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.