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Solicitors' correspondence relating to Hampton Wick Roman Catholic Church, dealing with a mortgage on the property and with Land Value Duties, 1909-1912, including three letters from the Right Reverend Monsignor Maurice E. Carton de Wiart, Treasurer to the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster.

Leaf from a cancelled instrument recording the contract established before two notaries of the court of the Prévôté of Paris, by which Jean Baptiste Godin, of Rue St Denis, undertook to pay annually to Nicolas Avisse, of the Faubourg St Germain, the sum of 250 livres, being the interest on a loan of 5,000 livres. An inscription records the cancelling of the contract: 'Constitution du 8 Mai 1754 de 5,000 livres de Capital. Remboursé'.

Records of the Slate and Loan Club of Christ Church, North Brixton, including annual balance sheets; rules of the Club; correspondence concerning the dissolution of the Club; and notes by the Secretary and President of the Club on its history.

Archives of the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders, consisting mainly of a series of correspondence files. Each series has a number and each item within the file has a running number. Within the files, cross references have sometimes been made to particular items in a different series, which can be identified by the unique number. The numbering system reveals that many of the earlier files from the series have been lost. The whereabouts of these earlier files are not known.

The main series of correspondence for each subject is referred to as "official correspondence". Often this main correspondence series was later divided into separate files, such as files for correspondence with bondholders or relating to statistics. The correspondence files can also contain copies of agreements, press releases and other related items.

Manuscript volume containing a tract relating to usury by a Mr Sanderson, and a reply by Mr [John] Cotton, 1626. Reginald Rye, Goldsmith's Librarian of the University of London, stated that the former may have been written by Sir William Sanderson.

3 letters from Henry George Grey (3rd Earl Grey) of Howick, [Northumberland] to J L Ricardo MP, 16 Jun-4 Jul 1855. Dealing mainly with a free trade agreement between Barbados and Canada, and a proposed loan to Turkey.

Autograph, with signature. With 1 envelope.

Papers of the Eastern Bank Limited relating to the Mundhra Loan, including correspondence; Board memoranda, news cuttings and correspondence relating to the Mundhra Group; memoranda, progress reports, statistics and legal papers regarding Brahmapootra Tea Company (India) Limited and the Osler Electric Lamp Manufacturing Company Limited; and correspondence with Chartered Bank regarding the Mundhra Group.

Access to the archives is subject to a 45 year rule, with a 70 year rule for records containing personally sensitive information. In addition, all records are held off-site, and require at least 24 hours notice for access.

Abbey National Building Society, records from 192- - 1985 including:

General meeting minutes, 1944-1982; board meeting minutes, 1944-1978; finance committee minutes containing customer account details and cases, 1944-1962; mortgage accounts committee minutes, 1953-1954; instruments of union, rules and memorandum 1943-1985; annual returns, 1944-1974; mortgage account register, 1946-1948; deposit account register, 1939-1949; no main series of staff records: employee rules and magazines, 1944-1977 and records for individual named staff only (1928-1976); press adverts, leaflets and photographs 1944-1970, with history display 192- -194-; premises plans, 1965-1975.

National Permanent Mutual Building Society (see LMA/4575/G - K), records from 1852-1943, with some letters to 1945 including:

Members' annual general meeting minutes, 1862-1943; finance committee meeting minutes containing customer account details and cases, 1933-1941; property committee minutes, 1852-1854; merger meeting minutes, 1942-1943 with some letters to 1945; balance sheets, 1931-1943; general ledger, 1914-1929; deposit accounts decisions book, 1937-1940; no main series of staff records, except staff newsletters, 1935-1943; 'Freeholders' Circular', 1852-1943 including plans and details of estates for purchase by members, and proceedings of annual general meetings. No records of subsidiary British Land Company are held although references appear in minutes and circulars prior to 1878.

Abbey Road Building Society (see LMA/4575/L - R), records from 1875-1944 (includes personal share account record booklets to 1979):

General meeting minutes, 1929-1940; board meeting minutes, 1883-1943; advertising/finance committee meeting minutes containing customer account details and cases, 1921-1939; premises committee meeting minutes, 1938-1941; publicity committee meeting minutes, 1938-1943; mortgage accounts committee minutes, 1937-1940; survey and arrears committee meeting minutes, 1920-1927; correspondence relating to Josiah Stamp (President), 1924-1942; correspondence, minutes and other papers related to merger, 1942-1944; balance sheets, 1905-1943; annual reports and accounts, 1875-1942; no main series of staff records except salary books for two branches, staff rules and newsletters, 1930-1943; 'Abbey Road Journal', 1932-1939.

Documents relating to the merger of Abbey Road and National Building Societies and impact of wartime can be found in both the National (LMA/4575/G/05) and the Abbey Road (LMA/4575/L/10) sections of the catalogue.

Building Society Association, records from 1904-1986: London section co-operation group meeting minutes, 1930-1933; correspondence, 1931-1941, subscription papers and printed material 1904-1986.

ACCESS: note there is a 100 year closure concerning records containing information on staff and customers. London Metropolitan Archives has interpreted this as a closure of 85 years from the end date of each document, given the likely minimum age of 16 years for most staff and customers.

A history, c1826, and copies of three Royal Licences permitting it to enlarge its stock. Both the history and the licenses are in the same hand.

Records of the Building Society Indemnities Committee, comprising minutes.

Authenticated copy by Gobinet de la Court, tabellion (scrivener) royal of Laon, France, 31 Dec 1457, of letters of King Charles VII of France under the great seal dated at Tours on 31 Jul 1436, letters of the Generaux des Finances dated at Tours on 2 Aug 1436, and letters of the Gens de la Chambre des Comptes dated at Limoges on 16 Aug 1436, by which the Abbey of St Vincent was to pay to Poton, Lord of Xaintrailles and captain of royal troops in Laon, the sum of 3,000 livres for the prosecution of the war in return for an annual pension of 300 livres assigned on royal revenues in the Vernandois until the sum was repaid. An endorsement sets forth that the Dean and Canons of the Church of Our Lady at Laon have acquitted the King and all others concerned of the rent mentioned in the copied letters, and have delivered the originals to the King's Receiver.

Manuscript volume containing transcripts of two tracts [by Sir Thomas Culpeper], [1673], mainly concerning banking and usury, entitled 'A familiar conference between three friends, Civis, Rusticus and Veridicus, concerning the late practice of the bankers and our present rate of interest for money', and 'The familiar conference continued between three friends concerning the present deadnesse of our markets'. These works were attributed to Culpeper by Halkett and Laing.