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Minute book detailing meetings of the Central Small Holdings Society, 14 Oct 1904-21 Jan 1911.

Executive Committee minute book of the Central St Pancras District Nursing Association. This volume was catalogued in 1974 by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The location of any further records is unknown.

Records of the Central Sumatra Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports; circulars to shareholders and a ledger.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Records of the Central Synagogue, Great Portland Street, consisting of minute books of the sub-committee for Building the Central Synagogue, 1866-1871; architect's report to the Building Committee, 1856; seat book; financial records and photograph of the synagogue interior, 1928.

Material added in 2010 included Board of Management minute books; seatholders minute books; book of Laws of the Synagogue; marriage authorizations; registers of members; press cuttings, brochures, circulars, orders of service, reports, flyers, appeals, correspondence and death notices; a history of the congregation; photographs of Second World War bomb damage; designs for fittings; blank certificates; a seating plan; and photographs of notable members of the Synagogue.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

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.

Minutes of the Central Committee for the Unemployed and various sub-committees, 1904-1905.

Minutes of the Central Unemployed Body for London, 1905-1930, with minutes, agendas and reports of sub-committees including the Classification Committee, Emigration Committee, Employment Exchanges Committee, Finance Committee, Hollesley Bay Rota Committee, Women's Work Committee, Local Advisory Committees, Working Colonies Committee, Works Committee and Special and Joint Committees. Also legal papers, 1905-1914, including tenancy agreements, insurance policies, agreements to supply labour for carrying out works and retention of services of clerical staff on war service; file regarding Workmen's Compensation Insurance, 1906; file regarding deputation to the Local Government Board, 1900s; correspondence with the Ministry of Health, 1919-1929; correspondence regarding activities of the Central Unemployed Body, 1905-1928; annual reports, 1906-1930; report on work in workrooms for women, 1915; report on employment of disabled soliders and sailors, 1915; report on Salvation Army Colonies, 1905; emigration and immigration tables, 1914; report on trade and employment after the First World War, 1916; standing orders, 1906-1913; newspaper cuttings, 1905-1930; emigration register, 1909; Sailing Register (giving age, occupation, destination and number of dependents), 1912-1914; emigration loan registers, 1906-1915; financial records, 1905-1930; plans showing a proposed swimming pool at Burnham on Crouch, 1900s.

Papers relating to the Hollesley Bay Labour Colony including particulars of the sale of the Colonial College, report of surveyors and legal papers, 1903-1926; subject files, 1914-1938, on various subjects including emigration, payment of war bonus to staff, schemes of work, employment of discharged soldiers, administration of the Colony, reports of London Boards of Guardians, publicity, Burnt House Farm, accidents, and sale of the Colony to Prison Commissioners; papers regarding staff including salary forms, 1930-1938; individual case notes, cards and registers of inmates, 1930-1938, including register of applications, admissions and discharge registers and creed register; visitor's books, 1922-1938 and cash books, 1907-1930.

County of London Appeal Tribunal (for Conscientous Objectors) minutes, 1916-1918.

Reports of interviews conducted by Alfred Wiener with individuals concerned with trying to influence antisemitic agitation by Hitler, 14 Jul 1932-27 Jul 1932, including on interviews with Dr Planck, Staatssekretär der Reichskanzlei; von Steinau-Steinrück, personal representative of the interior minister and Alfred Leonhard Tietz. Also letter from Wiener to Aronsfeld concerning the provenance of the material, 28 Apr 1955.

Central/Eastern Europe Liaison Office Report on current educational developments in Central and Eastern Europe with particular reference to opportunities for University of London's External Programme to expand its activities in the area by Pamela Cross, 1993

Papers of the Central-Verein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens, 1903-1938, relate to the central organisation including the constitution and notably comprise management and committee minutes, reports and plans regarding the organisation's aims and objectives and finance records; files on the activities of the state and regional level sub-groups; files concerning women's organisations, youth organisations, members and officers, publication and propaganda, activities of other Jewish organisations, Zionism, emigration to Palestine, training for Jewish youth, Anti-Semitism, political, economic and legal situation for Jews in Germany, CV's relationship to religion and religious organisations, and the attitudes of writers and politicians to Jews.

Records of the Centre for Computing Services (formerly Computer Unit and Computer Centre) of Imperial College, 1955-1980, including annual reports and research reports, 1965; newsletters, 1971; Advisory Committee papers, 1964-1967; papers of Sir Patrick Linstead, Rector, relating to the department, 1955-1963; opening of the unit, 1964-1965; future of computing and organisation of the unit, 1964-1976; working party minutes on the separation of the centre from the Department of Computing and Control, 1974 (KCU); Rectors' correspondence relating to the Computer Centre, 1971-1980, concerning separation from the Department of Computing and Control, headship and future of the centre (KCUB);
Rectors' correspondence relating to the Computing Department, 1966-1981, concerning headship of the department, Chairs of Computing Science and Software Engineering, general matters (KCUC); papers relating to the Department of Computing and Control (later Department of Computing), 1970-1988, including BSc and MSc courses, 1963-1986; research reports, 1970-1971; opening of the Wiliam Penney Laboratory, 1988; Kobler Unit for the Management of Information Technology, 1984-1988; annual reports, research reports (KCUD).

Leaflets detailing courses organised by the Centre for Continuing Education, 1987.

This collection is comprised of various administrative records, publications, reports, and papers of study groups of the Centre for Policy studies, and is divided into 15 sections: 1. Centre for Policy Studies Minutes; 2. Administration Papers; 3. Working Papers; 4. Research Papers; 5. Publications; 6. Speeches; 7. The Westwell Report; 8. Defence Study Group Papers; 9. Deregulation Study Group Papers; 10. Employment and Economy Study Group Papers; 11. First Eleven Group Papers; 12. Health Study Group Papers; 13. Nationalised Industry Study Group Papers; 14. Soviet Study Group Papers; 15. Trade Union Reform Study Papers.

Papers of the Centre for Reform, 1998-1999, comprises newsletters, publicity leaflets, audio tapes, video, press cuttings, press releases, minutes of management committee, papers presented to the group and advisory board meeting papers, all relating to the Centre for Reform.

Papers of The Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health Research comprise posters and ephemera relating to sexual and reproductive health, and evaluation and campaign material, 1980s-1990s. Posters notably concern AIDS prevention and originate from countries across Europe including Norway, Greece, Switzerland and UK. Posters use strong imagery including condoms and syringes to illustrate the importance of sexual health, for example a Swedish poster includes an image of man and woman with condoms as halos, the caption reads 'Var din egen skyddsangel' or 'Be your own guardian angel'. Ephemera includes badges, bags, leaflets and tapes and videos from various countries concerning AIDS and sexual health campaigns.

Evaluation and campaign material relates to work carried out in 1980s and 1990s concerning AIDS and notably includes pamphlets and leaflets from campaigns carried out across Europe, AIDS Strategic Monitor publications and surveys and research collated by various market research companies. The material was presumably collected from and hence relates to Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Italy, Luxemburg, UK, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Norway and Greece.

Album of photographs of buildings and activities of Soviet co-operatives, including activities in childrens' homes and photographs of statistical diagrams about the Central Association of Co-operative Associations of the USSR, 1932.

Letter from Henri Cernuschi of 17 Avenue Velasquez, Parc Monceau to [Henry Hucks] Gibbs, 17 Nov 1878. Covering letter enclosing a copy of Cernuschi's La Diplomatie Monétaire en 1878 (1878), made up from a series of articles previously published in Le Siècle.

Written in another hand and signed by Marbeau.

Certificate of burial in wool, 1738, for Mary Wilbey of the parish of St Benedict, Cambridge.

Printed certificate with texts in English and French testifying that Henry Wright was an Englishman, possessed a 'handsome property', and 'may be depended upon in any mercantile concern he may transact between England and France, or any other nation', signed by Wright and 16 inhabitants of the parish of Tamworth, Staffordshire. With two duty stamps, one dated 1797. Printed by 'Cotton, printer, Tamworth'.

Certificate by James Butcher, prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas, 1773, concerning judgements against the Honourable John Dottin in the period, 1740-1773.

Miscellaneous certificates and tickets, 1816-1862.

Certificates of Election and Candidature for the Royal Society. Early certificates are entirely manuscript, i.e. vols. 1-8 (1731-1840). Printed forms of ordinary certificates appear in volume 9 from November 1839 (candidates elected in 1840); printed forms for 'privileged class' elections were used from 1875, and for Foreign Membership from 1895. Not all certificates represent elected Fellows; a small percentage are for unsuccessful candidates.

Papers of JH Smith on the Ceylon Defence Force, 1940-1947; comprising official reports on the Ceylon Defence Force (CDF), Jan-Nov 1943; examination papers for Commissons in the CDF, with comments by the examiners, 1942; and three letters of application to the CDF, 1940-1947.

Copies of two pictorial publications the Copies of two pictorial publications the Ceylon Observer Pictorial, 1938 and Plate's Ceylon Annual 1938.

Postcards featuring scenes from Ceylon; Colombo street scene; Isurumunia Temple, Anuradhapura; Buddist Temple and Colombo Lake; Mount Lavinia Hotel; Tamil woman and child; Veddhas.

Typescript summary of Ceylon Receiver of Wrecks reports, 1862-1881, giving detailed accounts of the loss of 56 vessels off the coast of Ceylon.

Papers, 1798-1923, of Sir Edwin Chadwick. Over half of the collection consists of correspondence dating from around 1820, but most of the letters were written after 1834. Some of the earliest papers in the collection are notes on the police. There are papers relating to Chadwick's service as Secretary of the Poor Law Commission, including material on his troubled relationship with the Poor Law Commissioners and his unsuccessful attempts to be made a Commissioner. There is a good deal of material on public health and sanitation. There are also drafts and notes for many of his published writings to do with the reform of central and local government and military training and education.

Records, [1820s]-1984, of the Chadwick Trust. Administrative papers comprise legal papers setting up the Trust, 1890-1896; minute books, 1895-1983; annual reports, 1962-1978; lists of securities, 1914-1917; corrected booklet The Chadwick Trust, 1926-1937; script of a proposed film treatment of Sir Edwin Chadwick, 1958; signing-in book for meetings, 1972-1980. Financial papers comprise account books, 1958-1979; tax claims, 1972-1976; financial files, 1972-1980; correspondence on tax reclaimed, 1980. Papers on lectures given under the auspices of the Trust comprise announcements of lectures, 1913-1935; printed copies of lectures held under the Trust's auspices, 1930-1967, the subjects including public health and buildings, sewerage, nutrition, disease, air quality, training and public health, medical provision, and public health work overseas; other printed lectures and writings, 1896-1932, the subjects including aspects of sanitation, disease, and Sir Edwin Chadwick. Correspondence comprises general correspondence, 1913-1924, 1971-1982; correspondence of the Clerk of the Trust, 1969-1979; correspondence of G M Binnie, 1944-1980; Charity Commission correspondence, 1962-1978; correspondence relating to medals and a memorial prize, 1966-1978; Trustees, 1969-1977; receptions, meetings and lectures, 1970-1978; blue plaque, 1972-1976; costing of activities, 1974; annual reports, 1974-1979; transfer of the Trust to University College London, 1974-1984. Miscellaneous items pertaining to Edwin Chadwick, [1820s]-1889, include his diary [1820s] and patents of his inventions, 1871-1872. Other acquired papers comprise printed ephemera including circulars against inoculation [1914-1918] and undated printed extracts from a hymn on sanitation. Photographs include undated prints of Edwin Chadwick and other eminent scientists; undated slides for a lecture, including various 19th-century public figures, 19th- and 20th-century mortality rates, and various London hospitals; and photographs, 1980, of a plaque to Chadwick at his birthplace in Longsight, Greater Manchester.

Papers of Vice-Consul Chaillet, comprise 'Observations on the western coast of the Morocco state during my journey from Mogador to Tangier in July and August, 1830; memorandum respecting the foundation of Mogador, its trade, descriptions of the bay...' , bound with copy of a letter to Consul-General Douglas, 21 Aug. 1828, concerning the death of Major Laing.

Papers of Paul Belloni du Chaillu, 1864, comprise route notes, astronomical observations and calculations, Gabon, 1864; letter from Acra, 25 Aug 1863 and letter from Fernand-Vaz, 7 April 1864 reporting on journey to, and residence on, Fernand-Vaz river and library MSS letters, chiefly of a personal nature, to Sir George Black during the years 1848-1878.

The papers are very extensive though there are some lacunae, probably attributable to Chain's many changes of workplace. The early biographical period is sparsely documented, there are sporadic gaps in the correspondence files, and there is no original documentation of the penicillin research at Oxford (although there are many historical accounts and much correspondence about the history of penicillin). The surviving biographical material provides documentation of the arrangements for Chain to live and work in Britain, later honours and awards and his musical interests, and family correspondence, photographs and press-cuttings. There are very substantial records of his later career at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and Imperial College, London, including his continuing contributions to biochemical problems such as carbohydrate metabolism, ergot alkaloids, edible proteins and aeration studies. The Imperial College material also contains records of the creation, administration, finance and architectural design of the Biochemistry Department, and developments in the Department after Chain's statutory retirement in 1973. Additional information about Chain's research is available in the documentation of his very extensive consultancy agreements and collaborative work with industrial firms such as Astra, Beechams and Rank Hovis McDougall, and records relating to government, grant-giving and charitable bodies such as the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research Campaign and Medical Research Council which contributed to the funding of his research. There is much material on Chain's lectures, addresses and broadcasts, and on his extensive travel on visits and conferences, which includes a substantial number of unpublished talks.

An exceptional feature of the Chain papers is the documentation of the large number of Israel and Jewish organisations with which he was associated, especially the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he was a governor for many years and had at one time considered taking up an appointment.

Papers of Herbert Davies Chalke, 1924-[1980] including lecture notes, papers and publications, including re alcoholism, TB, care of the elderly, and food safety. Also papers re service with RAMC in North Africa.

Papers of historian Raymond Challinor (1929-2011), including: correspondence, internal memoranda, minutes and papers regarding International Socialists, 1960s - 1970s; press cuttings of reviews, articles and letters to the press by Challinor, 1960-1981; research materials, pamphlets and papers on Tom Mann, early trade unionism, Chartism, labour history in the North East of England, socialism and the Neptune Yard Strike (shipyard lying-on time dispute) on the Tyne, 1806-2000.

Notes by a student on lectures given by Dr Thomas Chalmers on divinity (vol. 4), churches (vol. 7), and various other subjects (vol. 12, watermark 1850).

A manuscript volume containing a collection of papers made by George Chalmers chiefly relating to Ireland including notes and transcripts relating to royal activity in Ireland from the time of King Henry II, tables of imports and exports for Ireland made in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century, a letter by Sir Peter Pett dated Dec 1678, and letters to Chalmers from General Charles Vallancey, Apr 1791, and Francis Douce, [1808]. On one paper, giving the exports of Ireland for 1641, 1665 and 1669, Chalmers has written 'This paper is worth more than its weight in gold'.

A manuscript volume containing a transcript by George Chalmers of a discourse, [1558], by John Yonge recommending the establishment of a bank of money for the relief of the poor. The proposal is for this bank to be formed by the payment of a death duty by all members of society, consisting of the best garment of the deceased. The manuscript also contains a proposal for the reformation of the coinage and a dedicatory epistle to Queen Elizabeth I.

Letter from George Chalmers of the Office for Trade, Whitehall to T Cadell, Esq, publisher, 17 Feb 1821. Referring to Chalmers's work Caledonia.

Autograph, with signature.

Letters from George Chalmers to Sir Joseph Banks, 1788-1804. Including a letter eulogizing Arthur Young's Example of France a warning to Britain, 26 Feb 1793; and another discussing a publication of [William] Cobbett's, 14 Apr 1802.

Autographs, with signatures.

Papers of James Alexander Chalmers, 1951-1979, including draft articles, unpublished papers and reprints by Chalmers both on the history of the vacuum extractor and on his use of it in obstetric practice at Worcester Royal Infirmary; Chalmers' personal copy of The Ventouse - The Obstetric Vacuum Extractor (London: Lloyd-Luke, 1971) and press cuttings of reviews; reprints, photographs, illustrations and other material gathered by Chalmers during the course of his research into the history and development of the vacuum extractor.

A letter book of William Chalmers, 1740-1744, containing letters addressed to agents in Great Britain, Europe, the United States and North Africa. Commodities included wine, tobacco, cloth, spices, leather, copper, papers, butter, citrus fruit, figs, salt, cork and rum.

Papers of the Chamber of Ships Insurance relating to the appointment of a French agent to the Chamber.

Copies of papers and photographs relating to Chamberlain's life and career, 1906-1970, including unpublished manuscript memoirs, 1906-1923; papers relating to pay and postings, 1915-1949; account of service with Royal Flying Corps, 1916-1917; typescript report on visit to Palestine, 1920; papers relating to service as Education Officer, London District, 1924-1928, including typescript official report by Chamberlain to Maj Gen Walter Patrick Hore- Ruthven, 2nd Baron Ruthven, General Officer Commanding London District on visit to the Army of the Irish Free State, 1926; papers relating to service as Education Officer, Headquarters Presidency and Assam District, India, 1934-1938, including letters from Maj Gen John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, 1934-1937, Maj Gen George Mackintosh Lindsay, 1938 and Brig Eric Edward Dorman Smith, 1938, and typescript account of tour of Tibet, 1937; uncaptioned photographs of tour of Tibet, 1937; article by Chamberlain from The Journal of the Army Educational Corps, on the Tibet tour, 1938, also two articles from The Journal of the Royal Army Educational Corps, on a visit by HM Queen Elizabeth II in Jul 1950 to the Army College, Wellbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire (1951), and on the Command Education Officers' Conference, 1951, including printed photograph of all officers, including Chamberlain, still serving with the Royal Army Educational Corps who were commissioned into the Army Education Corps on its formation in 1920, with texts of speeches, 1953 and 1955; correspondence including letters from Gort thanking Chamberlain for sympathy on the death of his son, Lt Hon Charles Standish Prendergast Vereker, Grenadier Guards, and on the Governorship of Gibraltar, 1941, and letters from Gen Sir Richard Nelson Gale and Gen Sir James Stuart Steele, congratulating Chamberlain on the award of the CBE, 1956-1957; reports and memoranda relating to service as Chief Education Officer, British North Africa Force, 1943-1945 and Middle East Land Forces, 1947-1948; press cuttings, 1953-1958 and obituaries, 1970-1971.

Papers of Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, 1931-1938, relate to his time as Chairman of the Court of Governors and member of the Board of Management of the School of Tropical Medicine, and the aftermath of his death. Correspondence regards Chamberlain's role on the Court of Governors and Board of Management; information on donations and subscriptions; correspondence with his family after his death and on the commissioning of a portrait of him after his death; a note on his relationship with the School and letters to the Chairman of the Chadwick Trust.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to apprenticeship, including enrolments of apprentices' indentures, 1786-1974; enrolment account books, including name of apprentice, name and address of father, master and company, date of binding, term of service, and apprentices' fees, 1786-1820; alphabet of enrolment, 1786-1959; registers of apprenticeship bindings, 1787-1978 (with gaps); complaints books, 1786-1917; judgements of the Mayor's Court for discharge of apprentices, 1794-1973 and commitment books (names of apprentices sent to Bridewell), 1837-1916.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to Bridge House Estates, including accounts, 1662-1942; Bridge House rents cash book, 1967-1972; Bridge's Act cash book, 1934-1956; acquittance books, 1852-1855; alienations books, 1840-1856; assignment of property books, 1857-1901; collector's ledgers, 1923-1934 and 1958-1968.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to the Chamber accounts, including cashier's general office cash books, 1662-1724 and 1784-1857; general office cash books, 1727-1906 (cash books 1688- 727 were destroyed by a fire in the Chamber on 7 Feb 1786); general cash book receipts, 1906-1971; general cash book payments, 1906- 971; City estate cash books, 1928-1946; acquittance books, 1660-1917; periodical charges books, 1918-1937; salaries and pensions books, 1919-1936; acquittance cash books, 1902-1942; account of expenditure and the state of the Chamber, 1660-1670; account of 'the several extraordinary disbursements out of the Chamber's Stock from 1637 to 1667 whereby it may be conjectured how the Chamber came into debt', listing expenses incurred during the Civil War for fortifications, trained bands, ships and men, restoration of Charters, diamonds to the Queen, entertainment of Charles I, Lords and Commons, and Charles II; account of extraordinary disbursements made out of the Chamber of London, 1625-1650; memoranda of payments made out of the Chamber by note of land, 1671-1712; account of moneys ordered to be paid by the Court of Aldermen, Oct 1717-May 1722; statements of disbursements in the nature of salaries, gratuities, pensions and other allowances to officers of the Corporation, 1791-1829; statement of the expenses and allowances of the several Committees of the Corporation and Commissioners of Sewers, 1791-1829; statements of payments made to the Lord Mayor and of expenses of the Mansion House 1820-1829; vouchers and bills for work done by smiths, founders, masons, bricklayers, plumbers, glaziers, joiners, paviors, remembrancers, comptrollers, water bailiffs, hall keepers, printers and stationers, 1670-1672; reports and other papers regarding audits, 1674-1889; book of fines, 1517-1628; ward expenses, 1933-1961; monthly balances (securities), 1935-1965; monthly balances (cash), 1932-1979; papers relating to bonds issued under the Corporation of London (Bridges) Act, 1928-1973; fees and annuities, 1649-1670; method of keeping accounts, 1650?; security papers, 1940-1979; historical notes and articles, 1948-1985; City lands grant books, 1853-1972 and City lands assignment books, 1843-1902; markets grant books, 1877-1972; rates grant books, 1949-1971; annual accounts, including audited accounts, 1942-1988; ledgers for various accounts including poor rates, general rates, war damage payments, Epping Forest, Gresham trust, markets, West Ham park, Barbican, London Bridge, tithes and various committees and courts; letter books, 1847-1911; profit and loss ledgers and cash books, 1866-1978 and various other administrative and financial papers.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to the Chamberlain, including lists of Chamberlains of the City 1276-1800, compiled 1902; appointment and duties of Chamberlain, 1912; minutes of a Committee to consider the duty and nature of the office of Chamberlain, 19 Sep 1727, including extracts relating to the duties of Chamberlain, 1595-1720; duties of Chamberlain, 1880; papers and extracts relating to the election of the Chamberlain, 1491-1973; papers relating to the payment of fees to the Chamberlain, 1454-1695 and papers relating to the nature of the office of Chamberlain, 1842-1962.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to the Chamberlain's Court, including notes, press cuttings, reports, correspondence, photographs, articles, certificates and office papers relating to Freedom applications and admissions including historical procedures and precedents, 1712-1993. Please note the majority of these records are closed.

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 relating to duties [a payment to the public revenue levied upon the import, export, manufacture, or sale of certain commodities] and metage [a duty paid for the official measuring of dry or liquid goods, such as coal, grain, salt], including account books, 1667-1688; coal duty account books, 1667-1676; posting books, 1670-1684; monthly returns of cash paid into the Chamber, 1841-1887; acquittance books, 1672-1687; loans advanced on credit of the Coal Duties, 1698-1701; accounts, 1861-1890; interest on loans, 1861-1881; daily receipts, 1875-1888; accounts of the 9d coal duty and the wine duty, 1861-1889; coal duties collector's returns, 1674-1790 and 1837-1845; reports on coal accounts, 1669-1673; papers and accounts relating to the drawback expenses fund, 1838-1891; coal duties expenses fund, 1857-1890; received accounts of tolls for the groundage of colliers and water bailliage of sea coal, 1791-1831; register of colliers arriving in the Port of London and duty payable, 1811-1826; monthly accounts of money paid into the Chamber for tolls, 1822-1826; account of the origin, establishment and working of the office for the registration and regulation of Coal Whippers of the Port of London, 1851; minute books, 1843-1856; papers relating to the coal trade, 1666-1861, including orders, legal cases, accounts and registers; sea coal meters, 1663-1703; coal metage accounts, 1809-1832; returns of clerks to the sea coal meters, 1675-1687.

Papers relating to the corn duty, 1709-1814, including article on the history of the corn supply, 1993; minute books of the corn meters office, 1772-1873; papers of the Metage on Grain Committee, 1872-1896; grain barges entering the Port of London, 1879-1897; grain ships entering the Port of London, 1880-1901; British and foreign grain ships and barges entering the Port of London, 1872-1898; account book of meter's earnings, 1825-1902; amount of work done by each meter on the unloading of a barge with meters' change, 1871-1894; weekly totals and payments into the Chamber, 1872-1903; compulsory metage on grain made by meters for measuring grain on ships at 1/-, 1845-1860; amount of merchandise weighed and certified by meters, 1872-1902; abstract of grain duty bills to merchants, 1878-1901; account books of the annual grant made by the Corporation to the Crown Meters in lieu of all expenses, 1809-1872; monthly account books of grain duty charged to merchants, 1872-1903; various other accounts and papers relating to the Corn Meters Office, including legal cases and fees; wine duties accounts, 1847-1881; Gauger's Officer papers including accounts, ledgers and reports, 1784-1863; papers relating to cocket duties [customs duties] including accounts, 1676-1849.

Papers relating to scavage [a toll on goods sold by merchants who came from outside London], package [the duty paid for the privilege of overseeing the packing of certain categories of cloth or other goods brought into the port of London ] and alien porterage [a charge for the transportation of imported goods], including accounts, reports, legal cases and minutes, 1628-1934 and papers regarding the fruit, oyster and salt meters, 1469-1920.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to Freedom admissions, including early Freedom admissions registers, 1551-1669 (fragmentary and fragile due to the Chamber fire of 1786); Freedom admissions papers, 1681-2004; index to Freedoms arranged alphabetically by surname, 1681-1940; lists of freemen in date order of admission, 1681-1844; Freedom declaration books, 1784-2003; letter books, 1901-1981 (closed from 1977 onwards); accounts on money received on admissions by redemption, 1694-1841; papers concerning the admission of aliens (non-Londoners), 1433-1844; numbers of freemen, 1901-1960; rejected applications, 1781-1989 (closed from 1900 onwards); register of Freedoms granted to the City of London Police Reserve, 1920; articles about the history of the Freedom, 1957-1995; various orders, extracts and reports, 1554-1722; ceremony on the admission of the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Harold Macmillan, MP, 25 Feb 1957; illuminated addresses, principally comprising resolutions of thanks of the Corporation to distinguished persons and conferring on them the Freedom of the City, 1792-1856, including Dr Edward Jenner, Commodore Sir Charles Napier, the Right Hon Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Admiral George Elphinstone and Rear Admiral Alexander Hood; the Roll of Fame, list of all honorary admissions to the Freedom, 1740-present; articles and photographs regarding 'Freedom Boxes', specially made caskets in which the honorary Freedom certificates are presented, and ceremonial presentation swords, 1933-1997; extracts re presentation of honorary freedom to members of Royal family, 1736-1761 and 1840; City Freedom Certificates, returned by executors or relatives of deceased Freemen, 1596-1979; monthly account books, 1675-1832; stamp books, 1786-1856; admissions to freedom account books, 1786-1981; fees for freedoms, 1808-1831 and 1901-1983 (closed from 1976 onwards); cash cheque accounts, 1822-1870; City accounts, 1831-1901; fees for freemen, 1833-1901; day books, 1840-1901.

Also papers relating to non-freemen, including wardmote inquest returns of non-freemen, 1821-1853; lists of King's freedmen for part of 18th and 19th centuries; licenses to non-freedmen to be employed within the City, 1750-1845; returns of non-freemen carrying on business in the wards, 1809-1810, Acts of the Common Council regarding non-freemen, 1606-1839; summonses to appear before the Chamberlain to show why they should not be prosecuted, and notes on prosecutions in the Mayor's Court, 1809-1810 and various similar legal papers relating to the prosecution of non-freemen and the disenfranchisement of those fraudulently claiming to be freedmen.