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      COL/CA/MGA · Subfonds · 1952-1969
      Part of CORPORATION OF LONDON

      Records of the Magistracy Committee, Court of Aldermen, comprising minutes, 1952-1969; committee papers, 1952-1962; relevant printed Acts of Parliament and Orders of Council and a plan of the Mayor's Court showing the proposed site of the Guildhall Justice Room, 1956. Please note that some of these records are closed.

      Corporation of London
      CLA/023 · Collection · 1100-1990

      Records of the Court of Husting, 1100-1990, including deeds and wills; Husting books containing records of proceedings; material relating to Pleas of Land including court rolls and writs of right patent and proceedings; material relating to Common Pleas including court rolls, writs and proceedings; charters relating to the Court and offprints of articles about the Court of Husting.

      Corporation of London
      CLA/039 · Collection · 1666-1673

      Records of the Court of Judicature, or 'Fire Court', City of London, 1666-1673, including fire decrees (judgements of the court) and other records of court proceedings.

      Corporation of London
      CLA/002 · Collection · 1586-1773

      Records relating to the Court of Orphans, City of London, including Common Serjeant's Books, 1586-1773 (series CLA/002/01), Orphans' Inventories, [1600]-1773 (series CLA/002/02), Inventories: Indexes and Transcripts, 1666-[1926] (series CLA/002/03), Orphanage Bonds and Deeds, 1599-1704 (series CLA/002/04), Recognizances, 1590-1747 (series CLA/002/05), Satisfactions, 1548-1702 (series CLA/002/06), and Miscellaneous items including receipts and other papers regarding orphans, 1619-1697; legal customs including precedents in orphanage matters and divisions of estates; accounts, 1671-1728; committee papers and statements of the Orphan Fund, 1690-1750, custody of goods by orphans, 1401-1448 and journal articles based on the Court of Orphans records, 1934 and 1970 (series CLA/002/07).

      Corporation of London
      GB 0074 CLC/311 · Collection · 1747-1750

      Records of the court of Quarter Sessions, London, comprising lists of jurors for Bridge Ward, Aldgate Ward, Bassishaw Ward and Farringdon Within Ward.

      London Quarter Sessions of the Peace
      CLA/038 · Collection · 1595-1853

      Records of the Court of Requests, City of London, 1595-1853, including committee reports; petitions; regulations; appointment of Commissioners; accounts ledgers; cash books; record of fees; summons books; warrant books; bonds and promissory notes, and other administrative papers.

      Corporation of London
      COURT OF WARDS AND LIVERIES
      GB 0074 CLC/301 · Collection · 1631

      Record of the Court of Wards and Liveries, comprising examinations of defendants in a court case concerning commodities in a court yard adjoining the Bull Head Tavern in Cheapside, October-November 1631.

      Court of Wards and Liveries
      COURTS OF LAW
      CLA/040 · Collection · 1301-1965

      Records of various City of London Courts of Law, 1301-1965, including the Royal Courts, Nuisance Assizes, Court of Judicature, Borough Court of Record, Southwark, the Central Criminal Court, Assize of Bread and Possessory Assizes.

      Records of the Royal Courts include plea rolls, escheat rolls, inquisitions post mortem, writs, proceedings, and articles relating to the history of the court, while the records of the Possessory Assizes, comprising the Assizes of Novel Disseisin, Fresh Force and Mort d'Ancestor, include rolls of assizes and precedent books.

      Records of the Civic courts (Nuisance Assizes, Court of Judicature, Borough Court of Record, Southwark) include pleas of nuisance, Southwark fire decrees and court books.

      Records of the Central Criminal Court include registers of felons' gods, petitions for return of goods, auction catalogues, prints and photographs, financial accounts, statistics and papers relating to civil defence duties during World War Two.

      Records of the Assize of Bread include mealweighters books, including quantities of wheat sold and delivered; register of bakers and cornfactors, prices of wheat and flour and papers of the Committee on the Assize of Bread.

      Also papers relating to cases of bankruptcy and debt, papers of the London Chamber of Arbitration and other legal records and administrative papers.

      Corporation of London
      COVERDALE, JOHN
      GB 0074 ACC/2609 · Collection · 1809-1940

      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.

      Coverdale , John , solicitor
      CRANE, Jonathan (d 1860)
      GB 0074 ACC/1817 · Collection · 1849-1938

      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.

      Various.
      CRAWLEY FAMILY
      GB 0074 E/CRY · Collection · 1701-1883

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

      Crawley , family , of Bedfordshire
      GB 0074 ACC/1737 · Collection · 1867-1910

      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.

      Cripps, Harris and Hall , solicitors
      CRONIN AND SON {SOLICITORS}
      GB 0074 ACC/0953 · Collection · 1762-1887

      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.

      Cronin and Son , solicitors
      GB 0074 O/264 · Collection · 1887

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

      William Crundall and Co , Dover, Kent
      GB 0074 ACC/0373 · Collection · 1680-1823

      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.

      Unknown
      GB 0074 ACC/1051 · Collection · 1621-1927

      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.

      Dale and Newbery , solicitors
      GB 0074 ACC/0894 · Collection · 1769-1941

      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.

      Daniel and Edwards , solicitors
      GB 0074 O/173 · Collection · 1850-1893

      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.

      Darley Comberland and Company , solicitors
      Davidge Papers
      GB 0103 MS ADD 376 · 1924-1927

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

      Davidge , Henry Thomas , 1871-1957 , Senior Lecturer in Civil and Mechanical Engineering
      DAVIES
      GB 0074 O/147 · Collection · 1609-1804

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

      Various.
      DAVIS
      GB 0074 E/DAV · Collection · 1673-1839

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

      Various.
      GB 0074 ACC/2011 · Collection · 1863-1895

      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.

      Davis, Foster and Finlay , solicitors
      GB 0074 ACC/2821 · Collection · 1954

      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.

      Debenham and Company , solicitors
      Decretals of Gregory IX
      GB 0096 MS 544 · Mid 13th century

      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.

      Unknown
      GB 0096 MS 681 · Late 13th century

      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.

      Unknown
      GB 0074 O/406 · Collection · 1846

      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.

      Various.
      DELME-RADCLIFFE
      GB 0074 ACC/0349 · Collection · 1316-1809

      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.

      Various.
      DENCE, John
      GB 0074 O/057 · Collection · 1804-1877

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

      Various.
      DENCE, THOMAS (fl 1876)
      GB 0074 ACC/2832 · Collection · 1876-1923

      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.

      Dence , Thomas , fl 1876 , property developer and investor
      DENT FAMILY
      GB 0074 CLC/443 · Collection · 1850-1969

      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.

      Dent , family , watchmakers
      GB 0074 ACC/3210 · Collection · 1931

      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.

      Denton Hall Burgin and Warrens , solicitors
      GB 0074 ACC/0651 · Collection · 1761-1858

      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.

      Denton, Hall and Burgin , solicitors
      DEW
      GB 0074 Q/DEW · Collection · 1721-1877

      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.

      Various.
      DEWELL FAMILY
      GB 0074 ACC/0345 · Collection · 1719-1822

      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.

      Various.
      D.H. EVANS AND COMPANY
      GB 0074 O/136 · Collection · 1894-1899

      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.

      D.H. Evans , general drapers and silk mercers
      GB 0103 MS LAT 4 · 14th century-15th century

      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.

      Unknown
      DICKS, JOHN {BUILDER}
      GB 0074 ACC/3203 · Collection · 1820-1822

      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.

      Dicks , John , fl 1820 , builder
      GB 1556 WL 1047 · Collection · [1928-1936]

      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.

      Dienemann , Max , 1875-1939 , Rabbi
      DINSDALE FAMILY
      GB 0074 ACC/0256 · Collection · 1815-1890

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

      Various.
      DIXON FAMILY
      GB 0074 ACC/0139 · Collection · 1804-1862

      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.

      Various.
      Donald Papers
      GB 0103 MS ADD 281 · c1975-1979

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

      Donald , Maxwell Bruce , 1897-1978 , Professor of Chemical Engineering
      GB 0074 ACC/1552 · Collection · 1869-1903

      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.

      Donne, Milebarn and Haddock , solicitors
      GB 0074 ACC/2635 · Collection · 1892

      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.

      Doveton and Fogaty , solicitors
      DOWGATE PROPERTIES LIMITED
      GB 0074 ACC/3200 · Collection · 1906-1923

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

      Dowgate Properties Ltd
      GB 0096 MS 477 · 1815

      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'.

      Unknown
      GB 0074 ACC/0140 · Collection · 1739-1883

      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.

      Druces and Attlee , solicitors
      DU CANE FAMILY
      GB 0074 E/DCA · Collection · 1498-1840

      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.

      Caine , Du , family , of Braxted Park, Essex x Du Caine , family , of Braxted Park, Essex