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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.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to improvements work to City property, including papers relating to properties at Cannon Street, 1852-1862; City improvements cash books and ledgers, 1844-1866; legal cases relating to the 1847 City Improvement Act, 1848; list of leases under the Improvements Act, 1847-1872; a list of Metropolitan improvements and public works carried out (by the Corporation of London and others) by means of the London Coal Dues, 1666-1889; first report of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into and consider the most effectual means of improving the Metropolis, 1844; first report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Metropolitan Local Government, 1866; Finance and Improvement Committee report to the Commissioners of Sewers on proposed Metropolitan Improvements, 1872 and papers relating to properties at Moorfields, 1778-1833.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to the financial accounts of various institutions and courts, including City of London Lunatic Asylum accounts ledgers, 1866-1906; City of London Lunatic Asylum cash books, 1881-1915; City of London School ledger, 1965-1974; City of London Freemen's School ledgers, 1933-1974; City of London School for Girls ledgers, 1925-1965; Guildhall School of Music and Drama ledgers, 1880-1972; Guildhall Stationery Store account ledgers, 1948-1978; Mayor's and City of London Courts accounts, 1855-1968 and Sheriff's and City of London Court accounts, 1847-1909. Please note some records are closed.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to loans and assessments, including accounts and other financial papers regarding loans for the City's use, 1648-1692 and 1750-1835; papers relating to the Poll Tax, 1660-1673; assessment receipts (including for Land Tax and Poll Tax), 1660-1666 and 1689- 1707; papers relating to loans, 1660-1714; papers relating to Royal aid, 1665-1668; estreats [fines] and abatements, 1696-1703; Land Tax accounts, 1703-1760; Exchequer Bills, 1697-1712; marriage assessments, lists of the inhabitants of each house in each parish, May-June 1695 and indexes to the marriage assessments.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department regarding the armed forces, including papers relating to payments to servicemen in the Army and Navy (including wages, pensions, bounties and relief for the poor and maimed), 1661-1793; papers of the 'Committee for supplying the British troops now serving on the Continent with comfortable clothing, etc.', 1793-1794; accounts of money received for poor relief, 1789-1795; certificates for payment of bounty money, 1795; lists of men and money raised in the City for the Army and Navy, 1794-1807; account of men raised for the Army Reserve, 1804-1806; Army deserters expenses book containing the names and regiments of deserters and absentees apprehended by the City police, 1904-1916; proposal to establish a fund to equip privateers with carriage guns, 1757; money paid for recruit warrants, 1709-1711; order for the 'speedy raising of the money for the Advancing of the Scotch Army', 7 Oct 1643; extracts and notes including on the security of the City of London during the Civil War, 1643-1690; financial papers relating to the City of London Militia, including expenses incurred during the Civil War and the relief of widows, 1640-1813.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to the Orphan's Fund, 1545-1983, including Finding Money account books, recording money paid to persons for the maintenance of orphans in their care, 1643-1678; Finding Acquittance books containing receipts for Finding Money paid out, 1668-1694; account book of dates of deposits of money in the Chamber, 1656-1677; casting books in which interest due to orphans was calculated, 1660-1699; Orphan's Journals, entries of receipts of money for the use of orphans, 1661-1692; Orphan's Ledgers, entries of money received for the benefit of orphans and money paid out to them, 1627-1683; Orphan's Fund cash books, 1694-1832; accounts ledgers, 1694, showing all money owed to orphans at the time of the Orphan's Act of 1694 [when the City of London suffered a financial collapse and was not able to pay orphans what they were owed]; accounts ledgers containing receipts and payments to the Orphan's Fund, 1694-1762; Grand Ledger of orphans, 1694-1817, with indexes; ledger of orphans holding orphanage stock, 1732-1788; orphan's journals, 1729-1817; journals of the accounts of Orphan's Fund creditors, 1694-1729; payments accounts books, 1694-1790; abstract of the produce and expenditure of the duties payable to the Orphan's Fund and of the surplus of the Fund, 1694-1832; statements of produce and expenditure, 1793-1837; papers and accounts regarding the Act of Common Council for raising £2000 a year from the inhabitants of the City payable to the orphans, 1696-1795; papers relating to Orphan's Fund Stocks including accounts of money received, 1717-1818; Act of Parliament of 1693 (5 and 6 William and Mary) for the relief of the orphans and other creditors of the City with related papers including register of assignments of orphan's stock, 1694-1818; deeds of grant, assignments and Chamberlain's memos, 1700-1810; accounts regarding interest on the Orphan's Fund, including dividends on orphan stock, 1732-1819; receipts on duties and duties posting books, 1694-1834 and accounts of receipts and payments of surpluses, 1793-1853.

Also accounts of the fees paid to Corporation of London Officers for dealing with Orphan Fund matters, 1672-1678; petition by the Chamberlain for an increase of salary for himself and his clerks for their work on the Orphan's Fund, with a history of the Fund, 1821; "The Case of the City of London in reference to Debt to the Orphans and otherwise, how it was incurred and what amount has been repaid", 1691; reports of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Orphan's Fund, 1812, 1822 and 1829; and article on the origin and history of the Orphan's Fund, 1983.

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

Records of the Chamberlain's Department regarding poor relief, including financial accounts of collections for the poor, 1659-1665, 1690-1703, 1776 and 1795; money received towards raising a Regiment of Horse and Dragoons, 1690; papers relating to collections and distributions on the King's Letter, including parish returns, 1690-1829; warrants, signed by the Lord Mayor and Bishop of London, for payment of monies out of the Chamber, 1688 and 1694; receipts of parishes for monies received out of the Chamber, 1726-1742; notice of the opening of a fund for the relief of the poor, £1000 being subscribed by Common Council, 1767; petitions and orders for payment of gifts and pensions to poor people in distress by the Courts of Aldermen and Common Council, 1676-1800?; orders of Poor Law Commissioners for the valuation, assessment and appointment of Guardians for various parishes in the City of London, East London and West London Unions, 1837-1838; report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law and Relief of Distress, 1909; papers relating to the distribution of coal and wood to the poor, 1606-1763; precepts, 1717-1761; account of money received for providing lodging houses for the poor, 1852-1858; case notes regarding the disposition of property of the Guardians of the Poor of the City of London Union, on the passing of the 1929 Local Government Act, 1930; Acts of Common Council for assessing the parishes of the City towards the further employing the Poor of the City of London, 1698-1823 and various other correspondence, petitions and orders relating to poor relief.

Also papers relating to the collection of alms for the relief of French Protestants (Huguenots), including returns for parishes in the Diocese of Ely, Cambridgeshire, Diocese of Winchester, Hampshire (including Isle of Wight), Peculiar of Canterbury, Kent, Peculiars of Canterbury, Sussex, Diocese of Chichester, Sussex, Diocese of Lincoln, Hertfordshire, Diocese of London, Essex and Diocese of Rochester, Kent, 1688; accounts and acquittances of money received and distributed, 1693-1704; orders to the Chamberlain for payments out of the collection for the relief of French Protestants, 1681-1706; articles on the Huguenots in London, 1976.

Also accounts of money collected and paid on the royal brief for 'the redemption of captives taken by the Turks and Moors' along the African coast, 1670-1705, with chamber vouchers [orders for payment] and returns of collections.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department regarding rates and assessments, including cemetery ledgers, 1856-1931; consolidated ledgers, 1844-1876; general ledgers, 1876-1931; ledgers relating to the financial accounts for housing projects and improvement schemes, 1919-1935; improvements (buildings maintenance) ledgers, 1875-1937; Public Health (Sanitation) Committee ledgers, 1931-1937; Sewers ledgers, 1850-1932; Streets Committee ledgers, 1931-1937; rate books, generally providing information including, occupier, description and situation of the property, valuation, amount of individual rates and arrears, 1908-1985 (please note that rate books are closed for 30 years from last date in volume); cash books of receipts and payments, 1851-1903; rates accounts books, Public Health Department, 1899-1907; consolidated rate audit books, 1848-1859; consolidated accounts, 1865-1906; collector's accounts for consolidated rates, 1848-1903; warrants for payments from the consolidated rate, 1849-1857; Paving rates ledgers and warrants, 1766-1849; account of money paid into the Chamber by persons purchasing annuities under the Act for Paving, 1766-1786; receipts of annuitants for dividends on money lent for paving, cleaning and enlightening the City of London, 1767-1827; Paving rate audit books, 1771-1848; Chamberlain's Pavement rate accounts, 1766-1850; paving account bonds, 1776-1789; lamp contracts, 1766-1788; receipts and payments, lamp accounts [tax for lighting the streets with lamps] 1736-1766; cash books, lamp accounts, 1736-1766 and other papers relating to lighting the streets, 1749-1764.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department regarding rents and rentals, including rent cashier's cash books, 1857-1967; cash books of money received from tenants, 1669-1763; rent cash books (counties), 1833-1863; general rent cash books, 1833-1858; City rents cash books, 1945-1962; country rents cash books, 1943-1961; Bridge House rents cash books, 1942-1957; sundry rents cash book, 1950-1958; market rents cash books, 1938-1962; Epping Forest wayleave [a right of way granted by the owner of land to a particular body and for a particular purpose, e.g. laying of telephone cables or water pipes across land, often in return for payment] rents cash books, 1941-1953; City and Liberties rent ledgers, 1837-1972; Conduit Mead rent ledgers, 1817-1964; rent ledgers (counties, including open spaces and West Ham Park), 1837-1972; markets rent ledgers, 1925-1972; rent ledgers (rates), 1958-1972; miscellaneous rentals book, 1662-1697; rental ledgers of the Chamber, 1692-1710; general rent ledgers, 1728-1751 and 1785- 1836; general rent alphabets, 1785-1836; rent farm ledgers, 1711-1729 and 1785-1937; rent ledgers for Epping Forest wayleaves, 1937-1972; daily collection books (surveyor's rents), 1936-1961; surveyor's collection books (City Lands), 1940-1966; extracts from the City Lands Committee Minutes regarding the City Quickener, whose duty it was to ensure prompt collection of all rents, 1733-1843; quit rents [rent paid by a freeholder or copyholder in lieu of services which might otherwise be required] and tithes, 1670-1759 and lessees' insurance books, 1940s.

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

Chamberlain's warrant to the Clerk of the Rolls to make out letters of discharge to John Brompton, abbot of Jervaulx, who had made homage to the King at Sheen (Shene) on 8 Nov 1437 for all the lands and lordships which he claimed to hold of the king by knight service. Signed 'WP le Bardolff Chaummberlein' (possibly Sir William Phelip, later Lord Bardolf, Lord Chamberlain to Henry VI). Endorsed 'To the Clerk of the Rolls'.

Apprenticeship indentures for John Mallett and Frank Tringham, to be apprenticed as painters and gas fitters.

Practice papers of solicitor A Chamberlayne, relating to property in Chiswick, Hornsey, Highgate, East Finchley, Tottenham, Harlesden and Willesden, 1886-1896. The documents include agreements, settlements, probates, leases and mortgages.

Records of A R Chamberlayne, solicitor, 1882-1924. The records include financial ledgers and account books; cash books; bills books; property management ledgers, cash books and letter books; bank books; and deeds and other legal papers relating to individual properties.

The item comprises a sheet of pencil sketches of various instruments, including the Chamberlen forceps.

Papers, c1894-1942, of Raymond Wilson Chambers, including papers on all Chambers' major published works, and on his unpublished work with J H G Grattan on the Piers Plowman A-text. There is also a good deal of correspondence with friends, students and fellow scholars. Extensive family correspondence includes letters written home by Chambers when he was a student at UCL, and wartime letters from France and Belgium in 1916-1917. Also includes a small but valuable collection concerned with the study of Sir Thomas More.

Papers of M A Chambers, 1912-1913, comprise 'The lure of the Caucasus': sketches in prose and paint of travels under the old regime.

Manuscript and watercolour copy of text and illustrations from English Botany by Sir James Edward Smith and James Sowerby (1790-1814), volumes VIII-XI. chiefly manuscript plus watercolour illustrations (a few entries in original form of printed text and engraved plate).

Letter from Raymond Wilson Chambers of 47 Clarence Road, Wood Green, [Middlesex] to the Academic Registrar of the University of London, 22 Jun 1895. Asking for supervision work 'during the ensuing examination'.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Raymond Wilson Chambers of University College London, Gower Street, London to Dr [H F] Heath, Registrar of the University of London, Jun 1901. Concerning Chambers's duties as a supervisor at University examinations and referring to his work in the library at University College.

Autograph, with signature.

Papers of William Wylly Chambers including official service documents, 1826 to 1843; logs, 1836, 1839 to 1841; letterbooks, 1836, 1840 to 1841; order books, 1827 to 1837; books of expenses for various stores and other ship's papers, mainly for the PELORUS.

Two volumes of vocabularies of Indigenous Australian languages compiled by Col W Champ entitled 'Aboriginal vocabulary, comprising the Ballaarat, Bacchus Marsh, Melbourne and Gipps Land: dialects with a selection of dialogues and familiar phrases', 1861 (revised, 1862) and 'Supplement to the aboriginal vocabulary, comprising the Mount Gambien and Wonnin dialects', 1862, with a loose insert of a vocabulary of words having the same meaning in different parts of Australia by 'Mitchell', sent to Champ by Sir Edmond Burry.

Registers of services at the Champery Anglican Chaplaincy, Switzerland.

Obituaries and material relating to the death of Allison Wessels George Champion in 1975.

Records of Major Sir William Henry Champness, comprising journals recording his years as undersheriff and sheriff of the City of London, 1928-1938, autobiographical notes, 1873-1925 and personal diaries, 1926-1938.

Papers of Sir Francis Champneys, [1908-1923], including note by Champneys on midwives; note by Champneys stating his opinions on 'coitus interruptus', 'french letters' and 'undue indulgence'; note by Champneys on his opinions regarding contraception; note by Champneys on the affects of childlessness; letters from Dr Mary Scharlieb to Champneys, 17-22 Oct 1923 on contraception, including a press cutting on an address by Scharlieb in the Church Times, 19 Oct 1923; pamphlet entitled 'Why should I support Preventive and Rescue Work?: answer by Sir Francis Champneys', issued by the Archbishops' Advisory Board; pamphlet of a paper read by Champneys to the Chichester Diocesan Purity Association entitled 'Sex', 16 Jun 1927; pamphlet of an address by Champneys on 'Maternity and Child Welfare', delivered at the town hall, Liverpool, 2 Jul 1917; leaflet on cancer of the womb by Champneys, Jun 1908 and letter from the National Council of Public Morals returning a document to Champneys, 4 Aug 1916.

Legal proceedings for various courts, 1701-1783, including Exchequer proceedings, Common Pleas proceedings, Queens Bench proceedings, and Chancery proceedings. The court cases relate to debts, damages, disputes over wills and inheritance, perjury, assault and theft.

Records of Chandler, Hargreaves, Whittall and Company Limited, insurance brokers, comprising general correspondence and papers relating to the purchase of the company by Harrisons and Crosfield Limited.

The archive consists of 1 folder containing:

1) Letter to Miss Chandler from the National Council of Women of Great Britain explaining their aims and enclosing a list of affiliated societies, 1944 (2 items)

2) Instructional leaflets from the National Federation of Women's Institutes, 1940s (6 items): What a Women's Institute is and what it does; Good programmes for hard times - a leaflet for programmes sub-committees; to the WI Chairman-President; to the WI Honorary Treasurer; to the WI Committee Member; to the WI Honorary Secretary.

Papers of Sir Geoffrey Chandler: reports, correspondence and publications relating to Greece 1944-1949, including reports by field personnel, Maj Ronald R Prentice and Maj T C Johnson, on the situation in the Macedonia and Pajko areas, Greece, 1945; reports to Force 133 Headquarters Greece and press reviews from AIS (later Anglo Greek Information Service), Salonika for the Macedonia region, 19 Nov 1944-28 Dec 1945; reports from Anglo Greek Information Service (AGIS), Corinth, Jan-Mar 1945; reports from AGIS, Florina, Apr-Nov 1945; 1944-1945; reports and press reviews from the Information Department, Salonika, Aug 1946-1947 Aug; Geoffrey Chandler's correspondence as press officer, British Embassy, Salonika, Aug-Nov 1946; typescript report on Greece, Oct-Nov 1949, by Chandler; Ministry of Information publications and pamphlets on Greece (Greek, English and French), 1938-1952, notably relating to the political situation in Greece and charitable appeals for relief of Greek people and map of Macedonia and surrounding area 'Grece du Nord: zones des groupes d'observation', scale 1:1,000,000, United Nations map number 134 (F), Aug 1948.

Records of Chandlers Limited, brewers, including London committee minutes with agendas; papers about share transfers; list of ordinary shareholders, divided into London, South Africa and other registers; correspondence; memorandum and articles of association; financial accounts; reports and notes on accounts and plant; and forms of proxy.

Records of the Brydges family, dukes of Chandos, including marriage settlement of James Brydges and Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Lake of Canons, 1696; letter patent of Queen Anne, granting annuity to George Brydges, 1707; marriage settlements of James Brydges and Cassandra Willoughby, 1713, relating to the manor of Little Stanmore (Canons); settlement relating to Clarendon House, later called Albermarle House, in St Martin in the Fields, Westminster; assignment of estates of Henry Brydges, 1734; leases of premises in Chipping Barnet, Great and Little Stanmore, and Edgware, 1734; marriage settlement of James Brydges, 1753; and settlement of the estates in Great and Little Stanmore of Anna Eliza, Duchess of Chandos, 1780.

Papers relating to the Warren House estate in Great Stanmore, including deeds, covenants, leases, assignments, conveyances, extracts from wills, grants and agreements.

The Company papers contain correspondence, press cuttings, articles, statistics and plans mainly concerning the 1930 scheme which was defeated in the House of Commons by seven votes. Unfortunately most of the company’s early papers were destroyed in a fire in their office at London Bridge station in 1941.

Papers of Thomas Hancock Arnold Chaplin, 1915-1920, consisting of his papers on medical history, specifically on the rate of mortality in the British Army in 1815, 1915; an analysis of the Roll of the Royal College of Physicians by William Munk (Munk's Roll), 1918; and a history of medical education in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1500-1850, 1920.

Collection of title deeds and legal documents relating to the estates of Sir John Chapman and of his family and descendants.

Papers of Frederick Cecil Chapman, 1937-[1970], notably comprising University of London extension lecture notes, covering psychology, welfare, accounting, secretarial and administration, commerce and society, [1937-1942]; notes, specimen papers, syllabus, County Hall courses and University of London Degree and Postgraduate courses on bookkeeping, commerce, vocational pedagogy and business economics, 1937-1942; notes and draft lectures on energy, government, aircraft production, post-war rehabilitation, hospitals and mental health, 1946-1947; notes used for teaching, commentaries on world events and quasi diary notes, 1947-1956; notebooks entitled 'Personal Copyright and Official Minutes including Provisional Legislation concerning the Royal Commission of Tribunal, Enquiries and Inquiries, 1958-1970', relating to the functioning of a variety of administrative and legislative authorities and boards; pamphlets by Chapman, entitled Random Papers and Reminiscences and Progress within the Empire.

Letter from John Chapman of 1 Albion Street, Hyde Park, [London] to George Grote, 17 Nov 1858. Regarding the copyright of the Westminster Review.

Autograph, with signature.

Five sketch maps showing British, USA and French troop movements in North Africa, [1942].

'Medical extracts and cases', manuscript volume attributed to Mr Chapman, 1796, containing extracts from cases described in various medical publications.

Paper entitled The Strike in the London Boot Trade, 1885-1886.

Records of Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, 1823-1997, later Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, comprising minutes of the Committee of Management, 1823-1950; School Council, 1950-1997; Academic Board, 1949-1997; Finance Committee, 1911-1923; Finance and General Purposes Committee, 1948-1993; Joint Liason Committee, 1967-1968; Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1945-1965; Division of Medicine, 1945-1965; Division of Surgery, 1945-1965; Institute of Pathology, 1919-1959; Academic Sub-Committee, 1943-1960; Joint School and Hospital Subcommittee, 1900-1907; Dean's and annual reports, 1927-1996; Dean's register, 1882-1934; Dean's disciplinary book, 1900-1914; prospectuses, 1904-1998; Charing Cross Hospital Gazette, 1899-1973, 1981-1984; honours list, 1879; bylaws, rules and regulations, 1894; 1930; constitution of the Students' Union, 1977; dental students' register, [1935-1954];
annual accounts for Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, 1950-1984; Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, 1984-1997; Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School Students' Union, 1992-1997.

Records of Charing Cross Hospital (1914 - 1974) including: bed occupancy statistics; new hospital planning; delivery registers for babies (birth registers); records of the School of Nursing; and handbooks for staff and patients.

Records of Charing Cross Hospital, 1818-1976, comprising Dr Golding's minute book, 1818-1821; minutes of the Hospital Management Committee, 1821-1976 (formerly the Committee of Management and Board of Governors); Weekly Board Minutes, 1836-1911; minutes of the Finance Committee, 1865-1919, 1932-1971; Medical Committee, 1863-1968; Medical Advisory Committee, 1966-1976; Group Medical Committee, 1958-1966; Executive Committee, 1967-1974; House Committee, 1948-1972; General Purposes and Finance Committee, 1913-1917, 1948-1967; Establishment Committee, 1948-1953, 1964-1965; Medical and Dental Staffing Committee, 1948-1949; Special Appeal Committees, 1896-1911, 1926-1928; Survey Sub-Committee, 1949; Building Committee, 1828-1833, 1885-1905; Convalescent Home Committee, 1890-1915; Subcommittees' minutes, 1884-1914; Ladies Guild, 1904-1933; Planning committee of new medical school, 1959-1963; Pathological Services Committee, 1963-1966; annual reports, 1868-1974; Chairman's Reports, 1931-1937;
charters, rules and bylaws, 1883-[1957], notably Charters of Incorporation, 1883, 1887, 1948, bylaws, 1947, standing orders [1950-1957];
audited accounts, 1953-1964;
administrative records, notably hospital visitors' book, 1870-1917; list of pharmacists, 1868-1878; plans of the hospital; insurance and legal papers; plans and charts; photographs; hospital diet, 1828; legacy book, 1835-1894; souvenir programmes, [1899-1901];
operating theatre lists, 1892-1900; case books of John Howship, [1817-1831]; prescription book of the hospital dispensary, 1930s.

Records of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, comprising Board meeting minutes and General meetings minutes.