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LEYSIN ANGLICAN CHAPLAINCY
GB 0074 CLC/374 · Collection · 1910-1965

Records of the Leysin Anglican Chaplaincy, Switzerland, comprising chaplains' books, 1910-1965 (Ms 16945), and photographs of the interior of the chapel, early 20th century (Ms 16945A). They were catalogued in 1977 and 1985 by members of Guildhall Library staff.

Leysin Anglican Chaplaincy , Switzerland
LMA/4333 · Collection · 1891-1948

Records of Saint George's Presbyterian Church, Hainault Road, Leytonstone, including Communicants' roll books 1905-1939; register of baptisms, 1891-1938; Court of Session minute books, 1897-1939; Managers' minute books, 1891-1929; Treasurer's cash book, 1931-1939 and newspaper clippings, correspondence and music manuscript, 1937-1948.

Presbyterian Church of England
LIBAU ANGLICAN CHAPLAINCY
GB 0074 CLC/375 · Collection · 1892-1928

Registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials at Libau Anglican Chaplaincy, Latvia.

Libau Anglican Chaplaincy , Latvia
LIBERATION SOCIETY
GB 0074 A/LIB · Collection · 1554-1956

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

British Anti-State Church Association , 1844-1853 Society for the Liberation of Religion from State-Patronage and Control x Liberation Society
GB 106 7VLI · Fonds · 1908-1996

The archive consists of memorabilia of suffrage activities including press cuttings, objects and hunger-strike medal; publications and manuscript material on the ordination of women and animal protection; correspondence; correspondence from Hove Borough Council relating to a commemorative plaque and photographs.

Lidiard , Victoria Simmonds , 1889-1992 , suffragette
GB 0074 CLC/192 · Collection · 1692-1764

Records of Lime Street Independent Meeting House, comprising a church book including lists of members, minutes of meetings, and copies of letters.

Lime Street Independent Meeting House
LMA/4270 · Collection · 1849-1850

Handwritten volume of transcriptions of sermons given by Reverend Henry John Gamble, delivered between 1849 and 1850.

Also seventeenth century reprint of book of sermons (including the 39 Articles) dating to 1562. The book could have belonged to the Reverend Gamble or to the Congregational Church, Linden Grove, Camberwell.

Congregational Church of England and Wales
LISMORE CIRCUS MISSION
N/M/029 · Collection · 1877-1880

Minutes of Sub Committee and General Committee of the Great Queen Street Circuit, 1877-1878; plan showing proposed site for Chapel and Schools at Agincourt Road, 1880?; draft proposed terms of purchase for plot of land on the north east of Agincourt Road, 1880 and correspondence concerning proposed Chapel in Agincourt Road (Gospel Oak site), 1880.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
GB 0074 DRO/082 · Collection · 1892-1985

Records of the parish of Saint Peter and the District Church of Little St Peter, Cricklewood, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, banns of marriage, and church services; financial accounts; and minutes.

Parish of St Peter, Cricklewood , Church of England District Church of Little St Peter, Cricklewood , Church of England
GB 0102 MS 380645 · (1805-1948), 1995

Papers relating to William Lockhart, comprising transcripts, 1995, of 170 letters (1805-1948) to and from William Lockhart and his family. The majority of the letters date from the periods 1833-1834, when he was studying in Dublin and London, and 1841-1844, when he first arrived in China. Also included is a typescript biography by A P Hughes, 'Dr William Lockhart 1811-1896: Medical Missionary to China', 1995.

Hughes , Alan P , fl 1995
LMA/4008 · Collection · 1866-1976

Records of the London Central Mission Methodist Circuit, 1866-1976, including records of the circuit itself and the records of the following constituent churches and missions: St. John's Square Church, Clerkenwell (LMA/4008/SJS); Islington Central Methodist Church and its predecessors (LMA/4008/ICMC); Haggerston Church (LMA/4008/HAG); Maidstone Street Church/Harbour Light Church (LMA/4008/MSHL); Camden Street and Camden Town Churches (LMA/4008/CAM); Kings' Cross Mission, Crestfield Street (LMA/4008/KCCM); Kings' Cross Mission, Charlotte Street/Carnegie Street (LMA/4008/KCCS); Caledonian Road Primitive Methodist Church (LMA/4008/CRPM); Caledonian Road Wesleyan Methodist Church (LMA/4008/CRWM); Mayfield Road, Dalston Church (LMA/4008/MRD); Penton Hall/Twyford Hall Church (LMA/4008/PHTH); Railton Road, Herne Hill Church (LMA/4008/RRHH).

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
LONDON CONGREGATIONAL UNION
N/LCU · Collection · 1628-1910

Administrative records of the London Congregational Union, 1851-1966, including membership registers, minute books, papers regarding properties of which the London Congregational Union is trustee, annual reports, magazines and booklets, correspondence with individual churches in the London Union and on subjects such as missions, chaplains, finance, fundraising and church groups.

Also records of the London Congregational Chapel Building Society (later Chapel Building Section of London Congregational Union), 1848-1942, including minutes, financial accounts and reports.

Records of the North District of the London Congregational Union, 1938-1959, including minutes and constitution.

Records of the London Board of Congregational Ministers, 1928-1951, including membership registers, subscriptions and financial accounts.

Records of Nathaniel Bromley's Charity, 1628-1939, including financial accounts, deeds, leases, mortgages, conveyances and sale documents.

Deed for the Congregational Memorial Hall, 1872.

Book recording grants given from Williamson's Trust 'to help poor Dissenting Ministers', 1883-1896.

Map from the Hornsey and Highgate Council of Evangelical Free Churches showing Free Church parishes in Hornsey and Highgate, 1910?

Memoirs of Reverend Richard J Evans, Secretary of the London Congregational Union, 1907-1941 and Moderator, 1935-1941.

Minute book of the Hornsey And Islington District of the London Congregational Union, 1960-1972.

Congregational Church of England and Wales
GB 0074 A/LWC · Collection · 1889-1968

Records of the London Diocesan Council for Welcare, 1889-1968, including Council minutes; Executive Committee minutes; Finance Committee minutes; Ladies' Committee minutes; Men's Committee minutes; annual reports of the Church of England Moral Welfare Council; press cuttings; scrapbook and history "The Wel-care Story: 75 years of Christian Social Service in London".

Records of local branches of the London Diocesan Council for Welcare, including Ruri-decanal associations, Moral Welfare Councils, Associations for Moral Welfare, hostels, refuges and homes, and Preventative and Rescue Associations. Papers include financial accounts, annual reports and committee minutes. Also indoor case histories for Saint Agnes' Home, Hammersmith.

London Diocesan Council for Welcare x London Diocesan Council for Penitentiary, Rescue and Preventative Work x London Diocesan Association for Moral Welfare
GB 0074 LMA/4178 · Collection · 1962-1993

Records of the London Diocesan Council for Welcare, 1962-1993, comprising annual reports of the London Diocesan Council for Moral Welfare, annual reports of the London Diocesan Council for Welcare and annual reports of local branch associations in Westminster, Willesden, Brent, Camden, Hampstead and Hounslow.

London Diocesan Council for Welcare x London Diocesan Council for Penitentiary, Rescue and Preventative Work x London Diocesan Association for Moral Welfare
GB 0074 LMA/4623 · Collection · 1954 - 2011

Records of the London Districts Wesley Guild Council, 1954-2011, including council minute book and cash book.

London Districts Wesley Guild Council
ACC/1850-2 · Collection · 1901-1935

Records relating to London Fields Methodist Mission, Hackney, comprising list of trustees, 1901 and correspondence concerning the sale of London Fields Mission premises to the London County Council, 1935.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
N/M/014 · Collection · 1809-1829

Minutes of the Committee of the Methodist Sunday School Society, 1809-1829 and minutes of the General Meetings of the Methodist Sunday School Society, 1810-1824.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
ACC/2574 · Collection · 1964-1983

Quarterly Meeting minutes, 1966-1974, for the London Methodist Mission (North) Circuit.

Also Leader's Meeting minutes, 1964-1972 and Leader's Meeting and Church Council minutes, 1972-1983 for Quex Road Methodist Church.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
ACC/1609 · Collection · 1877-1960

Records, 1877-1960, of the Fernhead Road Methodist Church (minute books and notices); the Harrow Road Methodist Church (insurance policies); the Sutherland Avenue Methodist Church (papers regarding property and trusteeship, financial accounts, minute books, pulpit notices books, attendance registers, Sunday School papers); and the London Methodist Mission (North West) Circuit (financial accounts).

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
ACC/2707 · Collection · 1897-1980

Records of the London Methodist Mission (Tooting) Circuit and its constituent Wesleyan and Primitive Chapels, 1897-1980: Balham Hill Church, Colliers Wood Methodist Mission, Emmanuel Mission Hall, Mitcham Church, Southfields Methodist Society, Tooting Central Hall, and Primitive Methodist Churches in Lynwood Road and Oldridge Road, including minutes of various meetings including Local Preachers, Overseas Missions, Women's and Finance Committees; Circuit Schedules; registers of baptisms; financial accounts; correspondence; newsletters; postcards; programmes and histories.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
ACC/3756 · Collection · 1915-1931

Annual reports of the West London Methodist Mission: "The Work of a Year in Pictures", 1929-1930 and "West London: Its Glory and Tragedy", 1930-1931. Both reports are well illustrated with photographs showing the work of the Mission.

Also typescript document entitled "Church Story: A history of Holly Park Methodist Church, Crouch Hill (Highgate Circuit)" outlining the history of the Church from 1875 to 1927.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
N/M/001 · Collection · 1807-1904

Quarterly Meetings minute books, 1807-1847; ledger, 1807-1812; Chapel Fund ledger, 1815-1823 and account books, 1874-1904.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
GB 0102 MS 380624 · 1828

Photocopies of three letters, 1828, concerning the financial affairs of the London Missionary Society mission in Siberia.

LMS , London Missionary Society
LONDON PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY
GB 0074 CLC/085 · Collection · 1647-1660

Record book of the London Provincial Assembly, 1647-1660.

London Provincial Assembly , Presbyterian synod
GB 0074 ACC/3686 · Collection · 1925-1995

Records of the London Society for Jews and Christians, including minute books; correspondence; financial accounts; reports; bulletins; press cuttings; papers for publication; copies of talks; and programmes and advertisements for meetings and conferences.

London Society for Jews and Christians
GB 0074 LMA/4620 · Collection · 1933 - 1957

Records of the London South Methodist District, 1933-1957, including Youth Committee minute book.

London South Methodist District
LONDON WALL SCOTCH CHURCH
LMA/4356 · Collection · 1822-1836

Register of baptisms, 1822-1836.

Presbyterian Church of England
ACC/2117 · Collection · 1932-1979

Records of Long Lane Methodist Church comprising marriage registers, 1963-1979; Trustees' Treasurer's accounts, 1932-1969; records concerning new building, 1960-1969; Leaders' meetings minutes, 1932 1970 and collection journals, 1943-1972.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
Lucas, Edith M
GB 0102 MS 380627 · 1890-1891

Photocopy of a manuscript letterbook, 1890-1891, of Edith M Lucas, containing copies of circular letters to her friends describing missionary work, her experiences in China, her religious reflections, also including an account of Jews in China.

Cox , Edith M , fl 1890-1891 , née Lucas , missionary
LMA/4307 · Collection · 1883-1955

Records of Lyndhurst Road Congregational Church, Hampstead, comprising Church manuals including reports and Ministers addresses, 1883-1891; Lyndhurst Road Church news sheet, 1935 and Lyndhurst Hall report, 1954-1955.

Congregational Church of England and Wales
GB 0102 PP MS 1 · Created c1820-1893

Personal, estate and business papers, c1820-1893, accumulated by Sir William Mackinnon, predominantly during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The material covers a wide range of commercial, imperial and humanitarian topics, and includes correspondence and papers relating to the Imperial British East Africa Company, the British India Steam Navigation Co. and the City of Glasgow Bank.

Mackinnon , Sir , William , 1823-1893 , 1st Baronet , founder of the Imperial British East Africa Company
GB 0096 MS333 · Fonds · 1509-1750

Documents, including terriers and notarial instruments, relating to the church of Nuestra Senora de Atocha of Madrid.

Unknown
LMA/4409 · Collection · 1870-1951

Records of Christ's Church Presbyterian Church, Maidstone, comprising minute book of the Provisional Committee, 1873-1874; minute book of the Committee, 1875-1881 and financial accounts, 1873-1881.

Records of the Presbyterian Preaching Station, London Road, Maidstone, comprising minute book of the Board of Management, 1947-1951 and Women's Missionary Association minute book, 1949.

Presbyterian Church of England
LMA/4008/MSHL · Subfonds · 1853-1954

Records of the Maidstone Street Methodist Church, Haggerston, later the Harbour Light Church, Goldsmith's Row, Haggerston, including registers of baptisms, 1897-1944; papers regarding membership of the Church; minute books for Church Meetings, Leader's Meetings and other church committees; Trustees' meeting minutes, correspondence and financial accounts; papers of the Sunday School and leaflets, including a history of the church to 1946.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
MALAGA ANGLICAN CHAPLAINCY
GB 0074 CLC/376 · Collection · 1842-1965

Records of Malaga Anglican Chaplaincy, Spain, comprising: register of baptisms, 1850-1899, marriage, 1853, and burials, 1850-1855 (Ms 29845); minutes, 1883-1893, 1909-1965 (Ms 29846); letter book, 1842-1867 (Ms 29847); and "donation book", 1850-1931 (Ms 29848). They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1995.

Malaga Anglican Chaplaincy , Spain
Malogranatum Manuscript
GB 0103 MS LAT 21 · 15th century

Manuscript volume, 15th century, containing 'De Confessione, liber primus': book one (of three) of the Malogranatum ascribed to Gallus, abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Königssaal, Bohemia.

The binding incorporates part of a 12th-century treatise on music. The leaf on each front board contained an alphabetical list of 36 antiphons.

Unknown
ACC/1850-3 · Collection · 1879-1938

Manchester Road (Cubitt Town) Methodist Church Trust Treasurer's account book, 1879-1938.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
GB 0102 MS 380302 · Created 1913-1938, c1967

Papers, 1913-1938, c1967, some undated, of the Rev Ebenezer Mann and his wife Mabel Mann. They include published newsletters (1913-1938) from Ebenezer and Mabel Mann, detailing their work in Kansu province, China; parts of a typescript work by Ebenezer Mann relating to his years in China; autobiographical notes made by Mabel Mann; and a small collection of photographs of China including photographs (1920-1921) of the aftermath of the earthquake in Lanchow, Kansu province. Also included is a list (1934) of missions and workers in China with the China Inland Mission, prepared by Ebenezer Mann.

Mann , Ebenezer John , 1881-1957 , missionary Mann , Mabel , 1883-1977 , missionary
ACC/1850-4 · Collection · 1917

Memorandum of appointment of new trustees for the Methodist Chapel and School, Maria Street, 1917.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
N/C/02 · Collection · 1856-1952

Records of Chelsea Congregational Church, Markham Square including volume containing roll of members, 1884-1952; Church Book, 1856-1939, including historical account of Church, 1902, minutes of Church Meetings, 1867-1887, register of marriages, 1892-1939 and register of baptisms, 1868-1939; minute books of Church Meetings, 1856-1867 (includes account of foundation) and 1888-1930.

Congregational Church of England and Wales
MARSDEN, William (1754-1836)
GB 0100 KCLCA Marsden · c1580-1805

Manuscripts collected by William Marsden, including letters and other material, 1627-1668, relating to Portuguese Catholic missionaries in India, some from Ajmir and Agra, and Tibet; martyrology of Portuguese missionaries in India and other parts of Asia, [17th century]; manuscript entitled 'Principio do dereito q. tem el Rey de Portugal da Ilha de Goa...1595', bound with 'Livro tresladado dos contos de Goa de todos os ordenados q. Sua Magestade da na India...', both 1658, also with cipher used presumably by the Jesuits, 'Cifra da Compa. q. devem ter todos os superiores...'; texts, grammars and vocabularies, [17th-18th centuries], including Welsh; Icelandic; Kannada; Tamil fragments, some on palmyra leaves; Javanese text; Tagalog fragments; 'Bocabulario Tagalo', [c1580]; 'Vocabulario de la lengua Iloca'; manuscript letter from C T de Murr to William Marsden, 24 Feb 1797, regarding the Bibliotheca glottica universalis, with accompanying typescript transcription; Ionian (Greek) newspaper concerning King George III, 1805.

Marsden , William , 1754-1836 , orientalist and numismatist
ACC/1850-5 · Collection · 1861-1940

Records of Mary Street Methodist Church, Canning Town, including registers of baptism, 1861-1940; request for a piece of land next to Mary Street Chapel to be registered as a place of worship, 18 Feb 1884 and collection journal and Society Stewards's record, 1930-1940.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
N/M/046 · Collection · 1914-1940

Register of marriages, 1914-1940.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
LMA/4365 · Collection · 1734-1958

Records of Marylebone Presbyterian Church, including Court of Session minute books for predecessor Swallow Street Church, 1734-1806, including a brief history of Swallow Street Meeting House; Court of Session minute books, 1843-1958, including a history; Deacon's Court minute books, 1847-1958; Women's Missionary Association minute book, 1919-1958; House Committee minute book, 1899-1900; Bell Street Mission minute book, 1886-1892; Building Committee minute book, 1844-1847; Finance and Collections Committee minute book, 1922-1933; Teachers' minute book for Lisson Street Sunday School, 1899-1938; Reports of the Four Commissions, special minute book, 1919; Scrapbook containing annual reports, 1847-1873; annual reports for 1912, 1913, 1923 and 1925; Communicants' roll book, 1856-1929; register of baptisms, 1884-1958; list of subscribers to the scheme for raising a sum of money by way of debenture for defraying the expenses of building The Presbyterian Church, Upper George Street, Marylebone, 1846; printed booklet containing lists of elders, members and seatholders, 1934; financial accounts, 1844-1958; Lease arrangement and papers relating to the purchase of a premises on Upper George Street, 1853-1879; monthly journals, 1947-1958 and photograph of W.J.Blunden, former treasurer and elder of the church who died in 1946.

Presbyterian Church of England
GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP2 · Created [1908]-1973

Lecture notebooks, [1908-1932], mainly concerning the spread of Christianity, the philosophy of religion and the concepts of evolution and immortality; typed lecture texts, 1919, on systematic theology, including the standards of doctrinal teaching, the Christian doctrines of the Incarnation and justification; texts of sermons comprising addresses by Matthews at funeral and memorial services, 1949-1960, and a file of sermons by others, 1946-1973, notably 'What do we owe to the Bible' by the Very Reverend William Ralph Inge, Dean of St Paul's, London.

Matthews , Walter Robert , 1881-1973 , Anglican Clergyman
ACC/1388-24 · Collection · 1931-1963

Registers of marriages, 1931-1963.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP83 · c1830-1972

Correspondence and papers of and relating to Frederick Denison Maurice, c1830-1972, including a letter from Maurice to his mother, 1833; the manuscript, c1830-c1834, of Maurice's novel Eustace Conway (published in three volumes, Richard Bentley, London, 1834); ordination certificates and licences to preach, 1834-1871; various pamphlets by Maurice, 1841-1859, including a letter to Samuel Wilberforce on reasons for not joining a party in the church, 1841, one on education, 1847, and a plan for a female college, 1855; five manuscript letters, undated [? 1843], to Sara Coleridge, daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, on religious subjects and bereavement and commenting on her Essay on Rationalism (1843); King's College London correspondence, comprising letters from Maurice, 1841-1853 and undated, pertaining to teaching, students, academic and College matters, including his professorship of Divinity, 1846, and correspondence between Maurice and Richard William Jelf, Principal of King's College London, to be laid before Council, 1853; printed material including copies of the correspondence between Maurice and Jelf, 1853; manuscript letter from Maurice to 'My dear Friends' via Brooke Lambert on leaving King's, 1853; manuscript letter from J[ulius] C Hare to [Derwent] Coleridge (son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge), 1853, concerning a protest against Maurice's expulsion from his theological professorship at King's College; newspapers and news cuttings on Maurice's dismissal by the Council of King's College, 1853; a copy of Maurice's The Doctrine of Sacrifice (1854), inscribed by him; manuscript letter from Charles Kingsley, 1859, soliciting Maurice's help in finding a curate; engraving of Maurice, 1860; manuscript sermon by Maurice on Proverbs c XII v 20, 'Deceit is in the heart ... ', given at St Peter's, Vere Street, [1860s]; copy of Maurice's The Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven (1864), inscribed to his son J F Maurice. A scrapbook contains two letters from Maurice to Miss Duncan, one dated 1868 and thanking her for a gift; printed obituaries of Maurice, including news cuttings; portraits of Maurice, including a photograph; a printed catalogue of his works; a printed leaflet on the Working Men's College, London, 1872; manuscript notes (not Maurice's) on sermons preached by him; a printed sermon on Maurice by Charles Kingsley, 1873, for an industrial school for girls in Charlotte Street, Portland Place, London (established by Maurice in 1867); manuscript extracts of letters from T[homas] Hughes (the author?) to Maurice. Other printed material comprises articles and sermons on Maurice's death in 1872, and items relating to a dinner held at Lincoln's Inn, 1972, for its centenary. A manuscript letter from Emily Hill to Mrs Shaen, 1872, describes Maurice's death and a manuscript letter from Charles Kingsley to Maurice's widow, 1872, thanks her for a Greek testament. Other memorabilia relate to Maurice, his family, and friends.

Maurice , Frederick Denison , 1805-1872 , theologian and Christian Socialist
LMA/4008/MRD · Subfonds · 1943-1956

Records of the Dalston Methodist Church, Mayfield Road, 1943-1956, comprising correspondence and papers concerning war damage and re-building, and leaflet advertising Sunday School anniversary.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church