COURT OF EQUITY CLUB

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/059
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: COURT OF EQUITY CLUB
Date(s)	: 1768-1784
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 2 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Court of Equity Club

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The club met at the Cheshire Cheese, Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, and subsequently at the Belle Sauvage, Ludgate Hill; for the holding of mock courts and the placing of wagers between its members.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Court of Equity Club records comprising rules, minutes, roll of members and betting book.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Two items in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records 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:

They were donated to Guildhall Library in 1898 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:

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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.