IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/175
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SOUTHWARK, SURREY (MANOR)
Date(s): 1707-1824
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 4 production items.
Name of creator(s): Guildable Manor, the Kings Manor and the Great Liberty | Corporation of London x Southwark Manor
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Southwark was granted to the citizens of London by a charter of Edward III in 1327, following a petition from the citizens because felons and thieves escaped the City into Southwark where they could not be followed. A further charter issued by Edward VI in 1550 aimed to ensure that Southwark was completely absorbed into the City by making the citizens lords of the three manors there - the Guildable Manor, the King's Manor and the Great Liberty.
The Liberty of the Clink was an area of 70 acres in Southwark which was outside the jurisdiction of the City, belonging to the Bishop of Winchester. The Bishops had a great palace here, Winchester House. The building gradually deteriorated and little remains.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Manor of Southwark, including court leet rolls for the Clink Liberty, memorandum book and ordinances of the Southwark court leet.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Documents in chronological order.
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
Related material:
For more records of the Manor of Southwark see CLA/043.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.