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    GB 0074 ACC/1745 · Collection · 1930-1942

    Papers, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising assignment of lease for 3 rooms forming back portion of ground floor of 133 Fenchurch Street, 1930; agreement for sale and purchase of land and buildings in Park View Road and Southwood Road, Eltham, 1938; agreement regarding 12 greenhouses and other material on land in Park View Road and Southwood Road, New Eltham, 1941; abstract of title for land and buildings in Park View Road and Southwood Road, Eltham, 1942.

    Warner, Goodman and Streat , solicitors
    WARWICK, Stephen (d 1869)
    GB 0074 O/009 · Collection · 1717-1870

    Papers relating the the estate of Stephen Warwick, including deeds for property in Bow, Poplar and Stepney; wiils; correspondence; bills; and judicial records for Chancery case Thomas and Sarah Eames v. Louisa Warwick.

    Various.
    GB 0074 ACC/0729 · Collection · 1899

    Papers, 1899, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to the lease of a shop and basement at 4, Spring Bridge Road, Ealing.

    Waterhouse and Company , solicitors
    GB 0074 ACC/0735 · Collection · 1766-1865

    Records of Watney Combe Reid and Company Limited, comprising deeds and documents relating to Victoria Tavern, Willesden Lane, Kilburn, Willesden, 1865; deeds and documents relating to The George Public House, near the Pig Market, Finchley, 1828, 1850; deeds relating to 'The Three Bowls' Public House, Acton, 1796-1810 and deeds and documents relating to The Cock Public House, Kilburn, Willesden, 1766-1800.

    Watney Combe Reid and Co Ltd , brewers
    GB 0074 ACC/1290 · Collection · 1712-1968

    Records of Watney Mann Ltd, 1712-1968, comprising deeds and other legal documents relating to public houses owned by the company, including The Railway Hotel and "The Stag", Acton; "The Angel Hotel", Edmonton; The Park Hotel, Hanwell; "The Waggon and Horses", Tottenham, the Wheatsheaf Brewery, Twickenham and "The Case is Altered", "The Spotted Dog", the Stonebridge Park Hotel and "The Victoria", Willesden.

    Watney Mann Ltd , brewers
    WATSON, Charles (fl 1815)
    GB 0074 ACC/0455 · Collection · 1815-1889

    Records relating to property ownership, including lease of the Goldsmith's estates in East Acton and leases of premises in Chiswick, Enfield, Heston, Highgate, Sunbury, and Kilburn. Also marriage settlements and lease and release of plantations in Antigua and St Christopher's [St Kitts] with lists of slaves.

    Various.
    WAY FAMILY
    GB 0074 E/WAY · Collection · 1692-1855

    Papers of the Way family relating to their London property in Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, Peckham, Camberwell, and Deptford.

    Way , family , of Denham, Buckinghamshire
    WEGG FAMILY
    GB 0074 ACC/0617 · Collection · 1604-1888

    Records of the Wegg family of Acton and the Round family of Essex and Acton, relating to estates in Acton. The documents are arranged in 14 bundles with the following contents:

    1. Marriage Settlement: Samuel Wegg and Elizabeth Lehook. 1745-1767.
      1. Descent of land in Acton, by exchange with the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's to Samuel Wegg. 1719-1759.
      2. Descent of land in manor of Acton, via Somerset, Lethieullier and Fetherstonhaugh to Samuel Wegg. 1712-1802.
      3. Descent of Fordhook Estate, Ealing via Crowcher, etc., to George Samuel Wegg. 1718-1813.
      4. Descent of house and land in Acton via Sir Joseph Ayloffe Houlding, etc. to Samuel Wegg. 1661-1750. Partition of inheritance of Elizabeth Wegg and Sarah Prosser, sisters and coheirs of George Samuel Wegg. 1817.
      5. Descent of land in the manor of Acton via George Samuel Wegg to Elizabeth Wegg. 1759-1817.
      6. Descent of property in Acton via Lutyens, etc. to Elizabeth Wegg. 1661-1830.
      7. Descent of Bank House, Acton and Pew in Acton parish church (and Fordhook, Ealing) to Elizabeth Wegg. 1633-1837.
      8. Land in manor of Ealing: Elizabeth Wegg. 1830.
      9. Miscellaneous Documents: receipts, accounts, letters, etc., Elizabeth Wegg. 1604-1864.
      10. Descent of land to Charles G. Round from Elizabeth Wegg and further documents relating to Charles G. Round. 1842-1856.
      11. Plans.
      12. Documents re Land Tax on Acton and Ealing property. 1799 & 1840.
      13. Acton Charities. 1855.
    Wegg , family , of Acton Round , family , of Essex and Acton
    GB 0096 MS 459 · 1758-1824

    Volume containing the printed reports of the Committee appointed to enquire into the original standards of weights and measures (in 1758 and 1759), Statutes on the same subject, and a report and inquisition on the same, with reference to the county of Renfrew (1827). These printed items are annotated in various hands, including that of John Joshua Probyn, 1st Earl of Carysfort.
    The volume also contains two manuscript items, numbered 10 and 14, namely 'Remarks upon some of the practical provisions contained in the Weights and Measures Bill', as amended on recommitment (1 July 1822) and printed, written by A Campbell in 1823; and 'Powers in the Uniformity Weights and Measures Act (5 Geo.4, c.74) and statutes therein referred to for preventing other than legal weights and measures', in the hand of Lord Carysfort, written in 1824.

    Unknown
    WELD FAMILY
    GB 0074 ACC/0593 · Collection · 1574-1645

    Records of the Weld family relating to property in Friern Barnet, Edmonton, Arnos Grove, Southgate and Tottenham.

    Weld , family , of Arnos Grove
    LCC/WE/RP · Collection · 1930-1939
    Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

    Records of the London County Council Welfare Department relating to the rights and powers of parents, 1930-1939, including committee orders and case files. Please note some files may be closed for Data Protection purposes.

    LCC , London County Council x London County Council
    GB 0096 AL460 · Fonds · 1843

    Letter from Richard Griffiths Welford of 6 Chancery Lane, [London] to [William Pleydell-Bouverie,] Earl of Radnor, 20 Mar 1843. Explaining that he has 'ventured to direct' his publisher to forward a copy of his 'tract upon the agricultural view of the corn law question' to Lord Radnor; giving his reasons for doing so.

    Autograph, with signature.

    Welford , Richard Griffiths , 1804-1872 , writer on trading and taxation
    Wellcome Foundation Ltd
    GB 0120 WF · [1860 - 1995]

    Papers of the Burroughs Wellcome and Company (BW and Co) and from 1924 the Wellcome Foundation Ltd (WF), [1860-1995], including records of the pre-partnership S M Burroughs Company; papers relating to the founders Henry S Wellcome and Silas M Burroughs; papers of senior managers from BW and Co and WF; legal papers, particularly concerned with Trade Marks and Stamp Duty; marketing records including operational papers, a large collection of images and of publications; financial records, mainly regarding salaries; papers relating to WF sites, including the Wellcome Chemical Works, Dartford; records of Coopers, the subsidiary veterinary company, together with records of Coopers own world-wide subsidiary companies; records of related bodies, the British Insulin Manufacturers Association and The Therapeutic Research Corporation.

    Wellcome Foundation Ltd
    WELLINGTONS {SOLICITORS}
    GB 0074 ACC/3092 · Collection · 1845-1954

    Papers, 1845-1954, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating the leasing of Whitelands Lodge to the National Society and the sale of the lease in the late 1920s.

    Wellingtons , solicitors
    WEST HACKNEY ALMSHOUSE
    GB 0074 O/404 · Collection · 1837-1888

    Deed of gift of Cook's Almshouses and conveyance of land in Stoke Newington to the West Hackney Almshouse.

    West Hackney Almshouse
    GB 2381 WHM · 1898-1970

    Records of the West Ham College of Technology and its predecessors, 1898-1970, comprising:

    Minutes of the Board of Governors, 1959-1965; Minutes of the Board of Studies, 1924-1960; Minutes of the Academic Board, 1964-1969; minutes and report of the University Board, 1933-1958; Board of Education circulars, 1911-1919;

    Correspondence and general administration, 1911-1970, notably the establishment of the new Polytechnic, 1968-1970;Annual Report, 1966-1967;

    Day student lists (incomplete),1914-1961; Sessional reports for evening and part-time courses (incomplete), 1905-1957; Fee Registers, 1949-1955; Exam results (incomplete), [1914]-1957;

    Exam papers, 1951-1956; Prospectuses and Course Handbooks (incomplete), 1899-1970;

    Records of the Engineering Department, 1904-1962; Financial records (incomplete), 1948-1970; Records of the Students' Union and its Clubs (incomplete), 1930-1970; Staff and student publications, 1963-1970; Student Laboratory Reports, 1955-1964;

    Minutes of the Technical Instruction Committee of the County Borough of West Ham, 1898-1918; Minutes of Council and Reports of Committees of the County Borough of West Ham, 1946-1964; Minutes of Education Committee of the County Borough of West Ham, 1954-1963.

    West Ham College of Technology West Ham Municipal College Municipal Technical Institute
    WEST LONDON COUNTY COURT
    GB 0074 CCT/AK/43 · Collection · 1847-1948

    Records of West London County Court, 1847-1948, including minute books; ledger of equity proceedings; plaint book; default summons books; ordinary summons books; bankruptcy administration ledger; Workmen's Compensation Act register; judge's register; register of agreements and committal summons book.

    West London County Court
    GB 0074 PS/WLN · Collection · 1877-2001

    Records of West London Magistrates Court, 1877-2001, including court registers; registers for means enquiries, Small Tenement Act cases, civil debt cases, ex-parte cases, and licence renewals; Married Women Act orders; bastardy orders; domestic court proceedings; maintenance registers and Guardianship of Infants Act orders.

    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.

    Domestic proceedings: 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.

    West London Magistrates Court
    WESTEN FAMILY
    GB 0074 ACC/0269 · Collection · 1710-1829

    Records of the Westen family relating to property in Staines and Stanwell, including leases, lease and releases, copies of wills, bonds, conveyances, and deed of feoffment.

    Various.
    GB 0074 B/NTG-8 · Collection · 1845-1870 (property records span 1712-1894).

    Records of the Western (Cannel) Gas Light Company, including half yearly reports and accounts submitted by the Directors of the Western Gas Light Company Limited to the shareholders; certificates of registration of the company; return of schedule to the deed of settlement, showing name, address and profession of shareholders; list of proprietors of the company, showing name, address and number of shares held by each; assignment of debts and shares as security for repayment; contract for lighting part of Notting Hill lighting district; agreements and licences for laying mains in various districts; schedule of deeds, drafts and correspondence for company premises in various locations including Kensington, Westminster, Marylebone and Kensal Green.

    Western (Cannel) Gas Light Company
    WESTMINSTER BANK
    GB 0074 O/007 · Collection · 1828-1859

    Papers collected by the bank in the course of their work, comprising recovery relating to 1/3 part of 10 messuages, 1 court, and ½ acre in Saint Marylebone and Saint Pancras, with seal and portrait of George IV, 1828; and counterpart lease for premises on Tottenham Court Road, 1859.

    Unknown
    WESTMINSTER BRIDGE
    GB 0074 B/CWB · Collection · 1739-1743

    Records of Westminster Bridge Commissioners, comprising volume of draft contracts and papers relating to the Bridge, including 'Act for building a Bridge cross the River Thames, from the New Palace Yard in the City of Westminster, to the opposite Shore, in the County of Surry' and articles of agreement and contracts for various aspects of building the bridge and provision of materials.

    The volume is a later re-binding, possibly of the 19th century. The contracts had been paginated, and so, presumably, bound together at an earlier date. The pagination runs from 153 to 261, the right hand (odd) pages only being numbered; the surviving items thus appear to be part only of an earlier compilation. From the note made and signed by Taylor White on p.207, and the endorsements on pp [194] and [208], it appears likely that the papers were among the working papers of the Commissioners themselves.

    Westminster Bridge Commissioners
    GB 0074 O/579 · Collection · 1739-1746

    Documents relating to the Westminster Bridge inquisitions, 1739-1746. The documents relate to the acquisition of land in Westminster. For each case there is a precept for summoning a jury, a list of jurymen and their resulting inquisition. The list records the general location of the property and the owner or leaseholder concerned.

    Westminster Bridge Commissioners
    GB 0074 PS/WES · Collection · 1896-1943

    Records of Westminster Magistrates Court, 1896-1943, including court registers; rates registers; means enquiry summonses; summonses indexes; Married Women Act orders; bastardy complaints and letter book.

    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.

    Domestic proceedings: 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.

    Westminster Magistrates Court
    WESTMINSTER PLEA
    GB 0074 ACC/0080 · Collection · 1807

    Document relating to a plea heard at Westminster, 1807: Crichton Horne and Edward Finch, (plaintiffs) v John Moore.

    Unknown
    GB 0074 WC · Collection · 1665-1807

    Records of the Clerk of the Peace for the Westminster Quarter Sessions of the Peace, 1665-1807. Records comprise one volume containing the following: copies of orders of Privy Council to the Justices of the Peace of Middlesex and Westminster as to measures to be taken to prevent the spread of plague - including an order to erect a pest house; copies of resultant orders of the Justices to high constables, Churchwardens, etc including orders for removal of lay stalls and repair of an offensive lane; lists of suspected papists and instructions from the Privy Council and others to the Justices of the Peace in connection with them; lists (indexed) of persons who have taken oaths of allegiance and supremacy and subscribed the declaration under Act of 1 Wm and Mary, or who have refused to do so; lists (indexed) of persons convicted of profane cursing and swearing according to the Act of 627 Wm III, 1665-1708.

    Also one volume containing the following: register of the names of persons who have been granted Game Certificates at the Westminster Sessions; Commissioners' Certificates under the Property Act, filed at Westminster Sessions; register of certificates of Freemans Lodges, filed at Westminster Sessions; register of the names of persons who carry on the trade of Press and Type Makers, and who have given notice to Westminster Sessions; register of names of persons who carry on the trade of Printer, and who have given notice to Westminster Sessions; register of Surveyors Certificates files at Westminster Sessions; 1799-1807.

    Also a booklet containing standing orders, with appendix, 1840.

    Note on the Quarter Sessions records: Although Westminster has fewer surviving records than Middlesex, the City's sessions would have produced similar records to those of the County, but they would have been smaller in quantity, and have included less administrative material. Also, as with all Quarter Sessions records, "seeing that the Custos Rotulorum was a private gentleman or nobleman and the Clerk of the Peace an attorney with a private practice it is likely that many county records were (if not lost or destroyed) handed down to their families or their professional successors" and many may still remain to be found in private hands (Emmison and Gray, County Records, 1987). Those records that have survived are often difficult to read or understand because of the handwriting, use of Latin (until 1733), or legal jargon and abbreviations; although standardised legal formats were used and printed pro formas introduced by the nineteenth century.

    For the Middlesex and Westminster records there may also be confusion over the records' arrangement resulting from the attempts at classification by previous generations of archivists which have left many records split up into unnatural groupings. Originally they would not have been sorted into any cohesive arrangement. These were records that were "kept for administrative convenience rather than as sources for future generations" (G. Jones, Quarter Sessions records in the Leicestershire Record Office).

    Because of this overlapping between many classes of record, any study of the Westminster records should include consultation of those for Middlesex. There was in any case a lot of co-operation between the two courts during the period covered by the records. Judicial (Gaol Delivery Sessions for example) and administrative functions were shared, as were court personnel (including justices). Westminster prisoners could elect to be tried at the Middlesex sessions, as these were held more frequently than their own.

    The sessions records are a very useful source for family history, studying trends in law and order, and the life of the City and its inhabitants over a relatively long period of time. The capital was an area with high levels of crime, the natural place for riot and conspiracy, and attracted a wide variety of people from the whole country and abroad. The main record of proceedings at the sessions will be found in the sessions rolls (MJ/SR and the uncatalogued WJ/SR - index in WJ/CB); the (partially uncatalogued) sessions books (WJ/SB, MJ/SB); and the (partially uncatalogued) sessions papers (WJ/SP, MJ/SP). City administrative work is in the records of the County Day sessions (WJ/O), and for one particular type, in the records of the street surveyors (WJ/SS). Records of judicial procedure are in the records of court fines (WJ/E), writs to summon juries (WJ/W), and the trial process (WJ/Y); Lists of prisoners made at various times during the trial process are in WJ/CC and WJ/CP.

    Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the City and Liberty of Westminster
    GB 0074 WR · Collection · 1552-1885

    Records enrolled or filed with the Clerk of the Westminster Quarter Sessions of the Peace, 1552-1885. The records classified as WR/A are concerned with the registration of foreigners; WR/B are records produced by Building Surveyors; WR/F are returns of those eligible to serve on juries; WR/L/P covers the licensing of printing presses; WR/LV relate to Licensed Victuallers; WR/ML are concerned with Militia and Lieutenancy; WR/O are Oaths of Office; WR/P are papers concerning Parliamentary Elections; WR/PLT Land Tax; WR/R contains the records produced from the control and recording of all non-conformists; WR/S contains records concerned with Societies; and WR/U records deposited with the court concerning Public Undertakings.

    Note on the Quarter Sessions records: Although Westminster has fewer surviving records than Middlesex, the City's sessions would have produced similar records to those of the County, but they would have been smaller in quantity, and have included less administrative material. Also, as with all Quarter Sessions records, "seeing that the Custos Rotulorum was a private gentleman or nobleman and the Clerk of the Peace an attorney with a private practice it is likely that many county records were (if not lost or destroyed) handed down to their families or their professional successors" and many may still remain to be found in private hands (Emmison and Gray, County Records, 1987). Those records that have survived are often difficult to read or understand because of the handwriting, use of Latin (until 1733), or legal jargon and abbreviations; although standardised legal formats were used and printed pro formas introduced by the nineteenth century.

    For the Middlesex and Westminster records there may also be confusion over the records' arrangement resulting from the attempts at classification by previous generations of archivists which have left many records split up into unnatural groupings. Originally they would not have been sorted into any cohesive arrangement. These were records that were "kept for administrative convenience rather than as sources for future generations" (G. Jones, Quarter Sessions records in the Leicestershire Record Office).

    Because of this overlapping between many classes of record, any study of the Westminster records should include consultation of those for Middlesex. There was in any case a lot of co-operation between the two courts during the period covered by the records. Judicial (Gaol Delivery Sessions for example) and administrative functions were shared, as were court personnel (including justices). Westminster prisoners could elect to be tried at the Middlesex sessions, as these were held more frequently than their own.

    The sessions records are a very useful source for family history, studying trends in law and order, and the life of the City and its inhabitants over a relatively long period of time. The capital was an area with high levels of crime, the natural place for riot and conspiracy, and attracted a wide variety of people from the whole country and abroad. The main record of proceedings at the sessions will be found in the sessions rolls (MJ/SR and the uncatalogued WJ/SR - index in WJ/CB); the (partially uncatalogued) sessions books (WJ/SB, MJ/SB); and the (partially uncatalogued) sessions papers (WJ/SP, MJ/SP). City administrative work is in the records of the County Day sessions (WJ/O), and for one particular type, in the records of the street surveyors (WJ/SS). Records of judicial procedure are in the records of court fines (WJ/E), writs to summon juries (WJ/W), and the trial process (WJ/Y); Lists of prisoners made at various times during the trial process are in WJ/CC and WJ/CP.

    Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the City and Liberty of Westminster
    WETHERALL FAMILY
    GB 0074 ACC/1028 · Collection · 1763-1886

    Records of the Wetherall family relating to their Castlebar and Castle Hill estates in Ealing, including leases, conveyances, abstracts of title, agreements, plans of the estate, and papers relating to a Chancery case regarding part of the estate.

    Wetherall , family , of Ealing
    GB 0074 O/508 · Collection · 1926-1933

    Papers, 1926-1933, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, relating to 101 High Street, Plumstead, including leases, assignment, plan and sales catalogue.

    Whatley, Weston and Fox , solicitors
    GB 0100 KCLCA Wheatstone · 1757-1992

    Experimental notes, working papers, correspondence and lecture summaries compiled by Charles Wheatstone, 1836-1875, and photographs collected by him in that period. Notably including papers relating to the development and testing of the telegraph, [1836-1960]; descriptions of experiments and test results concerning the measurement of electromotive forces and electrical potential, [1840-1875]; experimental observations on the nature of magnetism, electricity and thermodynamics, including electromagnet design, batteries and dynamos, [1834-1855]; working papers relating to optics including experiments into refraction, colouration of compounds and polarisation, [1850-1875]; drafts of lectures on sound and musical instruments prepared by Wheatstone, [1832-1837]; material relating to the management of the Wheatstone collection of scientific instruments and library, 1890-1992; biographical material relating to the life of Wheatstone, the invention of the telegraph and Wheatstone's musical instrument manufacturing business, with unrelated newspapers, 1757-1975; stereoscopic photographs and glass negatives taken by Roger Fenton, Samuel Buckle, Jules Duboscq and others, featuring landscapes, still lifes, panoramic scenes of cities including Paris and Moscow and the interior and exterior of the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, Sydenham, 1851, and especially the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1855, [1850-1901]; artefacts on loan from Department of Physics, King's College London, including telegraph apparatus, a nail fiddle and other prototype musical instruments, [1834-1875]; exhibition of scientific and musical instruments, [1834-1875].

    Wheatstone , Sir , Charles , 1802-1875 , Knight , Professor of Experimental Philosophy
    GB 0074 B/WHF · Collection · 1752-1972

    Records of Whiffen and Son Ltd, manufacturing chemists, 1752-1972, including history of the company; articles of partnership and other contracts and agreements; legal documents relating to property; correspondence; circulars; financial accounts; papers relating to shares and shareholders; stock records; newspaper cuttings; photographs; staff wages books and pensions papers; records relating to staff associations and sports clubs including minute books; reports on chemical manufacture, laboratory notebooks and chemical analyses; papers relating to sales; papers relating to imports and foreign suppliers; advertisements; registers of product labels; samples of packaging; rules, regulations and legislation regarding factories and safety measures; papers regarding the Second World War including war damage to factories and papers relating to staff on active duty.

    Also records of Saint Amand Manufacturing Company Limited including ledgers, letter books and journals.

    Whiffen and Son Ltd , manufacturing chemists St Amand Manufacturing Co Ltd
    WHITBREAD PROPERTIES LIMITED
    GB 0074 LMA/4453/H · Collection · 1901-2000

    Records of Whitbread Properties Limited, a subsidiary of Whitbread and Company Limited, brewers, including corporate registers, accounts and estate ledgers.

    Whitbread and Co Ltd , brewers Whitbread Properties Ltd
    WHITTON PARK ESTATE
    GB 0074 ACC/1149 · Collection · 1621-1824

    Records relating to the Whitton Park estate, Twickenham, owned by Archibald Campbell, (1682-1761), 3rd Duke of Argyll, including admissions, surrenders, leases, bonds, and extracts from the court rolls of the manors of Isleworth Syon and Twickenham.

    Various.
    WILD FAMILY
    GB 0074 LMA/4067 · Collection · 1629-1840

    Records relating to the Wild family, including mid 18th century presentments at the Manorial Court, assessments for land tax and house tax and deeds and indentures for the manors of Harmondsworth, Harlington, Hamworth, Cranford and Colham dating from 1550 to 1840.

    Wild , family , of Harmondsworth
    GB 0103 MS ADD 210 · Created 1758

    Notes from a course of lectures in law, given in Oxford by Sir William Blackstone.

    Wilkinson , John , fl 1758
    GB 0074 ACC/0732 · Collection · 1575-1792

    Papers, 1575-1792, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to properties mainly in Edgware, Hendon and Willesden. Documents include bargain and sales, bonds, quitclaim, mortgages, will and probate, covenants and final concords.

    Willes and Gladstone , solicitors
    GB 0074 PS/W · Collection · 1873-1986

    Records of courts within Willesden Petty Sessional Division, 1873-1986. Records include court registers for Harlesden Magistrates Court; court registers, juvenile court registers and court minute books for Willesden Magistrates Court; court registers, juvenile court registers and court minute books for Acton Magistrates Court and licensing registers for Willesden, Acton and Chiswick.

    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.

    Willesden Petty Sessional Division Harlesden Magistrates Court Willesden Magistrates Court Acton Magistrates Court
    WILLETT ESTATES
    GB 0074 ACC/3657 · Collection · 1856-1985

    Records relating to the estate of William Willett, including records relating to properties in Hammersmith, Belsize Park, St John's Wood, Earl's Court, Kensington, Marylebone, Mill Hill, Brighton and Hove; and papers of the trustees of the estate including reports, financial accounts and statements, receipts, and allocation of income.

    Various.
    WILLIAM BRASS WILL TRUST
    GB 0074 CLC/421 · Collection · 1868-1955

    Records ofWilliam Brass and his estate, comprising accounts, agreements, correspondence and related papers. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1987. Ms 22352 includes a schedule of Trust records drawn up in 1954.

    Brass , William , d 1888 , builder and contractor
    GB 0074 ACC/3198 · Collection · 1825-1932

    Papers, 1825-1932, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and conveyances for properties in Chiswick, Wembley, Isleworth, and Greenford.

    William Sturges and Company , solicitors
    GB 0074 ACC/0907 · Collection · 1810-1824

    Papers, 1810-1824, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising assignment of lease of copyhold ground at Turnham Green, with building thereon called 'King of Boheme', and letters of administration, with will annexed, of Thomas Lewis of Turnham Green.

    Williams and James , solicitors
    WILLIS FAMILY
    GB 0074 ACC/0787 · Collection · 1797-1867

    Records of the Willis family relating to properties in Hackney and Clapton, including leases, marriage settlements, a will, and receipts.

    Various.
    Wills (Kent, miscellaneous)
    GB 0096 MS 773 · 1615-1777

    Four wills, details as follows:

    1. Probate copy of the will of William Batte of Shoreham, Kent, making 'my loving master John Baker' the overseer of his will, 27 Dec [1615]. Lacking letters of probate and seal.
    2. Probate copy of the will of Joseph Wright of Maidstone, Kent, 'practitioner of physick', 12 May 1701. Lacking letters of probate and seal.
    3. Copy of the will of John Streatfield of Maidstone, Kent, 12 Apr 1766, with a note of probate on 4 Nov 1768, 'Extracted from the registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. The will mentions bequests to the Charity School of Maidstone and monies to be distributed to the poor of the parished of Maidstone, Hever, Mayfield (Sussex), Tonbridge and Penshurst.
    4. Copy of the will dated 11 Oct 1777, with a codicil of 28 Mar 1781, of Robert Streatfield of Burwack [Burwash], Sussex, with a note of probate on 19 Mar 1782. The will was extracted from the registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
    Unknown
    GB 0074 E/WS · Collection · 1871-1936

    Papers of Samuel Henry Wilson, including will, probate and correspondence; and deeds, insurance policies, reports, and valuations for properties in Fulham, Brompton, and Ratcliff.

    Wilson , Samuel Henry , fl 1871-1936
    GB 0114 MS0075 · 1845-1888

    Papers of Sir William James Erasmus Wilson, 1845-1888, comprising correspondence with Thomas Stone and the Royal College of Surgeons Of England, and notes on 'Cleopatra's Needle', 1845-1884; Wilson's Will and Codicil, 1882-1883; and correspondence between his executors, solicitors, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the accountant charged with organising Wilson's estate on the College's behalf, 1885-1888.

    Wilson , Sir , William James Erasmus , 1809-1884 , Knight , dermatologist and philanthropist x Wilson , Erasmus
    GB 0074 ACC/0088 · Collection · 1561-1753

    Legal papers, such as court rolls, feoffments, lease and releases, assignments, agreements, bargain and sales, grants, mortgages and common recoverys, relating to properties in Stanwell; Harlington; Cranford; Heston; Uxbridge; Denham, Buckinghamshire; Brentford; Hendon; Hampstead; Cowley; Rickmansworth; Willesden; Tilehurst and Bradfield, Berkshire; St. Margaret's Westminster and Shinfield, Berkshire.

    Various.
    GB 0074 ACC/2188 · Collection · 1724-1964

    Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising probate of will of Anne Aleyn of Harefield, widow, 1724; papers arising out of Chancery Suit regarding a share in the Shadwell Waterworks Company formerly belong to Robert Bodington, including drafts, correspondence, genealogical notes and involving such families as Pitfield and Bathurst, also giving some account of the history of the company and early shareholders, 1740-1866; documents arising out of trusts under will of Dr Daniel Tuke of Lyndon Lodge, Hanwell, 1924-1934; conveyance and mortgages for West End Farm Estate, Pinner, 1914; mortgages and conveyance for number 2 Palmerston Road, Twickenham, 1929 and 1958; draft wills of Miss Sibyl Thesiger, 1931-1947.

    Winckworth and Pembertons , solicitors
    GB 0074 ACC/0972 · Collection · 1580-1770

    Deeds, 1580-1770, relating to property in Cowley, Edmonton, Enfield, Harefield, Harrow, Hayes, Hillingdon, Ickenham, Uxbridge, Shoreditch and Stepney; including deed of feoffment, bargain and sale, leases, mortgages and bonds.

    Unknown
    GB 0074 ACC/0758 · Collection · 1638-1890

    Papers, 1638-1890, collected by Myers in the course of their work, comprising wills and a bond relating to Palgrave, Suffolk; Hampstead; Kensington (Old Brompton); West Twyford and Bloomsbury.

    Unknown
    Winstedt, Sir Richard
    GB 0102 MS 312646 · 1925-[1960s]

    Papers, 1925-[1960s], of Sir Richard Winstedt relating to his publications, comprising annotated proofs of Malay dictionary, 1960; manuscripts of Malay Dictionary, undated; copy of his An English-Malay Dictionary (1952), with extensive manuscript annotations and alterations [after 1952]; manuscripts and typescripts for his memoirs Start from Alif: Count from One (published in 1969), largely relating to his time in south-east Asia [1960s]; manuscript on philosophy, undated; letter on Malay law to [S G?] Vesey-Fitzgerald, 1945; letter on a Malay manuscript from P Voorholne[?] of the Bibliotheek der Rijks-Universiteit te Leiden, 1951; part of a letter on Raffles College and educational needs in Malaya from an unknown correspondent, 1965; miscellaneous offprints by Winstedt on Malay literature, law, customs and culture, 1925, 1929, 1945, and undated.

    Winstedt , Sir , Richard Olaf (Olof) , 1878-1966 , Knight , colonial administrator and Orientalist