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Archival description
GB 0074 LMA/4069 · Collection · 1844-1987

Records of the District Surveyors Association, consisting of committee minutes dating from 1845, correspondence and subject files dating from 1907. There are also series of membership records, finance material, a large series of Parliamentary Acts and Bills and a series of court cases.

District Surveyors Association
DIXON FAMILY
GB 0074 ACC/0139 · Collection · 1804-1862

Records of the Dixon family, including exemplification of a common recovery for premises in Kensington Square; and marriage settlement relating to premises at Winchmore Hill.

Various.
Donald Papers
GB 0103 MS ADD 281 · c1975-1979

Typescript of an unpublished book entitled 'Elizabethan Technology or the development of the letters patent protection for inventions'. Also correspondence about the book.

Donald , Maxwell Bruce , 1897-1978 , Professor of Chemical Engineering
GB 0074 ACC/1552 · Collection · 1869-1903

Papers, 1869-1903, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Deptford, Lambeth and Paddington including assignments, abstract of title, and sales particulars.

Donne, Milebarn and Haddock , solicitors
GB 0074 ACC/2635 · Collection · 1892

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising probate copy will of David Aldridge of Church Street, Staines, later of Feltham, carpenter, made 17 Feb 1888, proved 4 Jan 1892. Bequests include cottage in Hythe Road, Egham, Surrey.

Doveton and Fogaty , solicitors
DOWGATE PROPERTIES LIMITED
GB 0074 ACC/3200 · Collection · 1906-1923

Deeds relating to properties owned by Dowgate Properties Ltd in Lanark Mansions, Shepherds Bush, Kingscroft Road, West Hampstead, and Vaughan Road, Harrow. 1906-1923.

Dowgate Properties Ltd
GB 0096 MS 477 · 1815

Draft of a bill 'for the more effectual prevention of the use of false and deficient measures', 1815, with proposals including Justices of the Peace to appoint persons to examine the measures within their districts; a penalty of 5-20s on conviction; proper measures according to the standard made by the Exchequer to be purchased out of the general rate and deposited with the clerks of the peace; some form of conviction to be given. The draft is endorsed '9 March 1815. Copy to Mr [Samuel] Whitbread [M.P. for Bedford] per post'.

Unknown
GB 0074 ACC/0140 · Collection · 1739-1883

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

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

Druces and Attlee , solicitors
DU CANE FAMILY
GB 0074 E/DCA · Collection · 1498-1840

Records of the du Cane family relating to their estates in London, as follows:

Freehold title:
E/DCA/001-041 Manor or farm of Ballams/Balham, in Clapham and Streatham;
E/DCA/042-049 Ruddocks and 7 Acres Grove, in Croydon.

Copyhold title:
E/DCA/050-099 Land of Manor of Fauxhall, in Streatham;
E/DCA/100-131, 134 Land of Manor of Norbury, in Streatham and Croydon;
E/DCA/132, 133 Land of Manor of Croydon, in [? Streatham or Croydon].

Leasehold title:
E/DCA/135, 136 Houses in City of London;
E/DCA/137, 138 Sheepwalk of Manor of Battersea and Wandsworth, in [? Battersea].

Leases:
E/DCA/139-152 Balham Farm;
E/DCA/153-163 Streatham Farm.

Estate management:
E/DCA/164-189 Valuations, etc.

Correspondence:
E/DCA/190-237 Estate;
E/DCA/238-241 Croydon Inclosure;
E/DCA/242-246 Chancery case relating to Shelley family settlement;
E/DCA/247-250 Family.

Miscellaneous:
E/DCA/251-256 Documents unrelated to those above.

Plans:
E/DCA/257-266 Balham and Streatham Farms, and Streatham Common.

Caine , Du , family , of Braxted Park, Essex x Du Caine , family , of Braxted Park, Essex
GB 1556 WL 1014 · Collection · 1930s-1940s

Papers of Edgar Duchin, 1930s-1940s, comprise circulars, reports, minutes and memoranda of the Refugee Joint Consultative Committee, Central Refugee Committee and the Central Office of Refugees concerning tribunals, employment, allowances, welfare and communication with Germany; agenda, minutes and reports of the National Council of Civil Liberties with respect to refugee matters; papers of the Haldane Society including Duchin's draft report of the Sub-Committee on the Law Relating to Aliens; information sheets and other papers of the organisation Democratic Aid, concerned with the rights of interned aliens, specifically immigrants from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia who were politically active in Left Wing politics and were subsequently interned in Great Britain, includes transcripts of interviews with Otto Beuer, Karl Kreibich, Ludwig Freund and Anton Rudal; correspondence regarding individual cases in which Duchin was involved as a solicitor; minutes of meetings, Parliamentary Debates and correspondence regarding distribution of Nazi assets and a collection of miscellaneous papers including minutes of various committees including the Friendly Aliens Protection Committee and reports of various organisations on various matters including Council for German Jewry, 1938.

Duchin , Edgar , fl 1930-1940 , solicitor x Duchinsky , Edgar
GB 0074 COR/DOL · Collection · 1884-1932

Records of the Duchy of Lancaster Coroner's District, comprising case papers, 1884-1932.

Coroner for the Jurisdiction of the Liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster
DUNCOMBE FAMILY
GB 0074 E/DNC · Collection · 1591-1889

Records 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].

Duncombe , family , solicitors of London
DURNFORD FORD {SOLICITORS}
GB 0074 ACC/1468 · Collection · 1902-1946

Papers, 1902-1946, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising conveyances relating to properties in Acton.

Durnford Ford , solicitors
DYOT, FAMILY
GB 0074 ACC/1852 · Collection · 1676-1876

Records of the Dyot family relating to their estate in the parish of St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, including deed, lease, abstract of title, and plans.

Dyot , family , of Bloomsbury
E. JOSEPH {BOOKSELLER}
GB 0074 ACC/0360 · Collection · 1697-1824

Papers purchased from E. Joseph, bookseller of Charing Cross Road, including copies from the Court Roll of Isleworth Syon Manor, Twickenham, relating to the lease of lands belonging to the manor, 1697-1796; lease for land in Eastfield and in Holloway Shott, Twickenham, 1719 and 1723; Decree and Order of Master of the Rolls for the sale of freehold, copyhold and leasehold of estates left by John Gray in his will, Twickenham, 1751; lease for 21 years for land with a garden, coach house and stables in Montpellier Row, Twickenham, 1811. Also lease for land in Saint Mary, Islington, 1824.

Unknown
GB 0074 O/470 · Collection · 1893

Records of E Lambert and Son, druggists, comprising agreement between Edward Joshua Lambert of 60 Queen's Road, Dalston, druggist's sundryman and manufacturer of surgical instruments (trading as E. LAMBERT and SON), and Harry Percy Neats Watkins of 5 Tyrrell Road, Dulwich, for the employment of Watkins by Lambert for three years as clerk and traveller, at £2 10s 1 per week, hours 9 am to 7 pm (Saturdays 9 am to 2 pm), holidays 14 days per year, 1893.

E Lambert and Son , druggists
EAGER FAMILY
GB 0074 ACC/1389 · Collection · 1661-1771

Records of Benjamin and Mary Eager relating to their property in Brentford and Ealing.

Eager , Benjamin , fl 1728-1756 , gardener
EDGAR DUCHIN {SOLICITOR}
GB 0074 ACC/1353 · Collection · 1884-1967

Papers, 1884-1967, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Ealing, Edmonton, Hanwell, Harrow Weald and Willesden; including mortgages, leases, agreements, abstracts of title, conveyances, Land Registry searches and probates of wills.

Edgar Duchin , solicitor
EDGWARE AND BOYS MANOR
GB 0074 ACC/1424 · Collection · 1859-1932

Records of the Manor of Edgware Boys, including schedule of houses in the manor; papers relating to quit rents and fines; list of tenants; papers relating to the appointment of a steward; copies of court rolls; and papers relating to property in Edgware.

Manor of Edgware Boys
GB 0074 ACC/0384 · Collection · 1825

Copy of the Act for "Inclosing Lands in the Parish of Northolt otherwise Northall, otherwise Northaw in the County of Middlesex", 1825.

Parliament.
GB 0074 ACC/2712/ETHC · Collection · 1938

Records of Edmonton and Tottenham Hebrew Congregation, consisting of a lease for property in Landsdowne Road.

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

Edmonton and Tottenham Hebrew Congregation
EDMONTON COUNTY COURT
GB 0074 CCT/AK/46 · Collection · 1894-1944

Records of Edmonton County Court, 1894-1944, comprising plaint and minute book and ordinary action book.

Edmonton County Court
EDMONTON HUNDRED
GB 0074 ACC/0581 · Collection · 1769

Copy of certificate issued by Richard Hassell to William Spencer of South Mimms relating to the privileges of tenants of the Duchy of Lancaster (including exemption from tolls).

Richard Hassell, Justice of the Peace for Edmonton Hundred
GB 0074 ACC/1915 · Collection · 1837-1859

Records of Edmonton Petty Sessional Division, comprising minutes of summary proceedings held at Watch House and Angel Inn, Edmonton, 2 Jan 1837 - 21 Dec 1838. Cases heard include felonies, assault, larceny, highway offences, retailing beer etc. without licence, obstruction, injury to property etc. Volume records detailed statements by witnesses, statutes governing cases, outcome of each case. At rear of volume is a summary of cases heard with details of fines etc. Name index at front of volume. Volume also includes records of medical prescriptions prepared for named persons, January 1859.

Edmonton Petty Sessional Division
EDUCATION
CLA/063 · Collection · 1759-1995

Various papers relating to education and educational establishments, 1759-1995, including papers regarding educational committees; reports, bills and acts of parliament regarding education; papers relating to charitable schemes to provide education to the poor; financial papers and deeds from the City of London Corporation School, 1759-1850; publications regarding the history of Morden College; papers relating to Reformatory Schools, 1867-1896; brochures and leaflets and general administrative papers relating to various schools and colleges.

Corporation of London
Eighteenth Century Deeds
GB 0103 MS ADD 186 · 1708-1783

Collection containing documents concerning John Lee Warner and His Majesty's Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, 1764-1783; documents concerning Alexander Emerton and his invention 'artificial stone', 1737-c1781; various legal documents, 1708-1757; and miscellaneous undated documents.

Various
GB 0074 ACC/1395 · Collection · 1817-1961

Papers, 1817-1961, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties at Chiswick, Hayes, Hendon, Hornsey, Islington, Isleworth, Shepperton, Stanwell, and Shoreditch, including agreements, copies of court rolls, conveyances, mortgages, leases and releases, assignments, letters of indemnity, deeds of covenant and sales particulars.

Eland, Hore, Patersons , solicitors
GB 0074 ACC/1274 · Collection · 1638-1932

Papers, 1638-1932, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Hendon, Manor of Isleworth Syon, Stoke Newington, Hornsey, Tottenham and Enfield, including wills, fines, conveyances, exemplifications of common recovery, mortgages, bonds, bargain and sales and lease and releases.

Elborne, Mitchell and Company , solicitors
Eliot, John: letter (1819)
GB 0096 AL320 · Fonds · 1819

Letter from John Eliot of London to Edward Carroll via the Post Office, Worcester, 16 Jan 1819. Referring to the Meeting for Sufferings held the previous day at which the petition to the House of Commons on the subject of capital punishment was signed by the 38 members present 'and liberty was given for any that were then absent to add their names by calling at the Clerk's Office. The subscription is - Signed by us, member of a Meeting for conducting the affairs of the said Society [the Religious Society of Friends], in the intervals of the Yearly Meeting - London, the 15th of 1mo. 1819 ...'

Autograph, with signature and date stamp.

Eliot , John , 1771-1830 , Quaker
GB 0074 CLC/447 · Collection · 1759-1935

Papers of Sir John Whittaker Ellis, Lord Mayor of London, 1759-1935, including muniments of title to premises in the City of London and Surrey estate; papers relating to the administration of his estatse including rent ledger; household and personal accounts; and papers of his executors.

Ellis , Sir , John Whittaker , 1829-1912 , Baronet , Lord Mayor of London
EMANUEL FAMILY
GB 0074 ACC/0780 · Collection · 1757-1887

Records of the Emanuel family relating to family property in Twickenham, Isleworth and Surrey. Documents are primarily leases and admissions.

Emanuel , family , of Twickenham
Enfield Chase
GB 0074 ACC/1573 · Collection · 1776

Survey of Enfield Chase showing the boundaries and the various land holdings. Made by order of the Duchy of Lancaster in pursuance of an Act for Dividing the Chase of Enfield. 1776.

Duchy of Lancaster
ENFIELD ENCLOSURE
GB 0074 ACC/1029 · Collection · 1804

Plan of the ancient enclosures, open and commonable fields, common marshes, and lammas grounds, chase allotments and other commonable and waste lands within the parish of Enfield, 1804; and ordnance map of Enfield, 1866.

Unknown.
ENFIELD PAROCHIAL CHARITIES
GB 0074 ACC/0903 · Collection · 1364-1896

This collection comprises the title deeds of various small pieces of land in Enfield (and also Herts, Essex and Whitechapel) which have, at different times in the past, become the property of the parish of Enfield for charitable purposes, together with leases and appointments of trustees. They were kept in the parish chest until the end of the nineteenth century, as is shown by an old label noting that a bundle of deeds was removed from the parish chest in 1903. The deeds have an exceptional interest and value for the history and topography of Enfield.

Enfield Parochial Charities
EPPING FOREST
CLA/077 · Collection · 1706-2007

Records pertain to the management of Epping Forest by the City of London Corporation.

The collection includes records which detail the City of London Corporation's statutory responsibilities in administering the forest (including bills and acts of parliament, legal cases, bye-laws and the election of verderers); administrative records (including Superintendent's correspondence, committee papers, forest keepers' diaries and reports and information relating to licences and land alterations); financial records (including annual accounts, ledgers of income and expenditure and cash books); staff records (including wages books and staff registers); records concerning the museum at Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge (including visitors books, research and interpretation materials and documents collected for their historical interest); printed materials (books, leaflets, posters and invitations produced both by the City of London and other organisations connected with Epping Forest); visual material (including photographs, postcards and slides); maps and plans.

The collection is particularly rich in visual material (see CLA/077/G) with photographs and slides covering the period 1880 to 2007.

Records of particular interest include: incoming and outgoing letters to the Superintendent comprehensively cover an 82 year period from 1880 to 1962 (CLA/077/B/01; CLA/077/B/02; CLA/077/B/03; CLA/077/B/15) . These letters illuminate many aspects of the history of the forest including forest management decisions, land-use changes and the relationship between forest staff and local residents and the central role played by the Superintendent.

Those researching individuals may be interested in the staff records for example, staff registers (CLA/077/D/03) and wages books (CLA/077/D/01) as well as the records kept by Forest Keepers (CLA/077/B/07 and CLA/077/B/08).

Corporation of London
GB 106 5ERI · Fonds · 1926-1934

The archive consists of correspondence correspondence (1929-1934) with members, affiliated branches and other groups, annual reports (1929-1934), minutes and correspondence of the Equal Political Rights Campaign Committee (1927-1930), papers relating to the foundation of ERI (1926-1930) and to their work with the League of Nations (1930-1934), financial papers including the accounts of the ERI and the National Women's Party (1932-3).

Equal Rights International
EVANS MILLS
GB 0074 Q/EV · Collection · 1654-1855

Collection of title deeds, marriage settlements and other legal documents. Places mentioned include Camberwell, Chelsea, Clerkenwell, Finsbury, Blackfriars, Red Lion Square, Holborn, Bloomsbury, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Bromley, Saint Marylebone, Saint Pancras, Tottenham Court Road, Grays Inn Road, Norton Folgate, Southwark, Whitechapel, Stepney, Wapping, Spitalfields, Westminster, St Martins in the Fields, Covent Garden, City of London, Isleworth, Hendon, and Finchley.

Various.
EVELYN ESTATE, DEPTFORD
GB 0074 E/EV · Collection · 1828-1932

Records of the Evelyn family estates in Deptford, including leases and agreements to lease for premises (including public houses the Admiral Rodney, The Ship and the White Hart) in New King Street, Grove Street, Mill Lane, Slaughterhouse Lane, and Czar Street; building agreements for Alexandra Street, Amersham Grove, Amersham Vale Road, Greenfield Place, Junction Road, Milton Court Road, Napier Street, Vansittart Street, Wardour Lane, Woodpecker Road, Evelyn Street and the Prince Street police station.

Evelyn , family , of Wotton, Surrey
Excise Act, 1650
GB 0096 MS 35 · [1650]

Manuscript volume containing a copy of a Parliamentary 'Act for Continuance of the Receipt of Excise until 29th Sept 1653', 1650.

Unknown
GB 0074 ACC/0765 · Collection · 1752-1877

Papers, 1752-1877, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising leases, releases and bargain and sale relating to properties in Willesden and St. George, Hanover Square.

Farrer and Company , solicitors
GB 0074 ACC/2818 · Collection · 1879-1966

Papers, 1879-1966, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Acton, Chelsea, Chiswick, and Ealing; including leases, abstract of titles, conveyances, assignment of lease and sales particulars.

Feldman Nicholls and Company , solicitors
FERGUSSON, Norman Mello
GB 0074 E/FER · Collection · 1762-1941

Title deeds of Barn House and estates, Eltham, including mention of the Teggart and Lewis families.

Various.
Fernandez y Lopez Document
GB 0103 LOPEZ · 1902

Copy of power of attorney granted on behalf of Jose Fernandez y Lopez, resident in Havana, Cuba, to Messrs Morris and Elkan of London, concerning a brand of cigars and tobacco, 1902.

Lopez , Jose , Fernandez y , fl 1902 , of Havana
GB 0074 ACC/2926 · Collection · 1822-1894

Papers, 1822-1894, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Turnham Green, Chiswick, including lease and releases, bargain and sale, enfranchisement, conveyance and mortgages.

Field Fisher Waterhouse , solicitors
FIELDING FAMILY
GB 0074 E/FLD · Collection · 1703-1860

Records of the Fielding family estates in Fulham, including leases, releases, bargain and sales, mortgages, bonds, indentures of fine, and bills.

Fielding , family , of Goodnestone, Kent
GB 0074 O/010 · Collection · 1690-1931

Papers, 1690-1931, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds relating to properties in Stratton Street, Westminster, including lease and releases, marriage settlements, wills and probates, fines, assignments of terms, bargain and sales, contracts and mortgages.

Fillman, Haynes and Company , solicitors
FINCHLEY ENCLOSURE
GB 0074 ACC/0625 · Collection · 1811

Copy of the Act for inclosing lands in the parish of Finchley, in the county of Middlesex, 1811.

Unknown.
CLA/045 · Collection · 1618-1985

Records of the Finsbury and Halliwell Estates, 1618-1985, including committee minutes; Acts of Parliament; bye-laws; bonds; papers relating to the lease of the Finsbury Estate; bills for highway maintenance work; receipt books for duty on rented property payable by the City; receipt books for granting Her Majesty Queen Victoria duties and profits arising from property; accounts ledgers; cash books; rentals and surveys. Most of the papers relate to the Finsbury Estate.

Corporation of London