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Minutes of the Housing Committee, Court of Common Council, 1957-1997, the Housing and Sports Development Committee 1998-2001, the Community Committee 2001-2005. Please note that records are closed for 30 years after the date of the last entry.

Minute book of the Joint Public Health Department Committee, 1899-1911.

Records of the Law Bills Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes and committee papers, 1842-1855 and law officers bills, 1835-1865.

Records of the Law, Parliamentary and City Courts Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes and committee papers, 1856-1956, standing orders, 1856, administrative papers and correspondence, 1846-1930.

Records of the Museum of London Board of Governors, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1961-1997 and letter books, 1962-1998. Please note that records 1975 onwards are closed.

Records of the Markets Committee, Court of Common Council, including journals, 1696-1698, 1737-1750 and 1835-1868; minute books, 1676-1680, 1737-1750 and 1835-1892; minute book of Select Markets Committee, 1874-1875; minute book and papers of Finance and Parliamentary Sub-committee, 1875-1892; committee papers, 1737-1898; collector's returns, including accounts of dues and rents, lists of tenants (1737-8), lists of gardeners, returns of empty stalls, and applications for stalls, 1729-1744; report books, 1901-1921; surveyor's reports, 1950-1962; warrant books, 1914-1920; standing orders, 1840-1841 and bill books, 1875-1892.

Records of the Officers and Clerks Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1839-1963; committee papers, 1823-1947; files, 1948-1957; report books, 1913-1931 and notes on the origins of the Committee, 1962. Please note that minutes, papers and files are closed from 1933 onwards.

Minutes of various sessions of the Officers and Clerks Committee, Court of Common Council, 1815, 1823-1827 and 1829-1834.

Registered plans from the Planning Department, 1936-1986, comprising plans, sections, elevations and photographs registered with the Planning Department as part of planning applications. Most of the buildings featured in the plans have now been demolished. The buildings include offices, public houses, schools, Livery Company Halls, restaurants, railway and underground stations, kiosks, warehouses, shops, banks, wharves, car parks, the Mermaid Theatre, the Golden Lane Coroner's Court and Mortuary, proposals for a riverside helicopter station on Upper Thames Street and a proposal to moor the paddle steamer 'Medway Queen' near Blackfriars Bridge, 1936-1986.

Records relating to the Architect of the Planning Department, Corporation of London, 1979-1992, comprising a 1981 article on Sir Horace Jones, City Architect from 1864-1887; brochure and catalogue to accompany exhibition City Changes: Architecture in the City of London 1985-1995, held at the Royal Exchange, 1992 and notes on primary sources for the study of the urban development and architecture of London, 1979.

Records relating to the Town Planning Department, Corporation of London, 1935-1997, including background studies prepared for the City of London Development Plan, on economic activity, population, housing, shopping, tourism, environmental quality, public utilities and services, St Paul's Heights, archaeology, catering facilities, recreation and leisure, social and community services, transport, walkways and pedestrians, 1976-1979; papers relating to the City of London Draft Local Plan, 1984, including written statements, proposals, maps and comments; papers relating to the City of London Local Plan, 1986-1989, including copies of the plan (including revised and updated versions), maps, statements of public consultation, lists of modifications, monitoring reports, enquiry into objections with statement and response to the recommendations of the enquiry; papers relating to the City of London Unitary Development Plan, 1991-1994, including draft of the plan, analysis of representations regarding the plan with the Corporation's response, statement of public consultation, report of enquiry into objections to the plan, statement of decisions on the enquiry's recommendations, lists of proposed modifications and final version of the plan, and City of London Monitoring Report 1986-1993: An Analysis of the policies and context of the City of London Local Plans, 1995.

Newspaper cuttings, 1935-1948, including articles on enquiries into London County Council and City of London Town Planning Schemes and the reconstruction of the city after the Second World War; papers relating to the County of London Scheme produced under the 1932 Town and Country Planning Act, 1935-1936, London Replanned: The Royal Academy Planning Committee's Interim Report, 1942; Road, rail and river in London: The Royal Academy Planning Committee's Second Report, 1944; observations on a report of the Improvements and Town Planning Committee with regard to post-war development in the City submitted by various organisations and circulated to the Committee, 1944; Administrative County of London Development Plan: First Review, London County Council, 1960; Greater London Development Plan, 1976, with supporting documents, drafts and reports, 1966-1973; papers relating to the Smithfield Local Development Plan, 1979-1989, including maps and surveys; Abercrombie's Plan for London 50 years on: A vision for the Future, the 2nd Annual Vision for London Lecture by Professor Peter Hall, 1994.

Schedules of development, containing details of developments in the City, such as changes of use, refurbishments and new buildings, 1984-1996.

Registers, including register of purchase notices, 1947-1957; register of acquisitions, 1949 - 1975; register of applications of owners for registration of name and address for service of subsequent notices relating to the Town and Country Planning Act, 1932, scheme, with particulars of property owned in the City of London shown on the Resolution map, 1930s; register of owners, arranged alphabetically by streets and premises, 1930s.

Papers relating to the environmental impact of London, including articles, reports, conference papers, surveys, statistical data and statements, 1970-1997.

Recognizances of debts, 1285, 1291-1296, 1298-1299, 1309-1311, 1313-1317, 1345-1346, 1363-1364, 1377-1393.

Recognizances of freemen and sureties, [1436-1497]

Miscellaneous recognizances on bonds, [1612-1685].

Records of the Remembrancer's Department, Corporation of London, relating to ceremonials, including papers relating to the organisation of various ceremonies and entertainments, 1814-2000; entertainment cards, entertainment books and day books, all containing examples of invitation cards, envelopes, ball, concert and dance programmes, tickets, menus, instructions to coach men, covering letters, orders of procession, news cuttings, speeches for Lord Mayor's Day and other ceremonies, arranged by ceremony, 1837-2000; entertainments letter books, 1883-1977 and ceremonial books, 1789-1991; papers relating to the organisation and events of Lord Mayor's Day and its associated ceremonies including correspondence from the Remembrancer's department relating to the arrangements for the Procession, Banquet, and associated ceremonies, Banquet Invitation cards, Menu Cards, Procession programmes, photographs, speeches, addresses, and reports to and by various committees, 1698-1991; minutes of the Lord Mayor and Sheriff's Committee for Lord Mayor's Days, 1960-1977; tickets and invitations to Lord Mayor's Day events, 1791-1970; ticket registers, listing invitees, 1881-1979; extracts, historical notes and articles relating to Lord Mayor's Day, 1698-1987; order of the Court of Aldermen for the punishment of rude and disorderly persons who throw stones, filth and other injurious things about the streets during the procession to and from Westminster on Lord Mayor's Day, 1701; route of procession, 1833-1923; papers relating to the Lord Mayor's Banquet, 1634-2002, including bills and accounts, orders for the correct reception of the monarch and souvenir programmes. Please note that some of these records are closed.

Plans from the Surveyor's Department, Corporation of London, 1736-1980, including plans, maps, diagrams, photographs, sections and elevations of offices, stables, warehouses, public houses and wine bars, vaults and basements, shops, workshops, banks, dwelling houses, police stations, schools, markets, restaurants, wharves, docks, railway stations and railway lines, drains and conduits, churches and churchyards, pavilions, memorials, streets, almshouses, cemeteries, courts, hospitals, asylums, parks and hotels, as well as the Guildhall complex and Mansion House. These include properties belonging to Bridge House Estates, the Conduit Mead estate and City Lands Estates. Also maps of parish and ward boundaries.

Plans of bridges, 1745-1941, including London Bridge, Tower Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, Southwark Bridge, St Paul's Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge, with soundings of the Thames, 1774-1879.

Records relating to the wards of the City of London, 1617-1979. Papers relating to individual wards, including petition of inquest jury and inhabitants of Aldersgate Without regarding the boundaries of the Liberty of St Bartholomew on Cloth Fair, 1766-1789; complaint of inhabitants of Bridge Ward that their ancient rights of free wharfage through the gate in Churchyard Alley were being hindered, 1660s; report regarding the rights and privileges of the ward of Bridge Without [Southwark], 1892; extract from a lease of the Jamaica Coffee House reserving a room for the use of the Ward Inquest and the parish officers, Cornhill Ward, 1884 and correspondence with the Secretary of the Board of Ordnance about the complaint of the inquest of Tower Ward about the entrance from Tower Hill into Thames Street being stopped by a Box and Toll, 1739.

Papers relating to Wardmotes, including returns of elections of Officers for Farringdon Within, 1683; Bishopsgate, 1683; Tower, 1689; Cordwainer, 1689; Vintry, 1690; Langbourn, 1690; Cordwainer, 1707; Cornhill, 1711; Bridge, 1711; Cripplegate, 1711 and Dowgate, 1711; set of Acts relating to the holding of Wardmotes and elections, 1663-1928; various Wardmote Precepts (orders, rules and regulations), 1679-1714? and 1802, 1823, 1957 and 1970-1973; Wardmote Books (printed copies of regulations, Acts and Orders for the holding of Wardmotes), 1853 1979; lists of candidates, 1965-1975; Act of Common Council for regulating elections in Wardmotes and Common Halls, 1712; case notes regarding whether a Deputy can hold a Wardmote and declare himself elected a Common-Councilman, 1723; opinion regarding the right of attendance at Wardmotes, 1905; Articles of Charge of the Wardmote Inquest (orders for actions to take place at the Wardmote, such as the reading of new regulations), [1625-1910]; 'Act of Common Council that the Inquestmen, after taking their oaths, shall choose from among themselves a Foreman, should the voting be equal the Alderman of the Ward shall nominate one as Foreman', 1617; Order of the Court of Common Council against the 'Extravagant Expenses at the Meeting of their Wardmote-Inquests, in Eating and Drinking, and also sending abroad Wine and Ale to the Inhabitants of the several Wards' and allowing that Inquests may be adjourned in order that the Inquestmen may refresh themselves at their own houses, 1694 and reprints 1702-1839; Precepts, rules and regulations regarding the conduct of Inquestmen, 1625-1796 and 1801-1852; returns to a precept to return an account of all dancing and fencing schools, lotteries and other gaming houses, 1673- 1674 and notes on the nature and jurisdiction of the Great Courts of Wardmote, 1857-1907.

Large scale ward plans by Samuel Agnall and Michael Meredith, 1858, of individual wards including Aldersgate Within, Aldersgate Without, Aldgate, Bassishaw, Billingsgate, Bishopsgate Within, Bishopsgate Without, Bread Street, Bridge, Broad Street, Candlewick, Castle Baynard, Cheap, Coleman Street, Cordwainer, Cornhill, Cripplegate Within, Cripplegate Without, Dowgate, Farringdon Within, Farringdon Without, Langbourn, Lime Street, Portsoken, Queenhithe, Tower, Vintry and Walbrook. Also ward map, 1950.

Financial and administrative papers including returns of the numbers of freemen, non-freemen, householders, houses and so on in each ward, 1772 and 1833; report regarding the employment of Ward Beadles, 1928; legal notes, correspondence and agreements relating to the ownership of various Ward Maces, 1923-1974; orders relating to exemptions from holding offices, 1637-1741; ward rate accounts, 1892-1902; ward rate cash books, 1842-1882 and ward rate ledgers, 1842-1876.

Registers and day books of burials in consecrated or church ground and unconsecrated or chapel ground, 1841-1952, showing name, abode, when buried, age, place of burial, when and by whom buried, private vault or grave, purchased monuments and where placed (registers are not available for consultation, please use microfilms X64/1-41); fee books, 1902-1966, including remarks, registrar, sub-district, date of certificate, digger, stone, bill number, name of deceased, age, time, depth, received by, minister, undertaker, secretary's signature, price, description of graves, square position (not always), size of coffin, undertaker's commission, amount; registers of private graves, 1841-1941, showing number of graves, description of place of burial, date and consideration of grant, names and addresses of purchasers, name and description of person interred, year and number (registers are not available for consultation, please use microfilms X64/42-46); registers of public graves, 1900-1965, showing number, date, name, age and time of burial (registers are not available for consultation, please use microfilm X64/47); register of private grave transfers, 1938-1966, showing transfer number, date, grave number, transfer from/to, address and remarks; correspondence relating to private graves; incumbents' account book, divided parish by parish, 1922-1966, and plans of the graves.

Also deeds and legal papers, 1841-1898; report to Directors by Committee of Proprietors appointed by an Extraordinary Court, to investigate expenditure and general state of the Company's affairs, 1843; report to Directors by Henry George Haywood on proposals for draining the cemetery, 1857; correspondence relating to staffing, sewers and the East London Eastern Extension Railway, 1849-1871; bills, 1841-1897; specification for sewers and roads, with sections, 1884; plans of cemetery including proposed southern extension, 1800s; impression in red wax of seal of Company, 1841; legal records, 1844-1942.

Soil surveys for a number of buildings and sites in London, 1971-1984; project files, 1987-1988, containing plans, drawings, site surveys, elevations, tenders, contracts and notes for a number of buildings including Kilmonie School, Settle Street School, Raines Tertiary College, Eliot Bank School, Fairlawn School, Tewkesbury Estate School, Jewish Free School, Camden, Templars School, County Hall boiler-house and calorifiers, Durrington Road and Courage Industrial Site; remedial works and conditions surveys for sites including Yeading Green Estate, Pilgrim Estate, Copley Close Estate, Hanwell Estate, Islip Manor Estate, Northolt Park Estate and Ruislip Gardens Estate, 1970-1988; electrical and mechanical condition surveys for various locations, 1970-1988.

Records of Bacon's Free School, Bermondsey, including copy of Josiah Bacon's will; copies of Chancery orders relating to the school; copy of articles of agreement for building the school; leases, releases and assignments of annuity relating to school property; minutes of Governor's and Trustee's meetings; financial records; reports; and school log-books.

Honourable Board of Loyal Brotherhood minute book and record of bets made.

Records of the Beaumont Philosophical Institution and the People's Palace, consisting largely of minutes. There are also reports, letters, accounts, programmes, press cuttings and The Palace Journal, volume I, Nos. 1-16.

Records of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy (also known as The Charity for the Relief of Poor Widows and Children of Clergymen), including letters patent; minutes; agendas; administrative papers; letter books; papers of associatied charities; schemes and proposals; publicity; cases for legal counsel; financial accounts; subscriptions, donations and bequests; papers relating to the management of estates; and reference books.

These archives of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy were deposited in the London County Record Office on condition that all records for the past 100 years which contain reference to beneficiaries shall be regarded as confidential. Searchers who wish to consult such categories of record should first obtain the consent of the Registrar to the Corporation (Corporation House, 6 Woburn Square, London, W.C.1). Other categories of record and all records more than 100 years old are available for searchers without any special restrictions.

Records of the City Solicitor, Corporation of London, including briefs for cases at the Old Bailey, Guildhall Sessions, Mayor's Court and other courts, 1802-1851; papers relating to various suits regarding the Metropolitan railway, police regulations, Holborn Valley Improvement, oyster metage, Thames Navigation, the Coal Exchange, London Bridge approach roads and other subjects, 1800-1870; papers regarding the Corporation decision to demolish All Hallows Church, Lombard Street, including photographs, maps, plans, petitions, reports, parliamentary debates, press cuttings and journals, correspondence and information on the proposed merger with St Edmund the King, 1926-1937; papers regarding William Ward's bequest including his will and documents relating to the creation of the City of London School for Girls, 1881-1892; papers regarding the case of the Mayor vs Lyons Son and Company, 1929-1939; papers regarding the case of Potter Oyler vs the Mayor, 1937; report books, 1797-1798 and 1863-1945; order books, 1764-1778, 1797-1803 and 1834-1837; bills, fees, payments and receipts, 1671-1862; notes on crown prosecutions, 1791-1797 and 1835-1847 and extracts regarding the office of solicitor, 1755-1776 and 1803.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to the City's Cash (the monies of the Corporation of London), including accounts, 1633-1942; draft accounts, 1535-1586; pie accounts, 1783-1847; receipt and payment ledgers, 1860-1906; estates and markets ledgers, 1939-1960; administration ledgers, 1939-1960; capital ledgers, 1939-1983; sinking fund ledger, 1932-1947; statements, 1779-1901; articles and notes on history and precedent, 1633-1731 and 1974.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department regarding pensions, including cash books, journals, acquittance books, registers of contributions and collection books for the officer's fund, 1893-1922; applications by new staff to become contributors to the pension fund, 1897-1922; cash books, collection books, acquittance books, pensions books and ledgers for the officer's superannuation fund, 1913-1983 (closed from 1932 onwards); cash books, collection books and acquittance books for the servant's fund, 1913-1926; reports of the Solicitor to the Officers and Clerks Committee on the amendment of the rules of the Officers Pension Funds, 1908; report of the Town Clerk on the establishment of Pension Funds for Officers employed in the Public Health and Valuation and Rating Departments under the City of London Various Powers Act, 1912; City of London Police pensions book, 1947-1961 (closed until 2037) and check sheets, police superannuation fund, 1941-1959 (closed until 2035).

Records of the Chamberlain's Department regarding trust funds and other funds, including account books, Chairman's emolument fund, 1859-1900; cash book, Chairman's emolument fund, 1930-1940; ledgers, Chairman's emolument fund, 1935-1976; Ward's bequest ledger, 1939-1982; City Educational trust fund ledger, [1968]-1983; Compensation Fund cash book, 1905-1971; English Philological Fund ledger, 1911-1950; Officer's Guarantee Fund registers, 1903-1938; sundry accounts, 1842-1879, including the City of London School Scholarship and Prize Funds, 1842- 1862; Miss Wilkes legacy for Freemen's Widows and Children, 1847-1862 and Miss Mission's legacy for relief of debtors, 1848-1862; sundry trust funds ledger, 1970-1983, including Royal Wedding celebration funds; sundry funds and bequests ledgers, 1918-1958 and financial papers relating to the Thames Navigation Fund, 1777-1858.

Records of the Livery Committee, Common Hall, including minutes, 1782-1783; minutes, 1864-1992 (closed from 1959 onwards); committee papers, 1941-1957 and notes on the history and terms of reference of the Committee, 1980.

Records relating to Livery Companies [also known as City Companies], including histories, 1941-1975; list of Acts of Parliament relating to Livery Companies, 1553-1754; armorials containing the arms of the City and City Companies, 1677, 1701 and 1952; papers relating to the binding of apprentices, 1694 and 1808; manuscript copies of the charters of City Companies, 1700s-1985; names of the Clerks of the Companies, 1687-1832; various orders relating to the recognition and incorporation of companies, 1573-1672, compiled in [1810]; lists of liverymen, 1792, 1796, 1832, 1840-1845, 1852 and 1866; extracts relating to the power of the Court of Aldermen over the Livery Companies, 1428-1832; papers of the Reform Association, 1876; papers relating to the City of London Livery Companies Royal Commission into the alleged misuse of Company funds, 1884; booklet explaining the functions of the liverymen and of Common Hall, 1960, 1972 and 1986 and papers relating to livery cloth, 1604-1870.

Also papers relating to individual companies, 1380-1998, including Air Pilots and Air Navigators; Apothecaries; Armourers and Braziers; Bakers; Barber-Surgeons; Basketmakers; Blacksmiths; Bowyers (makers of bows); Brewers; Broderers (embroiderers); Butchers; Carmen (carters or carriers); Carpenters; Clockmakers; Clothworkers; Coachmakers; Combmakers; Cooks; Coopers (makers of casks, buckets and tubs); Copper Miners; Cordwainers (shoemakers); Curriers (dressers and colourers of leather); Cutlers (makers of utensils); Distillers; Drapers; Dyers; Fanmakers; Farmers; Farriers; Feltmakers; Fishmongers; Fletchers (makers of arrows); Founders (metal casters); Framework Knitters (makers of hosiery); Fruiterers; Furniture Makers; Gardeners; Glass sellers; Glaziers; Glovers; Gold and Silver Wire Drawers; Goldsmiths; Grocers; Gunmakers; Haberdashers; Horners (workers in horn); Innholders (innkeepers); Ironmongers; Joiners, Coilers and Carvers; Leather sellers; Long Bow String Makers; Loriners (worker in iron); Lustring (makers of silks); Masons; Master Mariners; Mercers (dealers in textiles); Merchant Tailors [or Taylors]; Musicians; Painter-Stainers; Parish Clerks; Patternmakers (person who arranges textile patterns for weaving); Paviors (layers of paving); Pepperers (dealers in spices); Pewterers (makers of pewter utensils); Pinmakers; Plaisterers [or Plasterers]; Playing Card Makers; Plumbers; Poulterers; Saddlers; Salters (dealers in salt); Sawyers (people who saw timber); Scientific Instrument Makers; Scriveners (scribes or clerks); Shipwrights; Shoemakers; Skinners; Soapmakers; Solicitors; Spectacle Makers; Stationers; Tallow Chandlers (makers of tallow candles); Tilers and Bricklayers; Tin plate workers; Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders; Turners (makers of objects using lathes); Upholders (dealers in second hand wares); Vintners (wine merchants); Watermen and Lightermen (boat men); Wax Chandlers (makers of wax candles); Weavers; Wheelwrights; Woodmongers (timber merchants) and Woolmen (wool merchants).

Minutes of Works Advisory Committee, Court of Common Council, 1980. Please note these minutes are closed until 2011.

Minute book of the Welfare Committee, Court of Common Council, 1965-1970.

Records of Watch and Police Committees, Court of Common Council, including Watch and Ward Committee minutes, 1701 and 1704; Nightly Watch Committee minutes and papers, 1827-1839; Watch and Police Committee minutes, 1839 and Nightly Watch and Police Committee reports, 1827-1834.

Minute book of the Day Police Committee, Court of Common Council, 1834.

Records of the Comptroller and City Solicitor including report book, 1945-1980; chamber rentals, 1667-1784; rentals, 1701-1784; Conduit Mead rentals, 1766-1784; Bridge House rentals, 1785-1953; Bridge House rentals collector's books, 1819-1851; City rentals, 1785-1956; Counties rentals, 1858-1953; Markets rentals, 1877-1957; Improvements rentals, 1895-1959; Coal Exchange rentals, 1912-1929; airport rentals, 1952-1956 and general rentals, 1704-1774.

Records of the Comptroller, Corporation of London, including letter books, 1778-1826; letter books regarding renewable leases, 1926-1930; list of renewable leases, 1889-1926; general reports, 1865-1945; reports to the City Lands Committee, 1899-1945; reports to the Bridge House Committee, 1899-1945; reports to the Markets Committee, 1899-1927 and 1931-1945; reports to the Public Health Committee, 1898-1945; order books, 1797-1803, 1807-1843; orders for leases, 1880-1839; general docquet books, 1800-1830 and 1950-1959; City Lands docquet books, 1830-1950; Bridge House docquet books, 1839-1916 and 1927-1950; Public Health department docquet book, 1902-1950; inventories of books, deeds and records held by the Comptroller, 1703, 1717, 1721, 1842, 1852 and 1854; papers relating to Bridge House, 1603-1850, including rentals, orders, repairs, lists of tenants, notices, estimates, contracts, valuations, compensation cases, bills and plans, especially relating to London Bridge; opinions of counsel, 1688-1850; cases and opinions of counsel regarding City rights and privileges, 1758-1822; case book, 1765-1784; bills and fees, 1649-1817; deeds from Spitalfields Market, 1636-1902, passed to the Corporation of London either in 1902 when it bought the freehold of the market or in 1920 when it bought the leasehold and franchise.

Docquet books contained information about leases and other documents which were to be sealed with the City Seal.

Custumals including the Liber de Antiquis Legibus, an historical, political and domestic chronicle covering 1188-1274, compiled in 1274; the Liber Horn, made in 1311 under the direction of Andrew Horn, City Chamberlain, containing transcripts of charters, statutes, grants, customs, charters of companies and towns, precedents, oaths, writs and the "Laws of Oleron" [code of maritime regulation, written 1150]; the Liber de Assisa Panis containing the customs, regulations and punishments connected with the Assize of Bread, 1293-1438; the Liber Ordinationum, a volume of ordinances, customs, legal treatises and statutes from Magna Carta (1215) to 1330; the Liber Custumarum, a volume of City customs, laws, charters, proceedings and municipal regulations, 1324?; the Carte Antique, illuminated transcripts of charters and statutes, 1327-1498; the Statuta Antiqua Angliae, a copy of the Carte Antique covering the period 1327-1430; the Decretales Gregorii Papae, compilation of decretals [papal decrees] promulgated in 1235, with glosses upon the text; the Liber Dunthorn, containing transcripts of charters and extracts from Letter Books and other City records, compiled under the direction of William Dunthorn, Town Clerk, 1474?; the Liber Fleetwood, presented to the City by William Fleetwood, Recorder, 1576, containing information on the Courts of Law and the Mayor, Aldermen and other officers in the year 1576, as well as the liberties, franchises and customs of the City, the liberties, customs and charters of the Cinque Ports [Hastings, New Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich], the Queen's prerogative in the salt shores and the liberties of Saint Martin le Grand; the Liber Albus, compiled under the direction of John Carpenter, Town Clerk, 1419, containing information regarding customs, laws, social conditions, trade and the general conduct of a municipality; the Liber Legum [or Liber Legum Civitatis], extracts from the City Letter Books, 1342-1590; the Liber Lynne, transcripts of deeds of the possessions of the families of Lawneye and Wyth in Lynne, London and Southwark, 1281-1452; proceedings in the Star Chamber with extracts from charters, statutes, inquisitions and other authorities as to the preservation of the navigation of the River Lea, particularly in relation to Waltham Bridge, 1524 and a book containing proceedings against the Hanse merchants of the Steelyard [Hanse merchants traded with foreign ports] resulting in loss of their privileges, 1551-1556, with papers added in relation to the exemption of the Steelyard from assessments and taxes, 1653-1699.

Records of the Guildhall Art Gallery, comprising memorandum on the establishment of the Guildhall Art Gallery and the appointment of a Director, 1944; article The Corporation's Picture Collection and the Guildhall Art Gallery, 1965; extracts relating to the portraits of the Fire Judges, 1670-1705, and reports on the restoration of the portraits, 1945; Chamber vouchers, orders for payment and receipts for drawing, framing, setting up, inscribing and decorating the Fire Judges portraits, 1671 and order for payment for painting the pictures of the King and the Duke of York, 1672.

The City of London's first commissions were portraits of the judges appointed to assess property claims in the wake of the Great Fire of London - the so-called 'Fire Judges'. These were followed by portraits of kings and queens and of other individuals who had rendered a service which the City of London wished to recognise.

Administrative files from Mansion House, 1931-1962, on subjects including schools and hospitals; Mayoral receptions, lunches and dinners; the Armed Forces and Armed Services Associations; clubs and societies; exhibitions; the Guildhall; the King George VI Memorial Fund and other charitable funds, patronage; boroughs; the Commonwealth; social services; the Second World War; the unveiling of the Cenotaph; the City press; expenses; visits of Royalty and Heads of State; the Bishop of London and other matters relating to the clergy; the National Savings movement; the Police; refugees; the Royal Exchange; St Paul's Cathedral; sheriffs and state banquets.

Also papers relating to charitable funds organised by the Mayor, 1885-1992. Funds include the National Memorial to General Gordon fund, 1885; the fund for the relief of widows and dependants of sailors and others on the HMS Victoria, sunk in 1893; the Transvaal War fund, 1899; the Queen Victoria memorial fund, 1901-1913; the Titanic Disaster fund (later the National Disasters Relief fund), 1912-1959; the St. Vincent Disaster Relief Fund in aid of Sufferers by Eruption, 1902; the Air Raid Distress fund, 1940-1953; the National Hungarian and Central European Relief Fund, 1956-1958; the Attlee Memorial Appeal, 1967; the Save St Paul's fund, 1971-1973 and the Gresford Colliery Relief Fund, 1988-1992 (the Gresford Colliery files are closed until 2022).

Files of the Port Health and Environmental Services Committee, 1948-1958, on subjects including air pollution, Basildon New Town, the disposal of condemned food, Denton Hospital, houseboats and the inspection of ships.

Records of the Police Committee, Court of Common Council, including minute books, 1839-2002 (closed after 1978); minutes of evidence before the 'Select Police Committee of the Common Council' regarding the conduct of the Commissioner of Police, 1847; minutes of evidence regarding a complaint against the City Police Surgeon, 1863-1864; committee papers, 1837-1957; subject files, 1847-1903 and 1921-1961, including papers relating to the Police Hospital, uniforms, secondments, pay, the widow's fund, regulations, correspondence, financial accounts, job applications, petitions, expenses, the Police Rate and the Ward Rate.

Records of the Privileges Committee, Court of Common Council, including minute books, 1911-2000 (closed from 1931) and committee papers, 1941-1964 (closed until 2040).

Records of the Parliamentary Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1837-1856; chairmen's books, 1844-1856; committee papers, 1837-1856 and Acts of Parliament relating to Land Tax, 1827-1844.

Records of the Secondary and Sheriffs' Courts Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1829-1855, committee papers, 1834-1855; papers regarding the office of Secondary, 1782-1856; papers regarding the Sheriffs' Court, 1657-1854, and expenses, 1829-1897.

Records of the Special (Guildhall Reconstruction) Committee, Court of Common Council, comprising minutes, 1954-1978. Minutes created in 1978 are closed until 2009.

Records of the Special Inquiry Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, committee papers, evidence and report, 1879.

Minute books of the Social Services Committee, Court of Common Council, 1971-1981. Please note that minutes created after 1978 are closed.

Minute book of the Staff Committee, Court of Common Council, 1961-1966. Please note these minutes are closed until 2042.

Records of the Thames Navigation Committee, Court of Common Council, including Chairman's minute book, 1855-1857; minutes of the Committee and Sub-Committee for improving the Navigation of the River Thames, for preventing encroachments and under two Acts of Parliament, 1857; blank application form to be used by owners and occupiers of property on the banks of the Thames who wish to advance their frontage; petitions and letters, 1798-1811; remembrancer's bills for fees and disbursements for business done by order of the Committee for improving the navigation of the River Thames, 1794-1817; surveyors' bills, 1806-1811; standing orders of the Thames Navigation Committee, and orders and regulations as to the Navigation Barge and the collection of tolls at Kew, 1826-1840.

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.