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London Metropolitan Archives

CORN METER'S OFFICE


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/273

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CORN METER'S OFFICE

Date(s): 1722-1902

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 170 production units.

Name of creator(s): City Chamberlain | Corporation of London

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Duties were payments to the public revenue levied upon the import, export, manufacture, or sale of certain commodities while metage was a duty paid for the official measuring of dry or liquid goods, such as coal, grain, salt. A meter was responsible for seeing that commodities such as grain were traded according to the proper measure. The City Chamberlain's Office of the Corporation of London had responsibility for overseeing the work of meters in checking incoming grain and other goods, especially in the Port of London.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Corn Meter's Office, including lists of ships and barges entering the Port of London, giving description of the ship and the quantity of grain; Committee minute books and order books; amount of the grain weighed and certified by meters; account books for grain duty and metage; amount of grain weighed and measured entering the Port of London; names of the master corn meters; and papers relating to the Corn Meters Provident Fund.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

CLC/273/MS01666 to MS01694, and MS02809.

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:

These records were donated to Guildhall Library in 1915 and were later transferred to the Corporation of London Records Office. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

For records of the City Chamberlain relating to corn metage see COL/CHD/DM/09 (Corn Meter's Office) and COL/CHD/DM/10 (Corn Meter: Meters and Metage).

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
Corn | Cereals | Crops | Agricultural products
Corn prices | Agricultural statistics | Agricultural economics
Corn trade | Food trade | Trade (practice)
Grain trade | Trade (practice)
Local finance | Public finance | Finance
Metage | Coal duty | Taxation | Fiscal policy | Finance

Personal names

Corporate names
City Chamberlain | Corporation of London
Port of London Authority | Corporation of London

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe