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Major accessions to repositories in 2017 relating to Law

Local

Archifau Ynys Mon / Anglesey Archives

  • William Owen Williams (fl1903-1986), prison officer: papers and photographs rel to his employment at Beaumaris Gaol c1900-1986 (WM/2602)
  • S R Dew Prothero Williams, solicitors: papers rel to the Paynter family c1762-1940 (WDBC)

Ayrshire Archives

  • Gilmour, Inglis & Allan, solicitors, Stewarton: ledger 1946-1955 (17/018)

Bath Record Office

  • Wansdyke Petty Sessions: additional records transferred from Somerset Record Office, incl registers, minutes, adoptions and accounts rel to Keynsham, Kilmersdon and Temple Cloud petty sessional divisions 1847-1985 (1202)

Berkshire Record Office

  • Abingdon Borough Petty Sessions: court registers 1905-1974 (PS/A)
  • Abingdon Petty Sessions: court registers 1939-1974 (PS/AC)
  • Faringdon Petty Sessions: court registers 1934-1973 (PS/F)
  • Moreton and Wallingford Petty Sessions: additional register 1968-1970 (PS/MW)
  • Wantage Petty Sessions: court registers 1934-1974 (PS/WT)

Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office

  • Wallace Green Gaol, Berwick: plans 1847 (BRO 2456)

Bury Museum and Archives

  • Bury Magistrates Court: registers for fines court, magistrates, enforcement and juvenile court 1986-1997 (A17)

Conwy Archive Service

  • Arthur Benjamin Roberts, solicitor: legal papers and corresp rel to properties in Llanwst and Llandudno c1890-1955 (CX655)

Dorset History Centre

  • Blandford Forum Magistrates Court: additional licensing registers 1970-1996 (PS/BF)
  • Bournemouth Magistrates Court: rates, community charge and council tax registers, with licensing registers and registers of clubs and licences, with some Poole premises (1980-2000) 1960-2008 (PS/BH)
  • Bridport Magistrates Court: licensing registers 1960-1990 (PS/BT)
  • Christchurch Magistrates Court: licensing registers 1983-1995 (PS/CC)
  • Dorchester Magistrates Court: licensing registers 1970-1996 (PS/DO)
  • East Dorset Magistrates Courts: registers for courts at Bournemouth, Poole, Wareham and Wimborne, bound into combined volumes 2002-2007 (PS/ED)
  • Poole Magistrates Court: licensing registers 1960-1996 (PS/PL)
  • Shaftesbury Magistrates Court: licensing registers 1960-1990 (PS/SY)
  • Sherborne Magistrates Court: licensing registers 1960-1990 (PS/SH)
  • Wareham Magistrates Court: licensing registers 1960-1990 (PS/SH)
  • Weymouth Magistrates Court: licensing registers 1962-1995 (PS/WY)
  • Wimborne Magistrates Court: licensing registers 1960-1996 (PS/WM)
  • Licensing registers for all Dorset courts (but not Poole or Bournemouth) 1987-1990 (PS/DT)
  • Additional licensing and club registers for all Dorset courts (incl Poole but not Bournemouth) 1980-2000 (PS/DT)

Dudley Archives and Local History Service

  • FT Goodman & Son, solicitors, Halesowen: deeds 1728-1971 (C9965)

East Dunbartonshire Archives: Kirkintilloch

  • St Matthew's RC Primary School, Bishopbriggs: file rel to corporal punishment case heard by the European Court of Human Rights 1980-1986 (2017/12)

East Sussex Record Office

  • Attree & Sons, solicitors, Brighton: letters (5) 1813-1839 (12915)
  • Attree & Sons, solicitors, Brighton: letters to (7) Thomas Attree and successors 1774-1837 (12784)
  • Lawson Lewis Blakers, solicitors: deeds of Wilbees in Arlington, 1654-1923, and of Providence Chapel, Lewes, 1664-1968 1654-1968 (12818)
  • Rooks, Rider & Co, solicitors: deeds of Broadreed Farm, Mayfield 1590-1770 (12806)
  • Battle Petty Sessions: magistrates' court registers 1988-2006 (12998)
  • Bexhill Petty Sessions: Magistrates' Court Registers 1988-2006 (12998)
  • Brighton and Hove Magistrates' Division: records 1982-1997 (12934)
  • Brighton County Court: bankruptcy deeds and registers 1914-1983 (12999)
  • Brighton Magistrates Court: Affiliation papers and Adoption Register c1960-1970 (12796)
  • Eastbourne and Hailsham Magistrates' Division: records 1982-1997 (12936)
  • Eastbourne and Hailsham Magistrates' Division: Eastbourne Magistrates' Court minute books, court registers, juvenile court registers 1957-1992 (12941)
  • Eastbourne and Hailsham Magistrates' Division: magistrates' court registers 1988-2006 (12998)
  • Eastbourne Borough Petty Sessions: magistrates' court registers 1988-2006 (12998)
  • Hailsham Petty Sessions: magistrates' court registers 1988-2006 (12998)
  • Hastings and Rother Magistrates Court: records 1982-1997 (12936)
  • Hastings and Rother Magistrates Division: magistrates' court registers 1988-2006 (12998)
  • Lewes and Crowborough Magistrates' Division: records 1982-1997 (12936)
  • Lewes Petty Sessional Division: records (12936)
  • Sussex Eastern Magistrates' Division: magistrates' court registers 1988-2006 (12998)

Edinburgh City Archives

  • Police Service of Scotland: records 2013 (1069)

Explore York Libraries & Archives

  • City of York Council: Legal Property records, Social Care records, Coroners Records and Contracts from Guildhall 16th-20th cent

Gloucestershire Archives

  • Gloucestershire Constabulary: additional offence books, stolen and found property books, offenders' record cards and publications c1875-2001 (Q)

Gwent Archives

  • Francis & Co, solicitors, Chepstow: letter books , financial records and manorial records c1890-1970 (D6336)
  • Blackwood Police Station: photographs, constabulary reports, Benevolent Fund Register and other papers c1920-2010 (D6268)

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

  • Warner and Richardson, solicitors, Bishop's Waltham: client and business records c1800-1950 (116A17)
  • HM Prison, Haslar: register of appellants, scrapbook, chaplain's journal, photographs 1962-2015 (46A17)

Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre

  • Unnamed solicitor, Herefordshire: ledgers 1838-1888 (DA53)

Isle of Man Public Record Office

  • High Court of Justice of the Isle of Man, Civil division: records incl petitions, actions, minute books, distributions and receipts, entry books and ledgers 1800-1916 (A81)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

  • Melton Mowbray Petty Sessions: register 1885-1888 (DE9308)

Liverpool Record Office

  • Liverpool 8 Law Centre: case files 2006-2007 (ACC 7116)
  • Liverpool Clerk of the Peace: calendar of prisoners in the House of Corrections 1851 (354 QUQ/2/36A)

Manchester Archives and Local Studies

  • Bagshaw & Son, solicitors, Manchester: records 1848-1951 (2017/51)

Norfolk Record Office

  • Allens, Gadge & Gilbert, solicitors, Loddon: additional clients' records, incl papers rel to the Loddon and Langley Nursing Association, records for Loddon Town Hall Company Ltd, records for various Drainage Boards, Loddon Tax Division and County Court and maps and plans 1697-1980 (MC 3212)

North East Lincolnshire Archives

  • Len Rayner (fl 1960-2015), police constable: scrapbook on Tex, award winning police dog 1960-2015 (1440)

Northamptonshire Archives

  • Corby Magistrates Court: registers of court, clubs and licensing 1962-1994
  • Daventry Magistrates Court: registers incl court, clubs and licensing c1960-2000
  • Kettering Magistrates Court: registers incl court, youth court, clubs and licensing c1960-1988
  • Northampton Magistrates Court: additional registers incl court, youth court, clubs and licensing 1903-1990
  • Northamptonshire Police: records incl committee minutes, daily occurrence books, civil defence files, licensing records, order books, individual officers' journals 1840-2013 (NCPF)
  • Oundle and Thrapston Magistrates Court: club registers 1961-1985
  • Towcester Magistrates Court: additional registers rel to court, clubs and licensing 1980-1999
  • Wellingborough Magistrates Court: additional records incl court, youth court, clubs and licensing 1960-2002
  • Quarter Sessions volume entitled 'London & North Western Railway company vs. Potterspury Union Rating Appeal (Parish of Wolverton)' N261 (1894-1895)

Nottinghamshire Archives

  • Nottingham Quarter Sessions: minutes, vols 5-7 1966-1971 (9128)

Oxfordshire History Centre

  • Oxfordshire Magistrates Court: court records (6568)

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office

  • Burton County Magistrates Court: licensing registers 1950-1995
  • Burton Magistrates Court: Adult, Youth and Family Court registers, licensing registers 1972-1999
  • Cannock and Penkridge Magistrates Court: orders for maintenance 1922-1958
  • Cannock Magistrates Court: licensing registers and orders for maintenance 1964-1995
  • Cannock, Rugeley and Seisdon Magistrates Court: Adult, Youth and Family Court registers, licensing registers 1992-1999
  • Lichfield and Brownhills Magistrates Court: licensing registers 1919-1974
  • Lichfield Magistrates Court: Adult and Youth Court registers, licensing registers 1970-1999
  • Rugeley Magistrates Court: Adult and Youth Court registers 1994-1999, licensing registers 1992-1999; orders for maintenance 1934-1967 1934-1999
  • Seisdon Magistrates Court: licensing registers 1959-1999
  • Stafford Borough Magistrates Court: licensing registers 1962-1981
  • Stafford County Magistrates Court: licensing registers 1962-1981
  • Stafford Magistrates Court: Adult, Youth and Family Court registers, licensing registers 1976-1999
  • Stone Magistrates Court: licensing register 1962-1989
  • Tamworth Borough Magistrates Court: licensing registers 1930-1962
  • Tamworth Magistrates Court: Adult and Youth Court registers, licensing registers 1939-1999
  • Wilnecote Magistrates Court: licensing registers 1938-1965

Surrey History Centre

  • Mortlake Petty Sessions: additional records incl minutes, chairman's book, legal aid cases 1858-1972 (7947)

Tyne and Wear Archives

  • Houghton le Spring Magistrates Court: records incl court and adoption registers 1959-1994 (MG.HS)
  • Sunderland Magistrates Court: adoption registers 1927-1990 (MG.SU)
  • Sunderland County Borough Petty Sessions: adoption registers 1927-1953 (MG.SUC)

Warwickshire County Record Office

  • Magistrates' court registers for Alcester, Kenilworth, Kineton, Nuneaton, Rugby, Shipston, Stratford on Avon, Warwick and Leamington and Mid-Warwickshire courts 1960-1990 (CR4867)

West Sussex Record Office

  • Magistrates Court registers for West Sussex 2006-2007 (18753)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

  • Halifax Borough Police: reminiscences of borough police force from police officers and war reserve constables 1938-1954 (WYC:1854)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

  • Bradford County Court: ledgers, summonses and court books 1840-1969 (CC9)

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

  • Rollestone Prison, Larkhill: collected research materials and article by Martin Shallcross on history of Rollestone Prison, incl board of visitors' minutes and corresp 1980-81, when manned by the army during a strike by the Prison Officers' Association 1980-2017 (4400)

Wolverhampton City Archives

  • William Sturges & Co, solicitors, London: clients deeds 1794-1841 (Acc No 2826)

National

British Library, Manuscript Collections

  • Philip Carteret Webb (1702-1770), barrister, antiquary and politician: documents rel to the trial of John Wilkes for seditious libel and counter proceedings 1763-1764 (Add MS 89273)
  • Charles Harvey (fl 1830-1840), solicitor, of Spanish Town, Jamaica: papers rel to the compensation claims of Thomas Breakenridge, late owner of the Philips Valley Estate, Port Royal, Jamaica, lodged under the West India Compensation Account 1822-1841 (Add MS 89260)

National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections

  • Henry Cockburn (1779-1854), Lord Cockburn Scottish judge: notebook and journal 1821-1837 (Acc.13863)
  • Compendium of Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh's 'Lawes and Customes of Scotland in Matters Criminall...', written and abridged by M. Wardrobe, Bathgate 1706 (Acc.13875)
  • Robert Cook: legal thesis and genealogical records 1676 (Acc.13798)

Search Engine (National Railway Museum)

  • James Gates (fl 1903-1932), railway police officer: papers and notebooks recording criminal activity on Midlands Railway 1903-1932 (2017-7120)

Special

Bishopsgate Institute

  • Free Talha Campaign: records incl papers and ephemera 2006-2014 (FREETALHA)

University

Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections

  • 15 fragments of leaves of Gratian's 'Decretum', by an unknown scribe 13th cent (DM2736)

Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections

  • Val M Warren (c1890-1970), police officer: journal while on secondment from the Metropolitan Police to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to inspect and instruct in policing 1919-1920 (MS 12380)
  • Sir John Fischer Williams (1870-1947), international lawyer: letters to his wife 1922-1929 (MS. 12598)

Trinity College Dublin

  • John Scott (1739-1798), Earl of Clonmell, barrister and judge: legal notebooks 1772-1797 (TCD MS 11561)
  • Arthur Rose Vincent (1876-1956), politician and barrister: personal corresp (copies) 1902-1932 (TCD MS 11562)