IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0972
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: WINIFRED A. MYERS (AUTOGRAPH) LIMITED
Date(s): 1580-1770
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Conveyances are transfers of land from one party to another, usually for money. Early forms of conveyance include feoffments, surrenders and admissions at manor courts (if the property was copyhold), final concords, common recoveries, bargains and sales and leases and releases.
A bargain and sale was an early form of conveyance often used by executors to convey land. The bargainee, or person to whom the land was bargained and sold, took possession, often referred to as becoming 'seised' of the land.
Feoffment was an early form of conveyance involving a simple transfer of freehold land by deed followed by in a ceremony called livery of seisin.
From the British Records Association "Guidelines 3 - Interpreting Deeds: How To Interpret Deeds - A Simple Guide And Glossary".
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Deeds, 1580-1770, relating to property in Cowley, Edmonton, Enfield, Harefield, Harrow, Hayes, Hillingdon, Ickenham, Uxbridge, Shoreditch and Stepney; including deed of feoffment, bargain and sale, leases, mortgages and bonds.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/0972/1 to ACC/0972/13
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright rests with the City of London.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Received in 1967 (ACC/0972).
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009