Papers, 1779-1921, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Finchley, Hendon, Hanworth, Holborn, Islington, Kensington, Saint Pancras and the following Westminster parishes: Saint Clement Danes. Saint George Hanover Square, Saint James, Saint Margaret and Saint Martin in the Fields; including plans, conveyances, mortgages, lease and releases, bonds, covenants to produce deeds and assignments.

Records of the Manor of Edgware Boys, including schedule of houses in the manor; papers relating to quit rents and fines; list of tenants; papers relating to the appointment of a steward; copies of court rolls; and papers relating to property in Edgware.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising a counterpart lease for a messuage in James Street, Covent Garden, 1779 and probate of will of Frances Caswall formerly of Abingdon Street, Westminster, now of Alvescot, spinster, made 20 April 1818, proved 1821.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising a mortgage for two pieces of land at Ponders End, Enfield, on north side of South Street, 19 Nov 1880.

Papers, 1800-1896, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Old Park Estate, Enfield; Strawberry House, Chiswick and Stanwell, including probate of will, conveyances, mortagages, copies of court rolls and leases. Also papers of Lear Drew including licences to assign leases, agreements and leases.

This collection consists of deeds and other property records of the Heming and Vaughan families of Hillingdon. The documents include marriage settlement, title deeds, tax assessment, papers relating to enclosure and copies of Acts of Parliaments. Properties mentioned include plantations in Jamaica and premises in Uxbridge, Hillingdon and Hendon.

Papers, 1827-1919, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Saint John's Wood, Saint Marylebone and Hampstead including leases, assignments of leases, mortgages and an abstract of title.

Papers, 1810-1907, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Islington, Saint Pancras, Bethnal Green and Fleet Street, including leases, agreements, mortgages and assignments of leases. Also official parochial register of statistics of Church organisation and finance for New Brentford, with statistical return form, 1902-1907.

Papers, 1907-1923, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Deans Road, Seward Road, Cuckoo Lane and Park Road (at one time Cowper Road), Hanwell and St Kilda Road, Ealing; including conveyances and mortgages.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease and plan for land and messuages, being first house west from Chalk Farm Tavern on north side of the Regent's Park Road [87 Regent's Park Road], 1866; and assignment of remainder of lease for 87 Regent's Park Road to another party, 1903.

Records of the Fox-Strangways family (Earls of Ilchester) relating to their estates, including Holland Park Estate. Also contains records inherited by the family in 1874 from the Fox family (Baron Holland) and the Edwardes family (Baron Kensington), who previously owned Holland Park Estate.

The estate records of Holland Park Estate include leases, deeds, mortgages, rental account books and agreements.

Records of Jonathan Crane comprising declaration of trust, 1849, and will, 1860. The will bequeathed property in Bethnal Green. Also in the collection are papers relating to properties including houses on Idmiston Road, West Norwood; Sussex House on Clifford Road, South Norwood; and premises in Edmonton.

Records of Lee and Pembertons, solicitors, 1882-1953, including bills of costs; a series of bundles consisting of draft bills of costs each followed by the relevant copy out-letters; general copy out-letter books kept in chronological order and indexed by correspondent; files of correspondence relating to the maintenance of the Eyre Estate, arranged alphabetically by street name; Counsels' fee books; share ledger and general office files.

Papers, 1964, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising sales particulars of houses, maisonettes and blocks of flats, in Harrow, Harlesden, Chiswick, Hayes, Wembley, Neasden, Alperton and various places outside London.

Papers, 1852-1949, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties at 35-41 King David Lane, Shadwell and at James Smith's Estate at Peckham; including leases, mortgages, probates of wills, assignments, declarations, certificates, plans, abstracts of title, conveyances, deeds of covenant and death certificates.

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.

Records of Courage, Barclay and Simonds Limited, brewers, including Group Sales Committee papers; correspondence and papers regarding complimentary drinks; sales ledger transfer journals; registers of trademarks for UK and overseas products.

Records relating to property, especially deeds for 31 Leinster Gardens, Paddington (formerly No. 20). Also some papers relating to houses at White Hart Lane, Tottenham and 4-8 Booth Street, Spitalfields, owned by the Morrell family.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease and counterpart lease for a house and garden intended to be called 39 Alfred Road, Acton, 1 May 1880 and mortgage for the same property, 3 May 1880.

Records of the Foundling Hospital. The collection consists of over 800 linear feet of shelving, an estimated 8 tons of paper, and over 1000 plans. The completeness of the collection is particularly noteworthy. The officers of the Hospital from the very beginning were extremely meticulous in record keeping and detailed documents survive which record the lives of the children, the way in which the Hospital operated, the methods of nursing, the prescriptions of the apothecary, the reports of the inspectors, the extraordinary accounts of women's lives, and the involvement of leading figures of the day in actively supporting the charity.

A/FH/A/01 Charter, petitions and foundation;
A/FH/A/02 Governors;
A/FH/A/03 Minutes;
A/FH/A/04 Reports;
A/FH/A/05 Agenda books and committee papers;
A/FH/A/06 Secretary: General;
A/FH/A/07 Secretary: Staff;
A/FH/A/08 Secretary: Petitioners;
A/FH/A/09 Secretary: Children, admission and discharge;
A/FH/A/10 Secretary: Children, in the country;
A/FH/A/11 Secretary: Children, being claimed;
A/FH/A/12 Secretary: Children, apprenticeship;
A/FH/A/13 Secretary: Children, other employment;
A/FH/A/14 Secretary: Chapel;
A/FH/A/15 Secretary: Country Hospitals' returns;
A/FH/A/16 Secretary: Estate;
A/FH/A/17 Steward;
A/FH/A/18 Apothecary/Medical department;
A/FH/A/19 Dentist;
A/FH/A/20 Oculist;
A/FH/A/21 Surveyor;
A/FH/A/22 Solicitor;
A/FH/A/23 Schoolmaster;
A/FH/A/24 Porter/Lodge keeper;
A/FH/A/25 Night watchman;
A/FH/A/26 Carpenter;
A/FH/A/27 Engineer;
A/FH/A/28 Tailor;
A/FH/A/29 Matron;
A/FH/A/30 Scullery maids;
A/FH/A/31 Headmistress;
A/FH/A/32 Infants' Headmistress;
A/FH/A/33 Foster parents.

A/FH/B/01 Treasurer;
A/FH/B/02 Treasurer's clerk;
A/FH/B/03 Secretary: General;
A/FH/B/04 Secretary: Governors;
A/FH/B/05 Secretary: Committees;
A/FH/B/06 Secretary: Estate;
A/FH/B/07 Secretary's clerk/assistant;
A/FH/B/08 Steward;
A/FH/B/09 Apothecary;
A/FH/B/10 Surveyor;
A/FH/B/11 Schoolmaster and storekeeper;
A/FH/B/12 Messenger;
A/FH/B/13 Gardener;
A/FH/B/14 Matron;
A/FH/B/15 Domestic Economy School supervisor;
A/FH/B/16 Hostel supervisor.

A/FH/C/01 Benevolent fund;
A/FH/C/02 Whatley fund;
A/FH/C/03 Foundling Hospital Savings Bank;
A/FH/C/04 Superannuation fund.

A/FH/D/01 Ackworth, West Yorkshire;
A/FH/D/02 Shrewsbury, Salop;
A/FH/D/03 Westerham, Kent;
A/FH/D/04 Chester, Cheshire.

A/FH/E/01 Commissioners for paving the estate of the Foundling Hospital;
A/FH/E/02 Brunswick Square Committee;
A/FH/E/03 Caroline and Landsdowne Place Committee;
A/FH/E/04 Mecklerburgh Square Committee;
A/FH/E/05 For paving estates of Thomas Harrison.

A/FH/F/01 Treasurer, Revd. Dr S White;
A/FH/F/02 Treasurer, SC Cox;
A/FH/F/03 Treasurers, GB Gregory and JRB Gregory;
A/FH/F/04 Governor, C Plumley;
A/FH/F/05 Secretary, J Brownlow;
A/FH/F/06 Secretary, WS Wintle;
A/FH/F/07 Preacher, Revd. J Hewlett;
A/FH/F/08 Captain L Grove;
A/FH/F/09 American Loyalist Claims Commission;
A/FH/F/10 CF Eley, musician;
A/FH/F/11 Steward, WC Wills;
A/FH/F/12 H Cooke;
A/FH/F/13 Unidentified;
A/FH/F/14 Secretary, M Lievesley;
A/FH/F/15 Miss Bunbury.

A/FH/G/01 Redevelopment of the Foundling Site;
A/FH/G/02 The Foundling Hospital School, Berkhamsted;
A/FH/G/03 Nurseries and the Child Welfare Centre;
A/FH/G/04 Cross Road Club;
A/FH/G/05 Subject and policy files.

A/FH/H/01 Chancery Case: Attorney General v Foundling Hospital;
A/FH/H/02 Out of custody documents: purchased strays.

A/FH/K/01 General Court fair minutes;
A/FH/K/02 General Committee fair minutes.

A/FH/M/01 Documents and books collected by J Brownlow;
A/FH/M/02 Miscellaneous manuscripts;
A/FH/M/03 Printed material: books, pamphlets and ephemera;
A/FH/M/04 Public events: royal visits, ceremonies, concerts and memorials.

A/FH/Q/01 Records stored at Ackworth.

A/FH/T/01 Thomas Coram Foundation for Children;
A/FH/T/02 Old Coram Association.

A/FH/Y/01 Artefacts.

Records of the London Diocesan Council for Welcare, 1889-1968, including Council minutes; Executive Committee minutes; Finance Committee minutes; Ladies' Committee minutes; Men's Committee minutes; annual reports of the Church of England Moral Welfare Council; press cuttings; scrapbook and history "The Wel-care Story: 75 years of Christian Social Service in London".

Records of local branches of the London Diocesan Council for Welcare, including Ruri-decanal associations, Moral Welfare Councils, Associations for Moral Welfare, hostels, refuges and homes, and Preventative and Rescue Associations. Papers include financial accounts, annual reports and committee minutes. Also indoor case histories for Saint Agnes' Home, Hammersmith.

Records of the Law, Parliamentary and City Courts Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes and committee papers, 1856-1956, standing orders, 1856, administrative papers and correspondence, 1846-1930.

Records of the Officers and Clerks Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1839-1963; committee papers, 1823-1947; files, 1948-1957; report books, 1913-1931 and notes on the origins of the Committee, 1962. Please note that minutes, papers and files are closed from 1933 onwards.

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

Records relating to the Town Planning Department, Corporation of London, 1935-1997, including background studies prepared for the City of London Development Plan, on economic activity, population, housing, shopping, tourism, environmental quality, public utilities and services, St Paul's Heights, archaeology, catering facilities, recreation and leisure, social and community services, transport, walkways and pedestrians, 1976-1979; papers relating to the City of London Draft Local Plan, 1984, including written statements, proposals, maps and comments; papers relating to the City of London Local Plan, 1986-1989, including copies of the plan (including revised and updated versions), maps, statements of public consultation, lists of modifications, monitoring reports, enquiry into objections with statement and response to the recommendations of the enquiry; papers relating to the City of London Unitary Development Plan, 1991-1994, including draft of the plan, analysis of representations regarding the plan with the Corporation's response, statement of public consultation, report of enquiry into objections to the plan, statement of decisions on the enquiry's recommendations, lists of proposed modifications and final version of the plan, and City of London Monitoring Report 1986-1993: An Analysis of the policies and context of the City of London Local Plans, 1995.

Newspaper cuttings, 1935-1948, including articles on enquiries into London County Council and City of London Town Planning Schemes and the reconstruction of the city after the Second World War; papers relating to the County of London Scheme produced under the 1932 Town and Country Planning Act, 1935-1936, London Replanned: The Royal Academy Planning Committee's Interim Report, 1942; Road, rail and river in London: The Royal Academy Planning Committee's Second Report, 1944; observations on a report of the Improvements and Town Planning Committee with regard to post-war development in the City submitted by various organisations and circulated to the Committee, 1944; Administrative County of London Development Plan: First Review, London County Council, 1960; Greater London Development Plan, 1976, with supporting documents, drafts and reports, 1966-1973; papers relating to the Smithfield Local Development Plan, 1979-1989, including maps and surveys; Abercrombie's Plan for London 50 years on: A vision for the Future, the 2nd Annual Vision for London Lecture by Professor Peter Hall, 1994.

Schedules of development, containing details of developments in the City, such as changes of use, refurbishments and new buildings, 1984-1996.

Registers, including register of purchase notices, 1947-1957; register of acquisitions, 1949 - 1975; register of applications of owners for registration of name and address for service of subsequent notices relating to the Town and Country Planning Act, 1932, scheme, with particulars of property owned in the City of London shown on the Resolution map, 1930s; register of owners, arranged alphabetically by streets and premises, 1930s.

Papers relating to the environmental impact of London, including articles, reports, conference papers, surveys, statistical data and statements, 1970-1997.

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 Bacon's Free School, Bermondsey, including copy of Josiah Bacon's will; copies of Chancery orders relating to the school; copy of articles of agreement for building the school; leases, releases and assignments of annuity relating to school property; minutes of Governor's and Trustee's meetings; financial records; reports; and school log-books.

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.

Records of the Comptroller, Corporation of London, including letter books, 1778-1826; letter books regarding renewable leases, 1926-1930; list of renewable leases, 1889-1926; general reports, 1865-1945; reports to the City Lands Committee, 1899-1945; reports to the Bridge House Committee, 1899-1945; reports to the Markets Committee, 1899-1927 and 1931-1945; reports to the Public Health Committee, 1898-1945; order books, 1797-1803, 1807-1843; orders for leases, 1880-1839; general docquet books, 1800-1830 and 1950-1959; City Lands docquet books, 1830-1950; Bridge House docquet books, 1839-1916 and 1927-1950; Public Health department docquet book, 1902-1950; inventories of books, deeds and records held by the Comptroller, 1703, 1717, 1721, 1842, 1852 and 1854; papers relating to Bridge House, 1603-1850, including rentals, orders, repairs, lists of tenants, notices, estimates, contracts, valuations, compensation cases, bills and plans, especially relating to London Bridge; opinions of counsel, 1688-1850; cases and opinions of counsel regarding City rights and privileges, 1758-1822; case book, 1765-1784; bills and fees, 1649-1817; deeds from Spitalfields Market, 1636-1902, passed to the Corporation of London either in 1902 when it bought the freehold of the market or in 1920 when it bought the leasehold and franchise.

Docquet books contained information about leases and other documents which were to be sealed with the City Seal.

Custumals including the Liber de Antiquis Legibus, an historical, political and domestic chronicle covering 1188-1274, compiled in 1274; the Liber Horn, made in 1311 under the direction of Andrew Horn, City Chamberlain, containing transcripts of charters, statutes, grants, customs, charters of companies and towns, precedents, oaths, writs and the "Laws of Oleron" [code of maritime regulation, written 1150]; the Liber de Assisa Panis containing the customs, regulations and punishments connected with the Assize of Bread, 1293-1438; the Liber Ordinationum, a volume of ordinances, customs, legal treatises and statutes from Magna Carta (1215) to 1330; the Liber Custumarum, a volume of City customs, laws, charters, proceedings and municipal regulations, 1324?; the Carte Antique, illuminated transcripts of charters and statutes, 1327-1498; the Statuta Antiqua Angliae, a copy of the Carte Antique covering the period 1327-1430; the Decretales Gregorii Papae, compilation of decretals [papal decrees] promulgated in 1235, with glosses upon the text; the Liber Dunthorn, containing transcripts of charters and extracts from Letter Books and other City records, compiled under the direction of William Dunthorn, Town Clerk, 1474?; the Liber Fleetwood, presented to the City by William Fleetwood, Recorder, 1576, containing information on the Courts of Law and the Mayor, Aldermen and other officers in the year 1576, as well as the liberties, franchises and customs of the City, the liberties, customs and charters of the Cinque Ports [Hastings, New Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich], the Queen's prerogative in the salt shores and the liberties of Saint Martin le Grand; the Liber Albus, compiled under the direction of John Carpenter, Town Clerk, 1419, containing information regarding customs, laws, social conditions, trade and the general conduct of a municipality; the Liber Legum [or Liber Legum Civitatis], extracts from the City Letter Books, 1342-1590; the Liber Lynne, transcripts of deeds of the possessions of the families of Lawneye and Wyth in Lynne, London and Southwark, 1281-1452; proceedings in the Star Chamber with extracts from charters, statutes, inquisitions and other authorities as to the preservation of the navigation of the River Lea, particularly in relation to Waltham Bridge, 1524 and a book containing proceedings against the Hanse merchants of the Steelyard [Hanse merchants traded with foreign ports] resulting in loss of their privileges, 1551-1556, with papers added in relation to the exemption of the Steelyard from assessments and taxes, 1653-1699.

Records of the Parliamentary Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1837-1856; chairmen's books, 1844-1856; committee papers, 1837-1856 and Acts of Parliament relating to Land Tax, 1827-1844.

Papers relating to the Warren House estate in Great Stanmore, including deeds, covenants, leases, assignments, conveyances, extracts from wills, grants and agreements.

Title deeds for Vartry Lodge (also known as Albion Lodge), Tottenham, including leases, releases, conveyances, and mortgages.

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.

Papers relating to property owned by the Ashburnham family, including assignments of lease for premises in the precinct of the dissolved monastery of Westminster [later Ashburnham House, Dean's Yard]; agreements, leases, inventories, valuations and insurance documents for Ashburnham House, Dover Street, Piccadilly; and papers relating to property in Chiswick and Chelsea.

Map of the parish of Harrow as enclosed by Act of Parliament, 1818.

Papers of Grundey Hooper, solicitors, including copy of Act for improving navigation of River Lee from Town of Hertford to River Thames; and for extending said navigation to floodgates belonging to Town Mill in Town of Hertford, 1767; legal papers relating to a case, the proprietors of Water of River Lee against Thomas Gates for unlawful fishing at Hackney, 1780; legal documents relating to The King against John Marks (indicted in the name of James) on the prosecution of William Sharpe, for assault, 1781; legal documents relating to The King against Joseph White and William Sharp, both of Hendon, for assault against Henry Copland, 1778-1781; legal papers relating to The King against Robert Davis alias Gaby and Thomas Diter, on the prosecution of John Etheridge for a robbery near the Swan, Hendon, 1781; statements of costs for various cases, 1781-1784; legal papers relating to James Ebenezer Mosely versus George Denton, Chief Beadle of Whitecross Street Liberty and John Evans, Headboro' of Whitecross Street Liberty in Manor of Finsbury, for assault and false imprisonment, 1780-1781; legal papers relating to an Appeal for release from "pressed" service in Navy by James Gray of Highgate, apprentice to Benjamin Pawley, of Jewin Street, baker, who made a voyage on board a Privateer with his master's consent and was impressed from the privateer into the Navy, 1779-1780; legal papers relating to case brought by John Ketcher Watchman of Liberty of Moorfields in Shoreditch, who discovered Joseph Lee and John Cox stealing lead from empty house in Crown Alley, in consequence of which they were committed to Newgate, 1785; legal papers relating to petition of John Seager of Swinton Street, Saint Pancras, builder and others regarding the notice of intention by the Trustees of Turnpike Road leading to Highgate Gatehouse and Hampstead and their lessee, John Evans, to apply for Writ of Certiorari to remove into Kings Bench an order made by Justices of Peace for Middlesex at Quarter Sessions on 22 October 1778 to remove the Turnpike at the end of Grays Inn Lane, 1778; legal papers relating to case of Charles Greentree, indebted to William Montagu in sum of £67 on promissory note payable to Thomas Worraker, 1777; draft agreements; will of Susanna Mole of Isleworth, 1893 and declaration by Middlesex Magistrates, setting out chief items of expenditure, in answer to a petition, 1811.

Records of the Manor of Sunbury and other property of John Cornelius Park in Sunbury, Teddington and Walton, and records of the Pride family in Hendon, Golders Green and Streatham. The records include court rolls, court books, surveys, book of customs, plans, papers relating to stewards, deeds and other property ownership documents, legal papers and financial records.

Papers, 1813-1881, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including extracts from court rolls, mortgages and conveyances relating to properties in South Mimms, Limehouse, Somers Town, and Tottenham.

Papers, 1718-1834, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including lease and plan for Brent Farm, Ealing; will of Jonas Jeffreys of Edmonton, servant to Sir Bigbye Lake; admissions relating to various pieces of land; mortgage for land in Edmonton.

Papers, 1473-1912, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to the manor of Kingsbury, 1473, and the manor of Coferers, 1550-1555; legal documents, notes and legal case papers relating to properties bequeathed to James Pateshel Jones, 1624-1891; and legal documents relating to various properties and families, including wills, marriage settlements, leases, deeds and mortages for premises in several locations, mainly Acton, Edmonton, Enfield, Finchley and South Mimms.

Papers, 1610-1887, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to property in Westminster, Uxendon, Preston, Kenton and Wembley, including Preston Farm and Uxendon Manor House.

Papers, 1774-1844, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising leases and releases for property in Enfield.

The collection is of family papers belonging to Isabella, Lady Cooper, her children and grandchildren. The papers include documents detailing Lady Cooper's inheritance and assignments of its stock to her husband and children.There is a collection of title deeds for Isleworth Estate, together with leases of various parts of it, tradesmen's vouchers, accounts and particulars of its eventual sale (1855-78). There are also some 17th century title deeds to property in Hidden, Hungerford, as well as later deeds, accounts, rentals and leases.

Among the personal papers are a group concerning the settlement made on the marriage of William Honywood, Lady Cooper's grandson, with Barbara Whyte, and a group of financial papers chiefly on the subject of loans and securities, the same is true of the papers belonging to William's sisters Elizabeth and Caroline. There are also papers dealing with a mortgage he held from Sir John Shelley on property in Maresfield and Fletching in Sussex and as an executor of his grandmother's will he was forced into lengthy proceedings against the Ware family of Cheltenham for a long outstanding mortgage debt owed to Lady Cooper.

The last group of family papers relates to Elizabeth, Lady Cooper's younger surviving daughter, who married, secondly, the Reverend Edward Henry Dawkins. It includes their marriage settlement, and a number of his financial papers. The most interesting part of the whole collection relates to the sugar plantation of Dukinfield Hall, Jamaica (1719-1877). There are title deeds for a particularly tortuous descent, yearly accounts of crops, letters from the Jamaica agents and inventories of stock, which include slaves and give their names, ages, country of origin, occupation and state of health. There is also the will of Robert Dukinfield (1755), the original owner of the plantation, which makes provision for his negre mistress and their children out of his other property. The family name has a variety of spellings, Dukinfield being the one most frequently applied to the estate, although the main branch of the family comes from Duckenfield, Chester.

There are also a few papers concerned with three plantations on the Island of Grenada, which Lady Cooper also inherited (1773-1867).

Records of the Canons Park Estate Company Limited, 1640-1929, including printed copy of the abstract of title of the Canons Park Estate Co to "all that capital messuage or mansion house called "Canons" with the park gardens, pleasure grounds, lodges, stables and outhouses, buildings, lands and hereditaments thereto belonging situate in the parishes of Little Stanmore and Great Stanmore", 1860-1898; lease of Canons Manor by Sir Robert Stone, 1640; various assignments of term and conveyances; letter from James Drake of Canons Park to the Parish Overseers suggesting that 100 poor children of the parish of Little Stanmore should be employed in the lace making industry, 1813; report on local charities by Committee appointed by Great Stanmore Parish Council to Sir John Fitzgerald, Chairman of Great Stanmore Parish Council, 1929; legal documents and accounts relating to land in Wirksworth, Stafford, Derbyshire and Lincoln.

Records of the Connop family of Enfield, chiefly title deeds to property that members of the family acquired. This was situated for the most part in Enfield and its neighbouring parishes in Hertfordshire and Essex, Hatfield, Waltham, Cheshunt and Chingford, and was consolidated by the first Newell Connop and his sons.

Much of the material is in original bundles, each consisting of the deeds for one property; many of these bundles conclude with a conveyance to Newell, and those that do not, pass by inheritance or marriage into the family. For that property which is not conveyed either to the Connops or any of their relations, one can only assume that later deeds have not been kept with the earlier ones.

In another way also, the collection is incomplete; in his History and Antiquities of Enfield Robinson states that at the time he was writing (1823) Newell Connop held the Manors of Durrants and Suffolks. There is nothing in the collection at all relating to Suffolks, and although there is a schedule of the deeds for Durrants, drawn up in 1832 (ACC/0801/1126), there are no actual deeds. Nor are there any for Grapes Farm, stated by Robinson to be the main manor farm.

Deeds do exist however for the small manor of Elsings or Norris' farm, which Newell bought in 1804 (ACC/0801/0283-0305). There is also a survey of all Newell Connop's land in Enfield taken in 1804, which unfortunately does not now include a map, and a book of maps each beautifully drawn and coloured of his Essex estates 1803-1814 (ACC/0801/1045-1046). One of the most interesting items among the Enfield deeds is a sales particular for the Forty Hall and Manor of Worcester estate of Eliab Breton in 1787 which includes as Lot 22 the old royal palace of Elizabeth, noting that it stands in a good position for building and the palace when demolished would provide much building material. (ACC/0801/0043).

The collection also includes property transactions, sale particulars and related papers, family papers and wills.

Records of the Bateman family relating to their property in Ealing, Elbow Lane (later Little College Street) in the City of London, Tottenham; and out of London in Chesham, Buckinghamshire; and Kimberworth, Yorkshire (this latter including coal mines).

Papers, 1920, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work comprising copied extract from a conveyance for premises adjoining the Goat Inn, Forty Hill, Enfield, with a plan.

Copy of court roll for the manor of Hendon relating to the admission of John Haley, an infant, to premises and lands at Woolmeads, 1760.

Reconveyance of part of mortgaged property at Albert Road, Edmonton, 1905.