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Records of the Haymarket Committee of the Middlesex and Westminster Justices, [1670]-1872. The records in this collection were produced from both the committee which oversaw the administration of the Haymarket, and from the general courts of sessions held in Middlesex. They include minutes, reports, orders, contracts for repairs and financial records.

Records of Tottenhall Manor, also known as Tottenham Court Manor, including court baron books and rolls; court minute books; rentals; fee books; documents regarding enfranchisements; papers relating to demesne land in Saint Pancras, Kentish Town and Camden Town; plans; abstracts of title, including some relating to the Allen v. Southampton case; title deeds and papers relating to sale or exchange of land, including exchange of land in Saint Pancras with the Duke of Bedford; marriage settlements affecting the estate; documents regarding property in various streets throughout the estate, including Charles Place and Charles Street, Cleveland Street, Drummond Street, Duke Street, Endsleigh Street, Euston Buildings, Euston Road, Exmouth Street, Fitzroy Square, Fitzroy Farm (Highgate), Little George Street, Gloucester Road, Gower Place, Gower Street, Grafton Place, Hampstead Road, Camden High Street, Mother Black Cap's, Kentish Town Road, Regent's Park, Seymour Street, Southampton Buildings, Southampton Mews, Southampton Place, Stanhope Street, Tottenham Court Road, Warren Street, Upper Woburn Place, and William Street; conveyances of freehold estates; leases for Euston Place and Euston Square; bills and acts of parliament relating to the estates and the manorial rights; copies of wills and probates; letters of attorney; papers regarding land at Kentish Town, the Regent's Canal, and a footpath to Highgate; building agreements and licences to trade; licences relating to freehold; note on customs of the manor; Land Tax redemption certificates; papers relating to Tottenham Court Road police station; and admissions of Lord Southampton to adjacent land in the Manor of Hornsey.

Records of the Manor of Stepney, also known as the Manor of Stebunheath, including court baron books; abstracts of court baron rolls; homage books; enfranchisement books; quit rent books; surveys of manorial lands; maps and plans; records relating to property including leases, assignments, conveyances, abstracts of title, wills, marriage settlements and agreements; and correspondence.

Records of the Clerk of the Peace for the Middlesex Quarter Sessions of the Peace, 1751-1965. The records include: accounts of Clerks fees (MC/F); registration of documents (MC/R); records of special sessions (MC/X); taxation of lawyers fees (MC/T); Home Office returns (MC/HO); standing orders (MC/SO); papers of the Rotation Committee (MC/SJ); personal papers of Richard Nicholson, a Nineteenth Century Clerk (MC/Z); and correspondence and papers of the Accounts Committee (MC/C). Some of the material is uncatalogued.

Records of the County Treasurer for the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, 1737-1900. No proper county accounts have survived for Middlesex before 1739, although the series MF which includes them up to 1900 does have record of transactions back to 1737; MF/L are accounts of the reclamation of subsistence paid to families of men serving in the Middlesex militia from outside the county (1779 - 1861); MF/T are records of annuities (or tontines) sold to raise a loan to build a new house of correction (1790-1888); MF/V are accounts concerned with the removal and subsistence of vagrants (1740-1864); MF/A covers the maintenance of lunatics and asylums (1828-1889); and MF/X are watch repairs accounts (1838).

Records of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions of the Peace, 1549-1903. Records include Court minutes; Sessions papers and Sessions rolls; lists and registers of charges; lists of charges, recognizances to appear, recognizances to prosecute and examinations; lists and registers of prisoners awaiting trial; lists of names of people charged with committing trespasses and felonies; lists of prisoners tried; books of court fines, summaries of fines and sheriffs' accounts and lists of fines issued; papers relating to gaol delivery sessions including lists and registers of prisoners delivered from Newgate Gaol; papers relating to complaints against court officials; papers relating to cases of false accusation; lists of cases sent to the court of King's Bench; recognizances to give evidence; records of County Day Sessions including orders of the court, reports, and minute books; bonds issued by the court to appear at sessions; bonds issued by the court to keep the peace; lists of names and addresses of those bailed to appear at next sessions; registers of appeals; transportation orders; debtors' petitions; presentments by the surveyors of streets listing badly maintained streets and pavements; writs of habeas corpus (writs ordering persons to be present at court for their trials) and judgement rolls.

Papers relating the the estate of Stephen Warwick, including deeds for property in Bow, Poplar and Stepney; wiils; correspondence; bills; and judicial records for Chancery case Thomas and Sarah Eames v. Louisa Warwick.

Quit claim for an orchard in Lambeth belonging to William Sanderson, 1606; with an undated note [twentieth century] on William Sanderson, financier and merchant adventurer.

Papers of the Souter family, including letters from the Stationers' Company to John Souter, 1818-1829; letters of administration for Mary Sowter of the Strand, 1834; and bill to John Souter for legal charges in enfranchisement of copy-holds in Lambeth Manor, 1845.

Records of the Hitchins family, comprising documents relating to the ownership of 39 Curzon Street, Mayfair, 1769-1921, including leases, abstracts of title, wills, assignments, schedules of fixtures, plans and elevations, and undertakings to repair.

Records of Maynards Limited, confectioners, comprising prospectus, 1896; application form for preference shares, 1896 and application form for ordinary shares, 1896.

Records of Gray and Gilbert Limited, wholesale and retail traders in grocery and provisions, comprising prospectus, 1896 and application form for preference shares, 1896.

Papers, 1722-1880, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to premises in Grosvenor Square, including leases, mortgages, bargain and sale, indentures, assignments, fire insurance policies, inventory, abstract of title and agreements.

Letter to Reville, Esq. from Henry C. Scott, secretary of H.P. Truefitt Limited, hairdressers, concerning the sale of Truefitt's business at Sandhurst to Mr. Herbert Cottrell, 1884.

Collection of bonds relating to business arrangements, and a certified copy of the will of Thomas Compere, St Clement Danes.

Draft agreement of employment relating to work in Dulwich, between William Crundall and Company and George Spanswick, commercial traveller, 1887.

Map and plans of the estate of Sir Frederick Evelyn in Deptford.

Printed broadsheet of the Proverbs of Poor Richard, or the Way to Wealth, by Benjamin Franklin; printed by T. Brice, in Musgrave Alley, High Street, Exeter.

Share certificates in the Grand Surrey Canal (numbers 1513-1522), belonging to Daniel Birkett, Hatton Garden, 1813.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising sales particulars for a leasehold house in South Street, Peckham, near the "Rosemary Branch", 1822.

Property documents relating to the Hatton family estates in Hatton Garden and surrounding area, Holborn. Also papers relating to property in Barking, Clerkenwell, the City of London, Westminster, and Southwark; and share certificates in the Southwark Bridge Company.

Grant of letters patent (including a great seal) issued to Edwin William Thomas and Edward Nightscales for an improved self acting steam water lift and injector.

Title deeds relating to two houses in Brompton Road, later 1 Bute Sreet and Bute House, later Prospect House and Bute House, later 1 and 2 (also 2A) Sussex Place, 1846-1931.

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

Articles of partnership in business as fishmongers and venison dealers, 1759.

Conveyance of the de Leifde coffee plantation on the Island of Wakenaam, Guyana.

Papers, 1925-1932, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to 18 and 30 Jasper Road, Upper Norwood.

Papers collected by Myers Autographs in the course of their work, comprising abstract of the title of Mr. Vincent Durant to a copyhold half-acre of land with cottage, garden, and appurtenances near Hammersmith, 1776, and brief for defendants in a King's Bench action Holloway v. Rodbard and another relating to a wharf and premises near Essex Street in the Strand, and the erection of certain granaries thereon, 1797.

Papers, 1688-1811, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds relating to The Black Bull Victualling House and other properties in Tooley Street, St Olave, Southwark. Documents include wills, marriage settlements, indenture of fine, leases and releases, abstract of title, feoffment, exemplification of recovery, agreements and certificates.

Records relating to shipping, including ship's log books; agreements, usually giving names of crew; and accounts of voyages.

Also plan of Tooting Station Estate and Lower Tooting Estate, known as Collier's Wood, including Lyveden Road, Devonshire Road, Robinson Road, Harewood Road, Wilton Road, Cavendish Road, Norfolk Road, showing plot numbers and building lines; sale particulars for house 'Walden', 80 Fitzjohn's Avenue, Hampstead, including fittings and fixtures, furniture, movable good and horse and carriage; and inspection reports for Belleville Road School, Clapham.

Papers, 1843-1898, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including releases, covenant to produce deeds, mortgages, conveyances, lease, assignment, and surrender; relating to properties in Shoreditch and Islington.

Papers, 1926-1933, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, relating to 101 High Street, Plumstead, including leases, assignment, plan and sales catalogue.

Records of the Inner London Quarter Sessions, 1790-1974.

Papers of the Justices of the Peace, including Lord Lieutenant's papers; official lists of Justices; papers relating to the jurisdiction of Justices; papers relating to juvenile courts; correspondence and papers relating to the County of London Magistrates Club.

Papers of the Court in Session, including sessions rolls; court books; deposition books; court minute books; registers and indexes of appeals; Sheriff's inquisitions and returns; depositions; certificates of conviction; orders of court; reports and correspondence regarding the Mental Deficiency Acts; calendars of prisoners; estreat papers and rolls; and calendars of viticular licences.

Administrative papers including staff books; papers relating to probationers; County of London Standing Joint Committee minutes and papers; Committee of Quarter Sessions papers; Magistrates' Court Committee minutes and papers; County of London Licensing Committee papers and reports; County of London Licensing Planning Committee minutes and applications and County Confirming and Compensation Committee papers and reports.

Documents registered with the Court including papers relating to licences; maps and plans showing petty sessional divisions, borough boundaries, licensed premises and roads; papers relating to railways; lists of blind persons; register of parliamentary deposits and reports from the Commissioners on the State of the Roads.

Papers of the Clerk of the Peace and the Treasurer, including cash book; papers relating to County Days; correspondence relating to borough maps; general correspondence; indexes of deposited records and plans; and summaries of costs of criminal prosecutions.

This collection consists of legal documents, books, accounts and reports relating to a variety of topics including the construction of the new Palace of Westminster, biblical and religious texts, demographics, the food and lodging of prisoners and religious observances.

Records of the North Hackney Central School for Girls comprising one volume of "The Outlook" school magazine (numbers 16-18), 1933 December-1934 July.

Records of the Commissioners of the Victualling of the Navy comprising deeds relating to property in Aldgate and East Smithfield.

Records of Improved Industrial Dwellings Company Limited, housing developer, 1863-1984. The records relate to company administration and to a much lesser extent, the tenants. The earliest registers in the collection, a register of Estates 1863-1896 is of particular interest as it includes estate accounts, block plans, mortality rates and coloured plans of dwelling type (c.1870). The records relating to Greencoat Properties Ltd and The Soho, Clerkenwell and General Industrial Dwellings Company Ltd include Directors Annual Reports and Accounts 1885-1976. The only register to name tenants is the Deposit Account Register, 1935-1970.

Memorial Book produced by the local branch of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association, listing by parish men from Uxbridge serving during the First World War. Indicates whether killed in action or families helped by SSFA. Pamphlets on SSFA bound at back.

Plans and elevations of Metropolitan Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Association buildings at Battersea Park, designed by architect Charles Barry Junior.

Records of the Ealing North Divisional/Constituency Labour Party, including attendance books, annual reports, accounts and subject files on election campaigns. Though these files are mainly concerned with finance, many also include campaign material. Also ward/branch material. Each ward or branch had its own committee. Of particular interest are the early minute books of Northolt Labour Party.

Court roll for the Manor of Harmondsworth, 1717-1728, with transcription and index.

Deed transferring "The Redd Lyon" [The Red Lion] public house and land in Gray's Inn Lane from Edward Blount to Thomas Smythe, 22 July 1597.

Records of the Artists League of Great Britain, formerly the Imperial Arts League. The records relate mainly to the administration of the league. The earliest material are the council minutes from 1909. There are also files of individual members; especially interesting is the file of Sydney Cockerell, bookbinder, which includes samples of hand made end-papers. Also of interest are the subject files on sketching and painting in war time (1915-1942) and a file of newspaper cuttings (1939-1940) concerning exhibitions and bequests during the war.

Papers, 1709-1725, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising leases for chambers in Doctor's Commons and New Inn.

Draft terrier of lands and buildings in Saint Georges Fields, Southwark, belonging to the Bridge House Estate. A terrier is an inventory of buildings, land, tenants and so on.

Rules and regulations for children and parents, issued by the committee of Saint Thomas's Charity School.

Lists of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

Records of the parish of All Hallows Staining, Mark Lane, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns; Vestry minute books; Churchwarden's financial accounts; poor rate assessment books; tithe rate assessment books; and papers relating to parish poor relief.

The collection includes records of the Society for the Commemoration of the accession of Queen Elizabeth I comprising: minutes, 1683-1787; copy of annual address and rules, 1787; registers of subscribers to the annual dinners, 1766-8; and notes extracted from the minutes, 20th century.

Records of the parish of All Hallows the Less, Upper Thames Street, City of London, including parish registers (baptisms, marriages and burials) from 1558; Vestry minute books; Churchwardens' accounts; Overseers' book of receipts and payments; apportionment of tithe rent charges and poor rate assessment books. Some of these records are for joint meetings with the Vestry of All Hallows the Great.

Records of the parish of Saint Alphage, London Wall. The earliest records are churchwardens' accounts, which date from 1527. There are parish registers (baptisms, marriages, banns and burials) from 1613. Vestry minutes commence in 1569. Other records, including rate assessments and papers relating to tithes, date chiefly from the 18th century.

The main archive of the parish of St Anne and St Agnes dates from the 17th century, with parish registers (baptisms, burials, marriages, banns) from 1640, vestry minutes from 1679 and poor rate assessments from 1671. There are also records relating to parish charities and the parochial schools.