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SAINT JAMES, DUKE'S PLACE: CITY OF LONDON


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 P69/JS1

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SAINT JAMES, DUKE'S PLACE: CITY OF LONDON

Date(s): 1623-1943

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 4.08 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Parish of St James, Duke's Place, City of London | Church of England

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Saint James, Duke's Place, was established in 1622. Unlike the parish jurisdictions of Saint Andrew Undershaft and Saint Katherine Cree, that of Saint James Duke's Place was unusual. In 1623 the parish church was consecrated on a site in Aldgate Ward in the City of London. This area, until the Reformation, had been part of the monastic precinct of Holy Trinity Aldgate, and had a semi-manorial leet jury (with powers of paving etc.) and thus claimed the status of "liberty", and a partial exemption from Aldgate Ward In the 17th and 18th centuries, Saint James Duke's Place also claimed an exemption from ecclesiastical jurisdiction and became infamous for "irregular" marriages, where couples could be married without licence, banns or parental consent. The site of Saint James Duke's Place is now occupied by the Sir John Cass School; the church was demolished in 1874.

The parish of Saint Andrew Undershaft was united with Saint Mary Axe in 1561. In 1954 the parish was united with the parishes of Saint Katherine Cree and Saint James Duke's Place, which had united in 1873. The churches of Saint Andrew Undershaft and Saint Katherine Cree still stand.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the parish of Saint James, Duke's Place, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; Vestry minutes; Churchwardens' accounts; papers relating to parish poor relief; minutes of the leet jury of the liberty of Saint James Duke's Place; poor rate assessment books; church rate assessment books; and assessment books for other rates.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

P69/JS1/A: Parish Registers; P69/JS1/B: Vestry, Parish and Liberty Officers; P69/JS1/C: Rate Assessments and Inhabitants Lists; P69/JS1/D: Charities and Estates.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the 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:

The records of the united parish have been acquired by Guildhall Library Manuscripts at various dates. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

United under St Andrew Undershaft (P69/AND4).

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: April to June 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Banns register | Marriage records | Documents | Information sources
Baptism registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Burial registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Church of England | Anglicanism | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Church rates | Taxation | Fiscal policy | Finance
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Churches | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Churchwardens | Laity | Religious groups
Churchwardens records | Documents | Information sources
Conferences | Group communication | Communication process
Courts leet | Courts | Administration of justice
Ecclesiastical parishes | Parishes | Administrative units | Local government | Public administration | Government
Marriage registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Poor rates | Rates (documents) | Documents | Information sources
Poor relief | Social welfare
Rate books | Rates (documents) | Documents | Information sources
Vestry | Parish meetings | Meetings | Group communication | Communication process
Meetings x Conferences
Burial records
Catholicism
Legal documents
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Parish of St James | Duke's Place | City of London | Church of England

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