IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/482
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: MYERS (AUTOGRAPHS) LIMITED
Date(s): 1776-1797
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Abstract of title is a summary of prior ownership of a property, drawn up by solicitors. Such an abstract may go back several hundred years or just a few months, and was usually drawn up just prior to a sale.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers collected by Myers Autographs in the course of their work, comprising abstract of the title of Mr. Vincent Durant to a copyhold half-acre of land with cottage, garden, and appurtenances near Hammersmith, 1776, and brief for defendants in a King's Bench action Holloway v. Rodbard and another relating to a wharf and premises near Essex Street in the Strand, and the erection of certain granaries thereon, 1797.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Two documents in chronological order.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright rests with the City of London.
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:
Donated to the Archive in 1977.
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: July to October 2009