British History Online - Administrative and legal history

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Administrative and legal history

Sources relating to national and local government (excluding Parliament), and the development of British law.

1	Office Holders in Modern Britain (11)	Listings of holders of offices in central government (17th-19th centuries).
2	Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I, 1603-1610	Calendar of the state papers held by The National Archives relating to the first years of the reign of James I.
3	City of London, Calendar of letter books (11)	Records of the government of medieval London (1275-1509).
4	City of London, Calendar of plea and memoranda rolls (3)	Three volumes, covering period from 1323 to 1412.
5	Assize records (2)
6	Eyres, records of (2)	Records of courts of itinerant justices (13th century).
7	Justice in eighteenth-century Hackney The justicing notebook of Henry Norris and the Hackney petty sessions book	These two sources cover between them the period 1730 to 1753. Edited from MSS in the Greater London Record Office, by permission of the London Record Society.
8	Calendar of early mayor's court rolls: 1298-1307	Nine rolls, covering a formative period in the history of the City of London, and illustrative of ancient municipal law and legal custom.
9	Committees for Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts Minutes 1786-90 and 1827-8	The minutes of two committees of London Dissenters (ministers and laymen) for the repeal of these two Acts, the second of which was eventually successful. From MSS in the Guildhall Library, reproduced by permission of the London Record Society.