HONOURABLE BOARD OF LOYAL BROTHERHOOD

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 A/BLB
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: HONOURABLE BOARD OF LOYAL BROTHERHOOD
Date(s)	: 1734-1836
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.07 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Honourable Board of Loyal Brotherhood

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

This appears to have been a select betting club, new members referred to as 'nephews', being elected on the nomination of existing members. Officers of the Board included a President, Serjeant, Champion, Bellringer, Secretary and Steward. The meeting place from 13 March 1734/5 to 16 June 1737 was Cary's, Golden Square, and from 26 June 1737 to 12 February 1740/1, at the Fountain in the Strand. Bets were laid on any subject of topical or personal interest and were often concerned with parliamentary business; the stakes appear to have been in claret or other wine rather than money.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Honourable Board of Loyal Brotherhood minute book and record of bets made.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Two volumes.

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:

Records of the Honourable Board of Loyal Brotherhood received in the Greater London Record Office, 28 March 1974.

Allied Materials

Related material:

For the records of other gambling clubs see CLC/059, CLC/069 and CLC/112.

Minutes 1747 Mar 24 - 1760 Mar 18 are held within the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, at Yale University, United States of America.

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.