FULHAM MANOR

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 DD/0014
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: FULHAM MANOR
Date(s)	: 1810-1929
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 1.14 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Fulham Manor

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Manor of Fulham was held of the Bishop of London from the year 691. It covered all of what is now Hammersmith and Fulham, Acton, Ealing and Finchley.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Fulham Manor including the papers of the clerks to the homage jury. This collection is complementary to the minute books preserved in DD/0015. All the correspondence in the papers is reflected in the minutes, and some comparable loose papers are also attached to the minutes. The papers do, however, in many instances provide greater detail, including some additional plans.

The decision to take the subject group as the basic unit, although unavoidable both because of the original order and the size of the collection, means that the list is in some ways summary. In particular:
1) The form of documents is not usually given. Most groups are composed primarily of correspondence.
2) The name of the party is only given when one, or occasionally two or three, persons or authorities are involved.
3) The party may or may not be the same person as a party named as the subject of the correspondence.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The original archival order of the collection has been mostly lost, and it may always have been muddled. It would seem that papers, although not placed in files, were grouped on a subject basis, and this has been maintained. The first section, however - papers relating directly to the manor courts - may now include items which were originally filed in such groups.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright 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:

Donated to Hammersmith and Fulham Archives and Local studies by Messrs Marshal and Co, Solicitors in 1948.

Transferred from Hammersmith and Fulham Archives and Local History Centre in 2015.

Allied Materials

Related material:

See also:
ACC/2214 - copies from court rolls
O/553/003-005 - copy court rolls
DD/0015 - Minute books and accounts of the Homage Jury
DD/0106 - Rentals of copyhold and leasehold property
DD/0147 - Manorial rental and rate
DD/0251 - Extracts from the Minutes of the Homage Jury

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:
Added July 2015.