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Records of Shaw and Sons Limited, publishers, including agreements with authors; notes on books published; financial accounts; and catalogue.

Records of clients of the predecessor accountancy firms of Buzzacott and Company, chartered accountants. The records comprise financial material (ledgers, journals, cash books and accounts) for the following companies: Campbell Oil Engine Company; Croydon Automobile Company; Down, Son and Harper; Noble Enterprises; Scott Trust; and Tubal Cain Foundry and Engine Works.

There are no records of Buzzacott and Company in this collection. 24 hours notice is required to view this material.

Account book for the Little St Helen's Independent Church.

Records of Sion College, a society of Anglican clergy. The majority of the collection dates from 1631, with deeds from 1611. The records include notes on the history of the College; constitution, rules and bye-laws; Court of Governor's minutes and other Committee minutes; annual reports; financial accounts; lists of Fellows and subscription books; letter books and correspondence; papers of the Secretary; legal papers; menus and invitations to events; newsletters and promotional material; press cuttings; papers relating to properties and estates owned by the College; papers relating to the library including committee minutes, inventories, lists of borrowed books and registers of rebinding; photographs of past Presidents and Fellows; and photographs of the Library and College.

Records of the Priory of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, comprising Prior's household accounts and cartulary compiled circa 1426 containing a narrative history of the priory and copies of documents.

"Rules of the Monastery of Syon", probably written in the early 16th century for use by the brethren of Syon Abbey, Isleworth, Middlesex.

Papers of the Aldgate Ward School, City of London. The records comprise committee minutes, financial accounts, attendance registers and guarantees, lists of benefactors, correspondence and deeds.

Records of the City and Guilds of London Institute. The records comprise those of the Institute itself and those of its constituent parts, including the Central Institution, Finsbury Technical College, South London Technical Art School and the Leather Trades School.

The records of the Institute and its constituent parts are now arranged as follows:

1. RECORDS RE CONSTITUTION AND REGULATION: Ms 21810-11
2. MINUTES: Ms 21812-34, 38278-84
3. ANNUAL REPORTS: Ms 21834-6
4. FINANCIAL RECORDS: Ms 21837-48
5. LETTER BOOKS: Ms 21849-53, 35814
6. ADDRESS BOOKS: Ms 21854-60
7. HEAD OFFICE PAPERS:
   i) General:
   a) foundation and management of the Institute: Ms 21861;
   (b) presidents, governors, hon. officers and professional advisors: Ms 21862-7, 38289-90;
   (c) staff: Ms 21868-9;
   (d) Corporation of London: Ms 21870;
   (e) Livery companies: Ms 21871, 38293;
   (f) other institutions: Ms 21872-94, 38293;
   (g) Royal commissions, government departments and Parliament: Ms 21895-903;
   (h) technical education: Ms 21904, 38291-2;
   (i) general administrative papers: Ms 38286-8.
   (ii) Examinations department/department of technology: Ms 21905
   (iii) Central Institution/ Central Technical College/ City and Guilds College: Ms 21906-9
   (iv) Imperial College: Ms 21910
   (v) Finsbury Technical College: Ms 21911-24
   (vi) Art School: Ms 21925
   (vii) Leather Trades School/ Cordwainers' Technical College: Ms 21926
   (viii) Scholarships, medals, prizegiving and articles: Ms 21927-34, 38294
8. HEAD OFFICE FILES: Ms 21935
9. PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS: Ms 21936
10. PROGRAMMES FOR COLLEGES AND EXAMINATIONS: Ms 21937
11. EXAMINATIONS DEPARTMENT/ DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY:
    (a) annual reports and examiners' and inspectors' reports: Ms 21938-41;
    (b) financial records: Ms 21942-3;
    (c) correspondence: Ms 21944, 38295;
    (d) programmes: Ms 21945;
    (e) candidates' records: Ms 21946, 38296-8
12. CENTRAL INSTITUTION/ CENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE/ CITY AND GUILDS COLLEGE:
    (a) annual reports: Ms 38285;
    (b) financial records: Ms 21947-50;
    (c) programmes: Ms 21951;
    (d) candidates' records: Ms 21952;
    (e) plans: Ms 21953;
    (f) old students' association and students' magazines: Ms 21954-9; 21985-6
13. FINSBURY TECHNICAL COLLEGE:
    (a) financial records: Ms 21960-6;
    (b) correspondence: Ms 21967-9;
    (c) programmes and prospectuses: Ms 21970-1;
    (d) students' records: Ms 21972-84, 35815;
    (e) old students' associations: Ms 21985-7
14. ART SCHOOL:
    (a) annual reports and enquiries: Ms 38299-301;
    (b) financial records: Ms 21988-91, 35816-17, 35819, 35821;
    (c) correspondence: Ms 21992, 35818-19, 38302;
    (d) programmes: Ms 21993;
    (e) students' records: Ms 21994-6, 35820;
    (f) press cuttings: Ms 38303
15. LEATHER TRADES SCHOOL:
    (a) correspondence: Ms 21997
16. "PRIDEAUX PAPERS": Ms 21998

17. LIST OF CONTENTS OF ARCHIVE FILE BOXES COMPILED BY T. G. BUNCE: Ms 21999.

    Catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff in 1985, 2004 and 2006.

The records of the Cripplegate Schools Foundation comprise minutes 1905-69 (Ms 6473-A, 35827); agendas 1915, 1929-32 (Ms 6473B) and financial records 1906-76 (Ms 20089, 35828-9). Ms 20087 includes particulars of the Foundation's constitution with list of meetings c 1951.

Records of the Red Cross Street Boys' School comprise a history of its foundation 1690-1749, which includes a list of pupils 1707-48 (Ms 75A); minutes 1809-1905 and agendas 1842-65 (Mss 6475-6); logbooks 1877-1904 (Ms 6477) and treasurers' accounts 1714-1868 (Ms 7029).

Records of Lady Holles School comprise minutes 1726-1904 (Mss 6473-4), treasurers' ledger and accounts 1710-1803, 1844-79 (Mss 10885, 20082-3). There are also some references to this school in Ms 75A. Mss 9412-3 comprise records relating to properties held by the trustees of the two schools, 1727-1853.

Records of Cornhill, Lime Street and Langbourn Wards Schools, comprising girls admission register and log books.

The only surviving records of Langbourn Ward School are trustees' minutes from 1738 and a set of rules.

Records of Tower Ward School, comprising trustees' minute books; Ladies' Committee minute books and boys' attendance register.

The records of St Dunstan's Educational Foundation are those of the office shared with the Cass Foundation (including minutes, accounts and some details of scholarships and exhibitions) and some estate records. The latter include registers of leases of the parish estate from 1581 (Ms 31258).

Records of the Castle Baynard Ward School, comprising Trustees minute books.

Papers of the City of London School, comprising list of donors and subscribers, 1832.

Case book of London boys from the Ragged School Union, admitted to a collecting centre for assisted emigrants to Canada, possibly at Walton-on-Thames, containing photographs of the boys. Readers are asked to use the facsimile version of the case book (CLC/225/MS05754A).

Collection of documents relating to schools in the City of London, including:

• account of the Society who founded the charity school in Red Cross Street, 1690-1742;
  • copy of an examinations paper on Dickens' "Pickwick Papers", 1857;
  • collection of letters relating to the City of London School, 1843-1851;
  • orders for Christ's Hospital school, 1678;
  • papers relating to legal proceedings brought against the Tower Ward School, 1881-1884;
  • address to the Drapers' Company from William Boreman's Charity School, 17--.

Papers collected by the antiquary George Scott. As well as catalogues of Scott's library (and many printed books) the collection includes George Scott's financial accounts; extracts from forest laws; abstracts of Treasury accounts; register of Queen Elizabeth I's out-letters; orders relating to the Cinque Ports; and a book of prescriptions. Also a diary of scientist Robert Hooke, 1671-1683. Please note this diary is available only with advance notice and at the discretion of the Assistant Director (Heritage).

Transcripts of an extract from "St Paul's Liber" (folios 51-54), a survey of property in London belonging to St Paul's Cathedral, 1130.

Extracts from the wills of stationers of London, 1550-1664; and lists of apprentices bound to members of the Stationers' Company, 1555-1640.

These papers of Francis and George Bent Buckley comprise antiquarian notes compiled by them from 1930 to 1938, chiefly relating to watches and 17th and 18th century London watchmakers.

The records comprise: list of lost watches of London watchmakers, c 1930 (Ms 02921); list of references to 18th-century newspaper advertisements relating to watchmakers, clockmakers and allied trades, c 1934 (Ms 03338); list of British clockmakers working outside London, 1937 (Ms 03355); and alphabetical list of glass sellers, china-men and "potters", 1938 (Ms 03384).

Extracts from the vestry books of St Bride Fleet Street, 1653-1662, compiled late 19th century.

Card index relating to the dispersal of fixtures and fittings from City of London churches. Compiled from c 1950 by Robert Haydon Harrison, with additional notes to c 1980 by Nicholas Redman.

The monumental inscriptions and armorial bearings in the churches within the City of London, a five volume work by Arthur Jewers, compiled for the Library Committee of the City of London, 1910-1919. Includes transcripts of monumental and other inscriptions in the churches, with drawings (many coloured) of armorial bearings, and extracts from wills and other genealogical notes about the persons and families commemorated. Also correspondence with the Library Committee relating to the preparation of the work, 1910-1919, and Library Committee report, 1924.

Treatise on the government and constitution of the City of London, entitled A breffe discription of the royall citie of London, capitall citie of this realme of Englande by William Smythe [Smith], citizen and haberdasher of London, 1575; and The XII Worshipfull Companies, or Misteries of London. With the armes of all them that have bin Lord Maiors of the same, for the space of almost 300 yeares; of every Company particularly. Also most part of the Sheriffs and Aldermen by William Smith, (two versions, 1605 and 1609).

Papers relating to the history of the church and parish of Saint Peter upon Cornhill, including transcripts of documents, research notes and collectanea.

Service register for the English church of Saint Olaf, Balestrand, Norway.

Records of the Anglican church of Saint Boniface, Antwerp, Belgium; comprising register of burials and registers of services.

Records of Saint Luke's Anglican Church, Davos, Switzerland, comprising counterfoils of baptism, marriage and burials certificates.

Records of Saint Mark's Anglican Church, Lucerne, comprising registers and lists of baptisms, marriages and burials. The burials include interments at the English cemetery in Meggen.

Records of Tamaris sur Mer Anglican Chaplaincy, comprising register of baptisms, 1928-70 (Ms 23623), and service register, 1925-30 (Ms 23624). They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1988.

Records of the Zermatt Anglican Chaplaincy, comprising a Commonwealth and Continental Church Society "chaplains' book", i.e. register of services.

Minutes of the London Diocesan Ordination Candidates Council.

Papers of Edward Baker, mathematical instrument maker, comprising a letter book containing correspondence with family, and a genealogy of the Baker family 1650-1776. The papers were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1977.

Scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings relating to the career of Sir George Rowland Blades.

Research notes by J G Bradford, including index to pedigrees and arms contained in the heralds' visitations in the British Museum; genealogical notes relating to members of the peerage; genealogical notes on the mayors of London; and collection of county heraldic visitations.

These documents are largely deeds and papers relating to William Clapham, including title deeds of his properties Cox Key, Fresh Wharf and Gaunt's Key with warehouses in Thames Street. Also some deeds of the Skrine family's properties in Somerset and Wiltshire (Ms 14021).

Diaries of Frederic Sydenham Clarke, employee of the Borneo Company. The entries are mostly accounts of social activities and of letters received from family and friends in England. There are very few references to his work.

Personal papers of Reverend Philip Clayton including family correspondence; personal certificates and letters of appointment; research notes; diaries; papers relating to the parish of All Hallows Barking by the Tower including sermons, newsletters, correspondence, articles, press cuttings and administration; papers relating to Toc H including articles, reminiscences, correspondence, annual reports, press cuttings, talks, papers relating to overseas visits by Clayton, papers relating to charity work, sermons, leaflets, biographical notes on people associated with Toc H, photographs, and publications by Clayton on Toc H; articles, sermons and prayers by Clayton; and photographs of Clayton and various family members.

These records include papers relating to the activities of Valens and Stephen Comyn as attorneys for the executor of Richard Marples, auditor to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral; and bills, cheques and receipts relating to the Comyn household.

Papers of the Crowley family of London, comprising inventories of goods and chattels, financial accounts and legal papers.

Records of J P Crowley comprising drawings of and notes on sundials in churches and churchyards in North Devon, 1952-62, and in Cornwall, 1957-64.

These records of the Dollond family, optical instrument makers, comprise family and estate papers and business records.

The records comprise the correspondence of Robert Goodwin in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Albany and elsewhere, and the accompanying parchment pouches in which the letters are assumed to have been stored.

These papers relate to the family of Thomas Henry Hall and include freedom admission certificates; invitations to civic entertainments, and memorabilia relating to Thomas Henry Hall.

These records comprise compilations of London signs, 1649-1767, of advertisements by goldsmiths, 1666-1731, and list of city stage-coach and carrier services, 1749.

Papers of John Henley comprising notes of lectures delivered in London on historical, political and religious subjects.

Records of Marjorie Blanche Honeybourne, including papers of Eliza Jeffries Davis, correspondence with Professor V H Galbraith regarding Eliza Jeffries Davis, and correspondence relating to the production of a London volume in the Historical Atlas of Town Plans series.

Papers of the Illidge family concerning private and family matters almost entirely, with little reference to business affairs. They include numerous deeds and records of family property in Brixton and in Dartford, Kent, and Rayleigh, Essex.

Analysis of William Willshire's early printed book collection and notes on early Christian archaeology.