IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 A/BLB
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: HONOURABLE BOARD OF LOYAL BROTHERHOOD
Date(s): 1734-1836
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.07 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Honourable Board of Loyal Brotherhood
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
This appears to have been a select betting club, new members referred to as 'nephews', being elected on the nomination of existing members. Officers of the Board included a President, Serjeant, Champion, Bellringer, Secretary and Steward. The meeting place from 13 March 1734/5 to 16 June 1737 was Cary's, Golden Square, and from 26 June 1737 to 12 February 1740/1, at the Fountain in the Strand. Bets were laid on any subject of topical or personal interest and were often concerned with parliamentary business; the stakes appear to have been in claret or other wine rather than money.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Honourable Board of Loyal Brotherhood minute book and record of bets made.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Two volumes.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Records of the Honourable Board of Loyal Brotherhood received in the Greater London Record Office, 28 March 1974.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
For the records of other gambling clubs see CLC/059, CLC/069 and CLC/112.
Minutes 1747 Mar 24 - 1760 Mar 18 are held within the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, at Yale University, United States of America.
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.