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Legal documents, acquired by the solicitor's office in the course of their work, relating to the manor of Hanwell, 1739-1869, including deeds and copies of deeds, extracts from court rolls, and mortgage agreements; copies of wills and administrations, mainly for residents of Hanwell; copies of land tax redemption certificates for land in Hanwell; copies of orders in Chancery relating to Hanwell.

Also papers relating to the Coleraine Park Estate, Tottenham, 1880-1883 and Ponders End, Enfield, 1861-1873.

Receipts for building work completed by Simon Foster, bricklayer, at Hamylands [or Hamy Lands], the property of Charles Duncombe in Teddington, 1691-1694.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including bond for £120 from Nathaniel Fox of Hoxton, starch maker, to Robert Jenner, citizen and goldsmith, of Foster Lane, London, 1629; copy of Court Roll, Manor of Ealing, relating to cottage with orchard called "The Rose", 1668; copy of will, dated 9 Oct 1694, and codicil, dated 28 Nov 1694, of John, Lord Ossulstone; indenture of fine for the manor of Durants alias Gartons in Enfield, 1723; indenture of fine for land in London field, Hackney, 1739; indenture of fine for land in Finchley, 1790.

Papers, 1663-1889, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including conveyances by lease and release, wills and bequests, bonds, indentures of fine, mortgages and exemplifications of common recovery relating to the Cross Keys Inn and adjoining premises, Uxbridge. Also sales catalogues for various properties and copies of wills.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Papers, 1774-1844, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising leases and releases for property in Enfield.

The collection is of family papers belonging to Isabella, Lady Cooper, her children and grandchildren. The papers include documents detailing Lady Cooper's inheritance and assignments of its stock to her husband and children.There is a collection of title deeds for Isleworth Estate, together with leases of various parts of it, tradesmen's vouchers, accounts and particulars of its eventual sale (1855-78). There are also some 17th century title deeds to property in Hidden, Hungerford, as well as later deeds, accounts, rentals and leases.

Among the personal papers are a group concerning the settlement made on the marriage of William Honywood, Lady Cooper's grandson, with Barbara Whyte, and a group of financial papers chiefly on the subject of loans and securities, the same is true of the papers belonging to William's sisters Elizabeth and Caroline. There are also papers dealing with a mortgage he held from Sir John Shelley on property in Maresfield and Fletching in Sussex and as an executor of his grandmother's will he was forced into lengthy proceedings against the Ware family of Cheltenham for a long outstanding mortgage debt owed to Lady Cooper.

The last group of family papers relates to Elizabeth, Lady Cooper's younger surviving daughter, who married, secondly, the Reverend Edward Henry Dawkins. It includes their marriage settlement, and a number of his financial papers. The most interesting part of the whole collection relates to the sugar plantation of Dukinfield Hall, Jamaica (1719-1877). There are title deeds for a particularly tortuous descent, yearly accounts of crops, letters from the Jamaica agents and inventories of stock, which include slaves and give their names, ages, country of origin, occupation and state of health. There is also the will of Robert Dukinfield (1755), the original owner of the plantation, which makes provision for his negre mistress and their children out of his other property. The family name has a variety of spellings, Dukinfield being the one most frequently applied to the estate, although the main branch of the family comes from Duckenfield, Chester.

There are also a few papers concerned with three plantations on the Island of Grenada, which Lady Cooper also inherited (1773-1867).

Copy of court roll for the manor of Hendon relating to the admission of John Haley, an infant, to premises and lands at Woolmeads, 1760.

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

Papers, 1727-1854, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds, legal documents and correspondence relating to tenants of Hendon Manor and Little Stanmore Manor.

Records of the National Society Training College of Domestic Science, Berridge House, Hampstead, including minutes of the Governing Body; minutes of meetings of the teaching staff; administrative files; plans and drawings; financial records including wages books and statements of account; staff registers; syllabuses and timetables; students registers; prospectuses; publications; newscuttings and photographs of students, lessons, classrooms and buildings.

Papers, 1810-1824, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising assignment of lease of copyhold ground at Turnham Green, with building thereon called 'King of Boheme', and letters of administration, with will annexed, of Thomas Lewis of Turnham Green.

Papers, 1763-1907, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to properties in Tottenham, East Acton, Harrow, Highgate, Stoke Newington, Twickenham, Acton, Ealing, Teddington and Kingston. Papers of the solicitors relating to the Chancery case of the heirs of Halifax and Atkinson concerning property in Enfield and Ottery Saint Mary, Devon, 1790-1805; and papers relating to the case of A. Turner v. J. Bingham for debt, held in King's Bench, 1796.

Also the Sheriff of Middlesex's acknowledgment of the receipt into his custody of the bodies of persons charged by the outgoing Sheriff, 28 September 1794, with a schedule giving the name of defendants, date of arrest, plaintiffs, cause of action, sum sworn to be levied, name of process and their return and attorneys names. These are persons charged with debt, damages, bills of Middlesex, in King's Bench Prison; not criminal offences.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease of house and premises at Southgate Pike to Thomas Rogers, 1820, and conveyances and mortgages of premises in Hampton and Hampton Hill, 1869-1926.

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.

Records relating to land in Kilburn held by the Kilburn Brewery, 1832-1847, including conveyance, mortgage and abstract of title.

Papers, 1848-1913, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in the Southbury Park estate, Enfield; including leases, releases, mortgages, conveyances and securities.

Papers, 1892-1900, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease for a property in Shepperton, and agreements, mortgages, insurance policies and surveyor's certificates for premises in Willesden.

Papers, 1824-1887, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Hampton, including copies of the court roll of Hampton Court, enfranchisements and an admission.

Papers, 1853-1946, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Acton, including mortgages, leases, conveyances and reconveyances.

Deed of partnership between Cuthbert Coates Smith and Bernard Edgar Aylwin to trade for five years as engineers as The Vaal Motor and Launch Company, 9th January 1902.

Papers, 1779-1880, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Edmonton and Enfield, including lease and releases, probate of will and agreements.

Circulars of the United Cocoa Development Company Limited.

Records of the business of Holtzapffel and Company, 1794-1928, together with some personal papers of members of the Holtzapffel family, 1788-1847, and of Johann Georg Deyerlein (J. J. Holtzapffel's partner), 1786-9. The archive comprises financial and property records, a pedigree of the family and notes about purchasers and susequent owners of the lathes including a register of lathes made by Holtzapffel and Co between 1798 and 1928.

William MacKinnon and Company records comprise: partnership deeds, 1919-25 (Ms 27849); and copy minute of an agreement, 1885 (Ms 27850).

The records of Joseph Preston and Sons, watch, clock and chronometer movement makers, comprise two volumes containing descriptions of parts c 1890-5 and 1892-1914 (Mss 14558, 14560), a cash book 1893-1904 (Ms 14545) and a bank pass book 1907-12 (Ms 14559).

Records of Kleinwort Benson Group and its predecessors including Kleinwort, Sons and Company relating to the merchant bank and its clients across the world.

The collection consists of a comprehensive series of business records with archives of constituent predecessors, acquired companies and interests. They include partners' and staff papers, operational materials, accounting and financial records, client records and staff and property papers. The records relate to company origins, partners and staff, clients and business concerns across the globe since the 19th century.

Highlights include Kleinwort, Sons and Company's 'subject files' (series reference CLC/B/140/KS04/03) which contain reports and correspondence concerning business ventures, proposals and clients. They document global business concerns and provide a valuable insight to the working practices of the company. Files document issues faced by the firm and its clients in the early to mid-20th century clients including declined international business proposals, fraudulent and enemy debts arising during times of war.

Other highlights are partners' letter books which record their outgoing correspondence discussing both business and family matters. An example is a letter by Herman Anton Andreae in 1915 on his views in support of the decision to establish conscription (enforced enlistment) in the recruitment of soldiers in the First World War (CLC/B/140/KS02/03/002).

The earliest business records are those of Sharps Pixley Limited and its predecessors Sharps Wilkins and Pixley and Abell (CLC/B/140/SP01 to 06). These include monthly ledgers from 1796 (CLC/B/140/SP03/03) and other bullion dealing series (CLC/B/140/SP04/01).

Papers of the Reconstruction and Planning Committee of the London Brewer's Council, comprising files of correspondence and reports relating to the distribution and redevelopment of public houses in the Greater London area, 1944-86, with a box contents list and card index.

Records of Morgan Grenfell and Company Limited, merchant bankers, and their predecessors; comprising ledgers, journals, letter books, correspondence and other papers.

Access to all the records is restricted to persons with written permission from the depositor (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Business and social correspondence of Edward Oates, attorney, of Leeds and Furnival's Inn.

The records of PW Flower and Sons, merchants, concern the company's trading interests and property investments, and the affairs and investments of the Flower family (see CLC/B/173/MS19469 for a Flower family tree) and of other families with shared or related interests; they include the papers of various trustees by whom some family and business activities were administered.

The records include:

• Mss 19338-55: business records: general, or relating to more than one country;
• Mss 19356-78: business records: Australia, including some Salting family papers (see also Mss 19470-89);
• Mss 19379-93: business records: India, including some Pearse family papers;
• Mss 19394-99: estate records: general or relating to more than one estate;
• Mss 19400-9: estate records: individual estates or properties (except Park Town);
• Mss 19410-38: estate records: Park Town, except maps and plans which are catalogued in the Print and Maps Section;
• Mss 19439-46: family records: executors of P.W. Flower, including references to business and estate matters;
• Mss 19447-69: family records: general, including references to business and estate matters;
• Mss 19470-89: Papers relating to the Salting family of Australia (with which the Flower family had business connections; see also Mss 19356-78) and in particular to George Salting (d 1909) art collector and benefactor to public art galleries.

Records of Press Association Limited, including:

1. Corporate records (including articles of association, agreements and minutes);

   2. Share records (including P.A. Share Purchase Company);
   3. Internal administration records;
   4. Financial records;
   5. Operational records (including the Press Association and Exchange Telegraph Service);
   6. Staff records;
   7. Records relating to correspondents;
   8. Property records;
   9. Other Press Association records (including histories of the Association);
   10. Central News;
   11. Reuters;
   12. P.A. Features Limited;
   13. Press Association Photos Limited.

   Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from the Press Association (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Records of Prideaux and Sons, solicitors, comprising day books 1855-1941; cash, petty cash and disbursement accounts 1847-1924 and letter books 1898-1921.

Records of the Provident Mutual Life Assurance Association, including minutes, financial material, records of policies and claims, and records of the benevolent fund. The records include some records of the Planet (later Citizen) Assurance Corporation Limited, which was absorbed by the Association in 1874.

Records of Ralli Brothers Limited, merchants, comprising printed annual reports 1953-60; financial records 1814-1857; powers of attorney 1839 and 1847; correspondence 1868-1872; business papers 1836-1866 and 1908, and report on organisation 1939; letting agreement 1843 and historical notes 1902-1952.