London Record Society

Vol. 45: London Inhabitants Outside the Walls

Author: Patrick Wallis

The imposition in 1695 of a new tax on births, marriages and deaths, in support of... Click to read more »

Vol. 44: The Pinners’ and Wiresellers’ Book 1462-1511

The Pinners' and Wiresellers' Book covers the accounts of the medieval craft of the Pinners between... Click to read more »

Vol. 43: The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer: Edward Whymper’s London Diary 1855-1859

Edited by IAN SMITH This edition provides, for the first time, a complete text of Whymper’s diary... Click to read more »

Vol. 42: Prisoners’ Letters To The Bank Of England 1783-1827

Edited by DEIRDRE PALK This volume comprises several hundred letters written by prisoners convicted of forging paper... Click to read more »

Vol . 41: A Woman In Wartime London: The Diary Of Kathleen Tipper 1941-1945

Edited by PATRICIA AND ROBERT MALCOLMSON This volume contains a selection of entries from the diary kept... Click to read more »

Vol. 40: The Estate And Household Accounts Of William Worsley, Dean Of St Paul’s Cathedral, 1479-1497

Edited by HANNES KLEINEKE and STEPHANIE R. HOVLAND William Worsley, who lived through a turbulent period... Click to read more »

Vol. 39: The Bede Roll Of The Fraternity Of St Nicholas

Edited by N.W.JAMES AND V.A.JAMES This edition of the Bede roll of this London fraternity has been... Click to read more »

Vol. 38: The English Fur Trade In The Later Middle Ages

ELSPETH M VEALE The focus of this study of the medieval English fur trade is the Skinners’... Click to read more »

Vol. 37: Unpublished London Diaries: A Checklist Of Unpublished Diaries By Londoners And Visitors With A Select Bibliography Of Published Diaries

Compiled by HEATHER CREATON The checklist  includes 883 unpublished diaries ranging in date from 1581 to 1971... Click to read more »

Vol. 36: The Letters Of William Freeman, London Merchant, 1678-1685

Edited by DAVID HANCOCK The 686 letters written by William Freeman, a sugar planter and slave trader... Click to read more »

Vol. 35: London and Middlesex Exchequer Equity Pleadings, 1685-6 And 1784-5: A Calendar

Edited by HENRY HORWITZ AND JESSICA COOKE The aim of this volume is to illustrate the... Click to read more »

Vol. 34: The Church Records Of St Andrew Hubbard Eastcheap, c. 1450-c. 1570

Edited by CLIVE BURGESS St Andrew was a small and comparatively obscure parish situated in the south-east... Click to read more »

Vol. 33: Chelsea Settlement And Bastardy Examinations 1733-1766

Edited by TIM HITCHCOCK and JOHN BLACK This volume contains the accounts of 466 examinations conducted by... Click to read more »

Vol. 32: London Consistory Court Depositions, 1586-1611: List and Indexes

Author: I. Darlington (1967)

Edited by LOREEN L GIESE This meticulous record of one of the most significant ecclesiastical courts of... Click to read more »

Vol. 31: London Bridge: Selected Accounts and Rentals, 1381-1538

Edited by VANESSA HARDING and LAURA WRIGHT The rulers of London in the late middle ages... Click to read more »

Vol. 30: London Debating Societies, 1776-1799

Compiled and introduced by DONNA T. ANDREW By the 1770s there were many private, or semi-private... Click to read more »

Vol. 29: Two Tudor Subsidy Assessment Rolls For The City Of London: 1541 and 1582

Edited by R.G.LANG The documents published in this volume are the assessment rolls for the City of... Click to read more »

Vol. 28: Justice In Eighteenth-Century Hackney: The Justicing Notebook Of Henry Norris And The Hackney Petty Sessions Book

Edited by RUTH PALEY Henry Norris was a London merchant, appointed to the judicial bench in Hackney... Click to read more »

Vol. 27: The Overseas Trade of London: Exchequer Customs Accounts, 1480-1

Edited by H S COBB The documents calendared in this volume consist of Petty Custom recordings of... Click to read more »

Vol. 26: London Viewers and Their Certificates, 1508-1558: Certificates of the Sworn Viewers of the City of London

Edited by JANET SENDEROWITZ LOENGARD Sixteenth-century London was busy, proud, prosperous and expanding. But even a constant... Click to read more »

Vol. 25: Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214

Edited by EMMA MASON This volume describes all the royal, papal or episcopal charters which were granted... Click to read more »

Vol. 24: Richard Hutton’s Complaints Book: The Notebook of the Steward of the Quaker Workhouse at Clerkenwell, 1711-1737

Edited by TIMOTHY V HITCHCOCK The Quaker Workhouse at Clerkenwell, one of the most radical experiments in... Click to read more »

Vol. 23: The Commissions For Building Fifty New Churches: The Minute Books, 1711-27, a Calendar

Edited by M H PORT The spiritual flame burned brightly in the Church of England at the... Click to read more »

Vol. 22: A Survey Of Documentary Sources For Property Holding In London Before The Great Fire

Edited by DEREK KEENE and VANESSA HARDING This work is an important survey of archival sources... Click to read more »

Vol. 21: The Letters of John Paige, London Merchant, 1648-1658

Edited by GEORGE F STECKLEY This volume constitutes part of the most complete documentation that is extant... Click to read more »

Vol. 20: Chamber Accounts Of The Sixteenth Century

Edited by BETTY R. MASTERS Although the City of London's archives are rich in administrative and legal... Click to read more »

Vol. 19: Trinity House of Deptford: Transactions, 1609-35

Edited by G. G. HARRIS Letters patent granted to the Trinity House of Deptford in the sixteenth... Click to read more »

Vol. 18: Parish Fraternity Register: Fraternity Of The Holy Trinity And SS Fabian And Sebastian In The Parish Of St Botolph Aldersgate

Edited by PATRICIA BASING This volume contains the register of members and the accounts of two medieval... Click to read more »

Vol. 17: London Politics, 1713-1717: Minutes of a Whig Club, 1714-1717; London Pollbooks, 1713

London Politics, 1713-1717: Minutes of a Whig Club, 1714-1717 Edited by H HOROWITZ London Pollbooks, 1713 Edited by W... Click to read more »

Vol. 16: London and Middlesex Chantry Certificate, 1548

Edited by CHRISTOPHER KITCHING The volume contains the chantry certificate of the royal commissioners appointed in 1548... Click to read more »

Vol. 15: Joshua Johnson’s Letterbook, 1771-1774 Letters from a Merchant in London to his Partners in Maryland

Edited by JACOB M PRICE Joshua Johnson, the London partner of an Annapolis merchant firm, sent his... Click to read more »

Vol. 14: Committees for Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts: Minutes, 1786-90 and 1827-8

Edited by THOMAS W DAVIS The minutes of two committees of Protestant Dissenters (ministers and laymen) that... Click to read more »

Vol. 13: The Church in London, 1375-1392

Edited by A K McHARDY  The purpose of this work is to make available sources... Click to read more »

Vol. 12: The London Eyre of 1276

Edited by MARTIN WEINBAUM This volume contains the record of crown and civil pleas for the City... Click to read more »

Vol. 11: Two Calvinistic Methodist Chapels, 1748-1811: the London Tabernacle and Spa Fields Chapel

Edited by EDWIN WELCH The two manuscripts printed in this volume are almost the only surviving archives... Click to read more »

Vol. 10: London Assize of Nuisance, 1301-1431: A Calendar

Edited by HELENA M. CHEW AND WILLIAM KELLAWAY The London Assize of Nuisance laid down regulations... Click to read more »

Vol. 9: The Spanish Company

Edited by PAULINE CROFT In this volume are collected together the various documents which illuminate the history... Click to read more »

Vol. 8: The Port And Trade Of Early Elizabethan London: Documents

Edited by BRIAN DIETZ This volume contains a calendar of the London Port Book for 1567/8 (TNA... Click to read more »

Vol. 7: The Cartulary Of Holy Trinity, Aldgate

Edited by GERALD A J HODGETT This volume includes charters and other documents from the Augustinian... Click to read more »

Vol. 6: The London Eyre of 1244

Edited by HELENA M. CHEW and MARTIN WEINBAUM The roll printed here contains the fullest surviving... Click to read more »

Vol. 5: London Radicalism 1830-1843: a Selection of the Papers of Francis Place

Edited by D.J.ROWE The  documents printed in this volume are concerned with political radicalism in London during... Click to read more »

Vol. 4: Scriveners’ Company Common Paper, 1357-1628, with a Continuation to 1678

Edited by FRANCIS W STEER In about 1400 the London Writers of Court letter procured a book... Click to read more »

Vol. 3: London Consistory Court Wills, 1492-1547

Edited by IDA DARLINGTON The volume contains 245 London wills of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Nearly... Click to read more »

Vol. 2: London Inhabitants Within The Walls, 1695

This volume provides an index to the names recorded in the assessments upon births, marriages, burials,... Click to read more »

Vol. 1: London Possessory Assizes: a Calendar

LONDON POSSESSORY ASSIZES: A CALENDAR Edited by HELENA M CHEW The calendared rolls of the assizes of... Click to read more »