Papers of Major Harry Ronald Jacobs and his father Hyman Jacobs acquired during their service as Common Councilmen, including programmes and menus from Corporation and linked functions, 1938-1966; programmes and menus from non-Corporation functions including London County Council 1960, Freemasons 1948-1965, Bassishaw Ward 1962, Portsoken Ward 1946-1963, Livery Companies: Haberdashers' Company 1960-1961, Paviors' Company 1947-1966, Skinners' Company no date [c. 1950s?], Solicitors' Company 1960, Wheelwrights' Company 1964, City Pickwick Club 1962-1966, City University 1966, United Synagogue Orders of Service 1960; official Corporation publications and guides; art, library and museum catalogues 1950-1965; brochures from the Festival of the City of London 1962-1966; and publication The Corporation of the City of London and the First Twelve of the Great City Guilds in the Diamond Jubilee Year of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1897. Also Broker's Medal of Charles Telford, 1841.

Papers, 1707-1760, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising copies of court rolls of the Manor of Colham.

Letters to Margaret Mackintosh, found during renovations at a dilapidated Victorian house in Ealing. There are ninety two letters in all: thirteen from Willoughby, February 1869-August 1872 and January-March 1877; thirteen from James, July 1871-March 1876; six from Ethel, May 1874-early 1877; six from Mary Anne, May 1874-January 1877; six from members of the Holmden family, June 1871-December 1877; one from Mrs. Mackintosh's brother, Alex Macpherson, undated; four from her friends the MacIrvines, September 1874-December 1876, and thirty three from various other friends.

There are also four letters to Willoughby from his uncle Alex, brother and sister-in-law; one to Mary Anne from an unnamed woman friend; one, almost undecipherable, to MA; one to a Mrs. Brodie from a Miss Paul; one to a Mrs. Ferguson from Alex Macpherson; one to "dearest Lucy", unsigned, and one which has neither beginning nor end.

Apart from the letters there is a certain amount of miscellanea: a dressmakers bill; a list of subscribers to a good cause; two prescriptions (Mrs. Mackintosh was troubled by a persistant cough, and Willoughby by asthma); a wedding invitation; a "short account of Miss Macready's last illness and death written by her nurse"; two manuscript verses, one a copy of "Work for the night is coming ...." and the other a long piece of doggerel extolling the virtues and recording the passing of little Nellie, aged about three; and finally two faded photographs, one of a bearded man in Victorian dress and the other of a younger man in an academic gown.

Papers, 1791-1894, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties mainly in Hornsey; Highgate; Chelsea and Saint Martin in the Fields parish, Westminster; including papers relating to the assignment of leasehold premises in South Wood Lane, Highgate for use for Saint Michael's Infant and Sunday School, Highgate, 1841.

Documents relating to the premises of the Lorival Manufacturing Company, 1840-1927, comprising conveyances, mortgages, leases for premises in Norwood, including Norwood Court; powers of attorney, agreement, release and discharge relating to the dedication of piece of land for widening Norwood Road and copies of Court Roll and conveyances for property in Heston, part of the premises of the Lorival Manufacturing Company.

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.

Deeds and legal documents, 1765-1909, relating to property in Great Stanmore, including papers relating to the Great House (later known as Hill House) and Charles Fortnum, antiquarian.

Papers, 1837-1890, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties mainly in Ealing; including copies from the court roll of the manor of Ealing.

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.

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.

Papers, 1865-1887, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising probate of will of Veere Woodman of Great Stanmore, farmer; probate of will of Elizabeth Woodman of Great Stanmore, widow and probate of will of Richard Pyatt of No. 4 Hill Martin Villas, Nightingale Road, Wood Green, gentleman.

Papers, 1867-1909, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising leases and agreements relating to properties in Shepperton; Halliford; Littleton; Weybridge; Chertsey, Chobham, Addlestone; Byfleet and Bournemouth, Hampshire. The documents include leases of farmland owned by William Schaw Lindsay, owner of the Manor House, Shepperton.

Records of the novelist George Payne Rainsford James and his family, a total of about 350 items, with documents relating to other families, either short series or isolated items. There are several wills and settlements among the papers (ACC/0976/136-155). The manuscript of chapters 14-22 of the novel Ehrenstein is preserved among these archives (ACC/0976/163). There is a series of title deeds to an entailed estate at Hampton Wick and Teddington inherited by James; papers relating to law-suits with various publishers (ACC/0976/156-171); and a petition to the Foreign Secretary (ACC/0976/222).

Deeds of premises in Chiswick, Edmonton, Feltham, Finchley, Hampton, Hanwell, Harmondsworth, Heston, Hayes, Staines, Stanwell, Tottenham, and Uxbridge.

Papers of John William Couchman and Harold Seymour Couchman, surveyors, agents to the lords of the manors of Tottenham and Edmonton and civil engineers, 1789-1938. The majority of the papers are those of John William Couchman who was a civil engineer (in particular, apparently, a waterworks expert) and a surveyor and valuer, but a few later ones relate to his successor, Harold Seymour Couchman.

John William Couchman acted as surveyor and agent to the lords of the manors of Tottenham and Edmonton. Most of the manorial documents are valuations for enfranchisement of copyhold property. These cover the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and are arranged alphabetically under the names of the copyholders. There is also, however, a survey of Tottenham manor of circa 1830 and two rentals of quit and waste rents for Tottenham and one for Edmonton, together with correspondence with the local urban district councils over their purchase of manorial waste.

The remainder of the collection consists of documents concerning property of the Sperling family and of others for whom Couchman acted as agent; his own papers relating to various engineering projects - notably that to provide a drinking water supply for Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados, papers concerning the Tithe rent charges for Tottenham (for which he acted as valuer), various sales particulars including one of 1789 for Bruce Castle and Mount Pleasant, and two albums of photographs taken at the end of the last century which are of considerable interest.

Papers, 1827-1894, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising probate copies of wills and letters of administration; leases for property in Haringey, Highgate and Paddington.

Records of the church of Saint Margaret, Uxbridge, comprising the foundation charter of a perpetual chantry for one chaplain [Walter Shiryngton?], 1459.

Papers collected by the bankers in the course of their work, comprising declaration of trust stating that annuity of £220 purchased by William L. Johnson of Camberwell to be held in trust for Mary A. Wood of Hadley, widow of George Wood and William L. Wood of Horton House, Berkshire, army major, by David Jennings of Essex Street, Strand, solicitor, 1834; articles of partnership, establishing partnership in barge-building business (to be known as 'Recknell and White') between William Recknell of High Street, Old Brentford, barge builder and Frederick White of Long Ditton, Surrey, barge builder, 1874; probate of will of George Howell of 33 (formerly 69) Sunnyside Road, Hornsey Rise, carpenter; made 5 July 1878; mortgage for piece of land at Northwood in Ruislip parish (now Murray Road), 1889.

Papers, 1811-1886, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising probates and letters of administration as below:

Whyman Butler, of Staines 22 March 1826 (Probate of will)
Joseph Merrick, of Stanwell 22 Sept. 1828 (Probate of will)
Robert Heath, of Stanwell 22 Nov. 1832 (Administration)
Robert Heath, of Stanwell 28 July 1845 (Probate of will)
Mary E.J. Heath, of Stanwell 23 July 1875 (Probate of will)
Charles Jordan, of Marylebone 24 May 1839 (Probate of will)
Marthe Jordan, of Stanwell 15 Jan. 1842 (Probate of will)
Elizabeth Jordan, of Pentonville 18 March 1851 (Probate of will)
Edmund Jordan, of Stanwell 14 Oct. 1856 (Probate of will)
Thomas Maish, of Colnbrook, Mdx. 8 July 1843 (Probate of will)
Robert Maish, of Colnbrook, Mdx. 22 June 1848 (Probate of will)
Elizabeth Tilly, of Staines 15 June 1860 (Probate of will)
Jacob Brown, of Clerkenwell 19 Oct. 1811 (Probate of will)
Alexander Rainy, of Westminster 22 Sept. 1832 (Probate of will)
H.C.S. Dalzell, of Marylebone 24 May 1839 (Probate of will)
Louisa Millns, of Bryanston Sq. 24 Oct. 1839 (Probate of will)
John Butterfield, of Hackney 16 April 1845 (Administration)
Dorothy M. Shakeshaft, of Chelsea 13 March 1854 (Probate of will)
Robert Cheal, of Chelsea 3 Sept. 1863 (Probate of will)
Elizabeth Chantler, of Stoke Newington 28 Dec. 1871 (Administration)
Sarah E.I. Thomson, of Paddington 24 April 1879 (Probate of will)
Elizabeth I. Sandby, of Paddington 16 Dec. 1880 (Administration)
Eliza Ann Sandby, of Kensington 20 April 1886 (Probate of will)

Papers, 1795-1860, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to the Jamaican estates of Reverend Isaac Robinson and his wife Rebecca Bond, including marriage settlement, deed of trusts and copy of draft general report in Chancery action taken by Abraham Watson Rutherford and others versus Sarah Wilkinson, widow, Revd. Isaac Robinson and Rebecca his wife and others in the matter of estate of William Bond, deceased, executor and residuary legatee of brother Thomas Bond, deceased, both West India merchants, with schedules of accounts relating principally to management of sugar and coffee plantations in Jamaica and sale of produce. Also documents relating to trusteeships held by clerk Thomas Robinson of Milford; and conveyances by lease and release for Bittacy House in Mill Hill.

Records of John Barton relating to the trust of Thomas Woodrouffe Smith. Apart from property in Essex, Surrey, Norfolk and the City of London, T. W. Smith was the owner and lord of the Manor of Teddington, and the bulk of the material in this deposit relates to that manor, including a series of court rolls. Throughout the Middle Ages the manor was the property of Westminster Abbey, being granted to Henry VIII in exchange for other lands in 1536, who then made it part of the Honour of Hampton Court. In 1603 it was granted to John Hill {1246/019} and its subsequent ownership can be seen from the deeds in this deposit {1246/019-082}. Between 1802 and 1863 John Barton's trustees sold the manor and demesne lands off in parcels, which heralded the beginning of Teddington's urbanisation. This and a previous deposit of manor court books {see ACC/0363} came from the solicitors who had acted for the trustees in the 1860's.

Papers, 1638-1932, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Hendon, Manor of Isleworth Syon, Stoke Newington, Hornsey, Tottenham and Enfield, including wills, fines, conveyances, exemplifications of common recovery, mortgages, bonds, bargain and sales and lease and releases.

Records of Topsfield Manor, Crouch End, Hornsey, including court book, 1683-1885, including tenants names and steward's notes; plan of the manor house, gardens, out buildings, demesne lands and fields, 1781; conveyance of the manor and lordship of Topsfield Hall, 1855 and particulars of sale for the Harringay Arms and other premises in Crouch Hill and Crouch End Broadway.

Documents received from Altergo Limited, computer consultants, comprising a lease for a messuage known as "Witham House" on east side of London Road, Harrow on the Hill, with garden in front and at rear, 1887; a bond stating that George Chapman Briggs M.D. of Gothic House, Harrow, will pay George Tonge of 25 Brunswick Place, Brighton, Sussex, £504. 17s. 6d, 1891; and a deed of dissolution of partnership, assigning William and Arthur Hurley of 19 Windsor Road, Palmers Green a share and interest in business of wholesale label and tag makers, general printers, lithographers and manufacturing stationers at No. 7 Fann Street, City of London, including use of firm name of Sutcliffe and Hurley, 1912.

This collection consists of the diaries of two members of the Scott Turner family, the widow of Major Henry Scott Turner and her youngest son Cecil. Mrs. Turner's diaries cover the years 1885 to 1888 and record social engagements, domestic incidents and local events. Her daily routine is highlighted by visits, walks and outings to church, parties, and occasionally the theatre. She mentions friends and neighbours by name. The activities of her sons are prominent, but she appears to reserve her deepest affection for Cecil, her youngest. She rarely records her innermost feelings in the diaries, and allows her sons to write up entries. In the first diary she writes "End of 1885 which has had its troubles-tho' they may not be recorded here" (ACC/1385/001a). Events of national interest are only noted in passing, for example the Queen's jubilee celebrations in 1887 and the death of the German Emperor on 9 March 1888. The diaries provide a glimpse into the day to day existence, at times dull and humdrum, of a middle class woman of the late Victorian era.

After an education at Rugby and Oxford, Cecil Turner became a solicitor in London where his uncle Harcourt was a partner in the firm of M and H Turner, 22 Sackville Street, Piccadilly (ref. Law list, 1889). A letter dated 1911 found in one of the diaries is addressed to M C S Turner Esquire, 199, Piccadilly (ACC/1385/039, 31 December). For the most part Cecil only mentions his work briefly, with an occasional reference to a law suit or other business. His diaries are a record of his daily activities for 59 years, from the age of 27 to that of 85. They contain accounts of social engagements, particularly outings to the theatre and art galleries, visits to and from friends and relations, the state of the weather, his health, and domestic incidents. He made many visits, both at home and abroad, including voyages to South Africa where his soldier brother Henry was killed in 1899. He had many friends among the gentry and spent holidays shooting, walking and bicycling and attended country house parties. In his later years he became a convert to the Roman Catholic faith and his diaries reflect the great comfort he gained from this. As the years pass he is increasingly reminded of mortality and, with the death of his sister-in-law Dora in 1946, he is the last member of his immediate family left alive. Although the diaries comment on outside events, such as the progress of the two world wars, they are essentially the personal record of a professional gentleman, reflecting the minutiae of middle-class life in a rapidly changing world.

Records of Benjamin and Mary Eager relating to their property in Brentford and Ealing.

Papers, 1817-1961, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties at Chiswick, Hayes, Hendon, Hornsey, Islington, Isleworth, Shepperton, Stanwell, and Shoreditch, including agreements, copies of court rolls, conveyances, mortgages, leases and releases, assignments, letters of indemnity, deeds of covenant and sales particulars.

Title deeds and property transfer papers relating to the Harman family property in Uxbridge, including the brewery premises and public houses.

Papers, 1791-1938, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Saint Marylebone, Ealing, Edmonton and Sydenham comprising leases, abstracts of title and correspondence. Also papers of Harriette Turner of Camberwell, relating to her marriages, properties and financial accounts.

Papers, 1800-1896, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Old Park Estate, Enfield; Strawberry House, Chiswick and Stanwell, including probate of will, conveyances, mortagages, copies of court rolls and leases. Also papers of Lear Drew including licences to assign leases, agreements and leases.

Papers, 1856-1893, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Acton, Stanwell and Saint Marylebone, including release, assignment of leasehold premises, marriage settlement, probate of will, covenant for production of deeds and conveyance.

Records of Thomas Poynder, including plans of his estate at Isleworth, 1819 and 1821. Also papers relating to a dispute of the wills of Bisse Richards of Wimbledon, Surrey, and of his mother Eleanor Richards, 1758; and plan of property at Hampstead belonging to the Reverend Dr Williams, 1833.

Records relating to poor relief in the parish of Edmonton, 1705-1770, including examinations, warrants and removal orders.

Confirmation notebook of the Reverend Frederick Goldsworthy Croom. Candidates came from Southwark, Bermondsey, and Shoreditch.

Records of the Fox-Strangways family (Earls of Ilchester) relating to their estates, including Holland Park Estate. Also contains records inherited by the family in 1874 from the Fox family (Baron Holland) and the Edwardes family (Baron Kensington), who previously owned Holland Park Estate.

The estate records of Holland Park Estate include leases, deeds, mortgages, rental account books and agreements.

Records of the Codd family, including journal/diary of Harrison Gordon Codd, Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex, 1824-40, recording his involvement in society and government, giving for example, his thoughts on the Poor Law Enquiry 1832, and his friendship with Nassau Senior, and details of family life and events (including a list of his children and their dates of birth on page one); journal/diary of Sophy Shirley Codd, daughter of Harrison Gordon Codd, 1835-36, giving details of daily employment (reading, writing, drawing, singing) and places visited (including Regent's Park Zoological Gardens and several picture exhibitions), and describing the death of her sister, Emma; and journal/diary of Frances Anne Codd, daughter of Harrison Gordon Codd, 1840-1879, recording her daily routine but placing emphasis on visits and outings, including pressed flowers and numerous prints of places visited. Also some Codd family papers including obituaries, correspondence, photographs, event programmes and family history.

Drawings of seals of monastic bodies in London, Southwark and Westminster. The drawings are by Howlett, the descriptions by his friend and patron John Caley, FRS.

Papers of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. The records comprise: interment order books and registers of burials, [1671]-1854; accounts, 1788-1854; and a volume concerning stones taken out, 1840-1854. There are also records of monumental inscriptions, 19th century, together with alphabetical index of surnames based on a tomb survey of 1972, with plans, 1973, which are useful for locating surviving monuments.

Records of the Court of Exchequer, comprising Exchequer bill; roll of estreats of fines and forfeitures at the sessions of the peace for London and Middlesex; and record book relating to the King's revenue.

Records of the Anglican Chaplaincy in Finland, comprising:
minutes, 1922-67 (Ms 20884);
papers of the chairman and/or secretary, 1941-70 (Ms 20885);
financial records, 1949-67 (Ms 20886-7);
annual reports, 1923-52 (Ms 20888);
newsletters and other circulars, 1952-80 (Ms 20889);
registers of services, 1920-73 (Ms 20890);
roll of membership, [1900?]-1956 (Ms 20891);
registers of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, burials and cremations, 1920-61 (Ms 20892-2A);
papers relating to marriages, 1965-72 (Ms 20892B);
architect's drawings of proposed new church, 1928 (Ms 20893); and
correspondence and related papers, 1937-81 (Ms 20894-900).

Register of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Aix-les-Bains Anglican Chaplaincy, France.

Records of the British Church of Saint Andrew, Moscow, Russia; including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; minute book of meetings of the subscribers; articles defining the position of the church; and cash book.

Records of the British Protestant Church of Saint George, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal; comprising register of baptisms, 1827-1902 (Ms 23643), register of marriages, 1827-62 and 1945 (Ms 23644), register of burials, 1827-1955 (Ms 23645), and interment certificates, 1905-6 and civil registrations of death, 1911-42 (Ms 23645A). They were catalogued in 1988 by a member of Guildhall Library staff.

Readers are requested to use the photocopies of the registers (Ms 23643/1A, 23644/1A, 23644/1A) rather than the originals.

Records of Christ Church Anglican church, Naples, Italy, including burial registers; service books; title deeds; minute books; churchwarden's books; correspondence files; annual reports; financial accounts; and a history of the church.

Records of Hamburg Anglican Chaplaincy, Germany, comprising: registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1815-1939 (Ms 25100-4); service registers, 1893-1922 (Ms 25105); book of subscriptions towards the building of the church, 1834-8 (Ms 25106); church record book, 1884-1914 (Ms 25107); and correspondence, papers and plans of the Committee, 1834-9 (Ms 25108). They were catalogued in 1992 by a member of Guildhall Library staff.

Records of the Jerez de la Frontera Anglican Chaplaincy, Spain, comprising: register of baptisms, 1878-1966 (Ms 21026); and register of burials, 1873-1977 (Ms 21027). They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1984.

Records of the Royal Memorial Church of Saint George, Cannes, France, comprising memorandum and articles of association of the Duke of Albany Memorial Church Society, 1886 (Ms 23615); register of baptisms, 1887-1960 (Ms 23616); service registers, 1887-1964 (Ms 23617); and church inventory, 1907-31 (Ms 23618).

Records of Saint George the Martyr Anglican Church, Pisa, Italy, including register of marriages, minutes of the trustees, papers relating to the building of the chapel, Churchwarden's papers, and financial accounts.

Personal papers of Reverend Philip Clayton including family correspondence; personal certificates and letters of appointment; research notes; diaries; papers relating to the parish of All Hallows Barking by the Tower including sermons, newsletters, correspondence, articles, press cuttings and administration; papers relating to Toc H including articles, reminiscences, correspondence, annual reports, press cuttings, talks, papers relating to overseas visits by Clayton, papers relating to charity work, sermons, leaflets, biographical notes on people associated with Toc H, photographs, and publications by Clayton on Toc H; articles, sermons and prayers by Clayton; and photographs of Clayton and various family members.

These records include papers relating to the activities of Valens and Stephen Comyn as attorneys for the executor of Richard Marples, auditor to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral; and bills, cheques and receipts relating to the Comyn household.