The Fire Court: A gripping historical thriller from the bestselling author of The Ashes of London (James Marwood & Cat Lovett, Book 2)

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Rolls of assizes of Novel Disseisin, Mort d'Ancestor and Fresh Force held before the Coroner and Sheriffs of the City of London 1340-1451, 1583, 1588, 1591 - CLA/040/06/003-022 The City of London in the 18th Century: corporate pressures and their implications’, in Revisiting the Polite and Commercial People, eds. P. Gauci and E. Challus (2019) There are some 1600 decrees of the Court established by Parliament to settle disputes between landlords and tenants after the Fire. Four of a total of eight (and a bit) volumes were calendared by Philip Jones and published in 1966 and 1970. . Jones left a further volume calendared but unpublished and I have just published that, with the next volume in the series. That leaves the two odd volumes and I have started work on these. 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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Mayor's Court Original Bills: Index to Persons (plaintiff, defendants and garnishees) appearing in the Mayor's Court Original Bills A-J (1 vol.) K-Z (1 vol.) (kept in Enquiry Office)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. Subsequent work on the City has included The Mercers’ Company 1579-1959, published by the Company in 1994, and The City of London and its Livery Companies: a history of survival, second edition published by the Guildhall Library in 2010. My lecture on the occasion of the latter publication entitled ‘“The Great Refusal”. Why does the City of London only govern the Square Mile?’ was published by The London Journal.

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I published ‘The City of London in the 18th century: corporate pressures and their implications’ in an Oxford University Press volume honouring one of my History tutors, Paul Langford. The essay draws together much of my previous research. It’s a pleasure to watch these two characters fill out and develop. Cat/Jane is still spiky and determined, but her cat-like distrust of people relaxes a little, while Marwood’s guilt over his father and his struggles after being badly injured make it easy to warm to him. As judicial business increased in the 13th century, the Court was increasingly hampered by the fact that it sat only weekly and the sittings were alternately for Pleas of Land and for Common Pleas. Cases relating to mercantile law, personal actions and debt were transferred to the Sheriffs' Courts and the Mayor's Court. However, the Court of Husting then dealt almost exclusively with real and mixed actions, and actions started by writ, which subsequently declined as other, more popular forms of actions developed. A few actions were still heard until the beginning of the 18th century, but by this time the Court of Husting was only really functioning as a registry for the enrolment of deeds and wills within the City of London.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 Book 2, Ch. 15: Cheap Ward', A New History of London: Including Westminster and Southwark (1773), pp. 587–593. Date accessed: 4 April 2011 These Assizes held before the Coroner and Sheriffs of the City of London heard pleas from those who claimed to be wrongly dispossessed from land in the City. The ballroom is the house’s grandest room, stretching 21 metres along the east wing. It’s where the biggest parties were held, and would’ve been covered with gilded plasterwork and hung with crystal chandeliers. And apparently every year the second Lord Dudley would drape a Christmas tree with jewellery for female guests to take home with them. The ruined conservatory and the ballroom in its heyday

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The rolls have been published as London assize of nuisance 1301-1431: A calendar ed. Helena M. Chew & William Kellaway (London Record Society, 1973) 60.9 LRS on open access in Information Area, available online at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=155 The Court's probate jurisdiction, claimed for beneficiaries of property within the City of London since 1230, also declined. The last recorded enrolment of a will was in 1688, but enrolments had been in decline for some years prior to this. From the reign of Edward III onwards, files of actions or cases, heard in the Mayor's Court were kept, giving the declarations of plaintiff, with short notes of the proceedings, judgements and executions. Very few rolls survive prior to reign of Elizabeth I, but they are numerous for the 16th and 17th centuries. They are of particular interest owing to the full inventories of goods and chattels on which executions were made.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. Alphabets or indexes to names of plaintiffs in court registers 1773-4, 1781-2, 1787-8 – CLA/038/03/036-038 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.