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      GB 0074 CLC/200 · Collection · 1426-1514

      Records of the Priory of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, comprising Prior's household accounts and cartulary compiled circa 1426 containing a narrative history of the priory and copies of documents.

      Holy Trinity, Aldgate , priory of the Canons of Augustine
      Printed and published papers
      GB 1697 A.IALS 13 · 1989-2000

      Printed and published papers produced by or concerning the IALS, 1989-1999, consisting of the IALS Annual Report, 1994-1999; IALS Bulletin, 1994-1997; Friends of the Institute Directory, 1990-1995; University of London Intercollegiate Postgraduate Law Society Directory, 1989-1995; IALS and School of Advanced Study information pamphlets, [1991]; W G Hart Legal Workshop papers, 1995-1999; legal skills working papers, 1992-1994; research working papers, 1993-1997; Terence Daintith 'Legal research and legal values' Modern Law Review (May 1989); C Cowling Guide to the Records of Legal Education Archives at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS, 1998); draft and published paper of W A Steiner's The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London 1947-1976 (IALS, 2000), 1999-2000; Barry Rider Law at the Centre: the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at Fifty (Kluwer Law International, 1999); Richard Moorhead, Professor Avrom Sherr and Sarah Rogers Compensation for inadequate Professional Services (IALS, 2000); University of London IALS: School of Advanced Study: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies: Report of the Review Committee to the Chairman of the Board (1999).

      University of London , School of Advanced Study , Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
      PRIDEAUX
      GB 0074 E/PX · Collection · 1751-1903

      Deeds, correspondence and schedules for 59, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn and 74 and 76, Westbourne Terrace, Paddington.

      Various.
      GB 0097 PREST · Collection · 1939-1985

      The majority of these papers relate to Prest's time as a committee member of the Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury. There are also documents relating to his collected writings, his time as editor of the "Three Banks Review", his time as a member of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, and miscellaneous correspondence.

      Prest, Alan Richmond, 1919-1984, economist
      GB 0074 B/WNR · Collection · 1871-1882

      Records relating to property owned by Powell, Warner and Crowther, stationers, including lease of 101 High Street, Whitechapel; assignment of the business and all stock and books from Powell to Warner and Crowther; assignment of lease of a warehouse in Commercial Street, Stepney, with schedule of deeds of the warehouse. 1871-1882.

      Powell, Warner and Crowther , stationers N J Powell and Company , stationers
      Powell Lecture Notes
      GB 0103 MS ADD 295 · Created c1925-c1964

      The collection consists of lecture notes taken when Powell was a student at Oxford, and notes for his own course of lectures at University College London.

      Powell , Raphael , 1904-1965 , Professor of Roman Law
      PORT OF LONDON AUTHORITY
      GB 0074 CLC/B/180 · Collection · 1720-1916

      Deeds and papers relating to property owned by the Port of London Authority, acquired in 1911 mostly in Crutched Friars and its immediate vicinity.

      Various.
      POLLOCK FAMILY
      GB 0074 ACC/1785 · Collection · 1647-1920

      Records of the Pollock family relating to their property in Harlington, Feltham, Isleworth, East Bedfont, Hatton, Hammersmith, Hanwell, Harrow and Stanwell.

      Pollock , family , barristers
      POLLARD, William
      GB 0074 ACC/2667 · Collection · 1868-1895

      Records of William Pollard, including documents relating to the purchase of land in Hornsey, 1868-72; plan of Islington Burial Ground, East Finchley, showing location of numbered grave spaces, 1882; grant of grave space in Islington Burial Ground, East Finchley, 1888; accounts for burials at the London Necropolis Company cemetery, 1894-95.

      Pollard , William
      Pollard Notebooks
      GB 0103 MS ADD 80 · Created c1887-1913

      Notebooks of lecture notes on history.

      Pollard , Albert Frederick , 1869-1948 , historian
      POLITICAL POSTERS
      GB 0074 LMA/4397 · Collection · 197-

      Posters relating to the 'Free George Davis' campaign and campaigns by Islington Tenants against estate agents Prebble and Company.

      Free George Davis campaign group Islington Tenants , pressure group
      POCOCK, George
      GB 0074 ACC/0232 · Collection · 1809-1877

      Papers relating to the Twickenham property of George Pocock; including plans; extracts from title deeds; and extracts from histories showing the descent of the estate.

      Various.
      PLUMER FAMILY
      GB 0074 ACC/0806 · Collection · 1751-1822

      Papers of the Plumer family relating to property in Edgware and the Canons estate in Little Stanmore.

      Plumer , family , of Edgware and Little Stanmore
      PINNER TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
      GB 0074 ACC/3231 · Collection · 1901-1950

      Records of Pinner (Relief) Telephone Exchange comprising deeds of land in Cannon Lane (formerly Sewer Lane), Pinner, acquired for the Exchange.

      Pinner Telephone Exchange
      PICKWORTHS {SOLICITORS}
      GB 0074 ACC/3195 · Collection · 1931-1978

      Papers, 1931-1978, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds relating to No. 211 Harrow View, Pinner.

      Pickworths , solicitors
      PICKFORD {SOLICITORS}
      GB 0074 ACC/2817 · Collection · 1933-1952

      Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising abstract of title of Percy Bilton Ltd to land at junction of Hanger Lane and Western Avenue, Ealing, 1933; abstract of title of Percy Bilton Investment Trust Ltd to numbers 1 - 2b Royal Parade, Ealing, 1937 and abstract of title of Metropolitan Estate and Property Company Ltd to numbers 3 - 13 Royal Parade, Greystoke Corner, Ealing, 1952.

      Pickford , solicitors
      GB 0120 SA/PHY · 1876-1996

      Records of the Physiological Society, including all the minute books from the foundation of the Society in 1876, the proposal books for candidates from 1888, correspondence, histories and photographs. The bulk of the material dates from after 1939.

      Physiological Society
      PHILLIPS, SON AND NEAL
      GB 0074 Q/PSN · Collection · 1706-1878

      Records of Phillips Son and Neal, solicitors, 1706-1878, including surveys of estates in Wandsworth and Battersea; correspondence with clients; legal documents relating to properties including leases; and subpoenas to appear in the Court of Probate.

      Phillips Son and Neal , solicitors Tylee, Wickham and Moberly , solicitors
      PHILLIPS FAMILY
      GB 0074 ACC/1294 · Collection · 1792-1929

      Papers relating to the estate of Daniel Phillips of Bedfont, 1892-1929, including title deeds, solicitors' bills, trustees papers and bank books; and to the estate of his niece, Mary Elizabeth Phillips of Tottenham, {1792}-1925, including title deeds, letters, inland revenue forms, annual accounts, bank books and household accounts.

      Phillips , family , of Bedfont and Tottenham
      PHILLIPPS
      GB 0074 ACC/1126 · Collection · 1599-1831

      Collection of letters, including:

      • Letter from John Meryett at Hampton to Mr Ware, Scotland Yard, Westminster, 1746, regarding the King's River.

      • Letter from the Marquess of Tichfield [Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex] to the Rt. Hon. William Windham [Secretary at War], 1796, concerning the identity of Whitfield Harvey, an ensign in the Westminster Regiment. Col Cawthorne suspects that the present holder of the commission is an imposter.

      • Sworn statement by Thomas Meyer, made before R Ford at Bow Street, 1802, stating that from the examination of John Devlin, in custody at Liverpool, and the description of a hat in his possession, he believes the hat to be that worn by John Cole Steele when he was murdered, and that John Devlin is connected with the crime.

      • Letter from W Budd to the magistrates of the Police Office, Bow Street, enclosing handbills [missing] giving a description of a former dragoon suspected of the murder of Mr George Sergeant.

      • Letter from the Duke of Portland [Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex] to Viscount Melbourne, 1831, informing him that no accurate estimate of the numbers who "may be likely to join their colours" for militia exercise can be given from the numbers of those enrolled in the County of Middlesex, except in the case of country parishes.

      Various.
      PHILIPPS FAMILY
      GB 0074 ACC/0583 · Collection · 1700-1843

      Records relating to property, comprising title deeds to Oxgate Farm, Willesden; and title deeds, inventories, sales particulars and abstracts of title for premises in Twickenham, Kingsbury, Finchley and Chiswick. Also probate of will of Honorable Dorothy Charlotte Montagu of Hampton Court, 1821-1843.

      Various.
      Philippines political papers
      GB 0102 MS 380567 · 1972-1981

      Papers, 1972-1981 (some undated), on the Philippines, including typescripts, correspondence, maps, legal documents, press cuttings and other published material, some of the material produced by the Catholic Church, dealing with affairs in the Philippines, including the work of the Panamin government agency, the Chico River Basin Project (Northern Luzon) to dam the Chico River and submerge tribal villages, attempts to 'modernise' and convert minority ethnic groups to Christianity, including alleged abuses of human rights, and the political situation, including the policies of Ferdinand Marcos.

      Unknown
      PHILIP DENNING CHARITY
      GB 0074 ACC/2570 · Collection · 1778-1788

      Declaration of Trust Deed for a property in White Horse Alley near Cow Cross in St Sepulchre, Middlesex, 16 Mar 1778; with a transcript of the deed made in 1988.

      Unknown.
      GB 0074 ACC/2819 · Collection · 1892-1963

      Papers, 1892-1963, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Chelsea and Harrow; including leases, mortgages, conveyances and building agreements.

      Pettit and Westlake , solicitors
      GB 0096 MS 514 · c1792

      Manuscript 'Reasons for Mr. Hornblower's petitioning the Honourable House of Commons for an Act to extend the term of his patent', [24 Feb 1792]; the patent had been granted in 1781 for 14 years, permitting the use of his steam engine in the Cornish mines. The case of James Watt is cited: in 1774 he obtained an extension of a patent 'of a similar nature, for 25 years certain'.

      Unknown
      PETINGALE
      GB 0074 ACC/0938 · Collection · 1769-1964

      This collection consists mainly of property records (such as assignments, probates, leases and mortgages) relating to premises in Middlesex and London. It also contains twentieth-century sales catalogues and advertising brochures for properties.

      Various.
      GB 0074 ACC/2606 · Collection · 1901-1932

      Papers, 1901-1932, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to 37 (formerly 10) Courtfield Garden, Castle Hill, Ealing; including leases, assignments, mortgages and transfers of mortgages.

      Peter Kingshill and Company , solicitors
      GB 0120 WA/HSW · 1800-1985

      Papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome, 1800-1985, comprising articles, publications, financial records, legal records, administrative documents, property details, probate records, marriage and divorce records, diaries, microfiche of letter books, details of events, subscription lists, field and geological reports, press cuttings, photographs, ephemera, objects, and family papers dating back to 1800.

      Wellcome , Sir , Henry Solomon , 1853-1936 , Knight , manufacturing chemist, patron of science and archaeologist
      PERRYS {SOLICITORS}
      GB 0074 ACC/1621 · Collection · 1810-1907

      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.

      Perrys , solicitors
      PERRYS (EALING) LIMITED
      GB 0074 ACC/1701 · Collection · 1933

      Abstract of title of Perrys (Ealing) Ltd to number 65 Village Way, Ashford, part of Ashford Farm Estate, with plan, 1933.

      Perrys (Ealing) Ltd , aircraft component manufacturers
      Perlman, Melvin Lee
      GB 0102 PP MS 38 · Created 1890-1987

      Papers, 1890-1987, of Melvin Perlman, comprising correspondence; research data gathered during 1959-1962 for his study on Toro marriages in Uganda; data gathered for his research on Tea Estate Workers in Uganda; and his articles and lectures.

      Perlman , Melvin Lee , 1933-1988 , anthropologist
      GB 0074 ACC/3120 · Collection · 1882-1922

      Papers, 1882-1922, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Battersea and Wandsworth, including leases and mortgages.

      Percy Holt and Company , solicitors
      GB 0074 ACC/0969 · Collection · 1668-1935

      Records of Pennington and Sons (solicitors), comprising title deeds and other papers, 1668-1935 (some undated), relating to premises in:

      • Tottenham: West Green Lodge, 1842-1904, and Northumberland Park Road and Lansdowne Road, 1867-1905;
        • Harlington: Dawley, 1853-1879;
        • Hornsey: Harringay Terrace {later Turnpike Lane}, {18th century}, 1860-1919, and Hornsey Lane, 1668-1823;
        • Friern Barnet: Hungerdown {Hangerdown} Lane (later Station Road), Whetstone, 1827-1868;
        • Edmonton: Broome Field, 1853;
        • Willesden: Salisbury Terrace, Kilburn, 1864-1916, and Hanover Road, 1904-1914;
        • Hendon: papers of Catherine Houshold of St Mary's Abbey, Mill Hill, 1887-1890;
        • Acton: Goldsmith Road and Baldwin Gardens, 1891-1920;
        • property transactions of B W Parsons Ltd in Ealing, 1858-1931, Wimbledon, 1880-1935, Tunbridge Wells, 1900-1932, Surbiton, 1908, Ramsgate, Bournemouth, Charterhouse Street (London), Portsmouth and Monmouth, 1911-1935, and miscellaneous papers of B W Parsons Ltd, 1892-1932.
      Pennington and Sons , solicitors
      PENHALL, John Thomas
      GB 0074 E/PNL · Collection · 1816-1910

      Papers of the Penhall family relating to property owned by them in Lisson Grove, St Marylebone and Tottenham Street, St Pancras.

      N.B. Street numbering of premises in Lisson Grove/Lisson Grove North appear to have altered between c 1836 and {1856}. A subsequent change was made by an order of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 8 February 1878, Plan No.2074.

      Penhall , family , of Sussex
      GB 0074 O/179 · Collection · 1722-1880

      Papers, 1722-1880, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to premises in Grosvenor Square, including leases, mortgages, bargain and sale, indentures, assignments, fire insurance policies, inventory, abstract of title and agreements.

      Peake and Company , solicitors
      GB 0074 ACC/0958 · Collection · 1806-1878

      Papers, 1806-1878, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including probate of will of Robert Bellemey of Highgate, victualler; probate of will of Charles Lyne of Highgate, gentleman; release of estate of Charles Lyne from monies and trusts of will of Robert Bellamy [Bellemey]; letter and accounts relating to estate of Robert Bellamy [Bellemey]; probate of will of Rosetta Horrell, wife of William Horrell of Highgate, gentleman, and conveyance by bargain and sale and trust deed of a parcel of ground in Willesden with the chapel or meeting house erected thereon to be used for religious worship by Independents.

      Peacock, Fisher and Finch , solicitors
      PEACOCK FAMILY
      GB 0074 ACC/0414 · Collection · 1666-1878

      Records of the Peacock family relating to property in Hornsey, Highgate, Muswell Hill and Finchley; including title deeds, probates, settlements, abstract of title and legal proceedings.

      Various.
      GB 0074 E/WDW · Collection · 1870-1922

      Title deeds for properties in Brixton, Sydenham, Herne Hill, Tooting, and East Dulwich.

      Various.
      GB 0074 ACC/0841 · Collection · 1678-1891

      Papers relating to the Condell family of Greenford, including copies of court rolls, leases, probate and wills, marriage settlements, bonds, articles of agreement and correspondence relating to properties in Greenford and Northolt, 1678-1862. Also papers of the Sampson family relating to their property in Hendon and their stocks and shares, 1861-1891.

      Payne, Hicks, Beach and Company , solicitors
      GB 0099 KCLMA Paton Walsh · 1885-1947

      Papers comprising printed or typescript reports and supporting publications, on the 1 Army, North Africa, Civil Affairs Staff Centre (CASC), and on the administration of civilians in occupied territory including the Control Commission Germany (CCG), 1885-1947; notably comprising printed and typescript instructions, orders and reports issued by the Provost Marshal's Office, 1 Army, North Africa, including on traffic control, stores, planning, lessons learnt from the operations, intelligence summaries, 1 Army newsletters, 'Crusade', with an air raid precautions poster from Algeria, 1939-1943; reports and typescript summaries relating to the Civil Affairs Staff Centre (CASC), on 'captivity neurosis', the economics and finance of wartime Europe, fire and civil defence, road transport, military writing, the welfare of occupied populations, Nazi doctrines, files of information on national temperaments and characteristics of various occupied countries including Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany and Italy, 1943-1944; appointments diary compiled by Paton Walsh (1945), memoranda, correspondence and papers on aspects of the German penal system under the Nazis and Allied occupation, notably the police, procedures, juvenile courts, penal statistics from Nazi Germany, 1929-1947, including copies of British Zone Review, Nov 1945-Dec 1946; papers on the Control Commission Germany including confidential reports on police trainees, lectures given by Paton Walsh, the purging of Nazis from office, training and planning for post-Nazi administration, training and organisation of the penal system in Allied occupied Germany with observations on the regulation of the system under the Weimar Republic and the National Socialists, precautions against sabotage directed against occupying forces, 1943-1946; witnesses' depositions in the Nuremberg trials, account of Brendonk Concentration Camp, defence positions of the Gestapo, Sturm Abteilung (SA), 1945-1946; papers on Cologne Prison, including an autobiographical account and journal of Rudolf Kirsch, prisoner, and correspondence, 1939-1944, papers on executions at Cologne Prison with copies of the last letters of the condemned, 1941-1944; publications in English on military law, police and transport, mainly manuals, regulations and information notes on Imperial policing, traffic patrols, military law, inspection and care of vehicles, 1917-1945; publications on the Allied occupation of Germany, consisting of notes on the military government of occupied territory, internment camps, contact lists for civil administrators, Who's who in occupied Europe, chart of the Nazi administrative structure, re-education programmes, maps and gazetteers of Germany, Austria and Denmark, 1943-1945; American publications, namely civil affairs information guides, fileld manual of military government, an entertainment guide for American soldiers entitled, 'What's Cooking in Berlin', copies of The Stars and Stripes and the New York Herald Tribune, 1940-1946; general military handbooks including guidance for officers on allowances, the training of Army tradesmen, training manuals on air support of infantry and the use of parachute troops, catering, defence of aerodromes against attack, the disposition of unit records, signals, mine clearance, anti-malarial precautions, 1939-1943; Army Education booklets in a series entitled 'The British Way and Purpose', 1942-1943; German language publications on law, crime and prisons especially regulations, criminal biology, youth crime, 1885-1942; German National Socialist publications on topics ranging from flying schools, the SA in Berlin to the beginnings of radio broadcasting,1926-1946; maps, mainly Ordnance Survey and Stanfords, of United Kingdom cities and counties, including Wolverhampton, Winchester, Dover, East Sussex and Suffolk, 1913-1940; maps of Germany, central and eastern Europe, 1936-[1945]; maps of Algeria, French North Africa, Tunisia, 1942; propaganda cartoon and other posters published by the Evening Standard, Stationery Office and Army Bureau of Current Affairs, 1944; 1 file of telegrams, commission of 1918 and details of the various promotions of Paton Walsh, 1916-1947.

      Walsh , Edmund James Paton , 1897-1985 , Brigadier
      Patent assignment
      GB 0096 MS 855 · 1878

      Draft of an assignment of a patent for an unnamed invention, originally procured by B.E. Clark in 1878 as agent for Almet Reed of New York. Almet Reed assigned the patent to John van Dussen Reed of New York. Signed by B.E. Clark.

      Unknown
      GB 0074 ACC/0328 · Collection · 1813-1872

      Papers of the trustees of the will of Jonathan Passingham, relating to the management of Heston Farm, North Hyde Farm, and the Depot Estates, Heston.

      Various.
      PARTRIDGE FAMILY
      GB 0074 ACC/0253 · Collection · 1769-1924

      Records of the Partridge family, comprising title deeds for premises in Hendon and Edgware, including exemplification of common recovery; copies of court rolls; leases and releases; land tax certificates; and mortgages.

      Various.
      GB 0096 MS 55 · c1689-1743

      Manuscript volumes containing abstracts of parliamentary bills relating to revenue, dating from the reign of King William III and Queen Mary II, c1689 -1743.

      Unknown
      GB 0074 ACC/0909 · Collection · 1774-1820

      Papers, 1774-1820, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising a lease and release, an assignment, a marriage settlement, a will and legal correspondence relating to premises in Bloomsbury, Mile End and Ham Common, Richmond upon Thames.

      Parker, Garrett and Company , solicitors
      GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP76 · [1832-1833]

      Volume entitled 'Questions for Debate', [1832-1833], being legal questions devised by Professor John James Park, with some references to cases.

      Park , John James , 1795-1833 , Professor of English Law and Jurisprudence
      GB 0074 ACC/1371 · Collection · 1851-1898

      Papers, 1851-1898, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Harlesden and Willesden, including mortgages, leases and correspondence.

      Park, Nelson, Dennes, Redfern and Company , solicitors
      GB 0074 ACC/0833 · Collection · 1920

      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.

      Park, Nelson, Dennes and Company , solicitors
      GB 0074 ACC/0598 · Collection · 1676-1953

      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.

      Various.
      GB 0074 M/92 · Collection · 1580-1936

      Records of Paris Garden Manor, Southwark, including title deeds such as morgages, leases, and releases; probates, wills and letters of administration; courts leet and courts baron books; court minute books; licence books; lists of copyholders; papers relating to tenants; and map of the manor.

      Manor of Paris Garden , Southwark