The papers of Abbott, Clayton and Morris consist of the business and family records of two generations and form one of the earliest and largest extant collections of Stuart-era financial records. There are also related records of Sir George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem (1648-1689), a close personal friend of Robert Clayton. (Clayton was appointed by Jeffreys as a trustee of his family settlement drawn up in 1689.) Jeffreys was Common Serjeant (1671-1678) and Recorder of London (1678-1680).
Sans titreThe 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 relating to the Gill family property and farming business, including property in Deptford and two farms in Elham, Kent.
Sans titreRecords of the Barbican Horticultural Society, mainly comprising correspondence files, but also including a copy of the constitution of the Society, members' returns, and leaflets. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1992.
THE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 30 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from the Society (contact details may be obtained from staff).
Sans titreCopy of the enrolment of a decree of the Court of Chancery in a dispute between copyhold tenants of the Manor of Isleworth Syon and the Earl of Northumberland and others, concerning heriots and customs of the manor, 1656.
Petition from certain ratepayers of Ealing against the formation of a police force, 1830.
Sans titreManorial records relating to the manors of Hayes, Norwood and Southall, Down Barnes, and Colham. The records include court rolls and books; rentals; quit rents; surveys; steward's papers; papers regarding enclosures; estate administration; and papers relating to manorial tenants.
Sans titreRecords of the Hawtrey-Deane family, including manorial records such as court rolls; estate management records such as surveys, rentals and accounts; muniments of title; papers relating to Ruislip parish and church, including the rectory, glebe and tithes; family and household papers and financial accounts; legal papers including records relating to a dispute with King's College and Chancery cases; records of taxation; papers relating to an outbreak of plague in 1636; records relating to Parliamentary business; and verses and poems.
Sans titreRecords of the Shadwell family relating to Northolt, Ruislip and Greenford. Records include papers relating to the sale of estates and property transactions in Northolt and Ruislip; estate administration; sales particulars; manorial records; financial papers; legal papers; and notes on the history of the area.
Sans titrePapers of the trustees of the will of Jonathan Passingham, relating to the management of Heston Farm, North Hyde Farm, and the Depot Estates, Heston.
Sans titrePapers of the Child and Jersey families, including household accounts of Robert Child comprising bills, receipts, and insurance policies for premises in St Clement Danes, Westminster; leases and agreements for premises in Westminster; household accounts for Lord Jersey including bills, receipts and expenses; papers relating to the Jersey estates including rentals, quit rents and fines for the manors of Northall, Norwood, Southall and Heston, and lists of the tenants; and maps of the Heston Enclosure Award 1818.
Sans titreRecords of the Child and Jersey families relating to their estates. Papers relating to the Manor of Osterley, Heston include wills, deeds, papers relating to the Jersey title to the manor, steward's accounts, fee books, quit rents, bailiffs bills, rent rolls, enclosure awards, plans, correspondence, sales particulars, court books, minute books, surrenders, licences to demise and warrants. Also papers relating to the Manor of Hayes with Norwood and Southall, including admissions, surrenders and enfranchisements, quit rents, and court papers; and "Isleworth Syon's Peace", volume of agreements dating to 1656.
Sans titreFarm diary and account book for Swakeleys Farm, Ickenham, Hillingdon, 1842-1884, with references to Herres [or Hercies] Farm, Hillingdon.
Sans titreRecords relating to the Hillingdon House Estate, including title deeds for Hillingdon House and estates, and for additional lands added to the estate by various owners including John Chetwynd, the Marchioness of Rockingham, Josias Porcher and R.H. Cox. Documents include maps and plans; extracts from court rolls; wills; abstracts of title; lease and releases; fines; legal case proceedings; bonds; covenants and marriage settlements.
Sans titrePapers of the Hollond family relating to properties in Saint Marylebone and Great Stanmore.
Papers of the Child family relating to Gough Park in Enfield, property in Hornsey, slate quarries in Wales and the family business as West India merchants, including documents relating to sugar plantations in Jamaica.
Papers of the Whipham family relating to properties in Harmondsworth, Stanwell and Acton, particularly legal papers relating to landowners' rights of common on Old Oak Common, Acton.
Sans titreRecords 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.
Sans titrePlan endorsed 'Ickenham before the Enclosure'; showing strips in field, boundaries of allotments under Enclosure Award superimposed, many field names and some owners.
Sans titreRecords of Tottenham Manor, 1619-1920, including court rolls; survey of the manor; account book; quit rental; and Reminiscences of Tottenham by Mrs J W Couchman. Records of Edmonton Manor, 1661-1933, including court books; minute books; survey of the manor; lists of copyholders, fines and rents; annual rentals; quit rentals; stewards' financial accounts and notebook; and manorial court rod. Also precedent book for the manors of Tottenham and Edmonton, 1830.
Sans titreCalendar, annuals, pamphlets, magazines, reports, bulletins, newspaper advertisements, journals, declarations, and conference reports, 1949 onwards issued by 500 Años de Resistencia Indígena y Popular, Americas Watch Committee (U.S.), Amnesty International, Asociación Centroamericana de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos, Asociación de Servicios Integrados para el Desarrollo de Centro América, Association Guatemala Infomation Recherche, Banco National de la Vivienda (Guatemala), Brigada de Solidaridad "Farabundo Martí", British Parliamentary Human Rights Group, Catholic Church, Centre tricontinental (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), Centro de Desarrollo Integral, Centro Victor Sanabria, Colectivo de Solidaridad con el Pueblo de Guatemala, Comisión de Derechos Humanos de Guatemala, Comité de Unidad Campesina (Guatemala), Comité Guatemalteco de Lucha por la Paz, Comité Guatemalteco de Unidad Patriótica, Comité pro Justicia y Paz de Guatemala, Comunidad Educativa de Centroamerica, Comunidades de Población en Resistencia (Guatemala), Consejo de Comunidades Etnicas Runujel Junam (Guatemala), Consejo Mundial de Iglesias, Consejo Nacional de Paz y Solidaridad, Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala, Coordinadora Nacional Indígena y Campesina (Guatemala), Democratic Front against Repression of Guatemala(FDCR), Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (Guatemala), Frente Democrático Contra la Represión, Frente Popular 31 de enero, Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Guatemala), Fundación de Ayuda al Pueblo Indígena, Green Alternative Political Group (GRAEL), Guatemalan Human Rights Commission, Iglesia Guatemalteca en el Exilio, INFORPRESS Centroamericana, Institute for Food and Development Policy (Oakland, Calif.), Inter-Church Committee on Human Rights in Latin America , International Association of Democratic Lawyers, International Conference of Solidarity with the people of Guatemala, INTERTECT (Firm), Jornadas por la vida y la paz, Juventad "92", Majawil Q'ij, Oficina de Asesoría y Consultoría Educativa (Guatemala), Oficina de Educación (Guatemala), One Sky, Organización del Pueblo en Armas, Oxfam, Pax Christi, Permanent People's Tribunal, School of Living, Solidarity Committee with Central America, South Texas Aid to Refugees, Trade Union Support for Guatemala, United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Tribunal Permanente de los Pueblos (1983 : Madrid), Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca, United Nations Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and the Protection of Minorities, United States Agency for International Development, United States Department of State, United States Embassy (Guatemala), World Bank, World Council of Churches.
Sans titreLetter from P Hubbersty of Milnes and Newbold solicitors of Matlock, [Derbyshire] to [William] Wyatt of Eyam, Bakewell, [Derbyshire], 27 Sep 1851. Covering note to a printed circular letter convening a meeting of miners, landowners and other interested parties on 6 Oct 1851.
Written and signed on behalf of the firm by P Hubbersty. The note is written on the blank inner pages of the circular letter Mineral laws and customs of the wapentake of Wirksworth.
Sans titreLetter from William Cobbett of Botley, Hampshire to James Swann, Esq, 9 May 1809. Advising him to purchase land. 'The loan of this year will make money depreciate 1/2 per cent at least. Only think of that!'
Autograph, with signature.
Sans titreLetter from Francis Tomwsidwy of Gayton, [Northamptonshire] to William Bamwell Esq, Upton, [Northamptonshire], 15 Feb 1602. '... I thanke youe, and thinke my selfe beholding unto youe that it will please youe to afford me these kyndnes to fence my ground wth yor owne thornes (wch I confesse) will be muche more durable than my smoth wood, for the price of them I referre mee to yor selfe and will pay youe what soe ever shall beste please youe.' Mentions Tomsidwy's resolution to sell 'Oldfyeld' and his journey to Northampton with his wife. Written and signed in an italic hand [presumably Tomsidwy's own].
Sans titreLetter from Dorothea Watson of Middleton Tyas, Yorkshire to an unknown female recipient, 24 Sep 1688. Has heard from Mrs Watson of Danby Wiske, [North Riding of Yorkshire], that a servant (a niece of Mrs Watson) was leaving the recipient's service at Martinmas (11 November); asks her 'to answer the queries on the [o]ther side ... and were Master and Mistresses to [be] upon honor, in their character of servants, there woud [so] on be an end of all complaints of bad ones'. Autograph, with signature. Some traces of the questions from the dorse are visible in reverse on the face of the letter.
Sans titreLetter from Layton Cooke of 69 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, [London] to Lord Sheffield, 20 Jan 1829. Containing a report on the state of the farms on his estate in Sussex.
Copy [in an unidentified hand].
Sans titreAdmission to copyhold land of an unidentified manor (1564-1565).
Sans titreSir Archibald Edmonstone's estate ledger for payments made by tenants in the province of Ulster, 1780-1783.
Sans titreManuscript proposal, 1 Sep 1738, for enclosing 100 acres of common in the township of Pool, [Yorkshire], for the benefit of the chapel. The document is endorsed 'Proposal for endowing Pool Chappel. p 184. Mr Whitaker'.
Sans titreAccounts from 1743-1756 of Pasquini's estate, possibly near Senigallia, on the Adriatic north of Ancona (an envelope addressed to Pasquini at Senigaglia was found loose in the book).
Sans titreCopy of a Court Roll containing a grant to John Emyford, clerk, of 5 pieces of arable land of the lord's demesne, formerly in the farm of Thomas Dowe and recently in the farm of Gregory Brandon, by the annual farm of 10d. for each acre annually. The roll also includes livery of seisin to John Emyford, clerk, at the same court. The annual rent is 4s.9d. The document is dated 'Thursday after 6 October, temp. Henry [IV?]', probably [1400-1425].
Sans titreCopy of Court Roll made at the Court Baron of Sir John Brokett (Brockett), Lord of the Manor of Westington, containing a surrender by John Clerke (by the hands of John Cony and William Clerke, customary tenants) of a copyhold property and the admission of John Adams, his heir, for a fine of 16s. The property consists of 3 acres known as Grene Croft. Signed by Thomas Walkenden, steward.
Sans titreIndenture of bargain and sale of 14 Feb 1649 by (1) Robert Hyde, serjeant at law, of Dinton, Wiltshire, Henry Hyde, merchant, of London, Edward Hyde, clerk, of Brightwell, Berkshire, and Frederick Hyde, of Middle Temple, sons of Sir Laurence Hyde of Salisbury, to (2) Henry Griffith, of London, of a thirty-sixth part of the New River 'brought from Chadwell and Amwell to London' or waterworks, formerly the property of Sir Laurence Hyde, and left by him in his will of 13 July 1637 for the payment of his debts. Consideration: £40 and £300. Signed and sealed by the parties of the first part, but the seal of Edward Hyde alone survives.
Sans titreAccount books, 1751-1799, kept by Charles Polhill while administering the family estates centred on Chipstead in the parish of Chevening, Kent.
Sans titreIndenture quadripartite of 11 Feb 1761 by which George Lane, of Bramham Park, Yorkshire (West Riding), with the consent of Ralph Bourchier, 'doctor in physick', of Great Ormond Street in the parish of St.George the Martyr, London, and his daughter and heir Margaret Bourchier, assigned to the Hon William Chetwynd, of Dover Street, London, the manors or lordships of Benningborough [Beningbrough], Overton [Ovington], Barforth and Newton-upon-Ouse, all in the North Riding of Yorkshire, formerly the estate of John Bourchier, deceased, for the remainder of a term of 500 years. Signed and sealed by the four parties. Ralph Bourchier inherited the estates on the death of his great-niece Mildred, wife of the Hon Robert Lane, in 1760.
Sans titreManuscript volume containing transcripts of parliamentary papers relating to grants in England and Ireland, 1690-1702, including an account of royal grants made in Ireland from Jan 1698 to Dec 1699, presented by William Lowndes, Secretary to the Treasury, 1699; a report by the Commissioners of Enquiry into the Forfeited Estates in Ireland, [Dec 1699]; an account of rents in the honour of Windsor presented by David Cobb, 13 Feb 1700; an abstract of the sale of fee-farm rents, presented by William Haward and Sir John Talbot, [13 Dec 1700]; an account of royal grants made in the Duchy of Lancaster Mar 1699 to Jan 1702, presented by John Bennett, Auditor of the Duchy, 1699-1702; extracts from parliamentary proceedings relating to policy towards forfeited estates in Ireland, 4 Apr 1690-26 Feb 1700; an alphabetical list of those holding land of the crown [in Ireland], their debts to the Crown, and notes of proceedings against them; an account of all royal grants made in England from Feb 1685 to Jan 1702, presented by William Lowndes, 1700-1702; an account of grants and gratuities paid by the Commissioners for Prizes since Jun 1692, Mar 1701.
Sans titreConstitutions, pamphlets and appeals issued by the Desmond Trotter Defence Committee and the Dominica Peasant Proprietors' Union, 1938-1976.
Sans titreCollective bargaining agreements, pamphlets, addresses, memorandums, conference documents, newsletters, press releases, working papers, rules and histories, 1957-1987, issued by the British Guiana Mine-Workers' Union, the British Guiana Trades Union Council, the Clerical and Commercial Workers' Union (Guyana), the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers' Union, the Guyana Public Service Union, the Guyana Trades Union Congress, the Man-Power Citizens' Association, and the Sawmill and Forest Workers' Union (Guyana).
Sans titreCollection of papers relating to Bedford College, University of London, 1849-1992, namely charters, deeds and statutes of Bedford College, 1849-1985, including foundation documents; records of the Council, 1849-1985, including minute books, register books, outwards letter books and correspondence, and legal documents mainly relating to property held by the College; papers of the Ladies Committee, 1849-1893, including minutes and documents relating to the Lady Visitors; papers of the Governors, 1849-1985, including minutes of the AGMs and Special General meetings, and of the Fellows sub-Committee; papers of the Reid Trustees, 1860-1992, mainly comprising legal, administrative and financial papers relating to the Trust, and including material relating to the Reid Scholarships, 1871-1992; papers of the Managers of the Residence, 1860-1928, including minutes, financial material, legal documents, correspondence, and building plans, notably material relating to the move of Bedford College to Baker Street and later Regent's Park; papers of the Committees of the Council, 1868-1985, mainly comprising minutes, correspondence and papers; papers of the Academic Board, 1909-1965, mainly comprising minutes, committee papers and standing orders; papers of the Academic Committees, 1928-1985; papers of the Faculties, 1907-1985, comprising minutes and committee papers; papers of the Academic Departments, 1849-1985, including departmental files, reports, registers, financial material, building plans and material relating to staff publications; papers relating to Bedford College Library, 1886-1974, including committee minutes, Library working files, correspondence, lists and registers, and building plans; papers of the Principal's Office, 1843-1985, including correspondence with academic departments, material concerning policy and merger issues; Bedford College personnel material, 1900-1985, including staff files, 1900-1985, papers relating to staff appointments and conditions, minutes and papers of the Department Staffing Committees; papers of the Registry, 1849-1985, mainly comprising student records such as register books, course lists, scholarship details, examination records, college publications including prospectus leaflets, timetables and College Calendars, and Registrar's papers relating to financial and academic management of the College; papers of the Secretary's Office, 1849-1985, including material concerning ceremonial occasions, public lectures, gifts and bequests to the College, memorial funds and trusts administered by the College, the administration and award of prizes and scholarships, correspondence with academic departments, London colleges and national bodies, papers relating to financial and funding bodies, and correspondence with academic and residence staff; financial documents of Bedford College, 1849-1983, including the main financial registers, 1849-1965, early accounts, 1856-1866, annual accounts, 1894-1977, material relating to students' accounts and scholarships, 1861-[1965], material relating to staff salaries and revisions, 1894-1976, household accounts, 1910-1969, and account books for special funds, 1894-1968; papers relating to the buildings and residences of Bedford College, 1873-1985, notably material relating to fundraising for building schemes, plans and correspondence concerning building and development at the Regent's Park site, 1910-1980, Bursar's papers, 1924-1985, relating to the maintenance of College buildings, correspondence and papers relating to the purchase, lease and maintenance of College Halls of Residence; papers relating to student associations, 1894-1984, including the Bedford College Union Society, the Bedford College Student's Association, the Bedford College Old Student's Association, and the Bedford College Association; Bedford College magazines, 1886-1985; papers of the clubs and societies of the College, 1894-1974, mainly comprising correspondence, accounts, minutes and printed material; records of the staff associations of Bedford College, 1917-[1989], such as minutes, accounts and reports of the Association of University Teachers (AUT), the Bedford College Assistant Staff Association, the Bedford College Staff Association, and the Staff Athletics Club; various unofficial records relating to the College, [1780]-1987, namely reminiscences, press cuttings, drawings and sketches; photographs, [1849-1985], of Bedford College, its staff and students.
Sans titrePapers relating to fundraising for the buildings of Bedford College, 1897-1981, notably minutes, 1897-1905, and correspondence, 1905-1917, of the Endowment and Buildings Fund Committee; minutes and papers of various Appeals Committees, 1906-1916; correspondence, 1910-1933, concerning financing of building schemes at the Regent's Park site; papers of the Extension Fund Committee, 1919-1932, including committee minutes, minutes and correspondence of the Publicity Sub-Committee, appeal letters, programmes and leaflets for fundraising plays. Material relating to building and development at the Regent's Park site, 1910-1947, including architects' correspondence, mainly from Basil Champneys, concerning plans for the new Bedford College buildings at Regent's Park and the progress of the building work, 1910-1917; Champney's plans, 1913, for the Administrative Block, Senior Common Room, and Science Blocks A and B; plans by Haddocks of the Bursar's Office, 1922; plan and elevations of South Villa, 1926, by Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton; engineer's plans for the Botany Greenhouse and the heating system in the Physiology Laboratory, 1925; plans and watercolour impressions of the Tate Library, 1910, by J R Smith; coloured plans for the layout of rooms in the Physiology Laboratories, [1913]; Maxwell Ayrton's plans, 1925-[1930], for the Tuke Building; correspondence and plans relating to the drainage system at Bedford College, 1920-1947. Papers concerning post-war rebuilding of the Regent's Park site, 1942-1980, notably plans, 1942-1957, by Maxwell Ayrton of Oliver Block, the Herringham Building, the North Science Block (Darwin Building), and extensions to the Tuke Building; correspondence, papers and plans relating to the Tuke-Darwin Infill, 1966-1972; correspondence and plans relating to the Development Programme, 1964-1980, including a report on future library accommodation in the Acland Building, 1971, and proposed plans for an Oliver Infill, a Bedford College Union Society Building and a North Spur, 1979-1980; correspondence concerning the purchase of land for sports facilities, 1922-1925 and 1969-1971. Bursar's papers, 1924-1985, relating to the maintenance of Bedford College buildings, including minutes of the Premises Sub-Committee (Bursar's Meetings), 1965-1976, and minutes and papers of Special Bursar's meetings, 1982-1984; minutes, papers and accounts, 1966-1981 of the Refectory; Bursar's correspondence, 1924-1959; Bursar's working papers, 1978-1981; Bursar's copy of a management study on the efficiency of the Bedford College Administration, 1971, and the Peat-Matwick Report on the financial implications of the merger with Royal Holloway, 1983; minutes and papers of the Safety Committee, 1974-1985, and the General Services Sub-Committee, 1979. General material relating to the Bedford College Halls of Residence, 1873-1982, including legal correspondence concerning the lease and purchase of residential properties, 1922-1953; minutes and papers of the Lodgings Sub-Committee, 1892-1921, formed to vet accommodation offered to students; bound volume of letters offering lodgings to students, 1934-1937; correspondence concerning general policy matters, 1956-1974, and financial management, 1974-1982, of residential Halls; minutes and papers of the Halls of Residence Sub-Committee, 1976-1978; Boarding House accounts, 1873-1901. Correspondence and papers relating to the purchase, lease and maintenance of specific properties used as Halls of Residence, 1895-1985, namely 7, 8, 9, 10 and 28 York Place; South Villa; 17, 20, 35, 36 and 37 Dorset Square (Notcutt House); Bedford College House (Adamson Road and Buckland Crescent), later Lindsell Hall; Hanover Lodge, including plans and Warden's papers; Tennyson Hall; York Gate and Nottingham Terrace; The Holme; Broadhurst Gardens; Nottingham Place (Rachel Notcutt Hall); and St John's Lodge.
Sans titrePapers of William Newmarch, 1847-1880, comprising: 1. Accounts, bills and receipts, 1753-1758, relating to prices and wages on the estates of James Buller of Morvall, Cornwall. 2. Papers re: Oxford and Cambridge examinations of W.J. Newmarch, son of William Newmarch, 1859-1862; Wm J. Newmarch letters to his father during a European tour, 1865; correspondence of Thomas Tooke with final proof of History of Prices vol.5 and other related papers, 1850s. 3. Papers and presscuttings re: electoral statistics, 1837-1857; papers and presscuttings re: trade and investments in Great Britain, France, Prussia, India and Australia, 1845-1860; notes and cuttings re: prices, circulation and exchange, 1848-1860, including text of General Prices, 1848-56; correspondence with James Pennington and Thomas Tooke, 1855-1856; banking papers and correspondence, especially with Joseph Hickson of the Grand Trunk Railway Co of Canada re: failure of Bank of Upper Canada, 1866-1870. 4. Letter from Bank of England re: gold coins, 1857, with other papers re: gold currency and circulation incl. Letters from the French Enquiry; letters, papers and legal documents re: establishment of Tooke Professorship of Economic Science and Statistics at King's College London, 1858-1860; papers re: Newmarch's election to the Royal Society, 1861, and his corresponding membership of Société de Statistique de Paris, 1861; correspondence re: Pacific Telegraph Co., 1863; correspondence and papers re: Bank of Upper Canada, 1870-1875. 5. Papers re: British Association Section F Economic Science & Statistics, 1856-61; notes for Newmarch's lectures at various meetings including Political Economy Club, Verulam and Oxford, 1870s-1880s.
Sans titreRecords, 1869-1975, dating largely from the 20th century, of the Guthrie Corporation, its predecessors and associated companies, comprising letterbooks and financial records, relating chiefly to plantation interests in Malaya and Singapore.
Sans titreResearch papers [1940s] of John Fage on the development of Southern Rhodesia (presumably for his PhD), largely covering the period from the 1890s to the 1930s, comprising notes, largely manuscript but including some typescripts, of primary and secondary sources including official sources, among them British parliamentary papers, Colonial Office correspondence, records of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Southern Rhodesia and its High Court, also including a bibliography. The subjects include pre-history, geography and geology, colonial administration, the British South Africa Company, economics, indigenous affairs, labour, and land tenure.
Sans titrePersonal, estate and business papers, c1820-1893, accumulated by Sir William Mackinnon, predominantly during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The material covers a wide range of commercial, imperial and humanitarian topics, and includes correspondence and papers relating to the Imperial British East Africa Company, the British India Steam Navigation Co. and the City of Glasgow Bank.
Sans titrePress reports, 1965-1972, of Agence France Presse from Jakarta, Indonesia, chiefly by Brian May, on foreign affairs, including relations with Malaysia, Japan, the United States, and others; foreign aid; visits of overseas politicians; political affairs, including the Indonesian Communist party and Muslim parties; political unrest, including student militancy; the Chinese community; natural disasters and disease; sport; affairs in West Irian (Irian Jaya); economic policy, industry, mining and agriculture.
Sans titreRecords of the Duncombe family relating to their property in London, as follows:
E/DNC/1-10: property, including that of William Lowndes, in Westminster and elsewhere;
E/DNC/11: Duncombe family property: Westminster;
E/DNC/12-25: Duncombe family property: Holborn;
E/DNC/26, 27: Duncombe family property: City;
E/DNC/29-30: Duncombe family property: St Giles in the Fields etc.
E/DNC/31: Duncombe family property: Kensington;
E/DNC/32: Duncombe family property: Hoxton;
E/DNC/33: Duncombe family property: unspecified [perhaps as solicitors].
Records relating to the Goldsmiths Company and the Lane Clarke family, including correspondence; legal papers; deeds; schedules; copies of baptism and burial certificates.
Sans titreRecords of the Paddington Estate comprising a survey of the estate and rentals and financial accounts of the estate trustees.
Sans titreCourt roll for the Manor of Harmondsworth, 1717-1728, with transcription and index.
Sans titreRecords of the Southampton Estate, including correspondence, registers, rental accounts, maps and plans; legal papers, particularly relating to the case Lord Southampton vs the Duke of Grafton; correspondence of the trustees of Lord Southampton; and title deeds and other papers relating to properties in Camden, Kentish Town, St Pancras and Kent.
Sans titreRecords of the Byng family relating to their estates, including Wrotham Park and surrounding lands, Barnet; and properties in South Mimms; Potters Bar; Westminster; Berkshire and Hertfordshire. The collection includes some family papers including marriage settlements and wills.
Sans titreRecords of Drivers Jonas and Company including partnership and related agreements, partners' correspondence, bound printed auction particulars which are listed to item level for properties across the United Kingdom (and some outside the United Kingdom) auctioned by the firm (1803-1935) (series reference code: LMA/4673/D/01); Business Index books (1862-1972) recording clients and work done (series reference code: LMA/4673/D/04), property estate job files and plans. Records of individual estates across London and counties in England include the Corporation of Trinity House, Holland Park Estate, some manorial records for estates in Surrey (series reference code: LMA/4673/D/09) and records inherited by the firm from G J Brown and Son (series reference code: LMA/4673/D/11).
Further records including marketing material including annual reports used for marketing and property guidance publications (197--2011) (series reference code: LMA/4673/E), family papers of the Driver and Jonas families including the records of Samuel and Henry Jonas of Chrishall Grange, Cambridgeshire relating to 19th century East Anglian farm techniques including notebooks (series reference codes: LMA/4673/G/06-07). Hugh Barty-King's research files for the publication 'Scratch a Surveyor' (1975) on the history of the firm include photographs of partners and premises (series reference code: LMA/4673/H/03).
Sans titreRecords of Dominions Development Ltd including a scrapbook containing memorandum and articles of association, annual reports and circulars with enclosures.
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