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PEERS, Sir Charles (1661-1737)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/227-148

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: PEERS, Sir Charles (1661-1737)

Date(s): 1689-1695

Level of description: Collection

Extent: Two production units.

Name of creator(s): Peers | Sir | Charles | 1661-1737 | Lord Mayor of London

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sir Charles Peers (1661-1737) was a Citizen and Salter, Common Councilman for Aldgate Ward 1701-8, Alderman of Tower Ward 1708-37, Sheriff 1707-8, and Lord Mayor 1715-16.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Daybooks of Sir Charles Peers, relating to his business as London partner of William Morley and Company, of Malaga, merchants and importers.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Two volumes.

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 at Guildhall Library in 1959 and converted into an outright gift in 1978. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

See also CLC/500 for papers collected by Wilfred S. Samuel in connection with his research involving Peers' daybook and the journal of Carleton Smith.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

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: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Importers | People by roles | People
International trade | Trade
Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Overseas trade | Trade (practice)

Personal names
Peers | Sir | Charles | 1661-1737 | Lord Mayor of London

Corporate names

Places
Malaga | Spain | Western Europe | Europe