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Minutes and papers of the Special Day Police and Nightly Watch Committee, 1832-1838.

Minute book of the Welfare Committee, Court of Common Council, 1965-1970.

Records of the Committee of Managers of West Ham Park, including minutes, 1874-2004 (closed from 1971 onwards); committee papers, 1873-1957 (papers for 1936-1940 were destroyed by enemy action); letter books, 1927-1996 (closed from 1967 onwards); cash book, 1937-1955; wages sheets, 1951-1957 and handbook containing a short history of the park, abridged conveyance and trust deed and map, 1953.

Records of the Committee of the Whole Court of Common Council including minutes 1874-1999 (closed from 1927 onwards); minutes of Committee of the Whole Court to consider the evidence laid before the Commissioners regarding Municipal Institutions, 1834-1836; minutes and papers regarding London Corporation Bills, 1854-1858 and committee papers, 1874-1960 (closed from 1933 onwards).

Minute book of the Whole Court (Public Health Department) Committee, 1899-1905.

Minutes of Works Advisory Committee, Court of Common Council, 1980. Please note these minutes are closed until 2011.

Record of the Court of Common Pleas, comprising a brief for the defendants in an action for impounding and ill-treating cattle coming to Smithfield Market. The case arose from numerous complaints about the nuisance caused in Smithfield and other streets in the city by cattle dealers driving cattle and sheep on Sunday evenings into Smithfield in order to get the best stands and pens.

Court of Equity Club records comprising rules, minutes, roll of members and betting book.

Records of the Court of Exchequer, comprising Exchequer bill; roll of estreats of fines and forfeitures at the sessions of the peace for London and Middlesex; and record book relating to the King's revenue.

Records of the Court of Husting, 1100-1990, including deeds and wills; Husting books containing records of proceedings; material relating to Pleas of Land including court rolls and writs of right patent and proceedings; material relating to Common Pleas including court rolls, writs and proceedings; charters relating to the Court and offprints of articles about the Court of Husting.

Records of the Court of Judicature, or 'Fire Court', City of London, 1666-1673, including fire decrees (judgements of the court) and other records of court proceedings.

Judgement in an action for breach of covenant brought against Nicholas Feriter, master of the ship called the "Charming Fanny", 1743.

Records relating to the Court of Orphans, City of London, including Common Serjeant's Books, 1586-1773 (series CLA/002/01), Orphans' Inventories, [1600]-1773 (series CLA/002/02), Inventories: Indexes and Transcripts, 1666-[1926] (series CLA/002/03), Orphanage Bonds and Deeds, 1599-1704 (series CLA/002/04), Recognizances, 1590-1747 (series CLA/002/05), Satisfactions, 1548-1702 (series CLA/002/06), and Miscellaneous items including receipts and other papers regarding orphans, 1619-1697; legal customs including precedents in orphanage matters and divisions of estates; accounts, 1671-1728; committee papers and statements of the Orphan Fund, 1690-1750, custody of goods by orphans, 1401-1448 and journal articles based on the Court of Orphans records, 1934 and 1970 (series CLA/002/07).

Court of Patrons papers includes correspondence and papers of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists President, the College Secretary and the Deputy College Secretary concerning the establishment of the Court of Patrons. The series also contains meeting minutes and papers (1982-1988), as well as records regarding the admission of M V Blank to the Court in 1996.

Records of the court of Quarter Sessions, London, comprising lists of jurors for Bridge Ward, Aldgate Ward, Bassishaw Ward and Farringdon Within Ward.

Calendar of gaol delivery for the Middlesex House of Correction, known as Cold Bath Fields Prison, 1832.

Minutes of proceedings at the Court of Queen's Bench, Crown side, 1871, in a case relating between the City of London (appellants) and the churchwardens of St Sepulchre (respondents), regarding the extension of the new metropolitan meat and poultry market in Smithfield.

Orders of the Commissioners of the Court of Requests ordering the arrest of certain persons for non-appearance at court; and to commit to prison in one of the City Compters Robert Weddall, throster, for failing to appear in court.

Records of the Court of Requests, City of London, 1595-1853, including committee reports; petitions; regulations; appointment of Commissioners; accounts ledgers; cash books; record of fees; summons books; warrant books; bonds and promissory notes, and other administrative papers.

Manuscript volume containing transcripts of documents relating to the Court of Wards, [1620], namely a selection of decrees from 1553 made by John Hare, headed 'Le Court des Gards', dated [12 Jul] 1581; reports of cases of the Court of Wards, dated 1605-1610; 'Instructions for the Master of our Wards and Liveryes', [by James Ley, 1st Earl of Marlborough, dated [Dec, 1618]; an account [by William Rastell] of procedure in the Court of Wards, with a table of fees and a table of contents, dated [1622].

Record of the Court of Wards and Liveries, comprising examinations of defendants in a court case concerning commodities in a court yard adjoining the Bull Head Tavern in Cheapside, October-November 1631.

Manuscript volume of extracts from the record of the Court of Queen's (and King's) Bench, and also from the Court of Common Pleas, for proceedings from the 15th century to the reign of Elizabeth, probably compiled c1590-1600. The extracts include pleas, posteas and memoranda of the 15th and 16th centuries, with marginal notes describing the subjects of the pleas, and perhaps acted as a lawyer's precedent book. References to the original court rolls are sometimes given.

Leases and mortgage for Lansdowne House, Court Road, Eltham, 1898-1899.

Papers of Augustine Courtauld, 1930-1931, comprise two angle books, from the British Arctic Air Route Expedition to Greenland.

Cuttings of illustrations and articles, 1849-1850, presumed from the Illustrated London News and similar, mainly concerning the construction of docks, bridges, ships, and tunnels. Also includes cuttings relating to the Siege of Rome, Italian War of Independence, Apr-Jun 1849.

Typescript intelligence report by Courtney entitled 'Remarks on a visit to Soviet Russia-August 1935', with notes, publications and related correspondence, 1922-1936; group photograph of Courtney and officers of the Naval Mission to the USSR [1942]; two notebooks with manuscript notes by Courtney on German and Allied ship movements, USSR [1942]; papers relating to the USSR, 1943-1978, including typescript notes by Courtney entitled 'Soviet Russia and the war', Feb 1943, article by William Laurence Burn entitled 'Anglo-Russian relations: an historical retrospect', from The nineteenth century, Jan 1946; edition of US restricted publication 'The Soviet Union', US Government Printing Office, 1947; manuscript notes on Soviet governmental personnel, 1953; typescript note on internal security in the USSR, 1978; correspondence with the Admiralty, 1949-1958, relating to pay and allowances, Courtney's civilian business matters, 1954-1958, and the Admiralty's refusal to grant permission for Courtney to travel in the USSR as a private businessman, 1953-1955; personal and business correspondence relating to the development of Windermere Island, Bahamas, 1963; correspondence, publications and texts of speeches relating to the Monday Club, 1978-1985, including typescript text of speech by Courtney entitled 'The Soviet fifth column', Jun 1978; correspondence between Cdr Geoffrey Briscoe Penn and the Ministry of Defence relating to the vetting and declassification of the Courtney papers, 1991.

The archive consists of correspondence with the Courtney family (1881-1973), Lord Cecil (1930-1959), Gilbert Murray (1946-1958), Maude Royden (1918-1961) and others (1940-73); papers related to women's suffrage including telegrams and letters (1911-1915); materials related to relief work including correspondence, postcards and a medal (1915-1916, 1920-1924); papers related to international co-operation including leaflets, letters, schedules, ephemera and radio scripts (1928-1935); materials related to the United Nations Association (1948-1951); speeches and articles (1930-1973); diaries (1915-1974); passports and identity cards; legal materials (1878-1970); awards (1895-1973).

This collection was bound in forty two volumes:
Vol 1. Leonard Courtney's correspondence with Mill and Cairnes, 1862-1872.
Vol II. Leonard Courtney's correspondence with family and personal friends, 1857-1879.
Vol III. Engagement and marriage, 1881-1883.
Vols IV-VI. Correspondence, mainly political, 1880-1898.
Vols VI-VIII. Boer War, 1899-1902.
Vols IX-X. Correspondence, 1903-1913.
Vols XI-XII. European War, 1914-1918.
Vol XIII. Letters of condolence addressed to Lady Courtney on the death of her husband, 1918.
Vol XIV. Letters, memoranda and other material concerning a Life of Lord Courtney, arranged in part chronologically and in part alphabetically, 1918-1919.
Vol XV. Miscellaneous and undated letters of Leonard and Kate Courtney, arranged in part alphabetically and in part chronologically, 1864-1928.
Vol XVI. Miscellaneous papers of Leonard and Kate Courtney, arranged chronologically, 1864-1927.
Vols XVII-XVIII. Printed speeches, pamphlets, periodical articles etc. by Leonard Courtney, 1880-1913.
Vol XIX. Letterbook containing copies by Kate Courtney of letters written by Leonard Courtney between 1885 and 1910.
Vol XX. Notebook containing list of leaders and other articles, written for The Times by Leonard Courtney and payment therefore, 1864-1880.
Vols XXI-XXXVIII. Diaries of Kate Courtney, 1875-1919.
Vols XXXIX-XL. Autobiography and diaries of Rosalind Dobbs, 1914-1929.
Vol XLI. Travel diary of Catherine Courtney, Holland and Germany, and the USA and Canada, 1867 - 1869.
Vol XLII. Further letter book of Leonard Courtney, 1899-1905. There are in addition two letters from Edwin Chadwick to Courtney, 14 April 1888.

Collection of documents relating to courts and legal proceedings in London, including notes on jurisdiction and procedures; historical notes; reports on cases; briefs, case notes and proceedings; correspondence and financial accounts for various courts including the Court of Star Chamber, the Court of Exchequer, the Court of Chancery, the Court of King's Bench and Queen's Bench, and legal institutions such as Furnival's Inn, the King's Bench Prison, the Old Bailey and Marshalsea Prison.

Records of various City of London Courts of Law, 1301-1965, including the Royal Courts, Nuisance Assizes, Court of Judicature, Borough Court of Record, Southwark, the Central Criminal Court, Assize of Bread and Possessory Assizes.

Records of the Royal Courts include plea rolls, escheat rolls, inquisitions post mortem, writs, proceedings, and articles relating to the history of the court, while the records of the Possessory Assizes, comprising the Assizes of Novel Disseisin, Fresh Force and Mort d'Ancestor, include rolls of assizes and precedent books.

Records of the Civic courts (Nuisance Assizes, Court of Judicature, Borough Court of Record, Southwark) include pleas of nuisance, Southwark fire decrees and court books.

Records of the Central Criminal Court include registers of felons' gods, petitions for return of goods, auction catalogues, prints and photographs, financial accounts, statistics and papers relating to civil defence duties during World War Two.

Records of the Assize of Bread include mealweighters books, including quantities of wheat sold and delivered; register of bakers and cornfactors, prices of wheat and flour and papers of the Committee on the Assize of Bread.

Also papers relating to cases of bankruptcy and debt, papers of the London Chamber of Arbitration and other legal records and administrative papers.

Records of the Quarter Sessions for London and Middlesex, including certificate of conviction; examination book of vagabonds apprehended in the City of London; Newgate gaol calendars; and petition for victualling licence.

Mrs Ben Courts personal papers, 1938-1946, comprise correspondence mostly from friends and family members in Germany to Mrs Ben Courts 1938-1946, (629/1), much of this material is immediately pre war and relates to requests by unidentifiable individuals for sponsorship to settle in England; Central Office for Refugees Domestic Bureau printed material including terms and conditions and registration information, 1939 (629/2) and biographical notes on Mrs Ben Courts by her son Hugh Courts, [1938-1946] (629/3).

Papers, 1865-1974, of and relating to (Ethel) Constance Cousins, including correspondence with her family, photographs, press cuttings and the unpublished typescript biography by her niece Janet E. Cousins. Also includes letters dated 1893-1900 from her father, Rev. William Edward Cousins, chiefly from Madagascar.

Photocopy of privately published memoir, 'The Great War, 1914-1818: a former 'Gunner' of the First World War looks back', a detailed account of his military career, 1913-1919, covering mobilisation in Edinburgh, artillery, gas warfare and veterinary training, service with the Royal Field Artillery on the Western Front, 1915-1918, notably action around Vimy, May-Jun 1917, Lens, June-Oct 1917, and the Somme front, Feb-Oct 1918, and entry into Lille, Oct 1918, and demobilisation in Brussels, Feb 1919, written in [1974]. Includes reproductions of photographs and extracts from his letters home and his diary.

Records of solicitor John Coverdale. Many of these papers relate to his marriage to Isabella Frederica Tomkyns, and to the execution of both their wills. Papers concerning Isabella's first husband, the Rev. John Tomkyns and his brother, Thomas Tomkyns are also included. The collection also includes deeds for properties in Gravel Road, Twickenham and Windmill Road, Hampton Wick.

Bound typescript entitled 'Fifty odd years of memoirs', covering his life and career, 1893-1945, notably his work as an engineer in South Africa, 1894-1899, 1901-1904, 1909-1911, his travels in South Africa, 1895, East Africa, 1904, and Canada, 1907, his service as a volunteer stretcher bearer with the Royal Army Medical Corps, South Africa, 1899-1900, including the siege of Ladysmith, 1899-1900, his service with the South African Engineer Corps, German South West Africa, 1914-1915, and with the South African Signal Company, Royal Engineers, France, 1916, including the Battle of the Somme, Jul 1916, and his experiences in the Channel Islands during German occupation, 1940-1945, dated [1945-1967].

Papers of Sir Walter Henry Cowan containsing two logs, 1893 to 1897, an order book, 1914, and charts and photographs. There are also many semi-official letters received, 1896 to 1947, in particular from Admirals of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham (q.v.) and Sir Roger Keyes (1872-1945). There are also Cowan's letters to Admiral Sir Rudolph Bentinck (1869-1947), which were returned to Cowan; they are of a private rather than of an official nature. There are, however, some official papers relating to the Baltic campaign and a draft autobiography.

Brief account of the visit of AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, to the UN HQ, New York, 1965, written in [1985].

Material relating to the literary activity of Charles and Mary Cowden-Clarke and other members of the Novello family, comprising: a. Items related to Mrs Cowden Clarke and her relations in the possession of F H Haines, and memoranda. Typescript. b. Thomas James Serle, Bohun of Sheenly: a tale in verse. Galley proofs. c. Thomas James Serle, A Day Dream in 5 Books (privately printed, 1865). d. Photograph of Thomas James Serle (1979 copy), with accompanying letter from Geoffrey Larken. e. William Shakespeare, Touchstone's part from As you like it. Charles Cowden-Clarke's manuscript copy, with the addition made to his first lecture on Molière and an addition to his third lecture on Molière. f. Frederick Haselfoot Haines: List of material made available to Professor Richard Altick. g. Richard Altick: 5 typescript letters to F H Haines (with some replies) about the loan of Clarke family material, 1943-1945. h. Joseph Alfred Novello, O for the Songs of the Past: a greeting to the Musical Societies of Great Britain (privately printed, 1873). i. Novello, Ewer & Co., Catalogue of Shakespeare Music, 1893. j. Mary Cowden-Clarke, letter to the Illustrated London News on John Keats, 15 Feb 1896. k. Il Secolo XIX. Issues of 9-10 Feb 1893, 12-13 Feb 1893 (including reviews of the first two performances of Verdi's Falstaff).

Records of the Cowdray Club, also known as the Nation's Nurses and Professional Women's Club. The records consist of a complete set of council and committee minutes and detailed membership records, including notes on links with other women's clubs such as the University Women's Club and the VAD Ladies Club. The collection also includes some photographs, newscuttings, annual reports, and plans of the club building.

Records of Cowell, Drewett and Wheatley, architects, 1889-1912. The records are plans and drawings of alterations and additions to the following churches: Holy Trinity, Chelsea; Saint Augustine's, Kilburn; and Saint Peter, Ealing.

Records of Cowell, Drewitt and Wheatley, architects, comprising ground plan of Saint Peter, Ealing, and drawing of brass altar cross from the same church, 1912.

Material and relating to the First World War work of Major-General Sir Ernest Cowell, 1916-1919: notes, photographs and reprints regarding Thomas's splint, wound-shock and gas-gangrene.

Letter from Joseph Cowen of Stella Hall, Blaydon-on-Tyne, [County Durham] to John Salkeld, bookseller, 21 Apr 1889. Asking for books to be sent; [the enclosed list of books is missing].

Autograph, with signature.

Records of Cowie Harbour Coal Company Limited, including articles of association; ledger; and report on coal produced at Borneo.

Accounts ledger of Cowley and Hewetson, merchants, 1825-1834; with notes on the company history, 1929.

Records of the Manor of Cowley Peachey, Colham, Hillingdon; comprising court book for views of frankpledge with courts baron; rental and survey; and statement of quit rents.

Photographs of activities at the Cowley Recreational Institution, including fencing, athletics, dance, football, table tennis, martial arts and official visits to the Institution. Also correspondence relating to the use of the photographs in an exhibition by the London County Council.

Edition of Memoirs of Lieutenant-General Sir John Cowley, 1905-1993, edited by Colin Maitland (Deltastet, London, 1998), chiefly covering Cowley's education at Connaught House and Wellington College, the Quetta earthquake, India, 1935, service in World War Two, 1939-1945, in the Middle East and North West Europe, and service as Controller of Munitions, Ministry of Supply, 1957-1960.

Papers of Thomas George Cowling including correspondence with Neil Oscar Weiss, 1964-1989 and P A Gilman, 1980-1982.