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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The roll number, and asterisk (where appropriate) to denote the existence of paper/draft inventories & accounts; Sometimes lyrical, Taylor’s writing can be eloquently spare at moments of great drama or horror, as when Marwood sees a woman’s corpse: 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.

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Government Interference in City Politics in the Early 18th Century: the Work of Two Agents’, The London Journal, 8 (1982)

Once English Heritage took over Witley Court, they repaired the damage and stopped it getting any worse (to see what it was like before, Procol Harum’s shot the video for A Whiter Shade of Pale at Witley not long before it was taken over). But it hasn’t been rebuilt – the house is still a shell, but a walk around the ruins and gardens makes a great day trip. From 1444 the Mayor and Aldermen served as Justices of the Peace responsible for criminal trials in the City. From 1327 the Justices of Gaol Delivery for Newgate included the Lord Mayor. Petty Sessions were held before the Lord Mayor, originally at Guildhall but from the mid 18th century in the Justice Room at the new Mansion House. In 1737 a second Justice Room was set up at Guildhall where regular sittings were held before one of the other Aldermen. For more details see Information Leaflet 40 'Sessions Records for the City of London and Southwark'.

Fire of London Disputes Act 1666 - Wikipedia Fire of London Disputes Act 1666 - Wikipedia

Early material relating to orphans can be found in the Letter Books, Repertories and Journals. In the 16th century, the Common Serjeant, who presided over the Court of Orphans, developed his own series of records. 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. 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. Husting Books contain brief details of cases heard week by week and include both Pleas of Land and Common Pleas 1448-1484; 1506-1723; 1838-1978 - CLA/023/CT/01/001-017.The Court of Husting now only meets occasionally for the enrolment of the Corporation of London's own trust deeds, but has not met since 1978. The Fire of London Disputes Act 1666 was an Act of the Parliament of England ( 18 & 19 Cha. 2. c. 7) with the long title "An Act for erecting a Judicature for Determination of Differences touching Houses burned or demolished by reason of the late Fire which happened in London." [1] Following the Great Fire of London, Parliament established a court to settle all differences arising between landlords and tenants of burnt buildings, overseen by judges of the King's Bench, Court of Common Pleas and Court of Exchequer. [2] Portrait of Sir Matthew Hale, by Wright The City’s Estate in Conduit Mead and the Authorship of The City-Secret’, Guildhall Studies in London History, 2 (1976) Plaints, accounts, proceedings, rolls of daily entries and issues tried 1653-1867 (many gaps) – CLA/025/CT/02/001-029 Alphabets or indexes to names of plaintiffs in court registers 1773-4, 1781-2, 1787-8 – CLA/038/03/036-038