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Minutes of the General Federation of Trade Unions Friendly and Collecting Society.

Minute book of the Poulterers' Benevolent Institution, 1835-41, also containing articles of the institution.

Records of Barnard's Inn civil parish, comprising poor rate assessment book and overseer's book of receipts and payments.

Record of the Surrey and Kent Commissioners of Sewers, comprising roll from a session for the county of Surrey, held at St Margarets Hill, Southwark (Paris Garden), 1640.

Records of the Westminster Paving Commissioners, comprising assignments and agreements relating to contracts and loans.

Papers of the Manor of Lambeth, Surrey, comprising admission of tenant to land on Norwood Common, and entries in the tenants' court books of the manors of Lambeth and Croydon.

Records of Loughton Manor, Essex. The records comprise an account of waste inclosed (1841-1872), compiled c 1872.

Papers of the Devonshire Square (Particular) Baptist Church and predecessor church the Turners' Hall meeting. The records comprise memoranda and constitutional documents, minutes, records of membership and attendance, and financial material. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff.

Records of the Protestant Dissenting Deputies, comprising three series of committee minute books and one secretary's letter book.

Records of Trinity Presbyterian Church, Canonbury, including minute books, financial accounts, roll of members and register of baptisms, marriages and burials.

Minute book of the Bartholomew Calvinist Chapel.

Records of the Nightingale Lane Congregational Church, East Smithfield, comprising a meeting book and a list of members only.

Interment order book for the Whitechapel Quaker Burial Ground, 1777-1781, comprising printed orders to the gravemaker, annotated with the name, address, age, date and cause of death, monthly meeting membership and date of burial of the deceased.

Records of Saint Katharine by the Tower Hospital, later known as the Royal College of Saint Katharine and the Royal Foundation of Saint Katharine. Records include charters and licences; rules and regulations; legal papers; minutes; correspondence and letter books; annual reports; financial accounts; registers of baptism, marriage and burial; banns books; Vestry minutes; papers regarding the manor of the hospital; papers regarding poor relief; papers of the Commissary Court of the Royal Peculiar including marriage allegations; papers regarding estates and properties including title deeds and surveys; maps and plans.

This catalogue also includes records deposited in the Library from the Valuation and Rates Department of the Corporation of the City of London in 1920. These volumes relate to rate assessments and poor law administration of the Precinct and probably reached the Corporation via the neighbouring parish of St Botolph Aldgate, to which the inhabitants of the Precinct would naturally have turned in 1825. Later Precinct books are catalogued within the archive of St Botolph Aldgate.

Papers of the Coleman Street Ward Schools, comprising minutes, accounts, admission registers and log books, deeds and administrative papers.

Legal papers of the Sir John Cass's Foundation, including scheme for the administration of the foundation; administrations and will of John Cass; copy of John Cass's second will; copy inventory and accounts of John Cass's goods and estates; trust deeds; trustee's petition to the Lord Chancellor regarding the school in Hackney; cases in Chancery brought against the Trustees; Charity Commissioners' reports and schemes; and grants of arms.

Records of the Sir John Cass Technical Institute, managed by Sir John Cass's Foundation. The records are mostly ledgers and accounts, with some notes and plans.

Records of the St Botolph Aldgate Parochial School, later the Sir John Cass Junior School. The surviving records of the parish school begin in 1729 (Ms 31138). These include minutes, accounts, reports, correspondence, admission registers and title deeds. Separate pupil records exist from 1896 only.

Records of the Billingsgate Ward School, comprising subscribers' minute books; trustees' minute books and treasurers' journals.

The records of Broad Street Ward School include minutes, subscription books, accounts, correspondence, admission registers and attendance books, reports, copies of hymns and deeds.

Records of the St Botolph Aldgate Union Fund apprenticeship charity, comprising Management Committee minutes; statements of accounts; and apprenticeship indentures.

History of the Cornhill and Lime Street Wards Charity Schools.

Cripplegate Within Ward Schools records, comprising minutes, attendance registers and log books, a declaration of trust, inspector's reports and deeds.

Protestant Dissenters' Charity School records comprising minutes, accounts and a list of pupils. They were catalogued by a member of the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library.

Collection of maps, plans and documents relating to Epping Forest and district. The manuscript list, to which the numbers on the maps refer, is inserted in Ms 1371. The collection includes items which relate to the manors of Chigwell (Ms 1367-8, 1394); Loughton (Ms 1375-6, 1404-5); Sewardstone (Ms 1410); and Walthamstow (Ms 1369, 1372, 1378). See also Ms 1649/15 for extracts from Loughton court rolls (1570-1867), compiled ca. 1871-5; and Ms 1660 for and an account of waste inclosed in the Manor of Loughton (1841-72), compiled ca. 1872.

Two files of research by Charles Angell Bradford relating to the history of the church and parish of Saint Sepulchre, Holborn.

Letters and papers of and concerning Maria Hackett (of 8 Crosby Square, Bishopsgate, 1783-1874), and letters relating to church music. 1782-[1910]. Compiled and collected early 20th century.

Volume of correspondence between Thomas Crofton Croker and Frederick William Fairholt, engraver and antiquary, and others, on antiquarian and private matters, also containing letters from Croker's wife Marianne, and his son Thomas Francis Dillon Croker (1831-1912), Recollections of Dillon Croker and other bound in printed items. Also scrapbook containing notes relating to Roman and other antiquities in London.

A statement of facts deduced from ancient records and other authentic sources relating to the Irish estates of the city of London companies in Ulster, compiled by Edwin Freshfield LL.D. and Edwin Freshfield, Jun.

Historical research by Marchant Alexander Gliddon, relating to the history of Hackney and Stepney, including correspondence with historian William Robinson.

A supplement, in manuscript, to English Liberty: A Collection of Interesting Tracts ... of John Wilkes, Esq (1769), compiled by Isaac Hitchcock of Stafford; comprising the printed text of English Liberty... annotated by Hitchcock, and copies of further speeches, letters, verses, newspaper cuttings, etc relating to Wilkes and his political career, with some illustrations and engravings tipped in.

Drawings of seals of monastic bodies in London, Southwark and Westminster. The drawings are by Howlett, the descriptions by his friend and patron John Caley, FRS.

Transcript of the parish registers of Saint John, Smith Square, Westminster, including baptisms 1728-1755, marriages 1728-1754 and burials 1731-1754. Also some notes made by Noble for various publications.

Notebooks comprising lists of air-raid warnings in London, giving details of times, dates and areas affected, with related newspaper cuttings pasted in.

This collection comprises a variety of unrelated items listed under the fonds 'Small Collections' for convenience. The items include: research notes, transcripts, treatises, reports, surveys, drawings, annals, chronicles, calendars, translations, newspaper cuttings, sermons, scrapbooks, books of hours and gospels, warrants, bills, accounts, sales catalogues, recipes, ships' manifests and lists. Most of the items relate to the history of the City of London or greater London, with subjects including hospitals, shops, churches, street layout, legal matters, government and Mayors, livery companies, markets, the residents of the city, inns and taverns, armorial bearings, law and order, parks, armed forces and war, taxation, monarchs, fires, the river Thames, food, medicine, topography and monumental inscriptions.

Please note that due to the age and fragility of some of the items access may be restricted. Please consult the catalogue entry for individual items for more information.

Papers of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. The records comprise: interment order books and registers of burials, [1671]-1854; accounts, 1788-1854; and a volume concerning stones taken out, 1840-1854. There are also records of monumental inscriptions, 19th century, together with alphabetical index of surnames based on a tomb survey of 1972, with plans, 1973, which are useful for locating surviving monuments.

This collection contains records which relate to the time in office of various Lord Mayors. They comprise:
diaries 1785, 1836-1838, 1847-1848, 1893-1898, 1902-1903, 1905-1908, 1913-14, 1926-7;
invitation books 1861-1862, 1886-1887, 1895-6, 1898-1899, 1905-1908, 1913-1914, 1922-1923, 1926-7;
visitors books 1856-7, 1859-1860, 1862-1866, 1868-1870, 1878-1879, 1882-3, 1886-7, 1895-1896, 1905-1906, 1907-1908, 1913-1914, 1926-1927;
autograph books 1926-7;
lists of shrieval duties 1938-9;
swordbearer's diary 1834-8.

Records of the City of London Police; comprising police rate books for each ward, 1906-1907; and precept from the Lord Mayor to ensure that ward constables and other personnel are prepared for Lord Mayor's Day, 1779.

Records relating to Lord Mayors of the City of London, including lists of Mayors since 1189; the Lord Mayor's Autograph Book (containing the signature of every Lord Mayor since 1659); notes on the procedures for ceremonies; lists of the armorial bearings of the Mayors; minutes of committees for organising entertainment at Guildhall on Lord Mayor's Days; and visitors books.

Records relating to City of London Prisons, comprising calendar of prisoners in Wood Street Compter and Poultry Compter, 1747; and affidavit concerning the removal of a prisoner from Wood Street Compter to the King's Bench Prison, 1691.

Records relating to Guildhall Library, comprising guides, catalogues and indexes to collections in the Library, including the Sun Insurance Office policy registers and City of London parish marriage licences.

Record of the Court of Wards and Liveries, comprising examinations of defendants in a court case concerning commodities in a court yard adjoining the Bull Head Tavern in Cheapside, October-November 1631.

Records of the Court of Exchequer, comprising Exchequer bill; roll of estreats of fines and forfeitures at the sessions of the peace for London and Middlesex; and record book relating to the King's revenue.

Record of the Court of Common Pleas, comprising a brief for the defendants in an action for impounding and ill-treating cattle coming to Smithfield Market. The case arose from numerous complaints about the nuisance caused in Smithfield and other streets in the city by cattle dealers driving cattle and sheep on Sunday evenings into Smithfield in order to get the best stands and pens.

Exemplification of proceedings in Chancery in the cause: the executors of the will of William Sherington, of Red Lion Square, Holborn versus Dame Mary Luckyn, widow and relict of Sir William Luckyn, of Messing Hall, Essex, and Richard Nicholls, contesting the will.

Collection of documents relating to courts and legal proceedings in London, including notes on jurisdiction and procedures; historical notes; reports on cases; briefs, case notes and proceedings; correspondence and financial accounts for various courts including the Court of Star Chamber, the Court of Exchequer, the Court of Chancery, the Court of King's Bench and Queen's Bench, and legal institutions such as Furnival's Inn, the King's Bench Prison, the Old Bailey and Marshalsea Prison.

Calendar of gaol delivery for the Middlesex House of Correction, known as Cold Bath Fields Prison, 1832.

Records of the Dean and Chapter of Saint Paul's Cathedral, London, relating to services held in the Cathedral, including:

*Register of marriages, 1697-1740 (CLC/313/F/001/MS25740). Note: THIS REGISTER MUST BE CONSULTED ON MICROFILM.

• Register of burials, 1760-1812 (CLC/313/F/002/MS25741). Note: THIS REGISTER MUST BE CONSULTED ON MICROFILM.

• For INDEXES ONLY of baptisms (to 1939), see CLC/313/F/004/MS25743/001; marriages (to 1939), see CLC/313/F/004/MS25743/002; and burials (to 1836), see CLC/313/F/004/MS25743/003.

• Register of preachers at Sunday morning services, Holy days etc., 1726-1925 (CLC/313/F/005/MS25805).

• Register of preachers at Sunday afternoon and evening services, and on weekdays etc., 1871-1912 and 1928-55 (CLC/313/F/007/MS25806/001-005).

Financial records of the Dean and Chapter of Saint Paul's Cathedral, London. Few financial records of the cathedral survive before the 16th century, when records of the Chamberlain and Receiver General appear with increased frequency (the two offices were combined in 1666).

Earlier records include:

• Register of rents and other payments due, ca. 1222-ca. 1225 (WD12) (CLC/313/G/001/MS25512);
• Account of expense of the Sacrist, 1276-80 and 1306-10 (CLC/313/G/020/MS25171/001-002);
• Accounts of the Keeper of the Bakehouse and the Brewhouse, 1340/1 (CLC/313/G/022/MS25172);
• Account of receipts from the collecting box near the north door, 1342-1344, with account of payments from the Cathedral Treasury, 1349 (CLC/313/G/023/MS25169). The accounts for 1342-1344 have been edited by HH Milman, Annals (1869), pp.516-18;
• "Quietus" (i.e. receipt) rolls for accounts rendered to the royal Exchequer, 1519-1724 (incomplete) (CLC/313/G/031/MS25439/001-046);
• Notebook of Michael Shaller, Virger and Under-Chamberlain, late 16th century, including financial accounts and some details of monuments (CLC/313/G/037/MS25532);

• Signed receipts for payments to Paul's Cross preachers, 1748-1749 and 1756-1757 (incomplete) (CLC/313/G/051/MS25599).

  Many financial records for the 19th and early 20th centuries were almost certainly destroyed in the bombing of the Chapter House in 1940. The following early modern and modern accounts may be especially useful:

• Accounts of the Chamberlain and Receiver General, 1666-1805 (CLC/313/G/018/MS25643/001-045);
• Dean and Chapter ledgers, 1938-72 (CF136/1-17);
• Dean and Chapter cash books, 1930-1971 (CF135/1-12).

Records of All Saints Anglican Church, Marseilles, France, including register of baptisms, marriages and burials; service registers and financial accounts.