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Papal letters
GB 0096 MS 854 · 1562

Letters of Pope Pius IV, dated 9 Jul 1562, to the Archbishop of Florence, or his vicar the Archdeacon of Florence, concerning the rights of Peter Tuccio, priest, Frederick and Francis 'de Tucciis' in property owned by the Church of St Verdian 'in castro Florentini' (possibly Castelfiorentino?).

Pius IV , 1499-1565 , Pope x Medici , Giovanni Angelo
PANTHEON, OXFORD STREET
GB 0074 E/PAN · Collection · 1774-1788

Records relating to the Oxford Street Pantheon, comprising counterparts of the shares/leases sold by owner Philip Elias Twist to fund the building, 1774-1788. The leases include a room by room schedule of fixtures, fittings and furnishings, and marginal plans.

Twist , Philip Elias , fl 1769 , property developer
PAINE FAMILY
GB 0074 E/PNE · Collection · 1746-1982

Records of the Paine family relating to properties owned by the family in Deptford and Forest Hill, with some family papers including certificates and letters.

Paine , family , of Deptford
GB 0074 ACC/0870 · Collection · 1792-1857

Recovery between Edward Boodle, demandant and Moses Hoper, tenant, relating to the manors of Hanworth and East Bedfont, 1792 (vouchees: Aubrey Beauclerk, earl of Burford and Aubney, Duke of St. Albans); and conveyances relating to land in Upper Halliford, Sunbury, 1844 and 1857.

Paine and Brettell , solicitors
PAGE FAMILY
GB 0074 ACC/0853 · Collection · 1544-1799

Records of the Page family relating to property including the Manor of Uxendon, and premises in Wembley, Harrow on the Hill, Preston, Willesden and Kenton.

Page , family , of Uxendon, Harrow Manor of Uxendon
PADDINGTON ESTATE
GB 0074 E/PAD · Collection · 1795-1822

Records of the Paddington Estate comprising a survey of the estate and rentals and financial accounts of the estate trustees.

Manor of Paddington x Paddington Estate
O/429 · Collection · 1890-1894

Printed posters displaying rules, orders and bye-laws for the preservation and use of Paddington Green; Saint Mary's parish church disused burial ground, and Saint George's Parish Vestry Hall Gardens, Mount Street, Hanover Square, 1890-1894.

Paddington Green Vestry Saint George's Hanover Square Vestry
ORMATHWAITE (LORD)
GB 0074 E/ORM · Collection · 1752-1860

The collection comprises title deeds relating to land owned by the Benn-Walsh family, barons Ormathwaite, in Marylebone, Westminster, Stepney, Essex, Buckinghamshire and County Durham.

Walsh , Benn- , family , Barons of Ormathwaite x Benn-Walsh
GB 0074 ACC/1047 · Collection · 1853-1946

Papers, 1853-1946, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Acton, including mortgages, leases, conveyances and reconveyances.

Oppenheimer, Nathan and Vandyk , solicitor
OLD STREET MAGISTRATES COURT
GB 0074 PS/OLD · Collection · 1905-1980

Records of Old Street Magistrates Court, 1905-1980, including court registers; Married Women Act orders; Guardianship of Infants Act orders; bastardy complaints and bastardy arrears complaints.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate.

A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.

Old Street Magistrates Court
OETZMANN FAMILY
GB 0074 ACC/2637 · Collection · 1789-1895

Records relating to properties in Charles Street, Hampstead Road, Saint Pancras, including leases, assignments and mortgages.

Oetzmann and Co , furniture and carpet sellers
GB 0096 AL93 · Fonds · 1833

Letter from Richard Oastler of Fixby Hall, Huddersfield, [West Riding of Yorkshire] to John Foster, Esq of 1 Vincent Square, Westminster, 23 Jun 1833. Chiefly relating to the Ten Hours Bill. Lord Althorp had advocated 2 sets of 8 hours as the maximum for children under 14 to work. 'The news came just in time for your Hudd meeting - one hour before we began - & thus before 15,000 to 20,000 people I had the opportunity of blowing the whole scheme to rags' [referring to a speech Oastler made at a meeting on 18 Jun 1833. Urging the London section not to yield a single point: 'If they yield they disgrace themselves and give us another year's excitement and in my opinion hurry on a bloody revolution'.

Autograph, with signature. With Oastler's black seal, bearing the motto: 'The Altar, the Throne and the Cottage'.

Oastler , Richard , 1789-1861 , factory reformer
GB 106 7LHN · Fonds · 1938-1969

The archive consists of press cuttings concerning marriage in the UK (1961-1968); correspondence, press cuttings, articles and official publications on marriage law and the status of women in various countries (1938-1967); correspondence, parliamentary papers and press cuttings on divorce law reform (1960-1969); copy of report on Homosexual Offences and prostitution (1957).

Nutting , Lady , Helen Alice Wyllington , 1890-1973 , Chair of the Council for Married Women
Notes on feudal law
GB 0096 MS 266 · c1675

Manuscript volume containing notes in Latin on Samuel Stryk's Examen iuris feudalis, which was first published in 1675 and was widely used as a legal text-book due to its brevity and clarity.

Unknown
NORTHWICK FAMILY
GB 0074 ACC/0076 · Collection · 1315-1885

Papers of the Northwick family relating to the manors of Harrow alias Sudbury and Harrow Rectory alias Harrow-on-the-Hill, including court rolls, financial accounts, rentals, surveys, papers relating to the livings and churches of Harrow and Pinner, papers relating to Harrow School, family papers including correspondence, and papers relating to property owned by the family in Bloomsbury, Shoreditch, the City of London, and Paddington.

Various.
NORTHWICK ESTATES
GB 0074 ACC/0507 · Collection · 1751-1913

Records of the Manor of Harrow alias Sudbury, including court books (court leet and court baron); minute book and custumal. Records of the Manor of Harrow Rectory, including court books (court leet and court baron) and minute book. Records of both manors including quit rent books; account books; steward's papers; voters lists and enclosure records. Also sales particulars for premises at Roxeth, Alperton and Northolt.

Manor of Harrow alias Sudbury Manor of Harrow Rectory alias Harrow-on-the-Hill
NORTHUMBERLAND (DUKE OF)
GB 0074 ACC/1379 · Collection · 1279-1936

Records of the manor of Isleworth Syon, including court rolls, court books, court minutes and papers, property transaction licences and general papers.

Records of the manor of East Bedfont with Hatton Manor, including court rolls, court books, court minutes and papers, call papers and appearance papers.

Manor of Isleworth Syon , Corporation of London
NORTHAMPTON (MARQUESS OF)
GB 0074 E/NOR · Collection · 1279-1951

The records of the Marquess of Northampton's London Estates in Holloway and Canonbury form a considerable collection of material from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries relating to the development of Islington.

Estate Records (E/NOR/E): These relate almost entirely to the Northampton Estates in London in Clerkenwell and Canonbury, Islington. There is a fine series of eighteenth century rentals and accounts which extend into the twentieth century. These can be used in conjunction with the leases and maps in E/NOR/L.

Also included in this section are records of Estate administration in the twentieth century, relating to legislation under the Housing Acts of 1925, 1930 and the Town and Country Planning Act 1947, together with more local orders by Finsbury Justices. In particular, there is a lot of material relating to the Clearance of the Northampton Road area in the 1930s and the building of new flats in Canonbury via the Compton Housing Association in the same decade. By 1954 at least part of the Canonbury Estate had been sold by the Northampton trustees to property companies Western Ground Rents and the Oriel Property Trust.

The development of the Canonbury Estate is outlined in the Victoria County History of Middlesex vol VIII pp 54,55.

Leases (E/NOR/L): There are a number of schedules of leases giving an insight into the running of the Estates in the nineteenth century; these are complemented by the Maps of Estates which vary in date from 1809 to 1947 (E/NOR/L/2), the maps in the Map and Print Section of the LMA, and Estate Records mentioned above.

The leases have been split into two groups: one covering the geographical area of Clerkenwell (E/NOR/L/3) and one covering Canonbury (E/NOR/L/4). They include documents from all forms of transfer of property and other related records: bargain and sale, demises, assignments, abstracts of title, building agreements, mortgages. Most of these have been kept in original bundles where possible.

For ease of access the leases have been listed in alphabetical order of streets and within each street by the numbered property. An attempt has been made to give alternative street names. Similarly cross references to properties mentioned in other deeds have been added. However, it has not been possible (or considered necessary) to produce a totally comprehensive appendix of street numbering changes. Individual instances of street numbering can be further clarified by reference to the LCC's published Names of Streets and Places and the accompanying list of Street Naming and Numbering records in the Catalogue Room.

Many of the nineteenth century leases have plans on them, but a number of separate plans of buildings are included separately at the end of the leases section (E/NOR/L/5).

Among the leases of Clerkenwell properties belonging to the Marquess of Northampton are the London Spa, Wilmington Square, Exmouth Market, the Sheep Skin Market at Woods Close, and Northampton Square.

Canonbury leases include Canonbury Tower, Canonbury House, Canonbury Square and Northampton House. Pevsner describes Canonbury as "especially illuminating for the development of domestic building in London."

Other Records: Apart from the Estate Records there are a number of significant small collections and individual items in this archive.

The Sheep Skin Market run by the Skinners Company in Woods Close is documented by three volumes of market books 1754-1772 (E/NOR/S/1-3).

Among items of local historical interest there are photographs of Canonbury (E/NOR/X) and a small amount of printed material on Clerkenwell including a History of Spa Fields Burial Ground (E/NOR/Y/2), and a sketch of Finsbury Health Centre (E/NOR/Y/7).

Away from Clerkenwell and Canonbury, there are some records concerning the Northampton family's involvement in the Ragged School at Hertford Place, Mile End Old Town (E/NOR/R) and the Northampton Training Ship (E/NOR/Y/8).

Compton , family , marquesses of Northampton
GB 0074 COR/NWK · Collection · 1951-1965

Records of the North West Kent Coroner's District, comprising case papers, 1951-1965.

Coroner for the Jurisdiction of the North West Kent District of the County of Kent
GB 0074 PS/NLO · Collection · 1909-1965

Records of the North London Magistrates Court, comprising court registers, 1909-1965. Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate.

North London Magistrates Court
GB 106 7HLN · Fonds · 1905-1995

The archive consists of:

  • papers relating to Helena Normanton's career and legal work

  • papers relating to matrimonial law reform

  • publications and articles by Helena Normanton

  • correspondence with editors of publications

  • papers relating to Helena Normanton's other interests in history and to other organisations that she was involved with eg Union of Women Voters

  • photographs

  • press cuttings (eg Helena Normanton's career, articles and reviews, matrimonial law reform)

  • Barristers robe, barristers bands, badges

There are no personal papers.

Normanton , Helena Florence , 1883-1957 , barrister and feminist campaigner
GB 106 7NOR · Fonds · 1871-1922

The archive consists of Priscilla Norman's personal collection of pamphlets, publications and propaganda material relating to the suffrage campaigns. There was a strong tradition of Liberal support in Lady Norman's family, and some of the material is concerned with their activities. The archive includes circular letters and memoranda from the Workers' Suffrage Federation, the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage and the Men's Liberal Suffrage Union. Also included are pamphlets dating from the late 1870s, a series of annual reports of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage (1875-1883), and some anti-suffrage material sent to Sir Henry Norman as a Member of Parliament.

Norman , Lady , Florence Priscilla , 1883-1964 , nee McLaren , Trustee, Imperial War Museum and social campaigner
NOMURA INTERNATIONAL PLC
GB 0074 CLC/B/169 · Collection · 1608-1986

Collection of deeds and papers relating to the site of Nomura House, no.1 St Martin le Grand (the former General Post Office building). The Library does not hold any records relating to the Nomura's operation as a Japanese bank; the only records held relate to the site of Nomura House.

The collection also includes deeds which do not appear to relate to the site of no.1 St Martin le Grand, although they may have been acquired by the Postmaster General.

Various.
NOKES FAMILY
GB 0074 E/NK · Collection · 1722-1896

Papers of the Nokes family, mostly relating to property in the City of London, Newington and Shoreditch, but also copies of certificates (baptisms, marriages, deaths) and copies of wills and probates.

Nokes , family , of Newington
GB 0074 ACC/2604 · Collection · 1887-1923

Personal property records of Baptist Wriothesley Noel relating to premises in Hampton and Enfield.

Noel , family
GB 0074 ACC/0630 · Collection · 1756-1850

Papers, 1756-1850, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including extracts from court rolls, copies of wills, mortgages, letters and extracts from the Stanwell Enclosure Award, relating to the Manor of Stanwell and to other properties in Stanwell and Knowle Green (near Staines).

Nicoll, Mavistly and Company , solicitors
NICOLL FAMILY
GB 0074 ACC/0245 · Collection · 1453-1685

This collection consists of title deeds relating to property in Hendon and Totteridge owned by the Nicoll family.

Various.
GB 0074 ACC/2305/23-2 · Collection · 1929-1951

Sales records of Nicholson and Sons Limited, brewers, comprising 'Mr W R N's papers and notes regarding the triangle trade mark 1929 (Bass and Co) 'No 4 Box', pursued in High Court and, in 1951, House of Lords.

Nicholson and Sons Ltd , brewers
NEWTON, Moses Levy (d 1823)
GB 0074 CLC/483 · Collection · 1702-1830

Records of Moses Levy Newton, mostly papers relating to properties in the City of London and Westminster, with some mercantile business and private papers.

Newton , Moses Levy , d 1823 , merchant
NEWTON, John (fl 1815-1816)
GB 0074 ACC/1456 · Collection · 1639-1884

Papers of John Newton, brewer, relating to property purchases in Brentford, Isleworth and Twickenham.

Newton , John , fl 1815-1816 , brewer
GB 0074 ACC/3569 · Collection · 1899-1903

Records of Josiah Hignell Newman including certificate of payment of duty on 3 Amy Villas, Hounslow, 1903; and counterpart building leases granted by Newman for sites on Hammond Road, Southall, 1899-1900.

Newman , Josiah Hignell
NEWMAN FAMILY
GB 0074 ACC/0348 · Collection · 1677-1844

Records relating to properties owned by the Combes and Newman families in Harlington, Hayes and Cranford. Documents include a marriage settlement, demise, lease, release, undertaking, plans, and extracts from the court rolls of the Manor of Hurlington with Shepiston.

Various.
GB 0074 PS/NEW · Collection · 1775-1966

Records of the Newington Petty Sessional Division, 1775-1966, including court minute books; licensing calendars and registers; registers of rates recovery, registers of weights and measures offences and registers of Fire Brigade Act offences.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

Newington Petty Sessional Division
NEWELL, Jane (fl 1992-1997)
GB 0074 LMA/4552 · Collection · 1992-1997

Records of Jane Newell relating to the Maxwell Pensions Unit, comprising annual reports and accounts, general reports on the work of the Maxwell Unit and Trust and training manual.

Maxwell Pensions Unit Maxwell Pensioners Trust
NEWDEGATE FAMILY
GB 0074 ACC/1085 · Collection · 1509-1925

Records of the Newdigate [later Newdegate] family relating to their manors of Harefield, Moorhall and Brackenbury, including court rolls, rentals and rent rolls, lists of tenants, surveys, financial accounts, surveys, maps and plans, and legal case papers (cases in Chancery and Common Pleas). Also papers regarding a visit to Harefield by Queen Elizabeth I in 1602; election diary of Sir Roger Newdigate, MP for Middlesex 1741-47; papers relating to the lecturer's house at Uxbridge; papers relating to the Uxbridge Yeomanry, captained by Charles Newdigate; and papers relating to Harefield Church. Also some papers relating to family property in Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Hampton, Ickenham and Hillingdon.

Newdigate , family , of Harefield x Newdegate , family , of Harefield
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/06 · Collection · 1849-1904

Records of the New River Company relating to Parliamentary proceedings, including papers regarding relevant Select Committees and Bills; memoranda of proceedings; reports; and correspondence, statistics and reports relating to the Royal Commission on the Metropolitan Water Supply.

New River Company
NEW RIVER COMPANY: CONTRACTS
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/08 · Collection · 1737-1904

Contracts of the New River Company including specifications; quotations; contracts; tenders; accepted contracts; accepted stores contracts and contracts for building offices.

New River Company
NEW RIVER COMPANY
GB 0074 ACC/1262 · Collection · 1697

Records of the New River Company, comprising lease of a watercourse from main water pipe at back side of Saint Clement Danes to the private dwelling house of Thomas Dows, gentleman, 1697.

New River Company
NEVINSON FAMILY
GB 0074 E/NEV · Collection · 1709-1822

Records relating to properties owned by the Bonney and Nevinson families in St James, Westminster; St George Hanover Square; and Marylebone.

The remaining documents do not appear to be connected with the main group. However, since the series of deeds for the property in St James Westminster, at least, are clearly incomplete, it may be that the two groups are related, though the link is not now apparent.

Nevinson , family , of London
GB 1556 WL 1303 · 1909-1971

Papers of the Neumann family, 1909-1971, including personal papers of Karl Neumann comprising school certificates, marriage certificate, job references and family correspondence and the personal papers of Irma Neumann (née Traub) including birth certificates and school certificates.

Neumann , Karl , 1895-1971 , company director
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK
GB 0074 ACC/2860 · Collection · 1825-1913

Papers, 1825-1913, collected by the bank in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Kensington and Soho, including leases, conveyances and settlements.

National Westminster Bank
GB 0074 ACC/2425 · Collection · 1895-1984

The collection contains minutes of the NUTC and the LUTC from their foundation to the 1950's. Files date from the 1940's to 1984. It also contains a minute book of the Sunday Closing Special Campaign Committee (SCSCC) which transferred its work to the NUTC in 1903 (this Committee may have been appointed by the NUTC). The secretary of the NUTC (and LUTC) also served as one of the two general secretaries on the SCSCC. A minute book of the Free Churches Pledge Signing Campaign Committee (FCPSCC) appears in the collection. This committee was dissolved in 1911. Representatives of the NUTC and LUTC attended meetings which were held in Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, and in 1911 the secretary of the NUTC and LUTC was also secretary of the FCPSCC.

A minute book of the Society of Cogers appears in the collection probably because an NUTC member, H. Weightman (later NUTC secretary and treasurer), was acting secretary of the society c.1919.

The recording of financial income and expenditure into ledgers was not always done. A number of blank ledgers deposited suggest the aim of entering such information, but it was never achieved. An almost complete set of audited, annual summary accounts from 1911 to 1975 provide the bulk of information on finance.

National United Temperance Council London United Temperance Council
NATIONAL TRUST
GB 0074 ACC/0750 · Collection · 1708-1768

Copy of Court Roll for the Manor of Enfield, 1768; and sessions paper from the Middlesex Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1708.

Middlesex Quarter Sessions of the Peace
GB 106 8NLS · Fonds · 1990-1992

The archive consists of reading copies of tapes, summaries and transcriptions of fourteen individual interviews. The National Life Stories (formerly National Life Story Collection (NLSC)) was established at the British Library in 1987 to 'record first-hand experiences of as wide a cross-section of present-day society as possible'. This small collection focuses on the lives of pioneering career women, each of whom made their mark in traditionally male-dominated areas such as politics, the law and medicine. The project was supported by the Women's Library and the Friends of The Women's Library (formerly known as the Fawcett Society Library).

British Library Sound Archive , National Life Story Trust
GB 0074 ACC/3122 · Collection · 1833-1992

Records of the National Licensed Victuallers Association including administrative papers; minutes; papers regarding banquets and official dinners; annual reports; publications; badges and banners.

Other records include papers and publications of related organisations including the Licensed Victuallers Central Protection Society of London; the London and Home Counties Licensed Victuallers League; Licensed Victuallers Defence League; National Union of Licensed Victuallers; Women's Auxiliary League (Licensed Trade) and the National Committee for the Protection of Tenant Licensees.

National Licensed Victuallers Association Licensed Victuallers Central Protection Society of London London and Home Counties Licensed Victuallers League Licensed Victuallers Defence League National Union of Licensed Victuallers Women's Auxiliary League (Licensed Trade) National Committee for the Protection of Tenant Licensees
GB 106 5OPF · Fonds · 1917-2002

Records of the National Council of One Parent Families including proof of status and policy documents; minutes of committees and working parties, 1918-1995; annual reports, 1918-1989, ledgers and associated accounts; case books and related papers, 1918-1947; fundraising and appeals, 1925-1993; correspondence, including with government and associated bodies (1918-1995); publications, draft bills, acts and legislation, details of Friends and Members.

National Council of One Parent Families
GB 0074 CLC/B/017-28 · Collection · 1913-1948

Records of the National Conference of Industrial Assurance Approved Societies comprising copy of constitution, minute books, reports of the proceedings of general meetings, and related papers.

National Conference of Industrial Assurance Approved Societies
GB 0074 LMA/4494 · Collection · 1917-2009

Records of the National Association of Pension Funds Ltd, 1917-2009, comprising minutes, agendas, reports and correspondence from various committees; secretary's files; documents concerning membership; publicity and outreach material, including conference publications, yearbooks and published reports and surveys; and audio-visual material, including photographs and promotional videos.

National Association of Pension Funds Ltd , 1967- Conference of Superannuation Funds , 1917-1923 The Association of Superannuation & Pension Funds , 1923-1967
GB 0074 CLC/B/017-27 · Collection · 1911-1948

Records of the National Amalgamated Approved Society, including rules; committee reports; correspondence and press cuttings.

National Amalgamated Approved Society
MYERS (AUTOGRAPHS) LIMITED
GB 0074 O/482 · Collection · 1776-1797

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.

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