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Papers, 1737-1890, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including a mortgage, leases, a bond, conveyances and a deed for various properties in Ealing, Edmonton, Hampton Wick and Harrow; copies from court roll of manor of Enfield; various probates and marriage settlements, and declarations of trust and deeds for charities in Great Stanmore.

Records of the Westen family relating to property in Staines and Stanwell, including leases, lease and releases, copies of wills, bonds, conveyances, and deed of feoffment.

Legal papers from the office of Sir George Stephen, barrister and solicitor, 1807-1841, including writs issued to Sheriffs of London to take up various persons to answer charges in the Court of King's Bench and Court of Exchequer, 1807, 1822, 1826, 1827, 1832 and 1838; memorial of assignment of lease of land in Saint George Hanover Square, 1815; petition for commission in bankruptcy, by Robert Lang of Wilson Street, Finsbury, merchant, against William Abbott, merchant, dealer and chapman, partner with Richard Arthur Maitland of Madras, East Indies, in firm of Abbott and Maitland, 1820; subpoenas for various persons to appear at Gaol Delivery Sessions for City of London to testify against William White and others for felony, 1821; subpoena for George Holt to appear at Middlesex Sessions of the Peace to testify touching bill of indictment against Thomas Odderley Phipps for libel, 1821; correspondence, 1834-1835, and form of proposal for sale of reversionary interest in personal property of Henry Laing of Camberwell, 1841.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including fines (right hand indenture) and feoffments (livery of seisin endorsed) for lands at Upper Halliford, Sunbury, 1598-1630; papers relating to members of the Piper family of Sunbury and their property at Upper Halliford, Sunbury, 1702-1749; papers relating to members of the Dench family and their property at Upper Halliford, Sunbury, 1751-1776; papers relating to members of the Harris family of Sunbury, 1777-1786.

Lease of premises in Bethnal Green by Henry Merceron for use as an arms and clothing store by the Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Hamlets Militia. Includes schedule of fixtures and fittings and a marginal plan.

Records of the Hawley family recording property transactions in Isleworth, Brentford, Ealing, Hanwell, Stanwell, Harrow Weald, Whitechapel and the City of London as well as outside London in Cambridgeshire, Kent, Shropshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire. The records include leases, fines, deeds, marriage settlements, releases and conveyances.

Papers relating to the Breakspears Estate in Harefield and the families who lived there, particuarly the Ashby family and Joseph Partridge. The papers include legal documents relating to property transactions in Harefield and maps and photographs of the Breakspears estate.

There are also papers relating to property transactions in other parts of Middlesex including Edmonton, Enfield, Ickenham, Ruislip and Teddington; and other counties including Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Bedfordshire and Berkshire.

Papers of the trustees of the will of Jonathan Passingham, relating to the management of Heston Farm, North Hyde Farm, and the Depot Estates, Heston.

Extracts of court rolls, admissions and surrenders for the Manor of Hendon; all relating to premises owned by the Nicoll family.

This collection comprises: a statement of the rates and tithes owed by Phineas Davis and Henry Ward, 1834; a report of the Vestry Committee on the receipt and expenditure of the Middlesex County Rate in Saint Marylebone, 1835; Metropolitan Police criminal returns and comparative statistics, 1831-1836; and lists of voters in Ealing.

Records of the Dewell family of Brentford, relating to property in Old Brentford, New Brentford, Hanwell, Chiswick and Isleworth, including wills, leases, extracts from court rolls and legal opinion.

Papers, 1575-1841, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including deeds, leases and releases, conveyances, wills and probate, fines, bonds, particulars of sale, letters and extracts from parish registers; most relating to land in Edmonton, Standon and the City of London.

Papers purchased from E. Joseph, bookseller of Charing Cross Road, including copies from the Court Roll of Isleworth Syon Manor, Twickenham, relating to the lease of lands belonging to the manor, 1697-1796; lease for land in Eastfield and in Holloway Shott, Twickenham, 1719 and 1723; Decree and Order of Master of the Rolls for the sale of freehold, copyhold and leasehold of estates left by John Gray in his will, Twickenham, 1751; lease for 21 years for land with a garden, coach house and stables in Montpellier Row, Twickenham, 1811. Also lease for land in Saint Mary, Islington, 1824.

Records of Teddington Manor, comprising court books, index to the court books and plan of an estate in the parish of Teddington.

Legal documents, copies of wills and deeds, 1802-1935, relating to properties and estates in various locations including Pinner, the City of London, Woolwich and Islington. Also probate of will of James Yates of Lauderdale House, Highgate, including bequest of railway stock to University College, London to found Professorship of Archaeology, 1871.

Records of the Manor of Cowley Peachey, Colham, Hillingdon; comprising court book for views of frankpledge with courts baron; rental and survey; and statement of quit rents.

Letter from Harold G Broadbridge, Coroner for the County of Middlesex Western Division, to Mr G Chandler, County Councillor, regarding the holding of his first sitting at the Court at Ealing Town Hall.

A collection of personal Acts of Parliament relating to Middlesex; concerning the disposal, sale or conveyance of various estates and lands; and the enclosure of Hanworth, Feltham, Sunbury, Cowley, Hillingdon, Great Stanmore, Hamwell, Hatton, East Bedfont, Chiswick and Harmondsworth.

Memorandum on fires in London and other places, 1778; with inventory and valuation of furniture for Bydorp House, Hanwell, undated (late 18th century).

Records relating to property owned by the Twining family in Alperton and Twickenham, including fines, grants, leases, releases, probates, covenants, extracts from court rolls, inventory, certificates and articles of partnership.

Papers of the Wood family relating to property in Littleton, Laleham, Shepperton, Staines, Harmondsworth, and Stanwell.

Royal Writ of Privy Seal proclaiming Edmund Dunch a rebel because of his non-appearance at the Court of the King's Council at Whitehall, and ordering that he be arrested, 1639.

Papers relating to the Warren House estate in Great Stanmore, including deeds, covenants, leases, assignments, conveyances, extracts from wills, grants and agreements.

Plan of Dovecote Estate in Hornsey, 1882, with one sheet from the Ordnance Survey map of London, 1869-1872.

Plans for the Northern and Southern Railway from Staines to Uxbridge and Harefield, 1845; plans for a projected railway through Acton, Old Brentford, Hounslow, Bedfont, Stanwell and Staines, Isleworth and Twickenham; book of reference of the Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway, 1847. Also assorted sales catalogues for live and dead stock, farm stock, growing crops, corn, furniture, bricks, 1850-1908.

Title deeds for Vartry Lodge (also known as Albion Lodge), Tottenham, including leases, releases, conveyances, and mortgages.

Records of the Manor of Harrow alias Sudbury, including court books (court leet and court baron); minute book and custumal. Records of the Manor of Harrow Rectory, including court books (court leet and court baron) and minute book. Records of both manors including quit rent books; account books; steward's papers; voters lists and enclosure records. Also sales particulars for premises at Roxeth, Alperton and Northolt.

Records of the Mill Hill Chapel, Hendon, including article of agreement stating that Zachariah and James Bowden and William Wilberforce of Highwood Hill, Hendon agree to build chapel at Mill Hill, Hendon, 1829; declarations regarding the quality of the brickwork used in the chapel, 1830; statements of account, 1833; receipts and correspondence relating to the construction of the chapel, 1829-1831; statement of expenditure by William Wilberforce for the erection of stables and coach-house at the Three Crowns, Highwood Hill, Hendon, 1828; assignments of annuity relating to Fysh Coppinger, London merchant, 1767; petition of Sir John Gibbons and others to the Court of Chancery concerning deeds, books and papers relating to Stanwell Free School, 1820 and letters patent granted to Alexander Tolhausen of Adelphi, London, for a "Machine for Cutting Articles of Polygonal figure in wood or other material", 1856.

Papers relating to property owned by the Ashburnham family, including assignments of lease for premises in the precinct of the dissolved monastery of Westminster [later Ashburnham House, Dean's Yard]; agreements, leases, inventories, valuations and insurance documents for Ashburnham House, Dover Street, Piccadilly; and papers relating to property in Chiswick and Chelsea.

Three Christmas cards and a photograph of the Dibdin Bachelors Club Dance, Ealing.

Overseers' records from the parish of Saint Mary the Virgin, Twickenham; comprising demands from the Clerk of Peace to the Overseers of the Poor of Twickenham for the County Rate and Rate under Lunatic Asylum Act, accompanied by relevant printed reports of Quarter Sessions, County Treasurers' Accounts and lists of demands outstanding.

Map of the parish of Harrow as enclosed by Act of Parliament, 1818.

Papers of Grundey Hooper, solicitors, including copy of Act for improving navigation of River Lee from Town of Hertford to River Thames; and for extending said navigation to floodgates belonging to Town Mill in Town of Hertford, 1767; legal papers relating to a case, the proprietors of Water of River Lee against Thomas Gates for unlawful fishing at Hackney, 1780; legal documents relating to The King against John Marks (indicted in the name of James) on the prosecution of William Sharpe, for assault, 1781; legal documents relating to The King against Joseph White and William Sharp, both of Hendon, for assault against Henry Copland, 1778-1781; legal papers relating to The King against Robert Davis alias Gaby and Thomas Diter, on the prosecution of John Etheridge for a robbery near the Swan, Hendon, 1781; statements of costs for various cases, 1781-1784; legal papers relating to James Ebenezer Mosely versus George Denton, Chief Beadle of Whitecross Street Liberty and John Evans, Headboro' of Whitecross Street Liberty in Manor of Finsbury, for assault and false imprisonment, 1780-1781; legal papers relating to an Appeal for release from "pressed" service in Navy by James Gray of Highgate, apprentice to Benjamin Pawley, of Jewin Street, baker, who made a voyage on board a Privateer with his master's consent and was impressed from the privateer into the Navy, 1779-1780; legal papers relating to case brought by John Ketcher Watchman of Liberty of Moorfields in Shoreditch, who discovered Joseph Lee and John Cox stealing lead from empty house in Crown Alley, in consequence of which they were committed to Newgate, 1785; legal papers relating to petition of John Seager of Swinton Street, Saint Pancras, builder and others regarding the notice of intention by the Trustees of Turnpike Road leading to Highgate Gatehouse and Hampstead and their lessee, John Evans, to apply for Writ of Certiorari to remove into Kings Bench an order made by Justices of Peace for Middlesex at Quarter Sessions on 22 October 1778 to remove the Turnpike at the end of Grays Inn Lane, 1778; legal papers relating to case of Charles Greentree, indebted to William Montagu in sum of £67 on promissory note payable to Thomas Worraker, 1777; draft agreements; will of Susanna Mole of Isleworth, 1893 and declaration by Middlesex Magistrates, setting out chief items of expenditure, in answer to a petition, 1811.

Maps of the parish of Harrow on the Hill, surveyed for the purposes of the parochial assessment, 1851-1852.

Collection of ephemera, 1857-1869 and undated {1850s-1860s}, largely printed, including playbills, programmes, song sheets, catalogues and guides, relating to events, including sport, music, fireworks, fountains and illuminations, at the Crystal Palace (Sydenham, Kent); to operas at the Royal English Opera and the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden (Westminster); and to theatrical, musical and other recreational events, including comedies, ballets, tableaux, dioramas, exhibitions, and popular scientific events, at various premises including in Westminster, St Marylebone, Paddington, St Pancras, St Giles in the Fields, South Kensington, Kew, and Greenwich.

Records of the Manor of Sunbury and other property of John Cornelius Park in Sunbury, Teddington and Walton, and records of the Pride family in Hendon, Golders Green and Streatham. The records include court rolls, court books, surveys, book of customs, plans, papers relating to stewards, deeds and other property ownership documents, legal papers and financial records.

Printed copy of an Act of Parliament for repairing the Bedfont Road.

Papers relating to the enclosure in Hillingdon and Cowley, including minutes of proprietors' meetings and copy of the "Bill for Dividing and Inclosing Common Fields in the parishes of Hillingdon and Cowley".

Records of the Wolley family of Clifton, Bristol, including diaries and notebooks of Thomas Lamplugh Wolley, including account of travels in Europe visiting Germany, Belgium, France and Italy, and account of military service; family letters; financial accounts; and genealogical notes.

Papers, 1813-1881, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including extracts from court rolls, mortgages and conveyances relating to properties in South Mimms, Limehouse, Somers Town, and Tottenham.

Appointment of John Manley, gentleman, as Clerk of the Western Regiment of the Middlesex Militia, by Lieutenant Colonel John Brettell, Commanding Officer, 26 May 1785.

Records of the Manor of Little Stanmore, comprising court books and minute book; and records of the Manor of Great Stanmore comprising court books, minute book, conveyance, and compensation agreements.

Records of Truman Hanbury Buxton and Co Ltd, 1871-1977, comprising deeds, leases, mortgages and licence to make alterations relating to the Prince of Wales Tavern, Church Street, Acton.

Papers, 1718-1834, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including lease and plan for Brent Farm, Ealing; will of Jonas Jeffreys of Edmonton, servant to Sir Bigbye Lake; admissions relating to various pieces of land; mortgage for land in Edmonton.

Correspondence files of Richard Ellis and Son, surveyors, relating to properties in Acton, Chiswick, Ealing, Edmonton, Finchley, Hanwell, Harrow, Hendon, Heston, Highgate, Hillingdon, Hornsey, Hounslow, Isleworth, Kilburn, Saint Pancras, Teddington, Tottenham, Twickenham, West Drayton and Willesden, 1836-1930.

Papers relating to a bazaar held to raise funds for the Convalescent Home for Children, Highgate.

A letter from the Lord Bishop of London to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster on the occasion of the Late Earthquakes, printed pamphlet.

Papers of Jessop and Gough, solicitors, 1726-1920, including practice papers; papers arising from work as clerks to Edmonton petty sessions, relating to licensing, rates, school attendance and certain other matters; list of Guardians of Edmonton Union, elected between 1865 and 1879; vestry papers for Waltham Abbey parish, and correspondence. The papers relate mainly to Edmonton and Enfield, but also Wood Green, Kentish Town, Islington, Waltham Abbey, Hendon, Ponders End, Cricklewood, Lea Valley, Harrow, Lee, Catford and Tottenham.

Sale Catalogues for properties and businesses in Enfield, Little Hadham, South Mimms and Waltham Cross, 1929-1944.

Papers, 1473-1912, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to the manor of Kingsbury, 1473, and the manor of Coferers, 1550-1555; legal documents, notes and legal case papers relating to properties bequeathed to James Pateshel Jones, 1624-1891; and legal documents relating to various properties and families, including wills, marriage settlements, leases, deeds and mortages for premises in several locations, mainly Acton, Edmonton, Enfield, Finchley and South Mimms.