 1930-1991; lecture on the precedence of the Lord Mayor in State Ceremonies outside the City, in State Ceremonies within the City and in State Ceremonies within the City attended by a Member of the Royal Family but not the Sovereign, 1915; papers relating to the Mayoralty Seal, 1580-1980; diaries of various Lord Mayors, 1935-1972; invitation books for various Lord Mayors, 1890-1955; Swordbearer's diaries, 1872-1904; visitor's books, 1935-1963; extracts of orders from the Court of Aldermen relating to the Lord Mayor, 1544-1719; papers, including biographical information, articles and photographs, on individual mayors including Henry Fitz-Ailwyn, John Philipot, Sir Thomas Leigh, Sir William Turner, Frederick Bull, Sir William Plomer, Robert Peckham, Sir John Hopkins, Sir William Curtis, Sir Peter Laurie, Thomas Quested Finnis, Sir James Whitehead, Sir Joseph Dimsdale, Sir James Thomson Ritchie, Sir George Truscott, Sir James Roll, Sir William Robert Pryke, Sir Percy Greenaway, Sir Peter Vanneck, Sir Allan Davis, Sir Greville Spratt, Sir Brian Jenkins, Sir Francis McWilliams and Sir Peter Gadsen.
Sem títuloRecords relating to the Lord Mayor's household, including minutes, 1816-1844; account of the profits of the Mayoralty and offices at the disposal of the Mayor, [1684]-1821; papers relating to the employment of the household, 1662-1761 and removes of officers, 1597-1757.
Sem títuloRecords of the Remembrancer's Department, Corporation of London, relating to Parliament, including the Remembrancia, volumes of correspondence between the Sovereign, the Lord Mayor, Ministers, the Privy Council, the Courts of Aldermen and Common Council and eminent persons relating to the government of the City of London, its rights, privileges, usages and customs, religion, trade and commerce, public buildings, markets, churches and so on, transcribed by the Remembrancer, 1579-1640 and 1660-1664; index to the Remembrancia, compiled in 2000; payments to various Remembrancers, 1676-1804; and document 'reasons humbly offered why the Remembrancer's attendance on Parliament should be continued', 1685.
Various published volumes and lists used by the Remembrancer's Office, including Statutes at Large 1225 - 1835; Parliamentary index, 1877-1896; Statutes of the Realm, 1235-1713; index to Statutes of the Realm, 1225-1714; Public General Acts and Measures, 1940-1979; index to Public General, Local, Private and Personal Acts, 1801-1844; miscellaneous Acts, 1691-1890; Port of London Acts, 1799-1806; statutes and acts specifically affecting London, 1750-1907; index of statutes relating to the London County Council and the Metropolitan Borough Councils, 1817-1959; London Statutes Metropolis Local Management Acts, 1817-1879; London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1902-1936; City of London Legislation (Various Acts), 1900-1939; City of London Legislation (Various Powers) Acts, 1944-1965; general index to the City's legislation, 1900-1965; abstracts of Acts of Parliament, 1785; list of Acts of Parliament relating to the City, 1327-1802, compiled 1845? and list of Private Acts of Parliament, 1900-1931.
Sem títuloRecords relating to the office of Sheriff in the Corporation of London, including scruting [scrutinization] papers for elections of Sheriffs, Chamberlains, Ale Conners [inspectors] and Auditors, 1676-1730 (with gaps); Acts of Common Council regarding the nomination and election of Sheriffs, 1631-1834; accounts received under the Greenwax [a seal of green wax was fixed to documents delivered by the Exchequer to sheriffs] and paid into the Chamber of the Corporation of London, 1680-1748; accounts of fines imposed at various courts, 1681-1732; estreat rolls [copies of an original record of fines entered on the rolls of a court, to be levied by the bailiff or other officer] 1670-1858; bailiff's and sheriff's accounts (copies of the estreat rolls, with marginal notes as to the collection or non-collection of the fines), 1795-1839; appointments of Bailiffs of the Greenwax to make the City's claims in the Exchequer and to collect fines due to the City, 1646-1803; bailiff's and sheriff's accounts including expense claims, 1738-1807; 'account of monies paid, laid out and expanded for the use of His Majesty in the Shrievalty 1793-4 for which the sheriffs crave allowance' [Sheriff's expense accounts], 1793-1797; extracts from repertories and journals relating to the fines due to the Sheriffs and the City under various charters, 1449-1803, compiled by the City Solicitor in 1816, and other papers relating to the collection of fines and the rights of the City to those fines, 1685-1874; copy acquittances from the Pipe Roll, 1637-1832; copy petitions and lists of Sheriffs elected, 1627-1678; bonds, in a penalty of £1000, 'that the Sheriffs-Elect shall appear at Guildhall on the Vigil of St Michael to take upon themselves the office of Sheriffs of the City of London for the year ensuing', 1672-1762; 'A letter to the Livery of London relative to the view of the writer in executing the office of Sheriff' by Sir Richard Phillips, 1808; papers relating to the Sheriff's Yeomen, 1829-1859; notes regarding nominations for the office of Sheriff, including numbers of persons nominated each year, 1733-1999, list of Sheriffs from 1832, list of nominations by the Lord Mayor, 1889-1901 and notes on nominations by the Lord Mayor, 1971; precepts for the election of Sheriffs and other officers, 1832-1852; royal approvals of newly elected Sheriffs, 1861-1982; returning officer's files from the election of Sheriffs, which may include correspondence, election addresses, nomination forms signed by Liverymen, notes of poll results, 1933-1999; newspaper cuttings relating to the election of 1980 in which the first woman stood for election as sheriff, 1980; a brief history of the City of London Sheriffs' Society, 20th century; list of Sheriffs and Justiciars of London and Middlesex, 1100-54 and a list of Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, 1154-1216, compiled 1972; notes on the office of Sheriff, 1988; and various other administrative papers relating to the role of Sheriff.
Sem títuloAdministrative records of the Town Clerk's Department including office accounts, 1733-1898; papers relating to the duties of the Town Clerk, 1817-1837; orders and receipts for payment of fees, gratuities, bills, and for disbursements for counsel for William Wagstaffe, 1676-1687 and Randolph Stacey, 1717-1727; bill books for Court of Aldermen, 1734-1956; general warrant books for payments by Courts and Committees, 1805-1918 and 1937; letter books, 1975-1998 (restricted access); Town Clerk's personal letter books, 1905-1947; general letter files, 1987-1994; letter files regarding departmental reorganisation, 1992 and registers of letters received, 1948-1974.
Sem títuloRecords of the Town Clerk's Department relating to the registration of births, marriages and deaths, including papers relating to the administration of London City Registration District No 243, 1932-1984; list of registers formerly in the custody of the Superintendent Registrar for the Registration District of London City at the Register Office, Guildhall, with a list showing amalgamations of sub districts in the City of London; list of registers lost in the Guildhall bombing, 1940 and papers relating to the Corporation of the City of London Registration Scheme 1977 which provided for Lee District Register Office to be located at Finsbury Town Hall and for a sub-district office within the County Corporate of the City of London, 1977.
Sem títuloPapers of individual Town Clerks, including documents regarding an affray between Ralph Crepyn, Town Clerk, and Lawrence Duket, goldsmith, which led to Duket's death, 1284; letters addressed to Miles Man, 1726-1756; letters addressed to James Hodges, 1757-1774; journal recording the business done by the Town Clerk in person, including attendance at Courts, Committees and ceremonials, 1759; transcript of divorce proceedings in the Consistory Court between Town Clerk William Rix and his wife, including information about her activities with her lover in the Town Clerk's house, Guildhall Yard, 1776; letter to Henry Woodthorpe Senior, 1804-1823; papers regarding the debts of Henry Woodthorpe Junior, prisoner in the Fleet, 1826-1842; appreciation and synopsis of career of Alfred Thomas Roach, Town Clerk, 1946 and article John Carpenter - a famous Town Clerk, 1982.
Sem títuloRecords of the Technical Services department relating to the City Engineer, including authority to set up posts to preserve foot passage, 1736; Order from the Common Council to remove projecting signs, water spouts and so on to prevent obstructions, 1764; abstract of streets, lanes, courts, alleys and so on within the City showing the position and depth of public sewers, by William Haywood, surveyor, 1847; papers regarding the scheme of Frank Forster, engineer, for the drainage of districts north of the Thames, 1850-1851; papers regarding the schemes of the Great London Drainage Company, 1852-1854; report by Joseph Bazalgette and William Haywood on the sewage and drainage north of the Thames, with related papers including plans, objections and correspondence, 1853-1855; report by Joseph Bazalgette and William Haywood on the sewage and drainage south of the Thames, 1856; plans by Joseph Bazalgette in connection with Southern high level sewers, 1861; papers regarding the construction of the Commissioners of Sewers' new offices at Basinghall Street, including reports, agreements, plans, photographs and correspondence, [1860]; papers regarding the Central London Railway including acts and bills, petitions, correspondence, memoranda, plans, progress reports, evidence and invoices, particularly for Bank, St Paul's and Chancery Lane stations, 1871 - 1909; papers relating to the Royal Commission on London Traffic, consisting of interviews and evidence presented by City officials including the mayor, engineer, surveyor, chair of Bridge House Estates Committee, Public Health Department medical officer, City Solicitor, Superintendent of Police and the Director of the Great Northern Railway Company, 1903-1904; regulations for the laying of mains and so on beneath the public streets and for opening and closing pavements in the City, 1909; annual report of the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee, 1926-1927; papers relating to the clearing and repair of war damage, 1941-1946; articles and notes relating to the history of street lighting in the City of London, 1941-1976; photograph albums recording various streets and walkways in the City, focusing on street signs, [1990]; the City Engineer Quality Commitment manual, 1993 and consultation paper The Way Ahead: traffic and the environment, 1993.
Also papers relating to the numbering and naming of City streets, including register of numbered and renamed streets, 1853-1899, lists of streets with corrections to their names, 1878-1982, London County Council orders and correspondence, 1898-1955, Greater London Council orders and correspondence, 1971-1979, orders for the renaming of specific streets, 1986-1997.
Also papers relating to the Holborn Valley Improvement works, including acts and bills, papers of the Improvement Committee, observations and reports, memorandums, correspondence, applications for jobs, publicity material, estimates and abstracts of costs, engineer's financial accounts, technical measurements and other data, contracts, notebooks, speeches, lists of properties affected by the works, sales catalogues, correspondence with gas, water and telegraph companies, photographs, papers relating to statuary on the bridge including the Prince Consort memorial and papers relating to the exhumation of St Andrew's churchyard and the removal of remains, 1863 - 1873.
Papers relating to street easements including registers of petitions and applications, 1849-1899; registers of licences for hoards and scaffolds, 1858-1897; register and rental of licences for easements, 1899-1902; counterfoil licences for easements under vaults, 1870-1899; counterfoil licences for easements under coal plates, cellar flaps and so on, 1870-1899; counterfoil licences for easements over private lamps, signboards, cranes and so on, 1870-1899; counterfoil licences for easements over sky-signs, 1891-1896; counterfoil licences for easements over and under, 1899-1907; counterfoil licences for easements over reflectors, 1899-1907; counterfoil licences for easements upon and beneath vaults, 1907-1954; counterfoil licences for easements over lamps, signboards, cranes and so on, 1907-1939; notices regarding cellar flaps, 1881-1891; notices regarding projections, issued under the Sewer Act, 1899-1932 and indexes to registers of petitions and applications, 1849-1899.
Sem títuloMinutes of the Central Committee for the Unemployed and various sub-committees, 1904-1905.
Minutes of the Central Unemployed Body for London, 1905-1930, with minutes, agendas and reports of sub-committees including the Classification Committee, Emigration Committee, Employment Exchanges Committee, Finance Committee, Hollesley Bay Rota Committee, Women's Work Committee, Local Advisory Committees, Working Colonies Committee, Works Committee and Special and Joint Committees. Also legal papers, 1905-1914, including tenancy agreements, insurance policies, agreements to supply labour for carrying out works and retention of services of clerical staff on war service; file regarding Workmen's Compensation Insurance, 1906; file regarding deputation to the Local Government Board, 1900s; correspondence with the Ministry of Health, 1919-1929; correspondence regarding activities of the Central Unemployed Body, 1905-1928; annual reports, 1906-1930; report on work in workrooms for women, 1915; report on employment of disabled soliders and sailors, 1915; report on Salvation Army Colonies, 1905; emigration and immigration tables, 1914; report on trade and employment after the First World War, 1916; standing orders, 1906-1913; newspaper cuttings, 1905-1930; emigration register, 1909; Sailing Register (giving age, occupation, destination and number of dependents), 1912-1914; emigration loan registers, 1906-1915; financial records, 1905-1930; plans showing a proposed swimming pool at Burnham on Crouch, 1900s.
Papers relating to the Hollesley Bay Labour Colony including particulars of the sale of the Colonial College, report of surveyors and legal papers, 1903-1926; subject files, 1914-1938, on various subjects including emigration, payment of war bonus to staff, schemes of work, employment of discharged soldiers, administration of the Colony, reports of London Boards of Guardians, publicity, Burnt House Farm, accidents, and sale of the Colony to Prison Commissioners; papers regarding staff including salary forms, 1930-1938; individual case notes, cards and registers of inmates, 1930-1938, including register of applications, admissions and discharge registers and creed register; visitor's books, 1922-1938 and cash books, 1907-1930.
County of London Appeal Tribunal (for Conscientous Objectors) minutes, 1916-1918.
Sem títuloRecords of the parish of Saint Paul, Finchley, Barnet. This collection includes parish registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and confirmation (1886-1991), registers of church services (1886-1989), Parochial Church Council minutes, other committee minutes, annual reports, electoral roll, faculties relating to the maintenance of the church, financial accounts, administrative files, parish societies including Sunday School and Finchley Community Work.
Sem títuloRecords of the Badger's Almshouses, Shoreditch, relating to the ownership of property, including bargain and sales, feoffments, deeds, lease and releases, assignments and abstract of title.
Sem títuloRecords of the Slate and Loan Club of Christ Church, North Brixton, including annual balance sheets; rules of the Club; correspondence concerning the dissolution of the Club; and notes by the Secretary and President of the Club on its history.
Sem títuloRecords of Christ Church Parochial Schools, Southwark, including deeds, leases, agreements and other documents relating to school property and the trustees; minute books of the Trustees and the Managers; financial accounts; letter books; school log books; and plans of the school buildings.
Sem títuloRecords of the Cholmondeley Charities, including deeds establishing and regulating Charities; minutes; correspondence; financial accounts; petitions; registers of applications; registers and lists of grants.
Sem títuloRecords of the Working Women's College, later known as the Frances Martin College for Women. The records listed here cover the history of the college from its foundation in 1874 until 1957, a period of 88 years. Minutes of council and AGMs from 1874 onwards, kept in the hand of Miss Frances Martin until 1920 almost without a break, annual prospectuses and an almost complete series of annual reports exist. These, together with college magazines and scrapbooks give a very full picture of the life and activities of the college since its foundation, and reveal the remarkable enthusiasm and dedicated service of all those who have been connected with it which have carried it forward successfully over the years through good times and bad.
Sem títuloRecords of the Guild of Saint Alban the Martyr, including minutes of the Provost's Court and of proceedings in Common Hall; minutes of the Brotherhood of Saint John the Divine; statements of accounts; circulars; constitution of the Guild; rules and regulations; addresses; publications; photographs; and historical notes.
Sem títuloRecords of the London Aged Christian Society consisting of early minutes of the Gentlemens and Ladies committes and later joint committee minutes; annual reports, financial records and pensioners cases and some historical notes and rules of the Society.
Sem títuloRecords, 1879-1928, of Archbishop Tait's Infants School, relating to administration and finance, and comprising conveyance from the Most Rev Archibald Campbell, Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Trustees of Tenison's School, of land attached to the Archiepiscopal residence in Lambeth, 1879, with an agreement between the National Society and the Trustees, 1880; minutes of the Committee of Management, 1883-1898, and Governors, 1898-1903; cash account books, 1901-1928; inventory of furniture etc in school mistress's residence, Lambeth Road, 1888.
Sem títuloRecords of Morden College, Blackheath, including correspondence, financial statements, and papers relating to a dispute with the Charity Commissioners.
Sem títuloRecords 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.
Sem títuloRecords of the Nightingale Fund Council, including deeds of trust; minutes; correspondence; annual reports; papers relating to St Thomas's Hospital; regulations; financial accounts; fundraising accounts; agreements; registers, prospectuses and syllabi of the Nightingale Training School; papers relating to the registration of nurses and nursing in general.
Also papers of the City Auxiliary Committee of the Nightingale Fund, comprising minutes, correspondence and accounts; and papers of Albert Venn Dicey (a jurist and Professor of Law at Oxford).
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