Records of the Charitable Trusts of the Drapers' Company containing leases, agreements, certificates, bonds, petitions, bills, accounts, letters, rolls, including:
papers concerning Howell's Trust (founded 1540), relating to Thomas Howell and the establishment of the Trust, 1537-1619; property at Dowgate, London, 1619-1902; property in Austin Friars, 1709-1890; property in Bread Street, London, 1849-1933; property in Allhallows, Kent, 1690-; administration of the Trust, Welsh orphans' kinship certificates and Howell's School Denbigh, lands and school records;
papers concerning the Walters' Trust, bequeathed 1656, relating to property in Harlington, Bedfordshire; property in Drapers' Street in St. Mary Newington, London; property in Lombard Street and Cornhill in St. Mary Woolnoth, London; property in Beech Street and Beech Lane in St. Giles Cripplegate, London; property in Lonsdale Square, St. George's Terrace and Upper Barnsbury Street (formerly Gossey Field) in Islington; The Almshouses; property in Lime Street in St. Dionysius Backchurch, London; property in Cock Alley and Wood Street in St. Peter in Westcheap, London; personal and miscellaneous papers of John Walter;
papers concerning Bancroft's Trust, bequeathed 1727, relating to the foundation of an almshouse and school for boys, and Rent Charge on House in Honey Lane, 1433/4-1748; Mile End and Woodford, Essex (matters connected with the property and management of the school), 1655-1954; property in Clopton Hall, alias South Hall, in the parish of Dunmow, Essex 1285/6-1942; property in Woodham Ferris, Essex, 1768-1920; property in Chiswick, London, 1663-1881; property in Hadleigh, Suffolk, 1540/1-1937; Nos. 273, 274, 276 and 277 High Holborn, in the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, 1577/8-1920; Yorkshire Fee Farm Rents, 1649-1920; The Manor of Appley, Appley Grange, Lincolnshire and the Manors of Westbury and Sellars, Gloucestershire and other lands in Gloucester and Hereford, 1620-1742/3; Lands in Huntingdonshire settled on the marriage of George Bond with Elizabeth, daughter of John Bancroft, in 1689, 1661-1691; property in Gracechurch Street, London, 1661-1876; the moiety of a house in the Poultry, London; property in Poultry, London, 1668-1876; property in Prittlewell, Essex, 1721-1938; Personal papers of Francis Bancroft and other miscellaneous papers, 1614/5-1891; property in St. Gregory, Paul's Chain, London1727-1901; property in St. Stephen, Coleman Street, London; property in St. Mary Aldermay, Cannon Street and College Hill, London, 1852-1909. papers concerning Harwar's Trust [1703/4] for the establishment of almshouses, relating to lands purchased by Harwar's executors for support of the charity and known as Hawks and Beetle's Farm in Kent, 1365-1926; the Shoreditch Almshouses, 1703-1822; accounts, 1705-1718; and additional documents, 1833-1844;
papers concerning Royley's Trust relating its administration, 1486-1954;
Papers concerning Queen Elizabeth College (founded 1574) relating to Brenchley Manor, Cryal's Farm, Chelmill Farm, Curtis Farm, Beltring Farm, Pinden End Farm and Brattles messuage, Kent, 1546-1920; property in Greenwich, Kidbrook and Charlton, Kent, 1634-1960; Queen Elizabeth College, East Greenwich, 1607-1937; additional manuscripts, 1577-1967; ordinances and account books, 1578-1864;
papers concerning Henry Dixon's Trust [1695] relating to the manors of Bennington and Munden, Herts, 1539-1926; the manor of Enfield, Middlesex, 1474-1959; property in Poultry, 1578-1878; property in Finchley, 1640-1646; Henry Dixon's account books, 1634-1695; personal papers of Henry Dixon jnr, 1650-1695; the administration of the trust, 1697-1889;
papers concerning Kendrick's Trust [1624] relating to property in Fleet Street and Fetter Lane, 1622-1901; administration of the trust, 1624-1903;
papers concerning Russell's Trust [1593] relating to property in All Hallows, Barking, St Edmund the King, and St Leonard, Shoreditch, 1311-1935; administration of the trust, 1603-1936; pensioners roll and receipt books, 1840-1879; Barton School, 1593-1609;
papers concerning Rainey's Trust [1633] relating to its administration, 1546-1940;
papers concerning Dummer's Trust [1574] relating to its administration, 1302-1898;
papers concerning Pennoyer's Trust [1654] relating to property, 1651-1877, and trust administration, 1728-1955;
papers concerning Pemmel's Trust [1681] relating to its administration, 1681-1898;
papers concerning Boreman's Trust [1684-5] relating to general matters of the estates and the trust, 1684-1927; the school or to the foundationers at Greenwich Hospital School, 1689-1897; Greenwich properties, 1653-1934; property in Otford, Kent, 1889; property in Pulham, Norfolk, 1656-1927; property in Bockingfield, Kent, 1660-1939; the Nautical School, 1659-1939;
Papers concerning the Advowson of the Rectory of St. Michael, Cornhill, and the Lectureship there endowed by John Rainey (Rayny or Ranie), 1501-2002; Wrench family papers, 1760-1950;
papers concerning Starling's Trust [1673] relating to its administration, 1675-1785;
papers concerning Stock's Trust [1780] relating its administration, 1780-1870;
papers concerning Colbron's Trust [1672] relating its administration, [1523]-1949;
papers concerning Clark's Trust [1672] relating its administration, 1584-1921;
papers concerning Callum's Trust [1662] relating its administration, 1543-1892, 1985;
papers concerning Crowley's Trust [1713] relating its administration, 1713-1760;
papers concerning Lucas Hospital, Wokingham [1663] relating to the site of the Hospital and estates in Flitton, Pulloxhil, Harlington and Higham Gobion, Bedfordshire, 1418-1954; administration of the hospital, 1663-1939;
papers concerning Calley's Trust [1515] relating to its administration, 1719-1945;
papers concerning Buck's Trust [1620] relating to its administration, 1487-1939;
papers concerning Edmanson's Trust [1696] relating to property in Queenhithe, 1400-1731; property in Wapping, 1673-1741; property in Betts St, 1664-; property in Box, 1578-;
papers concerning Jolles' Trust [1621] relating to property in Mark Lane, 1515-1891; school at Bow Lane, 1606-1891; general administration of the Trust, 1620-1918;
papers concerning Grainger's Trust [1769] relating to its administration, 1769-1860;
papers concerning Soley's Trust [1879] relating to its administration, 1879-1918;
papers concerning Adam's Trust [1668] relating to its administration, 1663-1939;