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London Metropolitan Archives

HOWELL, John (fl 1700)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0161

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: HOWELL, John (fl 1700)

Date(s): 1694-1768

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.07 linear metres.

Name of creator(s): Various.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

A deed is any document affecting title, that is, proof of ownership, of the land in question. The land may or may not have buildings upon it. Common types of deed include conveyances, mortgages, bonds, grants of easements, wills and administrations.

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.

Source: British Records Association Guidelines 3: How to interpret deeds (available online).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Title deeds for property owned by John Howell of Lincoln's Inn and Enfield. The properties were situated in Stepney, Westminster and Southwark.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged according to place (Stepney; Westminster and Southwark).

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection 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:

Records deposited in May 1940.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Property owners | People by roles | People
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Property transfer | Property
Right to property | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Property law x Right to property

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
City of Westminster | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Southwark (district) | Southwark | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Stepney | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Tower Hamlets