IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/156
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: CHARITIES: SMALL COLLECTIONS
Date(s): 1677-1679, 1819, 1854
Level of description: Collection
Extent: Three production units.
Name of creator(s): Various.
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Tothill Fields was the name given to an open area between Westminster Abbey and Millbank. Tournaments were held there by kings living in the Palace of Westminster. Later the fields were used for cattle, growing food, horse racing, military parades, and bear baiting. A fair was held there every year. Duels were often fought here, and public punishments and executions held. The area was also used for burial pits during the plague. The fields were not developed until the 1830s.
Information from The London Encyclopaedia, eds. Weinreb and Hibbert (LMA Library Reference 67.2 WEI).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of small collections relating to charities, comprising:
- Account of the trusts in which all or some of the Broad Street Lecturers are parties, 1819.
- Account of subscriptions to the fund for making a causeway over Tothill Fields, 1677-1679.
- Copy deed and schedule of regulations dated 10 May 1854 relating to the use of the working men's fund raised as a memorial of gratitude to Sir Robert Peel for the repeal of the corn laws, 1854.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Three items.
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:
Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.