GLOUCESTER BOROUGH RECORDS

Incorporation

Charters and grants of privileges

The Corporation

Mayor

Aldermen

Common Council

Sheriffs/Bailiffs

High Steward

Recorder

Declarations; oaths of office

Freemen

Apprenticeship

Council elections

Corporation Proceedings

Ordinances and bye-laws

Custumals

Minutes

Committees

Joint Committees

Local Acts and Orders

Town Clerk's legal papers (pre-1835)

Town Clerk's miscellaneous papers (pre-1835)

Financial records (pre-1835)

Fee-farm and other Exchequer accounts; national taxation

Murage and pavage accounts

Bailiff's accounts

Stewards'/Chamberlains'/Treasurer's accounts

Stewards'/Chamberlains'/Treasurer's annual account books

City cash books and ledgers

Chamberlain's/Treasurer's vouchers

Chamberlain/Treasurer: miscellaneous

Corporation securities for loans

Tolls and dues

Collectors for the Poor's accounts

Miscellaneous

Judicial records

Assizes

Coroner

Quarter Sessions

Petty Sessions

Return of writs by Sheriffs

Tolsey or Piepowder Court

County Court

Court Leet and View of Frankpledge

Statute Merchant recognizances

Hundred Court alias Mayor's Court

Weights and Measures inquest

Court of Orphans

Court of Request or Conscience

Miscellaneous

Lieutenancy records

Appointments & Commissions

Order and letter books

Papers and correspondence

Estate records (pre-1835)

Deeds

Counterpart leases

Lease books and schedules

Surveys, plans, valuations

Rentals

Land Tax redemption

Charities (pre-1835)

Hospitals

Dame Joan Cook's charity

Sir Thomas Bell's charity

Miscellaneous charities

Charities: General

Departmental records, 1836-1974

Architect and Estates Manager

Baths/Leisure Centre

Cemeteries (including Burial Board)

Clerk

Engineer and Surveyor (including Water Engineer)

Local Taxation

Markets and Quay

Police (including Standing Joint Committee)

Rating and Valuation

Associated and superseded authorities

Governor and Guardians of the Poor

Gloucester Board of Health and Urban Sanitary Authority

Gloucester Port Health (Sanitary) Authority

Barton St. Mary Local Board of Health

Barton St. Michael Local Board of Health

Kingsholm St. Catherine Local Board of Health

Gloucester Rural Sanitary Authority

Gloucester Pilotage Authority

The catalogue is complete for pre-1835 records and is in progress for post - 1835 records

<p>Throughout the catalogue, 'Stevenson', followed by a number and enclosed in square brackets, appears at the end of a file description. This refers to W. H. Stevenson's 'A Calendar of the Records of the Corporation of Gloucester' (Gloucester, 1893) which gives detailed abstracts of these documents See also Historical manuscripts Commission, 'Twelfth Report, Appendix, Part IX' (1891) pp. 400-529 'The Records of the Corporation of Gloucester' comp. by W.H. Stevenson.</p>

Deposited by Gloucester City Council