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FRIENDLY SOCIETY OF TRADESMEN


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/069

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: FRIENDLY SOCIETY OF TRADESMEN

Date(s): 1774-1779; 1796-1801

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2 production units.

Name of creator(s): Friendly Society of Tradesmen

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Friendly Society of Tradesmen met at the Belle Sauvage, Ludgate Hill and appears to have met only for betting and social purposes; it was not a "benevolent" friendly society.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Friendly Society of Tradesmen records comprising rules and orders, account of subscriptions, a record of attendance and a record of wagers laid by members.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These records were donated to Guildhall Library in 1898 and were catalogued in the same year by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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: June to August 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Gambling | Leisure time activities | Leisure
Social clubs | Clubs | Leisure time activities | Leisure
Social participation | Social behaviour
Tradesmen | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People

Personal names

Corporate names
Friendly Society of Tradesmen

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