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Economic history

Records of commerce and trade, taxation, population and property.

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Lay subsidy records (4)

Records of this occasional wealth tax (13th to 16th centuries).
2

Port, trade and customs records (3)

3

Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516

A spatial modelling of data relating to markets and fairs in England and Wales. Full-text version available on the Centre for Metropolitan History's website. This version, Sept 2005.
4

Hearth Tax records (2)

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Population records (2)

Records of residence, organised by place.
6

Professional groups, records of (2)

Records of professional groups and incorporated companies.
7

Four Shillings In The Pound Aid 1693/4
The City of London, the City of Westminster, and Metropolitan Middlesex

The assessments raised for this tax raised by Parliament to fund King William's European warfare. It was produced by the 'Metropolitan London in the 1690s' project, based at the CMH.
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Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
Cheapside; parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St Martin Pomary, St Mary le Bow, St Mary Colechurch and St Pancras Soper Lane

Detailed property histories for five parishes in the central Cheapside area of London, from the 12th to the late 17th century. It includes accounts of the parish churches, and information about the people and buildings associated with the properties.
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Richard Hutton's complaints book
The notebook of the Steward of the Quaker workhouse at Clerkenwell, 1711-1737

The notebook of the steward of a radical eighteenth-century experiment in co-operativism, from a MS held in the archives of the Friends' School, Saffron Walden. By permission of the London Record Society.
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The church in London 1375-1392

Details ecclesiastical property and the taxation of the clergy in the City of London. Also included are Acta of William Courtenay, Bishop of London. By kind permission of the London Record Society.


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