Andrew Taylor has also written a number of novellas with ghostly or other-worldly themes, originally as Kindle Singles. The first three have now been published in print form under the title Fireside Gothic. These contain records of such actions in the Mayor's Court as seemed worthy of preservation as legal precedents or as illustrations of the rights, privileges and pre-eminence of the City. In 1478 the City gained the right to appoint the Coroner for the City of London and in 1550 the Coroner for the Borough of Southwark. See Information Leaflet 41 'Coroners' Records for London and Middlesex'. Ornate Italianate style was the peak of fashion, so the whole house was remodelled to match over the next six years. Exteriors were clad in Bath stone, a huge glass orangery was built, the gardens were landscaped, elaborate fountains were added and all hundred rooms were renovated with marble fireplaces and French-inspired white and gold mouldings. The ruins of the orangery

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My Previous work has also been principally concerned with London, starting with an Oxford D.Phil. thesis on the government of the City in the 18th century and leading to various articles in learned journals and also to books on the ‘modern’ history of the Mercers’ Company and the political survival of the City of London and its Livery Companies.

In parallel with the calendaring work I am analysing the decrees to show what they tell us about the ‘mechanics’ – legal and financial – of the property market at that time. The decrees ‘lift the lid’, so to speak, on the way City of London property was owned, occupied and generally ‘used’. I first made a stab at this in a talk to Derek Keene’s Metropolitan History seminar in 2002 and published a summary version of it in the London Topographical Society’s Newsletter in the following year. The Great Refusal” Why does the City of London only govern the Square Mile?’, The London Journal, 39 (2014) The assize of nuisance originally concerned the making or removal of ditches, pools, hedges, the diversion of watercourses and the obstruction of ways. After a series of major fires, the City authorities drew up regulations known as the Assize of Building for settling disputes between neighbours concerning boundaries and other matters, and for encouraging the use of stone in building. This was the basis for the medieval London assize of nuisance which mainly heard disputes between neighbours. It sometimes sought to correct public nuisances, but these were normally dealt with by wardmotes. An action was initiated in full Husting, or, if the Husting was not sitting, at a congregation of the mayor and aldermen. The Assize provided for the election of twelve aldermen in full Husting; the greater part of those so elected was to be present with the Mayor in holding assizes. The Mayor nearly always presided. In October 2016 I gave an illustrated talk in Guildhall Library on the ‘The Great Fire of London 1666-2016’.

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The index has also been annotated with index references, underlined in red, to Boyd's London Citizens Index, which is held at the Society of Genealogists. After Dudley married banking heiress Rachel Gurney, Witley Court hosted a string of shooting parties, with famous attendees including the Prince of Wales. It took a staff of 100 butlers, footmen, housemaids, cooks, gardeners and stablehands to keep the place running. But Dudley was burning through his fortune at a rate, foreign competition was hitting his businesses and when his wife drowned in an accident in Ireland, he decided to sell up. Preservation works inside The early records of the court are incomplete, but occasionally some proceedings are preserved amongst the series of Letter Books (COL/AD/01/001-050) which have been calendared and published. They are however valuable as a source on an important period of the City's development, and throw considerable light on ancient municipal law and legal custom. Andrew Taylor grew up in East Anglia. He read English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and has an MA in Library, Archive and Information Science from University College London.

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Contain bonds and deeds relating to orphans' estates. Listed alphabetically under the surname of the deceased freeman. The Mayor's and City of London Court was created in 1921 by the amalgamation of the Mayor's Court and the City of London Court. Under the Courts Act, 1971 it was designated a county court. The City of London Court acquired admiralty jurisdiction under the powers of the County Courts Admiralty Jurisdiction Act of 1868.

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Story Behind The Scent of Death". Upcoming4.me. 18 October 2013. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013 . Retrieved 18 October 2013.Alphabets or indexes to names of plaintiffs in court registers 1773-4, 1781-2, 1787-8 – CLA/038/03/036-038 And once more he meets Cat Lovett, daughter of a regicide, now in hiding not just from those who want revenge on her for her father’s sake, but from her own family, who intend to marry her to a rapist. She’s disguised as Jane Hakesby, an architect’s cousin and maidservant. Most of the original bills dating from before 1560 (CLA/024/02/001-0001-004,007) have been calendared on index cards which can be made available by request. My Current work concerns the London property market before and after the Great Fire in 1666. The work is based on analyses of the Fire Court decrees.

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Calendar of Early Mayor's Court Rolls of the City of London, 1298-1307 ed. A H Thomas (1924) 60.1 LON on open access in Information Area, available online at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=175 All lines converged on the Dragon Yard case and the Fire Court at Clifford’s Inn.” But in Andrew Taylor’s second book in the James Marwood and Cat Lovett series, set in London just after the Great Fire, those lines tangle and twist fiendishly before coming together, writes Frances Owen. Index of names and types of actions appearing within the Court rolls (Pleas of Land), 1272-15th century (1 ring binder available on request) Book 2, Ch. 15: Cheap Ward', A New History of London: Including Westminster and Southwark (1773), pp. 587–593. Date accessed: 4 April 2011 Marwood is soon caught by the fall-out of these and other murders and swept into the dark goings-on surrounding the Dragon Yard case, being tried at the Fire Court in Clifford’s Inn, in which two men with rival claims to a plot of land just north of Cheapside in the devastated City of London compete for the lucrative contract to redevelop it.had been a devastating Plague Year. 1666 was going that way and then the Great Fire destroyed seven eighths of London. The international scene was bleak. False rumour was rife and foreign skulduggery blamed. Professor Tidmarsh will explain how a six section Act of Parliament set up the Fire Courts which unclogged the Courts and succeeded in resolving a tsunami of disputes in a remarkably short time. When you’re visiting Witley Court, don’t miss Great Witley Church. Although it’s attached to the house it’s actually owned by the local parish and is still a working church. Small from the outside, it hides some very grand Baroque interiors. The church was was built by the second Lord Foley (aka Thomas #4) and in a clever bit of recycling, he reused the interiors from the Duke of Chando’s chapel in Middlesex which was being demolished. Before working on the Fire Court decrees as part of my analysis of the 17th century property market, I studied the various aspects of the City of London, especially in the 18th century. My thesis was on ‘The Government of the City of London, 1694-1767’ (Oxford D.Phil. 1980). This looked at a range of financial and administrative problems faced by the City Corporation as it tried to recover from the bankruptcy caused by a disastrous orphans scheme (as well as the long term effect of Crown ‘loans’ and then the Fire). I published a number of articles based on the thesis, including ones on the City Elections Act (1725), the Sheriffs controversy and (a new approach to) City politics from Shaftesbury to Wilkes: see my Published work for details. The Assize of Buildings prescribed a view by the Mayor and 12 elected men of land and tenements for which the assize of nuisance had been demanded; and, more specifically, to deal with party and boundary walls, gutters, windows overlooking a neighbour's land, and cess-pits about which complaint had been made. The 12 elected men were originally aldermen, but sworn masons and carpenters, seem to have been associated with the assize of nuisance from at least the beginning of the 14th century and, joined by tilers in the 16th century, acted as viewers for the City. By the 16th century the court in which the certificates were presented, and any further action taken may have been the Mayor's Court. Alternatively the certificates may have been presented in the Court of Aldermen.