BISHOPSGATE WARD RATEPAYERS ASSOCIATION

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/033
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: BISHOPSGATE WARD RATEPAYERS ASSOCIATION
Date(s)	: 1859-1874
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 3 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Bishopsgate Ward Ratepayers Association

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Founded in 1857 as the St Botolph Bishopsgate Ratepayers' Association; the name changed in 1860-2. The objects of the association were "To correct abuses ... in the local government of the ward ... to watch over the expenditure and proceedings of the same ... to diffuse ward and parochial information ... and to carry out the principles of a mutual improvement society".

The City of London was divided into wards for the purpose of government as early as Norman times. The wards had responsibility to keep the peace, supervise trade and oversee sanitation, and each ward has the right to elect an Alderman and Commoners to sit in the Court of Common Council.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Bishopsgate Ward Ratepayers Association, comprising: minute books, 1862-74 (Ms 21144); and rough minute book, 1859-62 (Ms 21145).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Minute books in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

They were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1984 and were catalogued in the same year by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

For records of Bishopsgate Ward see CLC/W/GC; and for the Ward social club see CLC/032.

Publication note:

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:
June to August 2010.