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Records of the parish of Christ Church, Turnham Green, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, banns of marriage, and church services; Parochial Church Council minutes; Vestry minutes; Committee minutes; electoral rolls; financial accounts; and appeal brochure.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary the Virgin, Harefield, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, burials, preachers and church services; financial accounts; Churchwardens' accounts, reports, and papers relating to the maintenance of the church buildings and the churchyard; Vestry minutes; financial accounts of the Parish Constable and the Surveyors of Highways; papers of the Overseers of the Poor including settlement, bastardy and apprenticeship orders, and papers relating to pauper lunatics; papers of parish charities and schools.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary the Virgin, Bedfont, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriage, and church services; financial accounts; Vestry minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes; papers of the Overseers of the Poor; tax assessments; and papers regarding parish charities.

Records of the parish of Saint Alban the Martyr, Golders Green, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations and banns of marriage.

Records of Saint Michael, Golders Green, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and church services.

Records of the Gaol Expenses and Finance Committee, Court of Common Council, comprising minutes, 1816-1834; rough minutes, 1817-1825 and committee papers, 1817-1832.

Records of the Gresham Committee (City Side), Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1939-1956 and 1986-2001; committee papers, 1922-1961 and letters, 1958-1998. Please note that the letters are closed until 2029.

Records of the City of London Board of Health, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1831-1834; extracts of relevant Common Council minutes, 1831-1833; committee papers, 1831-1833, including ward and parish returns as to state of poor, condition of cesspools and privies, Nov 1831, weekly returns of sick from wards and daily reports of diarrhoea and cholera cases; letter book, 1831-1833; account book, 1831-1833; volume of letters and reports including many from Sunderland where cholera first appeared in England; collection of printed notices and memoranda with three manuscript letters concerning cholera and precautions against cholera in Bengal, Odessa, and Europe, 1831-1833 and daily reports of cholera cases, issued by the control Board of Health giving number of new cases, dead, recovered etc. in London and elsewhere.

Minute book and committee papers of the Joint Advisory Committee, Court of Common Council, 1946-1959. Please note these records are closed until 2035.

Minute book of the Joint Public Health Department Committee, 1899-1911.

Records of the Joint Bridge House Estates and Thames Navigation and Port of London Committee, Court of Common Council, comprising minutes regarding petitions in respect of steam boat landings at the stairs on the Surrey end of London Bridge, 1854, and a communication made by a deputation from the Committee to the First Lord of the Treasury on necessary engineering works for the River, 1855.

Minutes and files of the Litter Act Committee, Court of Common Council, 1959-1972.

Records of the London Bridge Committee, Court of Common Council, including journals, 1823-1859; minutes, 1823-1840; rough minutes, 1823-1846; committee papers with indexes, 1823-1847; extracts from proceedings of Common Council regarding the rebuilding of London Bridge, 1821-1823; report by Thomas Telford on the effect of the rebuilding on the Thames, 1823; specification of the mode of executing the proposed new London Bridge as designed by the late John Rennie, 1823; list of Acts of Parliament regarding London Bridge with another list showing the streets affected by each Act, 1823-1842; minutes of evidence before the New London Bridge Committee, 1828; letter books, 1823-1846; order books, 1829-1834; warrant book, 1824-1847; administrative papers, financial accounts and papers relating to the opening ceremony, 1824-1847.

Minute book, 1917-1920, and letter book, 1941-1955, of the Local Food Control Committee, Court of Common Council, City of London.

Records of the Law Bills Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes and committee papers, 1842-1855 and law officers bills, 1835-1865.

Records of the Library and Museum Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1869-1874 and committee papers, 1869-1875.

Minutes and committee papers of the Metage on Grain Committee, Court of Common Council, 1872-1896.

Minutes of various sessions of the Officers and Clerks Committee, Court of Common Council, 1815, 1823-1827 and 1829-1834.

Records of the Prisons Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1848-1853; committee papers, 1842-1853 and Parliamentary reports, 1845-1847.

Records of the Port of London Health Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1872-1957; committee papers, 1872-1956; report books, 1873-1946 and subject files, 1878-1957. Subjects include air pollution, smoke abatement, Basildon New Town (with plans), the disposal of condemned meat, the transfer of Denton Hospital to the National Health Service (NHS), bye-laws regarding houseboats, the inspection of ships and reports of the Medical Officer of Health.

Minutes of the Policy and Parliamentary Committee and the Policy and Resources Committee, Court of Common Council, 1966-2005. Please note minutes created after 1978 are closed.

Records of the Railways Committee, including volume of minutes, 1864-1865; committee papers, 1864; Third Report of the Select Committee of the House of Lords on metropolitan railway communication, 1863 and report of House of Commons on railway schemes (metropolis), 1864.

Records of the Special (City of London Court) Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes and rough minutes, 1869-1870; committee papers, 1856-1870, particularly relating to Court fees, the Admiralty jurisdiction and the duties of judges; and outstanding references and proceedings, 1867-1869.

Records of the Special (Emergency) Committee, Court of Common Council, including minute book, 1939-1945 and committee papers, 1940-1941.

Records of the Special Inquiry Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, committee papers, evidence and report, 1879.

Minute book of Special Tithes Committee, Court of Common Council, 1864-1888.

Records of the Tithe Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes and committee papers, 1811-1836; rough minutes and papers of Committee appointed to consider a Bill before Parliament for the relief of certain Incumbents of Livings in the City of London, 1804 and rough report of Committee concerning the action of the Rector of St. Andrew, Holborn, who instituted proceedings in the Court of Exchequer to enforce the payment of 2/9 in the pound.

Records of the Thames Navigation Committee, Court of Common Council, including Chairman's minute book, 1855-1857; minutes of the Committee and Sub-Committee for improving the Navigation of the River Thames, for preventing encroachments and under two Acts of Parliament, 1857; blank application form to be used by owners and occupiers of property on the banks of the Thames who wish to advance their frontage; petitions and letters, 1798-1811; remembrancer's bills for fees and disbursements for business done by order of the Committee for improving the navigation of the River Thames, 1794-1817; surveyors' bills, 1806-1811; standing orders of the Thames Navigation Committee, and orders and regulations as to the Navigation Barge and the collection of tolls at Kew, 1826-1840.

Records of Watch and Police Committees, Court of Common Council, including Watch and Ward Committee minutes, 1701 and 1704; Nightly Watch Committee minutes and papers, 1827-1839; Watch and Police Committee minutes, 1839 and Nightly Watch and Police Committee reports, 1827-1834.

Minute book of the Day Police Committee, Court of Common Council, 1834.

Records of the City Solicitor, Corporation of London, including briefs for cases at the Old Bailey, Guildhall Sessions, Mayor's Court and other courts, 1802-1851; papers relating to various suits regarding the Metropolitan railway, police regulations, Holborn Valley Improvement, oyster metage, Thames Navigation, the Coal Exchange, London Bridge approach roads and other subjects, 1800-1870; papers regarding the Corporation decision to demolish All Hallows Church, Lombard Street, including photographs, maps, plans, petitions, reports, parliamentary debates, press cuttings and journals, correspondence and information on the proposed merger with St Edmund the King, 1926-1937; papers regarding William Ward's bequest including his will and documents relating to the creation of the City of London School for Girls, 1881-1892; papers regarding the case of the Mayor vs Lyons Son and Company, 1929-1939; papers regarding the case of Potter Oyler vs the Mayor, 1937; report books, 1797-1798 and 1863-1945; order books, 1764-1778, 1797-1803 and 1834-1837; bills, fees, payments and receipts, 1671-1862; notes on crown prosecutions, 1791-1797 and 1835-1847 and extracts regarding the office of solicitor, 1755-1776 and 1803.

Charters of the City of London with related papers, 1067-1980.

Charters, grants and letters patent include the 'William Charter' of 1067?, a royal writ from William the Conqueror guaranteeing the citizens' rights as they were in the time of Edward the Confessor; a grant to Deorman (supervisor of the mint) of a hide of land in Essex, 1070?; charter confirming rights and liberties, 1155?; charter ordering the removal of weirs from the Thames, 1197; charter granting shrievalty (the right to have sheriffs), 1199; charter confirming the removal of the Guild of Weavers from London, 1202; charter granting the citizens the right to choose their mayor, 1215; charter granting archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons, knights, freeholders and all in the county of Middlesex the liberty of the Warren of Staines (a warren was land enclosed for breeding game), 1227; covenant between Richard, Earl of Cornwall and the City to lease Queenhithe Dock to the City, 1246; charter ordering that the mayor be confirmed in post by the barons of the Exchequer in lieu of the King, 1253; charter granting the citizens remission and forgiveness for misdemeanours, 1266; charter from the City of London granting tenement in Bassishaw (a ward of London) to John de Bauquelle, 1268; letters patent confirming the liberties of England as described in the Magna Carta, 1297; letters patent granting constitutions for the regular government of the City of London, 1319; letters patent ordering that charging murage (a tax levied for the building or repairing of town walls) should cease, 1319; letters patent granting royal pardon for those neglecting to keep watch on those who claim sanctuary, 1321; charter thanking the citizens for sending armed men to Leeds Castle, Kent, and offering reassurance that this will not be used as a precedent for further requests, 1321; letters patent regarding Stocks Market and the maintenance of London Bridge, 1324; letters patent granting pardon for trespasses, 1327; letters patent releasing the citizens from obligations to th e late King Edward II, 1327; charter regarding markets, gaol delivery and infangthief (jurisdiction over apprehended thieves), 1327; charter granting the bailiwick (district under the jurisdiction of a bailiff) of Southwark to the citizens of London, 1327; confirmation of ordinances regarding punishment of bakers and brewers, 1327; charter confirming the liberties granted to the City of London in Magna Carta, particularly regarding trade, 1337; letters patent regarding the conservation of the peace within the City on the King going out of the kingdom, 1340; letters patent granting the right to bear maces of gold and silver, 1354; charter granting the City's right to the soil of the Thames, 1444; letters patent granting the Corporation package (the privilege of overseeing the package of cloth brought into the Port of London) and scavage (tolls levied on merchants) as well as the office of gauger (exciseman), 1461; letters patent granting licence to citizens to purchase mortmain (lands held by a corporation) to the value of 200 marks a year, 1478; letters patent granting the removal of court sessions from St Martin's Le Grand to Guildhall, 1518; letters patent regarding the custom of the City in not presenting attaints within the City (attaint was a legal process instituted for reversing a false verdict and convicting the jurors), 1526; letters patent restoring the office of Keeper of the Great Beam and Common Balance, 1531; grants of land in Essex to Sir Richard Rich, Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, 1539; grant of St Nicholas Shambles by Bishop of Westminster, 1550; letters patent granting pardon to the City, the Irish Society and the Companies for acts of misgovernment in Ireland, 1638; letters patent granting commission of militia, 1669; letters patent regarding the water line of the Thames Embankment, 1671; remission of Quo Warranto judgement, 1688 and letters patent appointing all Aldermen as Justices of the Peace, 1741.

Also transcripts and translations of early charters, made between 1582 and 1834; volume containing manuscript copies of 17th century Livery Charters; facsimiles of relevant charters held in other repositories and articles about the history of the charters, 1973 and 1980.

Records relating to the 'Quo Warranto' controversy, 1683-1692, including legal notes, opinions of counsel, petitions and commissions for the regulation, ordering and governing of the City of London by the officers appointed by the King.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to Bridge House Estates, including accounts, 1662-1942; Bridge House rents cash book, 1967-1972; Bridge's Act cash book, 1934-1956; acquittance books, 1852-1855; alienations books, 1840-1856; assignment of property books, 1857-1901; collector's ledgers, 1923-1934 and 1958-1968.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to the Chamber accounts, including cashier's general office cash books, 1662-1724 and 1784-1857; general office cash books, 1727-1906 (cash books 1688- 727 were destroyed by a fire in the Chamber on 7 Feb 1786); general cash book receipts, 1906-1971; general cash book payments, 1906- 971; City estate cash books, 1928-1946; acquittance books, 1660-1917; periodical charges books, 1918-1937; salaries and pensions books, 1919-1936; acquittance cash books, 1902-1942; account of expenditure and the state of the Chamber, 1660-1670; account of 'the several extraordinary disbursements out of the Chamber's Stock from 1637 to 1667 whereby it may be conjectured how the Chamber came into debt', listing expenses incurred during the Civil War for fortifications, trained bands, ships and men, restoration of Charters, diamonds to the Queen, entertainment of Charles I, Lords and Commons, and Charles II; account of extraordinary disbursements made out of the Chamber of London, 1625-1650; memoranda of payments made out of the Chamber by note of land, 1671-1712; account of moneys ordered to be paid by the Court of Aldermen, Oct 1717-May 1722; statements of disbursements in the nature of salaries, gratuities, pensions and other allowances to officers of the Corporation, 1791-1829; statement of the expenses and allowances of the several Committees of the Corporation and Commissioners of Sewers, 1791-1829; statements of payments made to the Lord Mayor and of expenses of the Mansion House 1820-1829; vouchers and bills for work done by smiths, founders, masons, bricklayers, plumbers, glaziers, joiners, paviors, remembrancers, comptrollers, water bailiffs, hall keepers, printers and stationers, 1670-1672; reports and other papers regarding audits, 1674-1889; book of fines, 1517-1628; ward expenses, 1933-1961; monthly balances (securities), 1935-1965; monthly balances (cash), 1932-1979; papers relating to bonds issued under the Corporation of London (Bridges) Act, 1928-1973; fees and annuities, 1649-1670; method of keeping accounts, 1650?; security papers, 1940-1979; historical notes and articles, 1948-1985; City lands grant books, 1853-1972 and City lands assignment books, 1843-1902; markets grant books, 1877-1972; rates grant books, 1949-1971; annual accounts, including audited accounts, 1942-1988; ledgers for various accounts including poor rates, general rates, war damage payments, Epping Forest, Gresham trust, markets, West Ham park, Barbican, London Bridge, tithes and various committees and courts; letter books, 1847-1911; profit and loss ledgers and cash books, 1866-1978 and various other administrative and financial papers.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to the Chamberlain, including lists of Chamberlains of the City 1276-1800, compiled 1902; appointment and duties of Chamberlain, 1912; minutes of a Committee to consider the duty and nature of the office of Chamberlain, 19 Sep 1727, including extracts relating to the duties of Chamberlain, 1595-1720; duties of Chamberlain, 1880; papers and extracts relating to the election of the Chamberlain, 1491-1973; papers relating to the payment of fees to the Chamberlain, 1454-1695 and papers relating to the nature of the office of Chamberlain, 1842-1962.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to Freedom admissions, including early Freedom admissions registers, 1551-1669 (fragmentary and fragile due to the Chamber fire of 1786); Freedom admissions papers, 1681-2004; index to Freedoms arranged alphabetically by surname, 1681-1940; lists of freemen in date order of admission, 1681-1844; Freedom declaration books, 1784-2003; letter books, 1901-1981 (closed from 1977 onwards); accounts on money received on admissions by redemption, 1694-1841; papers concerning the admission of aliens (non-Londoners), 1433-1844; numbers of freemen, 1901-1960; rejected applications, 1781-1989 (closed from 1900 onwards); register of Freedoms granted to the City of London Police Reserve, 1920; articles about the history of the Freedom, 1957-1995; various orders, extracts and reports, 1554-1722; ceremony on the admission of the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Harold Macmillan, MP, 25 Feb 1957; illuminated addresses, principally comprising resolutions of thanks of the Corporation to distinguished persons and conferring on them the Freedom of the City, 1792-1856, including Dr Edward Jenner, Commodore Sir Charles Napier, the Right Hon Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Admiral George Elphinstone and Rear Admiral Alexander Hood; the Roll of Fame, list of all honorary admissions to the Freedom, 1740-present; articles and photographs regarding 'Freedom Boxes', specially made caskets in which the honorary Freedom certificates are presented, and ceremonial presentation swords, 1933-1997; extracts re presentation of honorary freedom to members of Royal family, 1736-1761 and 1840; City Freedom Certificates, returned by executors or relatives of deceased Freemen, 1596-1979; monthly account books, 1675-1832; stamp books, 1786-1856; admissions to freedom account books, 1786-1981; fees for freedoms, 1808-1831 and 1901-1983 (closed from 1976 onwards); cash cheque accounts, 1822-1870; City accounts, 1831-1901; fees for freemen, 1833-1901; day books, 1840-1901.

Also papers relating to non-freemen, including wardmote inquest returns of non-freemen, 1821-1853; lists of King's freedmen for part of 18th and 19th centuries; licenses to non-freedmen to be employed within the City, 1750-1845; returns of non-freemen carrying on business in the wards, 1809-1810, Acts of the Common Council regarding non-freemen, 1606-1839; summonses to appear before the Chamberlain to show why they should not be prosecuted, and notes on prosecutions in the Mayor's Court, 1809-1810 and various similar legal papers relating to the prosecution of non-freemen and the disenfranchisement of those fraudulently claiming to be freedmen.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to the financial accounts of various institutions and courts, including City of London Lunatic Asylum accounts ledgers, 1866-1906; City of London Lunatic Asylum cash books, 1881-1915; City of London School ledger, 1965-1974; City of London Freemen's School ledgers, 1933-1974; City of London School for Girls ledgers, 1925-1965; Guildhall School of Music and Drama ledgers, 1880-1972; Guildhall Stationery Store account ledgers, 1948-1978; Mayor's and City of London Courts accounts, 1855-1968 and Sheriff's and City of London Court accounts, 1847-1909. Please note some records are closed.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department relating to the Orphan's Fund, 1545-1983, including Finding Money account books, recording money paid to persons for the maintenance of orphans in their care, 1643-1678; Finding Acquittance books containing receipts for Finding Money paid out, 1668-1694; account book of dates of deposits of money in the Chamber, 1656-1677; casting books in which interest due to orphans was calculated, 1660-1699; Orphan's Journals, entries of receipts of money for the use of orphans, 1661-1692; Orphan's Ledgers, entries of money received for the benefit of orphans and money paid out to them, 1627-1683; Orphan's Fund cash books, 1694-1832; accounts ledgers, 1694, showing all money owed to orphans at the time of the Orphan's Act of 1694 [when the City of London suffered a financial collapse and was not able to pay orphans what they were owed]; accounts ledgers containing receipts and payments to the Orphan's Fund, 1694-1762; Grand Ledger of orphans, 1694-1817, with indexes; ledger of orphans holding orphanage stock, 1732-1788; orphan's journals, 1729-1817; journals of the accounts of Orphan's Fund creditors, 1694-1729; payments accounts books, 1694-1790; abstract of the produce and expenditure of the duties payable to the Orphan's Fund and of the surplus of the Fund, 1694-1832; statements of produce and expenditure, 1793-1837; papers and accounts regarding the Act of Common Council for raising £2000 a year from the inhabitants of the City payable to the orphans, 1696-1795; papers relating to Orphan's Fund Stocks including accounts of money received, 1717-1818; Act of Parliament of 1693 (5 and 6 William and Mary) for the relief of the orphans and other creditors of the City with related papers including register of assignments of orphan's stock, 1694-1818; deeds of grant, assignments and Chamberlain's memos, 1700-1810; accounts regarding interest on the Orphan's Fund, including dividends on orphan stock, 1732-1819; receipts on duties and duties posting books, 1694-1834 and accounts of receipts and payments of surpluses, 1793-1853.

Also accounts of the fees paid to Corporation of London Officers for dealing with Orphan Fund matters, 1672-1678; petition by the Chamberlain for an increase of salary for himself and his clerks for their work on the Orphan's Fund, with a history of the Fund, 1821; "The Case of the City of London in reference to Debt to the Orphans and otherwise, how it was incurred and what amount has been repaid", 1691; reports of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Orphan's Fund, 1812, 1822 and 1829; and article on the origin and history of the Orphan's Fund, 1983.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department regarding rents and rentals, including rent cashier's cash books, 1857-1967; cash books of money received from tenants, 1669-1763; rent cash books (counties), 1833-1863; general rent cash books, 1833-1858; City rents cash books, 1945-1962; country rents cash books, 1943-1961; Bridge House rents cash books, 1942-1957; sundry rents cash book, 1950-1958; market rents cash books, 1938-1962; Epping Forest wayleave [a right of way granted by the owner of land to a particular body and for a particular purpose, e.g. laying of telephone cables or water pipes across land, often in return for payment] rents cash books, 1941-1953; City and Liberties rent ledgers, 1837-1972; Conduit Mead rent ledgers, 1817-1964; rent ledgers (counties, including open spaces and West Ham Park), 1837-1972; markets rent ledgers, 1925-1972; rent ledgers (rates), 1958-1972; miscellaneous rentals book, 1662-1697; rental ledgers of the Chamber, 1692-1710; general rent ledgers, 1728-1751 and 1785- 1836; general rent alphabets, 1785-1836; rent farm ledgers, 1711-1729 and 1785-1937; rent ledgers for Epping Forest wayleaves, 1937-1972; daily collection books (surveyor's rents), 1936-1961; surveyor's collection books (City Lands), 1940-1966; extracts from the City Lands Committee Minutes regarding the City Quickener, whose duty it was to ensure prompt collection of all rents, 1733-1843; quit rents [rent paid by a freeholder or copyholder in lieu of services which might otherwise be required] and tithes, 1670-1759 and lessees' insurance books, 1940s.

Records of the Chamberlain's Department regarding trust funds and other funds, including account books, Chairman's emolument fund, 1859-1900; cash book, Chairman's emolument fund, 1930-1940; ledgers, Chairman's emolument fund, 1935-1976; Ward's bequest ledger, 1939-1982; City Educational trust fund ledger, [1968]-1983; Compensation Fund cash book, 1905-1971; English Philological Fund ledger, 1911-1950; Officer's Guarantee Fund registers, 1903-1938; sundry accounts, 1842-1879, including the City of London School Scholarship and Prize Funds, 1842- 1862; Miss Wilkes legacy for Freemen's Widows and Children, 1847-1862 and Miss Mission's legacy for relief of debtors, 1848-1862; sundry trust funds ledger, 1970-1983, including Royal Wedding celebration funds; sundry funds and bequests ledgers, 1918-1958 and financial papers relating to the Thames Navigation Fund, 1777-1858.

Records of the Housing Department, Corporation of London, including leaflets produced by the Department; reports on housing in the City of London, 1933 and 1965; Housing Department quarterly performance review, 1992-1995; notes on the history of the Corporation's housing activities, 1980; papers regarding artisan's dwellings built by the Corporation under the Artisan's and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875, including developments at Petticoat Square, 1884; papers regarding war damage repairs at Avondale Square, 1940-1945; papers regarding the Cosser Street redevelopment, 1970s; competition to design new housing at Golden Lane, EC, 1951-1952; illustrated brochure describing the Golden Lane development; papers regarding the William Blake estate, 1985 and 1994; notes taken during a case in arbitration between the Corporation of London and contractors, Ilford Housing Scheme, 1923-1924; report on housing for the aged poor at Isledon House, 1951-1953; papers regarding visit of Russian Housing Mission to the City of London, 1955; papers on the public enquiry regarding Shepherdess Walk, 1924-1925; lists of the numbers of houses in each ward, 1772, 1784 and 1858; demolition orders made under the Housing Acts, 1936-1949 and notices and orders regarding curious houses, 1761-1828.

Records relating to the Lord Mayor's household, including minutes, 1816-1844; account of the profits of the Mayoralty and offices at the disposal of the Mayor, [1684]-1821; papers relating to the employment of the household, 1662-1761 and removes of officers, 1597-1757.

Records relating to the Mansion House, including minute books of the Mansion House Committee (which oversaw construction), 1734-1788; papers of the Mansion House Committee, including accounts submitted by contractors, 1728-1810; papers relating to the construction of Mansion House and subsequent maintenance, 1730-1992; pamphlet entitled City corruption and mal-administration display'd; occasion'd by the the Management of the Publick Money in general: with some Remarks upon the modest Enquiry into the Conduct of the Court of Aldermen, etc., addressed to the Citizens of London against the ensuing Election for Common Councilmen. By a citizen. London. Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Annual in Warwick Lane, 1738, protesting at alleged corruption in the allocation of contracts for the building of Mansion House; contracts for work done at Mansion House, 1738-1749; catalogue raisonné of the principal articles of furniture and other objects of artistic and historical importance at the Mansion House, London, 1953; account of dilapidations of furniture at the Mansion House, 1787; inventories of the furniture and other effects at the Mansion House, 1752-1898; catalogue of the Mansion House Plate Collection, 1970?; a list of the plate, with the inscriptions thereon, at the Mansion House of the City of London, 1888; Plate Books, containing particulars of plate as contained in the annual Plate Indentures, and signed by the Plate Butler, 1835-1970; articles and guidebooks about the history of Mansion House, 1925-1994; visitor's books, 1875-1876 and 1919-1920; tenders submitted to the General Purposes Committee of the Common Council for the supply of dinner, dessert, tea and coffee and glass services for 300 persons for use at the Mansion House, 1875 and order of the Court of Common Council offering a reward of £50 for the discovery of persons who took part in a riot and broke the windows and lamps at the Mansion House, 1768.

Records relating to the Architect of the Planning Department, Corporation of London, 1979-1992, comprising a 1981 article on Sir Horace Jones, City Architect from 1864-1887; brochure and catalogue to accompany exhibition City Changes: Architecture in the City of London 1985-1995, held at the Royal Exchange, 1992 and notes on primary sources for the study of the urban development and architecture of London, 1979.

Records of the Remembrancer's Department, Corporation of London, relating to individual Remembrancers, including the papers of Captain John Burroughs, 1665-1666; scrapbooks of Sir Stuart Sankey and other members of his family, [1805-1949]; papers of Edward Tyrrel, 1832-1842 and extracts, precedents, historical notes and some original documents relating to the office of Remembrancer, collected by Edward Tyrrel during his work, 1605-1837.

Papers relating to railways, 1839-1983, including reports, evidence and petitions relating to the construction of new lines and stations; papers relating to fires, 1522-1974, including papers on the provision of fire fighting equipment, the introduction of fire insurance policies and the establishment of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade; papers relating to the Great Fire of London, 1667-1966, including acts, orders and financial accounts relating to the rebuilding of the City of London including receipts from Christopher Wren, papers relating to the investigation into the cause of the Fire, financial accounts of funds to relieve those affected, descriptions and accounts of the Fire; papers relating to Royal and Municipal Commissions, 1816-1969; papers relating to war 1692-1995, including papers relating to the Corporation's activities during World War One; air raid precautions and casualties, Roll of Honour of Civilian War Dead in the City of London and papers relating to the bombing of Guildhall, World War Two and City of London salute to the task force, Falklands Campaign, 1982.

Papers relating to transport, 1663-1985, including hackney coaches and hackney carriages, carts and carmen, stage coaches, river traffic, tramways, omnibuses and buses, subways, Heathrow and Fairlop Airports, the London Underground and the Channel Tunnel terminal in London; papers relating to shipping, 1610-1989; papers relating to trades and crafts, 1510-1991, including bills, wages, regulations, acts and petitions regarding bricklayers, carpenters, carters, founders, glaziers, masons, painters, paviors, plasterers, plumbers, smiths, wireworkers, button makers, butchers, chimney sweeps, hairdressers, ironmongers, spoon makers, paper makers, tanners, tailors, rakers, midwives, engravers, clock makers and printers; papers relating to the Honourable Artillery Company, 1503-1967.

Papers relating to the history of London, 1565-1994, including "An exposicion of the Kinges prerogative collected out of the great abridgement of Justice Fitz-Herbert and other olde writers of the lawes of England" by Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, 1565, "Londinopolis: An Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, The Imperial Chamber, and chief Emporium of Great Britain: Whereunto is added another of the City of Westminster, with the Courts of Justice, Antiquities, and new Buildings thereunto belonging" by James Havel, 1657, and various other antiquarian and modern books, articles and pamphlets on the history of London; papers relating to health and medicine, 1657-1994, including bills of mortality, papers relating to the outbreak of plague in London, 1665-1666, letters, reports and conference papers relating to the control of cholera; papers regarding provisions, 1607-1990, including warrant authorising the Mayor to receive venison out of the Royal Parks, 1607 and papers of committees investigating the high price of provisions, 1767-1822; papers relating to the government of the City of London and Greater London, 1849-1993; papers relating to the provision and price of gas, 1828-1918; papers relating to the supply of water to the City, 1538-1992; papers relating to the placing, erection and upkeep of statues and monuments in London, 1680-1995; papers relating to weights and measures, 1678-1997, including records of action taken against those using false weights and measures and registers of weighed goods; papers relating to seals and medals, 1285-1995, including examples of medieval seals and register of documents sealed; papers relating to insignia and plate, 1650-1993, including information on the Collar of SS, Diamond Badge or Jewel, Mace, Crystal Mace, Swords, City Purse, Mayoralty Seal, Robes and Sceptre and inventories of City plate; papers relating to the population of the City of London, 1719-1982, including "A compu tation of the increase of London and parts adjacent; with some causes thereof, and remarks thereon", 1719, population returns, 1821-1897 and population studies and articles; papers regarding tolls, 1605-1833, including Acts, bonds, exemptions and leases; papers relating to the postal service, 1741-1938, including examples of early stamps and papers relating to the Penny Post; papers relating to the carrying out of writs, 1460-1965, including writs of habeas corpus, certiorari, subpoenas and jury summons; papers relating to the textile trade, 1674-1995, including orders, rates, inventories, petitions relating to the production of textiles including cloth, lace and wool, bonds of searches and sealers of tanned leather, 1699-1804, and articles on the history of textiles.

Papers relating to probate, 1693-1786, including estate inventories, letters of administration and notes on legal customs; papers relating to the regulation of fireworks and bonfires within the City, 1673-1857; papers relating to archaeological investigations in the City of London, 1972-1989; extracts relating to archery in Finsbury Fields, 1521; reports and articles relating to the armorial bearings of the City, 1216-1973; bullion certificates, 1696-1819; licences issued for the right to use calcium carbide, 1897-1919; papers relating to convex lights, 1692-1694; papers relating to conveyancing, 1770-1948 and various other papers relating to aspects of the administration of the City of London including common soil, conservation, criminal prosecutions, city customs and liberties, the Customs House, erection of hoardings, gifts and presentations, regulation of gunpowder, income tax, the London Building Acts, licensing, lotteries, regulation and licensing of petroleum, precedent books, precepts issued by the Mayor or Common Council, bills for printing and stationery, the Olympic Games, pageantry, proclamations, brewers and public houses, the Shops Act, smoke abatement and clean air, street cleaning, theatres, the unemployed, Viewer's reports, wharves, woods and forests, newspapers and cuttings, fishing, the Festival of the City of London, coffee houses, coinage, the Bank of England and other financial institutions.

Administrative records of the Town Clerk's Department including office accounts, 1733-1898; papers relating to the duties of the Town Clerk, 1817-1837; orders and receipts for payment of fees, gratuities, bills, and for disbursements for counsel for William Wagstaffe, 1676-1687 and Randolph Stacey, 1717-1727; bill books for Court of Aldermen, 1734-1956; general warrant books for payments by Courts and Committees, 1805-1918 and 1937; letter books, 1975-1998 (restricted access); Town Clerk's personal letter books, 1905-1947; general letter files, 1987-1994; letter files regarding departmental reorganisation, 1992 and registers of letters received, 1948-1974.

Papers of individual Town Clerks, including documents regarding an affray between Ralph Crepyn, Town Clerk, and Lawrence Duket, goldsmith, which led to Duket's death, 1284; letters addressed to Miles Man, 1726-1756; letters addressed to James Hodges, 1757-1774; journal recording the business done by the Town Clerk in person, including attendance at Courts, Committees and ceremonials, 1759; transcript of divorce proceedings in the Consistory Court between Town Clerk William Rix and his wife, including information about her activities with her lover in the Town Clerk's house, Guildhall Yard, 1776; letter to Henry Woodthorpe Senior, 1804-1823; papers regarding the debts of Henry Woodthorpe Junior, prisoner in the Fleet, 1826-1842; appreciation and synopsis of career of Alfred Thomas Roach, Town Clerk, 1946 and article John Carpenter - a famous Town Clerk, 1982.

Records relating to the wards of the City of London, 1617-1979. Papers relating to individual wards, including petition of inquest jury and inhabitants of Aldersgate Without regarding the boundaries of the Liberty of St Bartholomew on Cloth Fair, 1766-1789; complaint of inhabitants of Bridge Ward that their ancient rights of free wharfage through the gate in Churchyard Alley were being hindered, 1660s; report regarding the rights and privileges of the ward of Bridge Without [Southwark], 1892; extract from a lease of the Jamaica Coffee House reserving a room for the use of the Ward Inquest and the parish officers, Cornhill Ward, 1884 and correspondence with the Secretary of the Board of Ordnance about the complaint of the inquest of Tower Ward about the entrance from Tower Hill into Thames Street being stopped by a Box and Toll, 1739.

Papers relating to Wardmotes, including returns of elections of Officers for Farringdon Within, 1683; Bishopsgate, 1683; Tower, 1689; Cordwainer, 1689; Vintry, 1690; Langbourn, 1690; Cordwainer, 1707; Cornhill, 1711; Bridge, 1711; Cripplegate, 1711 and Dowgate, 1711; set of Acts relating to the holding of Wardmotes and elections, 1663-1928; various Wardmote Precepts (orders, rules and regulations), 1679-1714? and 1802, 1823, 1957 and 1970-1973; Wardmote Books (printed copies of regulations, Acts and Orders for the holding of Wardmotes), 1853 1979; lists of candidates, 1965-1975; Act of Common Council for regulating elections in Wardmotes and Common Halls, 1712; case notes regarding whether a Deputy can hold a Wardmote and declare himself elected a Common-Councilman, 1723; opinion regarding the right of attendance at Wardmotes, 1905; Articles of Charge of the Wardmote Inquest (orders for actions to take place at the Wardmote, such as the reading of new regulations), [1625-1910]; 'Act of Common Council that the Inquestmen, after taking their oaths, shall choose from among themselves a Foreman, should the voting be equal the Alderman of the Ward shall nominate one as Foreman', 1617; Order of the Court of Common Council against the 'Extravagant Expenses at the Meeting of their Wardmote-Inquests, in Eating and Drinking, and also sending abroad Wine and Ale to the Inhabitants of the several Wards' and allowing that Inquests may be adjourned in order that the Inquestmen may refresh themselves at their own houses, 1694 and reprints 1702-1839; Precepts, rules and regulations regarding the conduct of Inquestmen, 1625-1796 and 1801-1852; returns to a precept to return an account of all dancing and fencing schools, lotteries and other gaming houses, 1673- 1674 and notes on the nature and jurisdiction of the Great Courts of Wardmote, 1857-1907.

Large scale ward plans by Samuel Agnall and Michael Meredith, 1858, of individual wards including Aldersgate Within, Aldersgate Without, Aldgate, Bassishaw, Billingsgate, Bishopsgate Within, Bishopsgate Without, Bread Street, Bridge, Broad Street, Candlewick, Castle Baynard, Cheap, Coleman Street, Cordwainer, Cornhill, Cripplegate Within, Cripplegate Without, Dowgate, Farringdon Within, Farringdon Without, Langbourn, Lime Street, Portsoken, Queenhithe, Tower, Vintry and Walbrook. Also ward map, 1950.

Financial and administrative papers including returns of the numbers of freemen, non-freemen, householders, houses and so on in each ward, 1772 and 1833; report regarding the employment of Ward Beadles, 1928; legal notes, correspondence and agreements relating to the ownership of various Ward Maces, 1923-1974; orders relating to exemptions from holding offices, 1637-1741; ward rate accounts, 1892-1902; ward rate cash books, 1842-1882 and ward rate ledgers, 1842-1876.

Records of Archbishop Tenison's Secondary School for Boys, including deeds of title; leases; minutes; financial accounts; reports; vouchers mainly for repairs and taxes; correspondence; property management; records of boys admitted, school work and functions; the will of Archbishop Tenison and notes on his life; and records relating to the parish of Saint Martin in the Fields.