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London Metropolitan Archives

SMALL COLLECTIONS: DIOCESAN


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/420

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SMALL COLLECTIONS: DIOCESAN

Date(s): 1443-2000

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 15 production items.

Name of creator(s): Various.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Diocese of Southwark was formed in 1905 and lies in the Church of England Province of Canterbury. The Diocese has jurisdiction over 317 square miles of London south of the River Thames, formerly in the ancient counties of Kent and Surrey, areas which had been in the Diocese of Rochester and vast Diocese of Winchester.

A British fleet took control of the Cape of Good Hope in 1795 and established a garrison in Cape Town.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Collection of Diocesan records; including surveyors plans for City of London properties in the estates of the Diocese of Southwark; precedent and case books for ecclesiastical jurisdiction; baptisms, marriage and burial register for the garrison at the Cape of Good Hope, 1795-1803; transcripts and calendars of various Diocesan records; list of the bishops of London, 1540-1787; and a parish register for Saint Mary's, Leyton, 1575-1783.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection 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:

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which 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: August to October 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Baptism registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Bishops | Clergy | Religious groups
Burial registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Church records and registers | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Dioceses | Ecclesiastical districts | Church administration | Administration | Organisation and management
Ecclesiastical law | Law
Legal case records | Documents | Information sources
Legal precedent | Legal procedure | Administration of justice
Marriage registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Burial records
Legal documents
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Bishop of London
Diocese of London | Church of England
Diocese of Southwark | Church of England
Parish of St Mary | Leyton | Church of England

Places
Cape of Good Hope | Province of the Western Cape | South Africa | Southern Africa
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Leyton | Essex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Waltham Forest