ANTIENT AND HONOURABLE LUMBER TROOP

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/025
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: ANTIENT AND HONOURABLE LUMBER TROOP
Date(s)	: 1832-1834
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 1 production unit.
Name of creator(s)	: Antient and Honourable Lumber Troop | social club

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The troop was a society meeting weekly for social purposes; the officers of the society bore mock military titles and the members were known as troopers.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Antient and Honourable Lumber Troop, comprising list of officers, rules and instructions for procedure, instructions for the ceremony of initiation into the troop, and copy of the troop song.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

One volume catalogued as CLC/025/MS01772.

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:

This volume was purchased by Guildhall Library in 1890 and was catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

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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.