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Writ of enquiry of damages issued to Sheriff of Middlesex; in case brought by Richard Biggs in Kings Bench against Ann Greenly, widow and Gabriel Ailice, executors of William Greenly, for money owed by the latter to Biggs.

Court books for the Manor of Hendon, with indexes and schedule of court rolls.

Manorial records relating to the manors of Hayes, Norwood and Southall, Down Barnes, and Colham. The records include court rolls and books; rentals; quit rents; surveys; steward's papers; papers regarding enclosures; estate administration; and papers relating to manorial tenants.

Letters of the Lee family, comprising letter from Thomas Martyn to Sir William Lee of Aylesbury thanking him for having recommended him for the living of Edgware, 1788; letter to the Morning Herald newspaper regarding the building of almshouses at Edgware by Charles Day, probably written by Philadelphia Lee, 1828; and letter from Thomas Wall, vicar of Edgware, to John Lee, lord of manor of Edgware Boys, 1859.

Documents relating to 54 Hunter Street, Bloomsbury, comprising lease, 1803; and lease to John James Ruskin, 1818. With a photograph of the house.

Brief for plaintiff in Court of Common Pleas (John Gandar, plaintiff, and Richard Henry Sheldrick, defendant), with note of fees in the case of Gandar v. Sheldrick, an action to recover damages for seizure of household goods and furniture under execution issued from Palace Court in action at suit of defendant v. William Charles Fisher, landlord of plaintiff; and letter from Gandar to attorney enquiring how the case is progressing and commenting on compensation to officers of the defunct Palace Court.

Documents acquired by the solicitors in the course of their work, including copies of court rolls for the manor of 'Stebunheath alias Stepney', 1800-1811; particulars and conditions of sale for various premises in Ashford and Stanwell, Paddington, Rotherhithe, Deptford, Whitechapel, Saint George's-in-the-East, Wapping, Hampstead, Westminster, and Feltham, 1855-1895; and abstract of title for property in Ealing, 1870 [abstract of title: a summary of prior ownership drawn up by solicitors showing how title to the land devolved to the party currently possessing it].

Records of the Hawtrey-Deane family, including manorial records such as court rolls; estate management records such as surveys, rentals and accounts; muniments of title; papers relating to Ruislip parish and church, including the rectory, glebe and tithes; family and household papers and financial accounts; legal papers including records relating to a dispute with King's College and Chancery cases; records of taxation; papers relating to an outbreak of plague in 1636; records relating to Parliamentary business; and verses and poems.

Records of the Manor of Friern Barnet, comprising a court roll of view of frankpledge with court baron, 1528-32.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising release for a parcel of land on side of Bungeys Lane, Enfield, 1710; lease and counterpart lease of one acre of land in common field called Southberry Field, now used as brickground, in parish of Enfield, 1722.

Records of the Shadwell family relating to Northolt, Ruislip and Greenford. Records include papers relating to the sale of estates and property transactions in Northolt and Ruislip; estate administration; sales particulars; manorial records; financial papers; legal papers; and notes on the history of the area.

Lease of premises in Bethnal Green by Henry Merceron for use as an arms and clothing store by the Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Hamlets Militia. Includes schedule of fixtures and fittings and a marginal plan.

Letter from Henry Butts, emigrant to the United States of America, to his mother Mrs Sarah Butts of Devon.

Papers of the trustees of the will of Jonathan Passingham, relating to the management of Heston Farm, North Hyde Farm, and the Depot Estates, Heston.

Papers of the Child and Jersey families, including household accounts of Robert Child comprising bills, receipts, and insurance policies for premises in St Clement Danes, Westminster; leases and agreements for premises in Westminster; household accounts for Lord Jersey including bills, receipts and expenses; papers relating to the Jersey estates including rentals, quit rents and fines for the manors of Northall, Norwood, Southall and Heston, and lists of the tenants; and maps of the Heston Enclosure Award 1818.

Records of Kent and Sons, solicitors, 1831-1923, including solicitor's diaries; financial records; day books; ledgers; letter books; clerk's records; returns of property; accounts of building materials; labour account book; estate records and attendance book.

Also client records, 1585-1933, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including Hampton parish records; maps and plans; papers relating to property, legal, family, parish, local government and businesses. These records include information relating to parish poor relief in Hampton.

Hampton Court Gas Company records, 1850-1892, including the deed of settlement, contracts and specifications, bills and receipts, lists of share-holders and share certificates, title deeds to property, correspondence and the seal of the company.

Papers relating to Harry Hart and family, 1789-1842, including copies of the wills of Robert Norris, 1816, and of Ann Henwell Morris, 1820; letters of attorney and affidavits by James Maxwell of Kingston, Jamaica, in favour of Clara Maxwell of London, 1822; grants by royal letters patent to Robert Salmon, surveyor, his executors, administrators and assigns, of the sole benefits and profits of the invention of 'Mathematic principled safe and easy trusses of the Relief and Cure of Ruptures' for 14 years in Scotland only, 1807; deed of co-partnership in the patent and manufacture of the 'improved trusses', between Robert Salmon, John Ody of St Anne's Soho, gentleman, and Harry Hart of St George's Hanover Square, gentleman, 1810; assignment of partnership and effects in the business as manufacturers and traders in sale of patent trusses, Harry Hart to John Ody, 1825; leases and counterpart leases for property owned by Harry Hart in the parishes of Saint George's, Hanover Square; Saint Luke, Chelsea; Saint Mary, Lambeth; Saint Mary, Newington and Saint Anne, Westminster, 1789-1842.

Legal documents, copies of wills and deeds, 1802-1935, relating to properties and estates in various locations including Pinner, the City of London, Woolwich and Islington. Also probate of will of James Yates of Lauderdale House, Highgate, including bequest of railway stock to University College, London to found Professorship of Archaeology, 1871.

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.

Papers, 1672-1882, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including deeds, leases, lease and releases, bonds, copy wills and probates relating to various properties and land in Hanwell, Ealing, Isleworth, Hampstead, Ashford, Finchley, Friern Barnet, Twickenham, Saint Marylebone, and Kensington.

A collection of personal Acts of Parliament relating to Middlesex; concerning the disposal, sale or conveyance of various estates and lands; and the enclosure of Hanworth, Feltham, Sunbury, Cowley, Hillingdon, Great Stanmore, Hamwell, Hatton, East Bedfont, Chiswick and Harmondsworth.

Records of the Wombwell family relating primarily to number 68 Gower Street, Bloomsbury, but also to premises in Pinner, Harrow and Hounslow. The documents include probates, leases, assignments, grants, and mortgages.

Records of the Child and Jersey families relating to their estates. Papers relating to the Manor of Osterley, Heston include wills, deeds, papers relating to the Jersey title to the manor, steward's accounts, fee books, quit rents, bailiffs bills, rent rolls, enclosure awards, plans, correspondence, sales particulars, court books, minute books, surrenders, licences to demise and warrants. Also papers relating to the Manor of Hayes with Norwood and Southall, including admissions, surrenders and enfranchisements, quit rents, and court papers; and "Isleworth Syon's Peace", volume of agreements dating to 1656.

Farm diary and account book for Swakeleys Farm, Ickenham, Hillingdon, 1842-1884, with references to Herres [or Hercies] Farm, Hillingdon.

Plans for the Northern and Southern Railway from Staines to Uxbridge and Harefield, 1845; plans for a projected railway through Acton, Old Brentford, Hounslow, Bedfont, Stanwell and Staines, Isleworth and Twickenham; book of reference of the Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway, 1847. Also assorted sales catalogues for live and dead stock, farm stock, growing crops, corn, furniture, bricks, 1850-1908.

Collection of local Acts of Parliament; relating to highways in Middlesex; Ealing parish church; enclosure in Hammersmith, Feltham and Sudbury; the vesting of land in Ealing; and Harrow School.

One volume comprising a formulary book of indictments, dating to the early eighteenth century.

Records relating to the Hillingdon House Estate, including title deeds for Hillingdon House and estates, and for additional lands added to the estate by various owners including John Chetwynd, the Marchioness of Rockingham, Josias Porcher and R.H. Cox. Documents include maps and plans; extracts from court rolls; wills; abstracts of title; lease and releases; fines; legal case proceedings; bonds; covenants and marriage settlements.

Rentals and accounts of estates of Earl of Jersey in Heston, Isleworth, Norwood, Southall, Hanover Square, St Martin in the Fields, Holborn, Kent, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire.

Family papers of the Child and Jersey families of Osterley Park, including:

ACC/0510/097: volume of transcripts of the letters of Edward, Viscount Villiers (later 1st Earl of Jersey), then ambassador at The Hague and envoy to the peace conference at Rijswijk (Ryswick), to Richard Hill, an envoy in Brussels, 1696-1704;
ACC/0510/157-190: correspondence between William, 3rd Earl of Jersey, and Lady Anne Egerton, Duchess of Bedford, his wife, 1733-1750;
ACC/0510/191-234: correspondence of Thomas Villiers (brother of William, 3rd Earl of Jersey) envoy to the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, 1739-1746;
ACC/0510/235-256: correspondence and journals of George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey, while on Grand Tour in Europe, 1746-1798;
ACC/0510/257-272: correspondence of George Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, relating to estates at Southall and Staines, 1822-1847;
ACC/0510/273-332: correspondence between George Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, his wife Lady Sarah Sophia and their children, 1793-1847;
ACC/0510/333-698: correspondence of Lady Sarah Sophia, the wife of George Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, with various members of the British and European Royal families and notable figures of the day including Lord Byron and the Duke of Wellington, 1812-1865;
ACC/0510/702-718: Child family wills, 1694-1793, including Francis Child, Samuel Child and Robert Child;
ACC/0510/719-726: Robert Child's household accounts, 1775-1790;
ACC/0510/727-739: Jersey household accounts, 1720-1726, including receipt books of William, 3rd Earl of Jersey.

PLEASE NOTE: Items ACC/0510/001-096 (original letters of Viscount Villiers to Richard Hill) and ACC/0510/098-156 (correspondence of Matthew Prior) were withdrawn by the depositor in March 2009.

Papers of the Northwick family relating to their estates in Harrow, including documents relating to property ownership and legal papers for premises in Sudbury, Alperton, Roxeth, Pinner, Wembley, and Preston.

Documents relating to premises in Hanwell, including Lawn House. The papers include extracts from court rolls, leases, conveyances and deeds.

Legal documents relating to property ownership for premises in Chiswick, Cowley, Ealing, Edmonton, Enfield, Feltham, Finchley, Hampton, Harmondsworth, Hayes, Hendon, Heston, Hillingdon, Ickenham, Isleworth, Ruislip, South Mimms, Staines, Stanmore, Sunbury, Tottenham, Twickenham, Uxbridge, Stanwell, Harrow, and Northolt. Also copies of wills and probates and papers relating to legal proceedings.

Three Christmas cards and a photograph of the Dibdin Bachelors Club Dance, Ealing.

Papers of the Hollond family relating to properties in Saint Marylebone and Great Stanmore.

Papers of the Child family relating to Gough Park in Enfield, property in Hornsey, slate quarries in Wales and the family business as West India merchants, including documents relating to sugar plantations in Jamaica.

Papers of the Whipham family relating to properties in Harmondsworth, Stanwell and Acton, particularly legal papers relating to landowners' rights of common on Old Oak Common, Acton.

Overseers' records from the parish of Saint Mary the Virgin, Twickenham; comprising demands from the Clerk of Peace to the Overseers of the Poor of Twickenham for the County Rate and Rate under Lunatic Asylum Act, accompanied by relevant printed reports of Quarter Sessions, County Treasurers' Accounts and lists of demands outstanding.

Records of Woodbridge and Sons, solicitors, 1281-1960, including:

*Official records, with papers of the Uxbridge Poor Law Union, Rural Sanitary Authority and Rural District Council, and of the Uxbridge Petty Sessions (members of the firm being clerks to these bodies) and also of the Harlington Tithe Commissioners, whose clerk was William Mercer, a solicitor with no apparent connection with the Woodbridge firm;

*Charity records, comprising account books, minutes, letter books, deeds and papers of the Lords in Trust of the Manor and borough of Uxbridge, later known as the Uxbridge United Charities;

• Administrative records of the firm including account books, salaries books and partnership agreements; and

• Practice papers, which themselves fall into several groups, namely, deeds of property of which the firm became mortgagee, Woodbridge family deeds and private papers, and clients' papers, by far the largest section. A large number of probates, letters of administration and unproved wills were preserved by the firm as a separate class. The rest of the clients' papers are preserved in separate personal or family groups (covering in many cases two or three generations); since many of the documents are title deeds, these bundles have been arranged according to the parish in which their property lay, although where a family owned property in more than one parish, the whole group has been listed under the parish in which the clients resided. An index of places is provided. Original bundling has been preserved although this has sometimes interfered with the logical arrangment. Where necessary for clarification, family trees have been included; although as accurate as possible these do not claim to be comprehensive.

Records relating to property owned by Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, comprising lease of the Manor of Twickenham and bargain and sale for messuage known as York's Farm, part of the Manor.

Banns book for the church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Harmondsworth, 1825-1848.

Records relating to property owned by the Irby family, barons Boston, in Shepperton, Sunbury, Barnes, Chertsey, Hillingdon and Hanover Square. The records include title deeds, legal documents, orders and inventories.

Plan endorsed 'Ickenham before the Enclosure'; showing strips in field, boundaries of allotments under Enclosure Award superimposed, many field names and some owners.

Title deeds and plans concerning the estate of Richard Lowndes, relating to property in Carnaby Street, Chesham Street, William Street, William Mews, Harriet Mews and Lowndes Square; all in Westminster.

Printed copy of an Act of Parliament for repairing the Bedfont Road.

Commission of Thomas Houghton as Captain in 20th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps, 28 March 1861.

Records of the Wolley family of Clifton, Bristol, including diaries and notebooks of Thomas Lamplugh Wolley, including account of travels in Europe visiting Germany, Belgium, France and Italy, and account of military service; family letters; financial accounts; and genealogical notes.

Papers, 1553-1865, collected by the bookseller in the course of his work, including extracts from court rolls of Shepperton Manor, 1787 and 1800; mortgage for property in Teddington, 1865; lists of presentments of misdemeanours at Middlesex Sessions, 1553-1564.

Papers, 1761-1858, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including extracts from court rolls, copies of wills, receipts, leases, releases, mortgages, conveyances, fines and deeds relating to land and properties in Enfield.

Papers, 1773-1913, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to properties in Hackney, Edmonton, Hendon, Golders Green, Swiss Cottage, Finchley, Twickenham, Hampstead, Westmoreland and Lancashire, including papers relating to the Carus Wilson family.

Correspondence files of Richard Ellis and Son, surveyors, relating to properties in Acton, Chiswick, Ealing, Edmonton, Finchley, Hanwell, Harrow, Hendon, Heston, Highgate, Hillingdon, Hornsey, Hounslow, Isleworth, Kilburn, Saint Pancras, Teddington, Tottenham, Twickenham, West Drayton and Willesden, 1836-1930.

Papers, 1759-1904, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to properties mainly in Ponders End, but also in Enfield and Tottenham. Also declaration relating to debentures, by Frederick William Frier of 16, Eldon Street, City of London, Secretary to the Paternoster Printing Company Limited; notices by Frederick William Frier and William Edwin Frier, that as debenture holders of Paternoster Printing Company Limited they intend to mortgage the works and property at Ponders End; and consent to mortgage the works and property.