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SUBJECT SERIES: INDIVIDUALS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): COL/SD

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SUBJECT SERIES: INDIVIDUALS

Date(s): 1660-1998

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 0.95 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Corporation of London

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Files relating to various individuals connected to the history of the Corporation of London, collected during the course of normal business and used for reference purposes.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to the Royal Family, including papers relating to the organisation of coronations, including proclamations, financial accounts and extracts on precedent, 1714-1984; papers relating to royal funerals, including proclamations and extracts regarding mourning precedents, 1694-1952; notes of precedents as to ceremonial entries of Kings and Queens into the City, 1689-1814; accounts of money subscribed by the Companies and bills of expenses of the Coronation of King Charles II 1661, and accounts book detailing monies spent on royal entertainments and the building of the ship Loyal London, 1660-1665; bills for expenses incurred by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Common Councilmen on Committees attending upon the King at Newmarket, Windsor, Hampton Court, 1674; bills for expenses incurred carrying surgeons to Windsor, 1687; payments to nurses, the reader of the news and to the City's waits and music, for their service and performance on the thanksgiving day for the birth of the young Prince James Francis Edward, son of King James II, 1688; contemporary copy of the Prince William of Orange's letter to the Common Council 16 Dec 1688, with a copy of the answer of the Common Council, 17 Dec 1688; precept to the Aldermen "to cause their ward beadle to visit each house along the route to give notice to the inhabitants to decorate their balconies and windows and pave and amend and clean the streets and to give orders that no coaches or carts stand in the streets" for the passage through the City of William III, 1697; reception of George I on his way from Hanover to St James Palace as he passed through the City, 20 Sep 1714; extracts as to the visit of Her Majesty Queen Charlotte to the Mansion House at the annual examination of the children of the City of London National Schools, 1818; report to the Court of Mayor and Aldermen in relation to police arrangements for the public entry of the Princess Alexandra, 7 Mar 1863.

Arrangements for the reception of Queen Victoria on the occasion of general thanksgiving, on 27 Feb 1872, for the recovery of Edward, the Prince of Wales, with newspaper cutting of 12 Dec 1871 concerning the Prince's illness and a chart of the progress of the Prince's illness with details of the bulletins issued, 23 Nov 1871 - 8 Jan 1872, also papers of Thanksgiving Committee; arrangements for George V Silver Jubilee week, 1935 and public relations material relating to celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee, 1977.

Papers relating to individuals connected with the City of London, including certificates of a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and others relating to the poverty of Mary Murrey, daughter of Sir Mungo and Lady Anne Murrey, owing chiefly to the suffering of her father through his loyalty to King Charles 1, 1689; certificates demanding a poll on behalf of John Wilkes, 1776; answer to the defence of John Wilkes, by J Dumford, 1784; minutes of the proceedings of a Committee of the Whole Court of Aldermen to investigate the charges made against Alderman Thomas Wood in respect of the Talacre Mining Company, 1842-1843; minute book and papers of Committee to organise the funeral and monument of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, 1852-1857; diary of Lady Eliza Moore, Wife of Sir John Voce Moore, as Lady Mayoress, 1899; programmes for Corporation of London events attended by Committee Clerk R A Miller, 1953-1968 and articles relating to various London persons and families including extracts relating to the orphans of John Donne, citizen and ironmonger, died [1576], father of John Donne the poet, Dean of St Paul's, compiled 1952; The Tattered Flag by K.N. Marshall, 1985 article on the fragments of the flag supposedly torn up at Nelson's funeral in 1806; The Charles Lamb Bulletin, published by the Charles Lamb Society, 1998 and articles on Robert Hooke's work as Surveyor for the City of London in the aftermath of the Great Fire, 1998.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

In sections according to catalogue.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: City of London

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Corporation of London Records Office

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: February 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Royal funerals | Funeral | Religious ceremony | Religious practice | Religious activities
Royal jubilees | Jubilees | Festivals | Cultural events | Leisure time activities | Leisure
Royal visits | Visits | Cultural activities | Cultural action
Coronations (events)
Royal family

Personal names
Alexandra | 1844-1925 | consort of King Edward VII x Princess Alexandra of Denmark
Charles II | 1630-1685 | King of Great Britain and Ireland
Charlotte | 1744-1818 | consort of King George III x Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Donne | John | 1572-1631 | poet and Church of England clergyman
Edward VII | 1841-1910 | King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the British dominions beyond the seas, and emperor of India
Elizabeth II | b 1926 | Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
George I | 1660-1727 | King of Great Britain and Ireland and elector of Hanover
George V | 1865-1936 | King of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British dominions beyond the seas, and emperor of India
Hooke | Robert | 1635-1703 | natural philosopher
James II and IV | 1633-1701 | King of Great Britain and Ireland
Stuart | James Francis Edward | 1688-1766 | Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Victoria | 1819-1901 | Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India
Wellesley | Arthur | 1769-1852 | 1st Duke of Wellington | Field Marshal and statesman x Wellington | 1st Duke of
Wilkes | John | 1725-1797 | politician
William III and II | 1650-1702 | King of Great Britain and Ireland, and prince of Orange

Corporate names
Corporation of London

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Hertfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe