London Metropolitan Archives

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/303

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH

Date(s): 1871

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 volume in envelope.

Name of creator(s): Court of King's Bench x Court of Queen's Bench

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Court of King's Bench (or Queen's Bench, depending on the monarch) was founded circa 1200 to hear common pleas, although it came to specialise in pleas of special interest and concern to the king, such as those which involved his own property interests, or breach of his peace, or an error of judgment by another royal court. By 1675 the King's Bench was the highest court of common law in England and Wales, with jurisdiction over both civil and criminal actions. Civil business was conducted on the 'Plea Side' and criminal business on the 'Crown Side'. It was absorbed into the High Court in 1875 (source of information: The National Archives Research Guides Legal Records Information 34 and Legal Records Information 36).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Minutes of proceedings at the Court of Queen's Bench, Crown side, 1871, in a case relating between the City of London (appellants) and the churchwardens of St Sepulchre (respondents), regarding the extension of the new metropolitan meat and poultry market in Smithfield.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One item.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

For other records of the Queen's Bench see ACC/2186 and ACC/0756. Main records are held at The National Archives, reference KB.

For Smithfield Market, see CLA/016.

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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: August to October 2010.

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects
Court of Queen's Bench | Courts | Administration of justice
Court records | Records (documents) | Records and correspondence | Information sources

Personal names

Corporate names
Court of King's Bench x Court of Queen's Bench
Smithfield Market | Markets Committee | Corporation of London x Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Market x London Central Markets

Places
Smithfield | City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe