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London Metropolitan Archives

WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF WOODMONGERS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/L/WE

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF WOODMONGERS

Date(s): 1661

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 double sheet, paper, mounted on card

Name of creator(s): Worshipful Company of Woodmongers

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

A woodmonger was a dealer in wood; and especially a seller of wood for fuel.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Record of the Worshipful Company of Woodmongers, comprising copy order of the court authorising Thomas Wright to occupy a carroom in his possession.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ACCESS: These records are stored at the Guildhall Library site rather than the LMA Clerkenwell site. Researchers wishing to access these records should do so at the Guildhall Library Rare Books table. The Library is open Monday to Saturday, 9:30 to 16:45. Researchers will need to have an Archives History Card or a Library Readers Card. An archivist will be available at Guildhall Library on Thursday mornings to answer any queries.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The catalogue has been arranged in sections, as follows: A: Constitutional records.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ACCESS: These records are stored at the Guildhall Library site rather than the LMA Clerkenwell site. Researchers wishing to access these records should do so at the Guildhall Library Rare Books table. The Library is open Monday to Saturday, 9:30 to 16:45. Researchers will need to have an Archives History Card or a Library Readers Card. An archivist will be available at Guildhall Library on Thursday mornings to answer any queries. For further information please see LMA Research Guide "Consulting Archives at Guildhall Library", available at http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Leisure_and_culture/Records_and_archives/Visitor_information/free_information_leaflets.htm

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: Depositor.

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

This item was transferred to Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section in 1919, and was catalogued soon after by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Manuscripts Section merged with London Metropolitan Archives in 2008.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

No other records of this company are known to survive, apart from a charter, ordinance and memorandum book, 17th-18th centuries, at the Bodleian Library (Ms. Rawlinson D725B).

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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: Oct-09


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Timber | Materials
Timber industry | Industry
Timber merchants | Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Trade guilds | Guilds | Associations | Organizations
Wood (fuel) | Fuels
Wood (material) | Forest products | Agricultural products

Personal names

Corporate names
Worshipful Company of Woodmongers

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