IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/176
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: STEPNEY, MIDDLESEX (MANOR)
Date(s): 1705
Level of description: Collection
Extent: One production unit.
Name of creator(s): Manor of Stepney
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
In the Domesday book the manor of Stepney is described as part of the demense lands of the Bishop of London. In 1550 Bishop Ridley gave the manor to King Edward VI, who granted it to Lord Wentworth, and it subsequently passed to the Earls of Cleveland. The manor then passed to the Colebrooke family.
For a detailed history see 'Stepney: Manors and Estates', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green (1998), pp. 19-52.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Declaration by a court baron of the Manor of Stebunheath [Stepney], held at Whitechapel, as to six copyhold messuages in Hallowell Street, in the parish of St Leonard Shoreditch.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One item.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection 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:
Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.