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Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deed to receive royalties on manufacture of bricks on land near Southall, Hayes, with plan, 1877.

Papers relating to property ownership for premises in London, Middlesex and Westminster, 1689-1875 and papers relating to court proceedings, 1776-1869, including King's Bench and Chancery.

Papers of Jeremy Bentham, 1750-1885, consist of drafts and notes for published and unpublished works, and cover many subjects including: Bentham's codification proposal, a plan to replace existing law with a codified system, an idea which manifested itself in Constitutional Code (London, 1830), a blueprint for representative democracy and an entirely open and fully accountable government, 1815-1832; penal code, which involved penal law giving effect to the rights and duties of civil law, [1773]-1831; punishment, to certain actions which, on account of their tendency to diminish the greatest happiness, would be classified as offences, [1773-1826]; Bentham's Panopticon, a way of maintaining and employing convicts in a new invented building, 1785-1813; Chrestomathia, the secondary school designed by Bentham, 1815-1826; evidence in law, [1780]-1823; religion, and the Church, 1800-1830; logic, ethics, deontology (the science of morality), morals, utilitarianism and the greatest happiness principle, 1794-1834; political economy, [1790]-1819; Supply without burthen or Escheat vice taxation, a proposal for saving taxes, 1793-1795; legislation, including law amendment and law reform, [1770-1843]; procedure, and procedure codes, [1780]-1830; law and issues in other countries, including Greece, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium and Tripoli, 1810-1830; A Comment on the Commentaries, being a criticism of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, also Bentham's and Blackstone's views on civil code, [1774]-1830; sexual nonconformity, [1774]-1816; Scotch reform, 1804-1809; Court of Lords delegates, 1807-1821; parliamentary papers, and parliamentary reform, [1790]-1831; poor law, and poor plan, 1796-[1845]; correspondence, 1761-1866, including a corrected draft letter to James Madison, President of the United States of America, in which Bentham made an offer to draw up a complete code of laws for the USA, 1811.

Papers, 1551-1950, of the Benyon family, including records of the de Beauvoir estate in Hackney, Shoreditch and elsewhere, and including references to several families including the de Beauvoir, Macdougall, Tyssen and Whitmore families.

The first deposit comprises:
Manor of Hoxton and Balmes (Hackney and Shoreditch): deeds, 1551-1723, largely 17th century, also relating to some property in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (Ref: E/BVR/1-28);
De Beauvoir Town (Hackney): rent books, 1830-1950, for properties in the area bounded by Regent's Canal in the south, Kingsland Road in the east, Ball's Pond Road in the North, and Southgate Road in the West, also notebooks concerning rents, 1829-1845, and a Trust account book of the late Rev Peter Beauvoir, 1821-1843 (Ref: E/BVR/29-193);
accounts, 1857-1859, 1867-1950, and associated records concerning the estate and its administration, including correspondence, 1821-1935 (Ref: E/BVR/194-286);
Tyssen estate: manor of Hackney Lordshold, Kingshold and Grumbolds: correspondence, accounts, etc, 1746-1820, concerning administration of the estate, also mentioning Hackney church (Ref: E/BVR/287-346);
Piccadilly estate (St Martin in the Fields): deeds (copies), 1623-1676 (Ref: E/BVR/347-358);
Haymarket properties (St Martin in the Fields): deeds: Macdougall family papers, 1632-1821 (Ref: E/BVR/359-399);
Pall Mall properties (St Martin in the Fields and St James, Westminster): deeds, 1660-1812 (Ref: E/BVR/400-411);
Redcross Street (St Giles, Cripplegate) properties: deeds, 1669-1755, including one item, a note c1700, relating to property in Acton (Middlesex) (Ref: E/BVR/412-418);
Vauxhall estate: rental, including record of rents received, 1758-1821, and list of deeds, 1694-1822, concerning this estate, copyhold to the Manor of Kennington (Ref: E/BVR/419);
Maps, plans and engravings, 1831-1879 and undated {19th century}, including printed, manuscript and lithographed items, largely of Hackney and Shoreditch, including De Beauvoir Town, some including details of settlement and other information as well as property ownership (Ref: E/BVR/420-428).

The second deposit comprises:
Manor of Hoxton and Balmes (Hackney and Shoreditch): deeds, 1627, 1773 (Ref: E/BVR/429-431);
'Essex' rental, 1839-1907, including also De Beauvoir Town, Haymarket and Vauxhall (Ref: E/BVR/432);
De Beauvoir Town: estate papers etc, 1869-1900 (Ref: E/BVR/433-437);
correspondence and papers, 1867-1906, relating to St Peter's Church parish matters and church fabric, and an original watercolour of the church, 1842 (Ref: E/BVR/438-446);
Piccadilly estate: case for opposition to rate for cleaning Piccadilly and Park Lane, 1809 (Ref: E/BVR/447);
Haymarket: rentals, 1903 (Ref: E/BVR/448).

The third deposit comprises:
Hoxton: deed, 1551 (Ref: E/BVR/449);
Manor of Balmes: deeds, 1626, 1634 (Ref: E/BVR/450-453);
Estate accounts: De Beauvoir Town vouchers for various payments, 1831-1852, including work on the new church, De Beauvoir Town; vouchers for repairs etc, 1921-1933; correspondence and statement of accounts of the estates' London solicitor and agent, 1838-1917 (Ref: E/BVR/454-496);
No 27 Grosvenor Square: lease, 1911 (Ref: E/BVR/497);
West Hackney Church: correspondence with the Bishop of London re proposed church, 1838 (Ref: E/BVR/498).

The fourth deposit comprises: Valuation and accounts for the De Beauvoir Town estate (Ref: E/BVR/499-501).

Collection of deeds, correspondence, and plans relating to premises in Kensington and Southwark.

Papers relating to the Berkeley family estates in Middlesex and London. Please note that the original records in this collection are now held at the archives in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire and only microfilm copies can be viewed at LMA.

The documents relate to the Manors of Cranford, Harlington, East Bedfont, and Heston and to property in Harlington and Saint James's Park. They include Court rolls and books, rentals, financial accounts and other papers.

Papers of the Berney family, comprising deed for the transfer of estates including land in Barbados and slave lists, 1799; and transcript, 2000.

Papers concerning the property and estate of Richard Berridge of Bloomsbury, including papers relating to money left to various charities and institutions, and the executorship of Charles Tomkins.

Papers, 1877-1970, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds relating to No.1 (formerly No. 10) The Mall, Uxbridge Road, Ealing.

Records of Bevington and Sons, 1690-2001, including: partnership agreements, 1837-1946, minutes, 1859-1930, and partnership negotiations; financial records 1803-1949; records relating to types of stock, products and technical processes and innovations, 1879-1946; staff attendance books and photograph album, 1860-1877; records relating to property, 1792-1967; records relating to stock and finance, 1862-1946. Also family correspondence 1690-1837, and publications and articles on the history of the firm. The family correspondence offers insights into business practice, family relationships and domestic concerns, often in a single letter. Correspondents include women in the family, as wives and daughters of the company partners. Accounts for female family members are also represented.

Deeds and legal documents, 1765-1909, relating to property in Great Stanmore, including papers relating to the Great House (later known as Hill House) and Charles Fortnum, antiquarian.

Papers, 1923-1964, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising printed sales particulars for properties throughout London and the surrounding counties.

Papers, 1845-1866, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Harrow on the Hill, including copies of court rolls from the Manor of Harrow Rectory, mortgages, papers relating to wills, deeds of covenant, and sales particulars.

Collection of title deeds and marriage settlements relating to properties in Fulham, Holborn, Enfield and Hampstead.

The records chart the transfer of property within the family through the generations, beginning with a copy of the manorial court roll showing the acquisition of a cottage in Pinner Street, Harrow, by Mary Bodymaid {sic} in 1699 {ACC/0945/001}. In 1710 William Bodymead acquired cottages on Clay Hill, in the Manor of Bushey; which by his will of 1738 were divided between his three youngest sons {ACC/0945/003}. The rest of the estate passed to William's widow and to his eldest son, also called William. This William Bodimead was contemplating a partnership with his eldest John in 1767, which gave rise to the 'Rest Book or Inventory' {ACC/0945/014}, which is quite extensively detailed. Also worth noting is the inventory from 1789, covering the goods and chattels of the deceased Ann Bodymeade, who was presumably the widow and mother of the aforementioned William and John. The latest records are two letters from 1966 from Philip Blackwell to Miss A.M. Pollard (reference librarian in the London Borough of Harrow at that time) offering background on these papers which had belonged to his grandfather.

Confirmation by Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, of premises in South Mimms purchased by Henry Frowic, citizen of London, from Arnulf de Maundevil; together with right of common for Frowic's animals, to include 40 she-goats and 2 he-goats, in de Bohun's park at Enfield, 1250.

Records of Lord Bolingbroke relating to his estates in Battersea, including leases, releases, conveyances and particulars of the estate including plans.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising the marriage settlement and related documents of John Powell of Clapton House, Hackney, and his bride Frances Irby, daughter of Reverend Paul Irby of Cottisbrooke, Northants, 1850-1908; lease for 1 Lancaster Avenue, Enfield, 1909, and agreement of Randal, Earl of Berkeley to sell part of the Cranford Park Estate in Cranford, Harlington and Hayes, 1931.

Papers of the Bore and Pugh families, including papers relating to properties in Stepney, Whitechapel, Tottenham, Limehouse, Shoreditch, Mile End and the City of London; papers of the family relating to their role as executors of various wills; legal papers including a Chancery case; receipts and rents.

Records of the Borough Market Trustees, including a complete sets of minutes and financial records dating from the Market's reconstitution by Act of Parliament in 1755. There are many items concerning the market's property, including deeds and plans, and a good series of twentieth century correspondence illustrating many aspects of the administration of the Market. Much of the material comes from the office of the Clerk to the Trustees of the Market.

The records include: Acts relating to the Borough Market; Histories; Byelaws, instructions to officials and standing orders; register of seals; agendas, minutes and reports; correspondence; newspaper cuttings; agreements, bonds, contracts; Acts of Parliament, legal cases; evidences and reports of Commissions; war-time regulations, insurance, air raid damage.

Financial records including balance sheets, statements of account and statements of receipts and expenditure; ledgers; cash books; day books; banking records; income; expenditure; correspondence and share prospectus.

Property records including the Market site, maintenance of the premises, plans and maps, proposals for new building and extensions, the Market offices, correspondence, other sites and buildings owned by the Trustees, tenants records, and insurance.

Staff records including wages books; Health and Safety at work, including accidents, medical insurance and sick certificates; Income Tax, National Insurance and Superannuation and uniform and clothing.

Records of other bodies relating to the Market including Metropolitan Borough of Southwark; London County Council; other markets. Also printed notices and advertisements; statistics; Benevolent Fund Records and Borough Market Sports Records.

Records relating to property owned by the Irby family, barons Boston, in Shepperton, Sunbury, Barnes, Chertsey, Hillingdon and Hanover Square. The records include title deeds, legal documents, orders and inventories.

Records of Bovril Limited, 1797-1959, comprising leases, mortgages, conveyances and other legal documents relating to the ownership of premises on Old Street, Bunhill Row and Banner Street, Finsbury, Islington and Farringdon Street, City of London.

Records of the Bow Common Estate Company, 1901-1928, including memorandum and articles of association; sales catalogues; sales books; sales completion statements; bundle of papers and correspondence regarding Company's appeal against assessment for Corporation Profits Tax; statement of facts, history of Company and argument for its status as a holding rather than a trading company and therefore not liable for tax; legal advice relating to the tax status of the company and file of papers of Clerk W.W.T. Worth, including draft title deeds to properties, mortgages and rents, and details of sales.

Records of Bow Street Magistrates Court, 1724-2004, including court registers; domestic proceedings registers; gaoler's records; applications for warrants; club licensing; matrimonial case registers; extradition registers; registers of applications for adoption abroad, adoption abroad procedural and case files; papers relating to magistrates' salaries; files of the Chief Clerk; Poor Box financial accounts, bequests and correspondence; papers relating to trust funds and bequests; Committee files and office administration.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate.
Matrimonal cases: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him.

Reconveyance of part of mortgaged property at Albert Road, Edmonton, 1905.

Records of the Bowkett Benefit Building Society, 1864-1875, consisting of declaration by Secretary as to trustees and a mortgage of 89 Grove Road, Upper Islington.

Title deeds for property in Edmonton owned by the Bowles family, 1786-1835; property in Highgate owned by the Gould family, 1724-1795; and properties in Ashford, Stanwell, Staines, Enfield, Hornsey and Pinner, 1684-1885.

Papers of Thomas Bowrey, sea captain and merchant, including ledger; correspondence; diaries; drawings; charts; and maps; relating to travel and trade in India, Africa, Holland, France, Batavia (Jakarta) and Persia (Iran); the "Coffree" language of Delagoa and the Telenga language; shipping insurance and Lloyd's coffee house; whaling; and piracy.

Papers, 1906-1982, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Clifton Road, Finchley, including abstracts of title, conveyance, lease and assignment.

Papers, collected by the estate agents in the course of their work, comprising sales particulars, 1948-1949.

Bridge House Estates papers including bridgemasters' accounts rolls, 1381-1398; bridgemaster's annual accounts and rentals, 1404-1850; weekly payments, 1404-1445 and 1505-1849; bill books, 1745-1789 and 1815-1889; receipt books, 1598-1851; cash books, 1602-1784; fair cash books, 1713-1851; rough cash books, 1713-1810, miscellaneous ledgers and cash books, 1787-1819; materials sold, 1614-1682; corn and granary books, 1568-1714; rent and arrears books, 1707-1941; papers relating to individual properties owned by the Trust, particularly leases and grants, and administrative papers.

Documents relating to Bridgen Hall Estate and Adelaide House Estate, Forty Hill, Enfield; including lease and releases; fines; wills; mortgages; bonds; agreements; conveyances; admittances; copies from court rolls; and other title deeds and legal documents relating to property ownership.

Records of the Bridges family relating to premises in Edmonton, Enfield, Pinner, Harrow, Hillingdon, Isleworth, Tottenham, Hackney, Twickenham, Clapton, Hampstead, Islington, Holborn, Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London., Clerkenwell, Shoreditch, Chelsea, Bloomsbury, Stepney, City of Westminster, and Saint Clement Danes. The documents include releases, leases, extracts from court rolls, marriage certificates and settlements, legal case papers including Chancery court, probates, letters of administration, leases, abstracts of title, and conveyances. Also appointments by Justices of the Peace of John George Bridges and John William Bridges, both of 54, Torrington Square, as Special Constables, 1848.

Documents acquired by the solicitors in the course of their work, including copies of court rolls for the manor of 'Stebunheath alias Stepney', 1800-1811; particulars and conditions of sale for various premises in Ashford and Stanwell, Paddington, Rotherhithe, Deptford, Whitechapel, Saint George's-in-the-East, Wapping, Hampstead, Westminster, and Feltham, 1855-1895; and abstract of title for property in Ealing, 1870 [abstract of title: a summary of prior ownership drawn up by solicitors showing how title to the land devolved to the party currently possessing it].

Records of British Chemical Projects (Iridion) Limited, comprising articles of association; indenture; correspondence with the Trade Marks branch of the Patent Office; correspondence with Haseltine, Lake and Co, chartered patent agents; and certificates of trademarks issued in the UK, Argentina, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium and France, 1927-1929.

Deeds relating to land in manor of Sutton Court, Chiswick, adjoining Experimental Garden of Horticulture Society, Turnham Green, 1822-1860. Deeds deposited in the LMA by the British Telecom Archives.

Records of Broad Street Estates Limited, including minutes of director's meetings; statements of account; financial records such as ledgers and cash books; rent rolls; and building plans.

Papers of Brown and Merry, estate agents and auctioneers, 1865-1936, including property valuations; papers concerning sales of building plots, properties and furniture; compensation claim for improvements under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1908 and draft leases. Also abstract of title for property owned by A. W. Merry in Gospel Oak.

Papers of David Brown of Harrow Park, including title deeds and abstract of title; valuation of Harrow Park house and contents; papers relating to other property in Harrow owned by David Brown; insurance policies; papers relating to the will and estate of David Brown and papers of the trustees of his will.

Deeds and papers relating to premises in Edmonton, Enfield, Hendon, Hornsey, Teddington and Willesden, and the estates of Charles Brown and Charles James Sanderson.

Records of the Buckton family relating to property, including extracts from the court rolls of the Manor of Hornsey; sales particulars; covenants; lease and conveyances.

These papers relate to the property of Sir John Buckworth and his family. They comprise deeds and related papers concerning property in or near Great Winchester Street within the parishes of All Hallows London Wall and St Peter le Poer.

Notes (handwritten) relating to a housing loan scheme proposed by the Church Benefit Society, including draft of charges and sample correspondence. Includes prospectuses and advertising pamphlets from existing building societies, presumably gathered for research, including the Prudential Assurance Company Limited, the Temperance Permanent Building Society, the Bradford Second Equitable Benefit Building Society, the Abbey Road Building Society and the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society.

Papers, 1865-1954, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to 117 Tollington Way, Holloway, Islington; including leases, mortgage, conveyance, abstract of title and assignment of leasehold.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising a mortgage for two pieces of land at Ponders End, Enfield, on north side of South Street, 19 Nov 1880.

Records of the Bullock family, including title deeds to properties in Stanwell, also Colnbrook, Horton, Langley Marish, and Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, 1366-1830; title deeds to Poyle Mills and related properties in Stanwell, 1612-1744; abstracts of title, 1612-1811; plans, early nineteenth century; Bullock family wills and settlements, 1708-1830; Bullock family accounts and business papers, 1704-1877; Bland family papers, 1770-1879; Stanwell Parish Records (church rate accounts and churchwarden's accounts), 1728-1854; Colnbrook Chapel Records (charity accounts), 1693-1850; and building leases, Fitzroy Square, 1793-1794.

Records of the de Burgh family relating to their estates in Hillingdon, Harmondsworth and West Drayton, including leases, releases, mortgages, letters, agreements and tax certificates. Also court rolls (courts baron) for the Manor of Colham and the Manor of West Drayton.

Papers, 1610-1887, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to property in Westminster, Uxendon, Preston, Kenton and Wembley, including Preston Farm and Uxendon Manor House.

Letter from John Burn of Orton, [Westmorland] to Thomas Cadell [the elder] Esq, 'bookseller, Strand, London', 26 Mar 1792. 'I have by the coach this day sent you Barry's Justice [i.e. E Barry Present practice of a justice of the peace (1790)] & in the margin have marked the vs & pages in our Justice [i.e. R Burn The justice of the peace and parish officer (1755 and many susbequent editions)] from which he has copied. I may safely say there is not one hundred pages, put the whole together of his 4 volumes, which is not copied from my father...'.

Autograph, with signature. Franked: 'Appleby'[-in-Westmorland].

Papers, 1707-1760, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising copies of court rolls of the Manor of Colham.