Records of solicitor John Coverdale. Many of these papers relate to his marriage to Isabella Frederica Tomkyns, and to the execution of both their wills. Papers concerning Isabella's first husband, the Rev. John Tomkyns and his brother, Thomas Tomkyns are also included. The collection also includes deeds for properties in Gravel Road, Twickenham and Windmill Road, Hampton Wick.

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.

Surveys of Lord Craven's estates in Paddington including Craven Street, Carnaby Market, Craven Buildings, and Craven Hill, with schedules of leases granted and plans.

Records of the Crawley family relating to the management of their estates in Holborn and Marylebone.

Records of Cripplegate Ward, Corporation of London, comprising wardmote agenda papers and petitions to the Court of Common Council. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

Papers, 1867-1910, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to 557 Lordship Lane, Dulwich, including leases, mortgages, assignments of lease, conveyances and covenant to produce deeds.

These scrapbooks consist of press cuttings and ephemera.

One volume relates to Maud Crofts' education and legal career, including press cuttings and ephemera.

The other volume of press cuttings relates to reviews of Women under English Law by Maud I. Crofts published by the National Council of Women of Great Britain in 1925; and a few articles about the general position of women under the law.

Papers, 1762-1887, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including deeds and legal documents relating to properties on Hornsey Lane, Highgate; copies of the court roll of the manor of Harringay alias Hornsey; legal papers relating to the Idle family of Kennington, including marriage settlements; and legal papers relating to the Grove family of Hackney and the City of London, including marriage settlements, correspondence, genealogical research and wills.

Draft agreement of employment relating to work in Dulwich, between William Crundall and Company and George Spanswick, commercial traveller, 1887.

Records of the Customs Annuity and Benevolent Fund Incorporated including minutes of Court with expenditure accounts; 'T,MandS' Committee minutes; balance sheets and Board of Trade Returns; Benevolent grants; Rules and rates, and Register of assurances and profit (with separate index volumes).

The records document benevolent payments to individuals and their families. The main series which can be used are the Court minutes (1816-1983) (LMA/4575/01/01) and the indexes to insurance holders (1891-198-) (LMA/4675/02/03).

The Court minutes contain letters to Committee and presentations to the Board giving proposals for insurance received from individuals; life losses; surrenders; mortgages and reversions; cash statements and expenditure and details of benevolent loans including amounts advanced, paid and outstanding.

The records provide an insight into the types of proposals for support received and whether these met with success. In minutes of 5 Sep 1889 a Benevolent Grant is ordered to be paid to the widow of John Fox of Liverpool, being the amount of Poundage contributed (£5.8.10). In minutes of 10 Apr 1890 an application is shown to have been received from Henry Casserley for a loan of £20 in consideration of his being insured No.1318 (for repayment by instalments). Decision recorded that there is no power to make such a loan but that he may commute under Rule 6. An Index of insurance holders [LMA/4675/02/03/001] confirms just the one insurance number 1318 for Henry Casserley.

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.

Papers collected by the antiquarian dealer in the course of his work, comprising article of agreement, assignment and surrender of leases relating to premises in Saint Mary, Whitechapel, 1680-1694; receipts for rates for paving, lighting, cleansing and watch, and demand for poor rate, for premises in Saint Dunstan in the West, Fleet Street, City of London, 1822-1823.

Papers, 1621-1927, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties Ashford; Hendon; Heston; Hounslow, including Lampton Park Estate; Isleworth; Laleham; Paddington; Staines, including property belonging to the Dean and Canons of St. George's Chapel, Windsor; Stanwell including the Crooked Billet Estate; Sunbury. Also papers of the Fenton family. Includes copies from court rolls, depositions, leases and releases, conveyances, mortgages and wills.

Papers, 1769-1941, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties mainly in Edmonton, Enfield, Harrow and Tottenham.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising marriage settlement, on marriage of Mary Anne Beale of Stoke Newington and Richard Baughan Ashby of Manor Road, Stamford Hill, 1850-1878; marriage settlement, on marriage of Emily Sanders of 57 Belsize Park and Harry Waddington Smythies, New Zealand, 1874-1893; and probate, with will annexed, of Mrs Emily Smythies, of 4 Chichele Road, Cricklewood, formerly of Kenmera, Auckland, New Zealand, widow of Harry Waddington Smythies, surveyor, 1887-1892.

Papers and correspondence relating to Davidge's inventions and to patents of them.

Collection of legal papers including bonds, mortgages and settlements; relating to premises or persons in Southwark, City of London, Lambeth, Bermondsey and Battersea.

Papers of the Davis family, comprising deeds relating to 52 Marlborough Place, Saint Marylebone.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising admission of John Durham, junior of 10 Great James Street, Bedford Row, as solicitor in court of Chancery, 8 May 1863, signed by John Romilly, Master of the Rolls; admission of John Durham as solicitor in Court of Queen's Bench, 8 May 1863. Also leases for 108 Stroud Green Road (formerly called Osborne House), Hornsey, 1887 and 1895.

Records collected by Henry Davis, including leases of property in the Manor of Ealing, 1852-1862; will of George Sanders of the Woodland beer shop, Black Horse Lane, Friern Barnet, 1852; sales particulars and estate plan for houses in the Northumberland Park Estate, Tottenham, 1860 and 1866; legal papers for a Chancery case relating to the will of Robert Wright of Bethnal Green, 1896.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising abstract of title of representatives of J.Goddard to premises in North Street (Basil Street) Brompton Road and Hans Crescent, Knightsbridge, including references to Harrods. With plans. 1954.

Single leaf of vellum, formerly used as a pastedown, containing Book 3, section 38 18 to 39 3, of the Decretales Gregorii IX, on the rights of patrons over churches and the financial liabilities of churches, dating from the mid-13th century. There are marginal annotations in a later, perhaps 14th century, hand.

Single vellum leaf, formerly a pastedown, containing Lib.II, 20, 17-26, of the Decretales Gregorii IX, on testimonies in court. Includes a gloss and extensive interlineal and marginal annotations. The fragment is probably English, written in the late 13th century.

Deed of conveyance of strips of land alongside Trinity Road and Windmill Road, Wandsworth between 1) Charles Alexander Sutherland, Manson Road, Charlton, London, Maria Sutherland his wife and Henry George Cox, Herbert Road, Plumstead, 2) Walter William Scott, Fox and Hounds, High Street, Sydenham, 3) Elizabeth Heald, Kennington Park Road, 4) George Mitchell, Windmill Road, Wandsworth, 5) George Carr, Mildmay Grove, Mildmay Park and Henry George Cox and 6) the County Council of the administrative county of London.

Title deeds relating to two houses in Brompton Road, later 1 Bute Sreet and Bute House, later Prospect House and Bute House, later 1 and 2 (also 2A) Sussex Place, 1846-1931.

Records of the Delme-Radcliffe family, 1316-1809, comprising deeds (original and 17th century copies), namely quit claims, grants, charters and lease for land and property largely in Edmonton and Bromley, Middlesex, City of London and Essex, notably:

fields called 'Rathesfeldes and Pyamoors', and property in Edmonton, 1316-1567; the 'Lyon', Edmonton, 1522-1541; 17th century copies of deeds for property in Edmonton, namely for land at Holflete in East Marsh, {1395-96}; Trumpton Hall, Edmonton, and lands, {1500}; land in Edmonton, 1551;

'Brodemede' in Tottenham, lands in Enfield, Edmonton Marsh and Chingford Marsh, Essex, (property of the Priory of St John of Jerusalem, dissolved by Henry VIII, revived by Mary and suppressed again by Elizabeth I), 1536-1560; mansion house in Edmonton, 1569-1825; marshland in Edmonton, Tottenham and Chingford, {1676}; houses in St Leonard, Shoreditch, 1678; Swan Inn, Edmonton, 1682; property in Chingford, 1700-01; Palmer's Green, 1745-1761; messuage in Strand Lane, 1721; land in Stanwell, 1646; messuages and land in South Mimms, 1572-1678/9;

manor ('great brickhouse' built c 1617 by Sir Arthur Ingram, Knight of London) and site at Bromley, Middlesex, 1606-1802, and property in St Giles Cripplegate, the Strand, Stepney, Shoreditch, 1692-1731/32;

messuages and land in Norton Folgate (parish of St Botolph without Bishopsgate), St Leonards, Shoreditch, Hackney, parishes of St Magnus and St Margaret in the City of London, and Newington in Hackney, 1518-1762;

papers relating to the estate including wills, legacies, administration of the estate, 1735-1809;

deeds for house in Greville Street, Holborn, 1738; houses in the parish of St Clement Danes, 1729-1736; Queen's Head, Snow Hill in the parish of St Sepulchre without Newgate, 1732; house in Brook Street, Ratcliffe, Middlesex, 1747; land on Farmer Street, Shadwell, 1694-1746; Buckley Street, Whitechapel, 1693-1714; house, shipwright's yard, wharves and bridge in Limehouse, 1668-1717.

Records of John Dence relating to properties in Sydenham, Lewisham, the City of London, Holborn, and the Strand.

Records of Thomas Dence and family, 1876-1923, including investment ledger and papers relating to investments such as certificates; cash books, registers of deeds and legal documents relating to properties; register of insurance policies; wills, powers of attorney and documents relating to the Dence Trust; cheque books; letter book, mostly letters to tenants; ledger listing documents regarding the Ferme Park Estate, including building agreements, leases issued and deeds.

Records of the Dent family, watchmakers, comprising legal papers, deeds and related papers mainly relating to family estates and property in Charing Cross and Worthing.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising copy memorandum of agreement between Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital and Colne Valley Water Company, relating to land at Stanmore, 1931.

Papers, 1761-1858, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including extracts from court rolls, copies of wills, receipts, leases, releases, mortgages, conveyances, fines and deeds relating to land and properties in Enfield.

Dering's autobiographical memoranda, covering the years 1550-1739, 1739; copy of his will, 1745; and letter regarding the transfer of the manuscript to the College, 1930

Collection of legal documents, wills, bonds, business arrangements, and title deeds for premises in Spitalfields, Limehouse, Holborn, Westminster, Hackney, Stepney, Lincoln's Inn, Bermondsey and Saint Marylebone.

Records of the Dewell family of Brentford, relating to property in Old Brentford, New Brentford, Hanwell, Chiswick and Isleworth, including wills, leases, extracts from court rolls and legal opinion.

Records of D.H. Evans, general drapers and silk mercers, comprising a prospectus from 1894 and sales particulars relating to premises in Armadale Road, Fulham, 1899.

Manuscript volume with contents dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, comprising a collection of 20 miscellaneous treatises, including 'Dyalethyca', with a commentary and exercise on the Summulae logicorum of Petrus Hispanus and other lectures and exercises in logic of Petrus Zech, alias De Pulka, of the University of Vienna, written by Johannes Sintram at Ulm and dated 1405; other treatises on liturgical and astrological subjects, including works by Johannes De Sacro Bosco; calendars; questions on canon law; verses. The pastedowns are from a 14th-century service book.

Deeds from the estate of John Dicks, builder, relating to 39 London Street, St Pancras; Russell Mews, St Pancras and 6 Brunswick Place, Brixton Causeway, Lambeth.

Papers of Dr Max Dienemann, [1928-1936], comprise cuttings including one from Jüdisch liberale Zeitung showing article by Dr Dienemann, 'Das jüdische Ehescheidungsrecht' (Jewish divorce right), 1928; typescript essay by Dr Dienemann concerning divorce, entitled 'Die Ehescheidung auf bürgerlichen und jüdischen Recht', containing corrections and annotations, undated, and manuscript notes on the subject of Jewish divorce, by Dienemann, undated.

Title deeds of the Dinsdale family relating to properties in Shoreditch, Hackney and Bethnal Green, including leases, conveyances, assignments and abstract of title.

Records of the District Surveyors Association, consisting of committee minutes dating from 1845, correspondence and subject files dating from 1907. There are also series of membership records, finance material, a large series of Parliamentary Acts and Bills and a series of court cases.

Records of the Dixon family, including exemplification of a common recovery for premises in Kensington Square; and marriage settlement relating to premises at Winchmore Hill.

Documents relating to 203 Lower Richmond Road.

Documents relating to 287 Battersea Park Road.

Typescript of an unpublished book entitled 'Elizabethan Technology or the development of the letters patent protection for inventions'. Also correspondence about the book.

Papers, 1869-1903, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Deptford, Lambeth and Paddington including assignments, abstract of title, and sales particulars.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising probate copy will of David Aldridge of Church Street, Staines, later of Feltham, carpenter, made 17 Feb 1888, proved 4 Jan 1892. Bequests include cottage in Hythe Road, Egham, Surrey.

Deeds relating to properties owned by Dowgate Properties Ltd in Lanark Mansions, Shepherds Bush, Kingscroft Road, West Hampstead, and Vaughan Road, Harrow. 1906-1923.

Draft of a bill 'for the more effectual prevention of the use of false and deficient measures', 1815, with proposals including Justices of the Peace to appoint persons to examine the measures within their districts; a penalty of 5-20s on conviction; proper measures according to the standard made by the Exchequer to be purchased out of the general rate and deposited with the clerks of the peace; some form of conviction to be given. The draft is endorsed '9 March 1815. Copy to Mr [Samuel] Whitbread [M.P. for Bedford] per post'.

Legal documents, acquired by the solicitor's office in the course of their work, relating to the manor of Hanwell, 1739-1869, including deeds and copies of deeds, extracts from court rolls, and mortgage agreements; copies of wills and administrations, mainly for residents of Hanwell; copies of land tax redemption certificates for land in Hanwell; copies of orders in Chancery relating to Hanwell.

Also papers relating to the Coleraine Park Estate, Tottenham, 1880-1883 and Ponders End, Enfield, 1861-1873.

Records of the du Cane family relating to their estates in London, as follows:

Freehold title:
E/DCA/001-041 Manor or farm of Ballams/Balham, in Clapham and Streatham;
E/DCA/042-049 Ruddocks and 7 Acres Grove, in Croydon.

Copyhold title:
E/DCA/050-099 Land of Manor of Fauxhall, in Streatham;
E/DCA/100-131, 134 Land of Manor of Norbury, in Streatham and Croydon;
E/DCA/132, 133 Land of Manor of Croydon, in [? Streatham or Croydon].

Leasehold title:
E/DCA/135, 136 Houses in City of London;
E/DCA/137, 138 Sheepwalk of Manor of Battersea and Wandsworth, in [? Battersea].

Leases:
E/DCA/139-152 Balham Farm;
E/DCA/153-163 Streatham Farm.

Estate management:
E/DCA/164-189 Valuations, etc.

Correspondence:
E/DCA/190-237 Estate;
E/DCA/238-241 Croydon Inclosure;
E/DCA/242-246 Chancery case relating to Shelley family settlement;
E/DCA/247-250 Family.

Miscellaneous:
E/DCA/251-256 Documents unrelated to those above.

Plans:
E/DCA/257-266 Balham and Streatham Farms, and Streatham Common.