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RECEIPTS AND OTHER ITEMS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1122

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: RECEIPTS AND OTHER ITEMS

Date(s): 1566-1832

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Various.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

There is no unifying factor to these papers (e.g. that they relate to property owned by one estate or family or the legal work of one office), they were simply collected for their antiquarian interest before being passed to the archive.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Receipts for various taxes paid in Middlesex, 1566-1724; also certificate by Lord Berkeley that he has examined the accounts of John Billington, Chief Bailiff and Clerk of the Peace in the Tower Liberty, 1762; printed list of members of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors, 1783 and letter from Sir Robert Peel concerning his intention to offer himself as a candidate for the County of Middlesex, 1832.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

ACC/1122/001-011: Receipts; ACC/1122/012-014: Other documents.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection 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:

Records donated in June 1971.

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
Receipts (acknowledgments) | Legal documents | Law
Trade guilds | Guilds | Associations | Organizations
Documents

Personal names
Peel | Sir | Robert | 1788-1850 | 2nd Baronet | statesman

Corporate names
Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors

Places
Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Tower Hamlets | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe