Guildable Manor

Lord of the Manor The Lord Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London Bankers: Child & Co, 1 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1BD www.guildablemanor.org		Senior Patrons The High Steward of Southwark HHJ Peter Beaumont QC The Recorder of London The High Bailiff of Southwark Charles Henty The Secondary of London & Under Sheriff Foreman Ronald Leek
Hon Auditors Dr Ian Wingfield Prof Frederick Trowman	GVILDABLE MANOR Colechurch House London Bridge Walk, London SE1 2SX 020 7394 1271	Clerk of the Manor Tony Sharp clerk@guildablemanor.org www.guildablemanor.org

The City of London’s Guildable Manor

of the

Town and Borough of Southwark

and Brief history of the Southwark Manors and Courts Leet:

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History

Charter of 1327

Map of Guildable Manor

Map of the Southwark City and other Manors

Current Officers

Foreman’s Biography

Annual Letter 2009

Earliest beginnings

Manors and their Courts Leet are usually thought to be an anachronistic remnant of rural areas and so it may come as a surprise that three of them have had a continuous history and operation since the mediaeval period in the heart of central London. The area of the Guildable Manor is almost certainly coterminous with the original bridge-head settlement of the ‘Suthringa Geweorc’ mentioned in the Burghal Hidage of circa 900 AD. In Domesday Book of 1086 it is an estate with taxable revenues as a landing place and bridge crossing, with the interests shared between the king and the local earl. The first of these was Godwin and thence his son Harold who lost the Battle of Hastings. William I ‘the Conqueror’ then gave the interest to his half-brother, Bishop Odo, and later to his son-in-law the Earl Warenne of Surrey. “The Men of Southwark” giving evidence on oath in Domesday are the same ‘View of Frankpledge’ Court summonsed to this day. The charter of 1327 refers to it as ‘the town of Southwark’ and the charter of 1550 as ‘the town and borough of Southwark’. The informal name ‘Guildable’ for the manor derives from the collection of tolls and taxes on goods bound to the City across the Bridge and was first recorded in 1377, it was adopted to distinguish this part of Southwark from all of the other neighbouring manors which were referred to as ‘in Southwark’. These taxes were eventually waived. From the first parliament to call ‘burgess’ representatives, of 1295, Southwark had two MPs; which indicates its formal recognition as a ‘borough’ although its burgesses had no charter of incorporation.

Edward III’s Charter and Quit Rents

In 1327 the City of London acquired the interests for a fee farm of £11 per annum from Edward III. The original Charter, approved by Parliament, is still in the Guildhall Record Office. The formal reason for the City wanting control was because of the difficulties of judicial process and arrest of miscreants who could make-off to the Surrey bank out of the City’s jurisdiction; no doubt the potential of Southwark becoming a competitive alternative for the City markets also exercised the Corporation. This payment is still made, by the Foreman and officers of the Manor, usually in March, when the Jurors are summoned to an Exchequer Court, held in Southwark, by the Queen’s Remembrancer, the Senior Master of the Supreme Court of England & Wales of the Royal Courts of Justice, as a ‘Quit Rent’ on behalf of the City. This is a specific requirement of the Charter of 1327.

The City Bailiff took up his duties in 1328, on the retirement of the last King’s Bailiff, and there is a complete record of the incumbents of the office from then to the present day. In 1462 the original charter was confirmed and extended by Edward IV who added the right to hold an annual fair from 7th ‘til 9th of September and the jurisdiction of a “Pie Powder Court”. This strange term is a mispronunciation from Norman-French meaning “dusty feet”, a reference to itinerants. The court was necessary for hearing and acting on the cases of visitors and traders at such events without reference to a higher court. A Steward was appointed in 1542 and likewise a complete list of those who have served in this capacity is available. Both officials usually had other Guildhall appointments and duties, most often as the Bridge Masters, for the Bridge House-Yard was situated in the Manor off Tooley Street.

Edward VI’s Charter

In 1550 the City decided to acquire from the Crown the two neighbouring manors. Henry VIII had received or bought these from Bermondsey Abbey and the Archbishop of Canterbury during the dissolution of the monasteries. The City decided to do so because in the period from 1327 the built-up area of Southwark had spread beyond the original area of the Guildable Manor and the same problems of law enforcement and competitive and unregulated trade presented a challenge to the City’s authority in Southwark from the neighbouring manors. The 1550 Charter, of Edward VI, granted all of the rights and privileges over these manors (eventually known as the King’s Manor and the Great Liberty) as those enjoyed in the Guildable. The purchase price was agreed at £647 2s 1d for the land of the two newly acquired manors and 500 Marks for the feudal incidents relating to the three manors together. The Quit Rent for the Guildable was reserved and retained by the Crown.

The Corporation did not actually pay these sums from its own resources but from the wealth it held in trust to maintain London Bridge free of charges. This was derived from bequests and also the rents from the buildings on the Bridge administered from the ‘Bridge House’ in Tooley Street; hence the trust’s name of ‘Bridge House Estates’. No doubt the City fathers explained this dubious exercise away as an investment for the benefit of the Bridge, a financial arrangement which would not pass scrutiny in later times. Indeed, the City’s practical authority in Southwark went into decline when it was decided, in 1820, that income from the Charter lands could only be applied to the benefit of the Bridge and not used for the civil administration of the Borough. This was the legal advice of the then Recorder of London~High Steward of Southwark, John Silvester, to whom we owe the present procedural ‘charges’ of the Manor’s ceremonial. To this day the Bridge House Estates remains one of the major property owners in this area. Its symbol, the Bridge Mark, is affixed to many buildings here and as such it is the oldest symbol signifying civic authority in Southwark. The Mark has been incorporated into the 1996 College of Arms grant of an heraldic Southwark Badge and is also incorporated on the Manor’s Seal. The Estates still pay the Jurors fee. The Chief Commoner, the title of the chair of the Estates committee, of the year attends the ‘Bridge House-Yard Dinner’ in Southwark with the Manor Officers, a tradition stretching back to the annual ‘Audit Feast’ when the bridge trust accounts were scrutinised in the Bridge House.

As part of the changes from 1550 an Alderman was appointed by the Court of Aldermen to oversee the new responsibilities held by the Bridge Masters; the Southwark Manors were now termed as ‘The Ward of Bridge Without’. The post quickly became a sinecure and eventually was the nominal office for the senior Alderman past the Chair to enjoy a semi-retirement in, the Steward, Bailiff and Manorial officers looking after the practical administration of ‘the Borough’ as the main part of Southwark was always termed. The last Alderman of this ‘Ward’ (the resident inhabitants and Livery never had directly elected representatives in Guildhall) retired in 1978 and the position was abolished by merging it with Bridge Ward in the City proper. The Alderman of the ‘Ward of Bridge and Bridge Without’ is entertained annually by the Manor to maintain this link.

Under a general Charter of Edward IV of 1461 concerned with confirming and extending the City’s rights the Corporation was allowed to nominate a magistrate to the Commission of the Peace of Surrey; this was exercised with the local borough court presided over by the senior Aldermen and Lord Mayor. This power was not exercised until 1606 when the magistrate was set up with a house, court room and lock-up in the Bridge Masters precinct and salaried by them to administer the City’s jurisdiction in regard to its Southwark Surrey manors. The officer was styled ‘The Justice of the Bridge Yard’, the last died in harness in 1835 and no further appointments were made; the new magistrates courts and Metropolitan Police system had made the role redundant. The ‘late’ Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs ‘elect’ attend a feast with the Manor each year to commemorate this connection.

The City’s Southwark Town Halls, other Courts and their Jurisdictions

The Guildable Manor Court Leet was recorded as assembling at the Bridge House-Yard in 1539. With the acquisition by the City of the other two Manors and the extensive responsibilities pertaining to them, in 1550, it was decided to create a separate forum for this, effectively a Justice Room and lock-up for the Lord Mayor and City officers. This was to be the redundant parish church of Southwark, St Margaret’s, available since 1540 because the parishioners had been granted the Priory of St Mary Overie (the present Southwark Cathedral) by Henry VIII, as a consequence of his dissolution of that house. This, the first, ‘town hall’ was provided by inserting a floor at the level of the gallery for a court room and by blocking in the windows below that for cells. It was known variously as ‘St Margaret’s Justice House’, the ‘Town Hall’, ‘Justice Room’ or ‘Court House’ and eventually as the ‘Borough Compter’. This was destroyed in the great fire of Southwark, in 1676, the lock-up part was eventually rehoused in Tooley Street. The Court House remained on the original site and was replaced with a new town hall in 1685, the ground floor was let to the ‘King’s Arms’ public house.

The City surrendered one of its Charter rights, that of holding and controlling markets in Southwark, when it agreed to the ‘Borough Market (Southwark) Act’ of 1756. This moved the market from the main thoroughfare and eased traffic flow to London Bridge. The replacement facility was to be administered by independent local Trustees and was set up off the main street where its four acre site still continues in its role. From that date the Guildable Manor court ceased to appoint from its number officers described as ‘Supervisors of the Market’.

The James II town hall fell into disrepair and was replaced in 1793; with the decline in the practical civic activity of the City’s officers in Southwark in the following decades, the Bridge House Estates demanded that it be surrendered to them for redevelopment. Because of the town and port’s expansion the site was more valuable. It was closed and the site was leased in 1859 to the London and County Bank which built a new building and hence named ‘Town Hall Chambers’. In 1999 the structure was refurbished as licensed premises at street level with apartments above and was formally opened by the Guildable Manor officers, thus reviving our connection with a site going back 450 years.

The Court Leet of the Guildable Manor then began to meet at the old London Bridge Hotel (now 2 Borough High Street) until the Borough Market Trustees built themselves a new office with a Court Room on Southwark Street in 1932, which is where the Jury assembled until 1999. Since then a number of appropriate and dignified venues have been used due to the larger numbers needing to be accommodated. These have included the Southwark Cathedral Library, the Greater London Authority’s City Hall, the Glaziers Hall and in recent years the LSE Bankside Hall.

Aside from the Manorial Courts there were also others. The Charter of 1550 gave the City the right to appoint the Southwark Coroner an anomaly removed only in 1990, the court room is in Tennis Street. Furthermore there were Courts and Prisons of Royal Prerogative based in the Borough, the Marshalsea and King’s Bench, eventually they became simply gaols for civil debtors and closed in 1842 when the courts ceased to send debtors to them. There were also Ecclesiastic Courts, mainly related before the Reformation to the political duties of the leading Bishops. The manor on the east-side of the high street (the later ‘Great Liberty’) belonged to the Archbishop of Canterbury, but the neighbouring manor to the west of the Guildable was that of the Bishop of Winchester, the Clink and its notorious prison. This gave rise to conflicts of jurisdiction, most notably with the Magistrates of Surrey who also operated in the Borough. Indeed until 1760, when they removed to the Union Hall in Union Street, they sat at the City’s Town Hall, using the rights of a lease obtained before the City acquired it. The Surrey Justices also had their own gaol on the high street, a converted inn, the White Lyon. This was eventually rehoused in the King’s Bench prison when that moved to the Borough Road, but from 1799 the new Surrey County Gaol was opened at Newington Causeway behind the recently completed new County Sessions House of 1794, on Horsemonger Lane/ Harper Road. Executions took place there until its closure in 1878 (HMP Brixton replaced it). A new Court building had already opened in 1875, it was in turn replaced by the present Inner London Sessions House from 1921 but this was now the ‘county’ criminal court for London.

The increase in crime has led to major new court developments based in other boroughs in the Greater London area to supplement the Newington Sessions House. In 1964 Southwark Crown Court was opened at English Grounds near London Bridge for local requirements, giving the borough two Crown Courts. Since 1994 the Crown Court for the west London Boroughs, previously based at Knighstbridge, was rehoused in Southwark as Blackfriars Crown Court. When the decision was taken to separate the judiciary and legislature, in 2007, by transforming the House of Lords Judicial Committee of Law Lords into the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom it was given the Middlesex Guildhall in Parliament Square as its residence. This meant that the crown court judges sitting there were displaced and they too went to the Southwark Crown Court, in 2007, the senior judge holding the title of the Recorder of Westminster. Apart from these four crown courts (ILCC Newington, Southwark, Wesminster, Blackfriars) Southwark’s local magistrates sit at two courts in the borough, Tower Bridge and Camberwell Green Magistrates Courts. With the increase in their responsibilities the Stipendiary Magistrates of these has been recognised since 2008 by their new title of District Judge (MC).

Few boroughs can boast a single major Court, Southwark has seven jurisdictions as explained above and this unique arrangement is reflected once a year at the Justices and Jurors Dinner, held in May by the Manor, when we entertain all of the senior resident Judges.

Legal Status: Relationship with the ‘Old Bailey’ and Jurors Summons

From the late Georgian period the City began to appoint as High Steward the incumbent Recorder of London, ie the senior Judge of the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey, with the office of High Bailiff of the Manors being a supplementary role of the Under Sheriff & Secondary ie the senior administrative officer of that Court. That is so to the present day, the Writs summonsing the jurors are issued out of the Old Bailey under the Secondary’s Seal.

The Manor Jurors therefore had a number of officials and authorities to assist them in correcting their ‘presentments’ and to whom they could make complaint about the problems associated with this burgeoning urban area, second in population only to the City of London in course of time. Yet the Jurors were the effective representatives of the inhabitants who could in any other location have enjoyed full burgess and municipal corporate rights. From the late Georgian period repeated attempts were made to have the Southwark Manors incorporated fully into the City, or alternatively to secure effective independence. The campaigns were led by active members of the three City manorial courts. With the growth of the metropolis and the development of Vestry Boards and ‘civil’ parishes in the London County, Lord Salisbury’s Government made these full local authorities, as London Metropolitan Boroughs, from 1900. The issue of the Southwark Manors was brought to a head by this proposal and as the City resisted overtures from Southwark representatives, local institutions and the Jurors for full integration it was by default that the three Manors became parts of two of the new municipal councils created by this scheme, that of Southwark and of Bermondsey. In 1965 the creation of the Greater London Council, incorporating the London County Council area and parts of the Home Counties, merged Bermondsey and Southwark with Camberwell to form the London Borough of Southwark. However, all of these civic reorganisations have not affected the functioning of the City’s rights and the summonsing and empanelling of the Manor Courts Leet.

The three Southwark Courts Leet retain the right to sit for their customary business as a limited jurisdiction under the ‘Administration of Justice Act 1977; §23 (1)(a) Sch 4 Pt III’.

Other Ceremonial Activities

The form for holding the Southwark Courts Leet is based on a document of 1664, itself a revision of an earlier format of 1561. It has certain differences of detail to that of other Courts held elsewhere dating from 1650, almost certainly because the City could draft laws for itself and so the format for this was based on local traditions and conditions. The Assize & Assay is directed at the quality of wine, ale, bread and meats. The Assize of Buildings & Survey relates to the duties to oversee the maintenance of highways and buildings, ie what became planning and building regulations. These two powers are those most frequently exercised today as they legally underpin the ceremonies of ‘Ale Conning’ and opening of new buildings which forms so much of the activities of the manor jury. Other parts of the general ‘charge’ to the Jury relate to the immoral activities, pursuits and businesses that had to be controlled in Southwark. Apart from the ‘stews’ and gambling houses this included theatres and other such places of entertainment. The manor officers gladly breached the prohibition on play houses, enforced successfully for the previous 750 years, when they agreed to open the Unicorn Children’s Theatre on Tooley Street in 2006.

Further Reading

Apart from the original Charters mentioned above, the lists of all Foremen, Officers and Jurors are intact from the earliest time, including copies of Writs made by the Bailiffs and records of Presentments, process and proceedings of the Courts and which can be read by interested persons in the Guildhall Records Office. Indeed they have formed valuable local background detail for scholars and two major academic studies have given special reference to them as they concerned the history of this part of central London. These are David Johnson’s ‘Southwark and the City’ and Martha Carlin’s ‘Medieval Southwark’.

The Charter of Edward III

of 1327

Granting the

“Town of Southwark”

alias the

Guildable Manor

to the

City of London

“Edward, by grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine; to all to whom these present letters shall come, greeting.

Know ye, that whereas our beloved, the citizens of our city of London, by their petition exhibited before us and our council, in our present parliament at Westminster assembled, have given us to understand that felons, thieves, and divers other malefactors and disturbers of the peace, who, in the aforesaid city and elsewhere, have committed manslaughters, robberies, and divers other felonies, secretly withdrawing from the same city, after having committed such felonies, flee to the town of Southwark, where they cannot be attached by the ministers of the said city, and there are openly received; and so for default of due punishment are emboldened to commit more such felonies; and they have besought us, that, for the conservation of our peace within the said city, bridling the wickedness of these same malefactors, we would grant unto them the said town, to have and to hold to them, their heirs and successors for ever, for the yearly farm therefor due to us, to be paid at our exchequer. We, having given consideration to the premises, with the assent of the prelates, earls, barons, and commons of our kingdom, being in the parliament aforesaid, have granted, for us and our heirs, to the same citizens, the said town of Southwark, with the appurtenances, to have and to hold, to them and their heirs and successors, citizens of the aforesaid city, of us and our heirs for ever, paying to us yearly at the exchequer of us and our heirs, at the accustomed terms, the farm therefor due and accustomed. In witness whereof we have caused these our letters to be made patent.

Witness myself at Westminster, the sixth day of March, in the first year of our reign.”

The Guildable Manor

The Manor is the original ‘Town of Southwark’ referred to in Domesday Book and the Charter of 1327. Archaeological evidence suggests that it was the Anglo-Saxon bridge-head settlement and also the Roman equivalent for Londinium. ‘Guildable’ seems to refer to the manor’s role as a tax and toll point for the King’s interests and differentiates it from any other transpontine neighbours that may also for convenience have been referred to as ‘Southwark’; although its formal legal name,

as seen on our Seal, is ‘Town and Borough of Southwark’.

Boundaries drawn on the O/S of 1917

The limits and borders of the three Southwark Manors are outlined in “Report of the Royal Commission on Municipal Corporations: London and Southwark” HC 239, p3 n (1837), xxv. The text of this report is given below in italics with brief notes relating it to a modern map. However, the insertion of the first London Bridge Station terminus, from 1840, and its later expansions across the St Thomas Hospital estate can obscure that part of the boundary for the modern observer. The area on the south landing of the bridge is within the City of London.

[The Guildable Manor] “… commences at St. Saviour's Dock, Saint Saviour's [sic in fact St Mary Overey’s Dock], and extends along the east side of Church-street [now Cathedral St.], the Southwark side of a passage through the Borough market which separates the Clink Liberty from the Borough of Southwark, north-east side of Market-street, and east side of Counter-street [ie to a point in Stoney St opposite Park St; Market St. and Counter St. ran behind the old Town Hall site, now the fork of Borough High St., into Stoney St.], as far as Counter-alley [now Counter Court], north side thereof, west side northerly of Borough High-street and Wellington-street [the northern section of Borough High St. was known as Wellington St.], and east side of the last-named street, from where the old Ship Inn formerly stood [at the junction of London Bridge St. and Borough High St.], both sides of Duke-street [now Duke St. Hill] and Tooley-street (taking in both sides of Joiner's-street) as far as where the watch-house formerly stood [see under the Great Liberty Manor: the following is from the survey’s description of that manor’s boundary at this point {… as far as where the old Ship Inn formerly stood; from thence back to St Thomas’s-street, both sides of that street, Broadway, Three Hammer-alley, Crown-square, Glean-alley, and southerly to No 226 Tooley-street (formerly at the back of Saint Olave’s watch-house)}], from thence only the north side of Tooley-street, as far as Hay's-lane, west side thereof to Hay's Wharf, and westerly along the river's side to Saint Saviour's Dock aforesaid.”

The eastern boundary obscured by the station and access roads can therefore be traced as shown. The old Broadway was incorporated into the subsequent widening of St Thomas Street; Three Hammer Alley, Crown Square and Glean Alley in effect demarcate the east side of the line described as “ … both sides of Joiner’s Street.”, these lay parallel and between Joiner and Dean (now Stainer) streets. The line between the St Thomas precinct and the Guildable “both sides of Duke-street …” and “… St. Thomas’s-street, both sides …” can be followed on this map and previous maps; it is marked by the curve of the street now called Railway Approach, south side, to its intersection with London Bridge Street (late Denman St. and Ship Inn alley) and Joiner St., which follows the boundary wall of the St Thomas’ hospital garden, its sub-manor and parish boundary.

The City of London Manors and other Manor boundaries in Southwark

GUILDABLE MANOR

Officers and Offices of the Guildable Manor and Court Leet from 2009 :-

The City’s Officers
THE HIGH STEWARD	HHJ Peter Beaumont QC, Recorder of London
THE HIGH BAILIFF	Charles Henty, Undersheriff & Secondary of London

The Officers to be Sworn are:-
FOREMAN	Ron Leek
CONSTABLE	Ian Wingfield
AFEEROR	Janet Honnoraty
FLESH TASTER	Mike Honnoraty
ALETASTER (St Saviour’s side)	Leslie Grout
ALESIZER (St Olave’s side)	James Gurling ^1-6Committee of Officers with Trustees; by succession and service under Rule 7
SUPERNUMERARY:-
ALESIZER (St Saviour’s side)	Ian Tough, Geoffrey Drust
	“ ” All other Officers and Trustees
ALESIZER (St Olave’s side)	Roger Davis, Donald Goree
	“ ” All other Officers and Trustees
	Rule 7.9
CLERK OF THE MANOR‡	Tony Sharp (F: 2001-2002)
ORATOR ~ CLERK‡	Peter Gadbury (F: 2000-2001)
OUTROPER OR COMMON CRYER‡§	David Wilson (F: 2005-2006) § Charter of Charles I 1625 ‡ Rule 7.9
BEADLES ‡ (St Olave’s side) (St Saviour’s side)	All Officers and Trustees All Officers and Trustees ‡ Rule 7.9
SERVED FOREMEN AND TRUSTEES‡‡	Peter Gadbury (F: 2000-2001) ‡‡ Tony Sharp (F: 2001-2002) ‡‡ Ian Wingfield (F: 2002-2003) ‡‡ Diane Riley (F: 2004-2005) David Wilson (F: 2005-2006) ‡‡ Cyril Levy (F: 2006-2007) Frederick Trowman (F: 2007 2008) ‡‡ David Boston (F: 2008-2009) ‡‡ Rule 3.
HON AUDITORS §§	Ian Wingfield (F: 2002-2003) Frederick Trowman (F: 2007 2008) §§ Notified to Annual Meeting under Rule 8.

The three Southwark Courts Leet retain the right to sit for their customary business including

“...the appointment of traditional officers” as a limited jurisdiction under the ‘Administration of Justice Act 1977; §23 (1)(b) Sch 4 Pt III’.

Lord of the Manor The Lord Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London		Senior Patrons The High Steward of Southwark HHJ Peter Beaumont QC The Recorder of London The High Bailiff of Southwark Charles Henty The Secondary of London & Under Sheriff
	GVILDABLE MANOR Colechurch House, London Bridge Walk, London SE1 2SX Registered Address
	020 7394 1271

Ronald Edward Leek

Foreman Ron Leek greets Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom to the annual manor Southwark Justices and Jurors Dinner. Lord Phillips gave a lecture on

‘The Supreme Court, the first six months’, at the Amigo Hall, Southwark on 6^th May 2010

Foreman of the Guildable Manor, 2009-10, having been Sworn by the High Steward on

18 November and served in each office and as a Juror since 2004

Ron is 74 and has had considerable involvement in local and national Freemens guilds and civic affairs for over 30 years, having lived in Oversley Green, Alcester, Warwickshire, for 48 years. His interests include local history, wine and chivalric organisations.

Married to Janet, with two adult sons, and twin grand children;

Educated at Solihull School;

served as a National Serviceman in the Royal Signals;

Employed throughout working life on the supply side of the OEM motor industry, for the last 25 years of which, prior to retirement in 2000, he worked out of France as a representative for a French company manufacturing OEM components.

Hon Secretary the Freemen of England and Wales; for 7 years to date

A local Town Councillor, was Mayor of Alcester 2002 – 2003;

Manor of Alcester, has been a juror of the Court Leet and Court Baron of the Most Honourable Henry Jocelyn Seymour, Marquess of Hertford since 1961; a served Constable of the Alcester Court Leet for 21 years from 1983 to 2004; has held various other executive positions in the Alcester Court Leet, primarily that of High Bailiff of Alcester 1969 –1970 (the equivalent office to Foreman of The Guildable Manor);

a founder member of the Alcester Civic Society, now a committee member, having held office therein at various times, as Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer; President of the Oversley Green Resident’s Association; member of the Management Committee of the Alcester Town Hall;

Involved in wine appreciation as Maitre de Ceremonies of the Alcester branch of L’Ordre des Chevaliers Bretvins, a traditional French cultural order associated with the wines from the Pays Nantais region of Alcester’s twin town Vallet; a Bailli member in another French wine fraternity – La Commanderie du Taste Saumur;

founder member of the Alcester – Vallet Twinning Association;

Grand Seneschal in the Grand Priory of England and Wales of the Supreme Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem;

Other Interests include - membership of the Royal British Legion; member of the National Trust for Scotland; and member of the British Organ Grinder’s Association, being owner and player (grinder) of a Victorian street organ. Hobbies include travel, motor caravanning, photography, reading, model railways and whisky.

Lord of the Manor The Lord Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London Bankers: Child & Co, 1 Fleet Street, London EC4		Senior Patrons The High Steward of Southwark HHJ Peter Beaumont QC The Recorder of London The High Bailiff of Southwark Charles Henty The Secondary of London & Under Sheriff Foreman David Boston
Hon Auditors Dr Ian Wingfield Prof Freddie Trowman	GVILDABLE MANOR Colechurch House, London Bridge Walk, London SE1 2SX Registered Address 020 7394 1271	Clerk of the Manor Tony Sharp 1 October 2009

Dear Jurors,

As required under Rule 6.1 the following is provided for your information

Annual Letter

You have been notified of the High Steward’s Precept and by now received your Summons for the November Court Leet. Please find the Agenda* and abstract of Audited Accounts for the Annual Meeting, which shall take place at that venue at 2.15pm that day, enclosed:

*ie draft agenda; members may propose any business before the Meeting for inclusion, or use ‘AOB’ at the Meeting

The Officers to be Sworn are:-
FOREMAN	Ron Leek
CONSTABLE	Ian Wingfield
AFEEROR	Janet Honnoraty
FLESH TASTER	Mike Honnoraty
ALETASTER (St Saviour’s side)	Leslie Grout
ALESIZER (St Olave’s side)	James Gurling ^1-6Committee of Officers with Trustees; by succession and service under Rule 7
SUPERNUMERARY:-
ALESIZER (St Saviour’s side)	Ian Tough, Geoffrey Drust
	“ ” All other Officers and Trustees
ALESIZER (St Olave’s side)	Roger Davis, Donald Goree
	“ ” All other Officers and Trustees
	Rule 7.9
CLERK OF THE MANOR‡	Tony Sharp (F: 2001-2002)
ORATOR ~ CLERK‡	Peter Gadbury (F: 2000-2001)
OUTROPER OR COMMON CRYER‡§	David Wilson (F: 2005-2006) § Charter of Charles I 1625 ‡ Rule 7.9
BEADLES ‡ (St Olave’s side) (St Saviour’s side)	All Officers and Trustees All Officers and Trustees ‡ Rule 7.9
SERVED FOREMEN AND TRUSTEES‡‡	Peter Gadbury (F: 2000-2001) ‡‡ Tony Sharp (F: 2001-2002) ‡‡ Ian Wingfield (F: 2002-2003) ‡‡ Diane Riley (F: 2004-2005) David Wilson (F: 2005-2006) ‡‡ Cyril Levy (F: 2006-2007) Frederick Trowman (F: 2007 2008) ‡‡ David Boston (F: 2008-2009) ‡‡ Rule 3.
HON AUDITORS §§	Ian Wingfield (F: 2002-2003) Frederick Trowman (F: 2007 2008) §§ Notified to Annual Meeting under Rule 8.

The three Southwark Courts Leet retain the right to sit for their customary business including “...the appointment of traditional officers” as a limited jurisdiction under the ‘Administration of Justice Act 1977; §23 (1)(b) Sch 4 Pt III’.

General

Just a few days before being sworn in as Foreman, the other officers and myself, attended Guildhall Old Museum on the morning of 8^th November 2008 to make a presentation to our new Lord Mayor, Ald Ian Luder. We were gratified that some of our guests, who had great experience and had held high office in the Livery, had never attended and said that this reflected on the status and high regard in which the Manor is held within the City. This was reinforced when our Foreman Freddie, Clerk Tony and Ale Conner Donald were invited to the Mansion House to view the Show and receive Lunch with the Lord Mayor.

Membership and Tenancy

As the Manor membership expands, so does the costs of running it; nor are we quite big enough to benefit from an economy of scale. The costs of holding the Court Leet have risen and the necessity is now that we have to hire larger venues required to hold this means our margins are squeezed. Because of the Recession, the committee was expecting a major loss of membership, especially among those Jurors who had not been attending functions for some years, and indeed we had formal resignations from six Jurors and had four non-renewers. However, we actually had twenty three new members join us more than covering our losses, so that we feel that we are heading in the right direction. There are now 83 Jurors. So once again we believe it is possible to increase to 100 members so that we can have a better critical mass to support functions. The Committee would therefore request that you actively recruit suitable persons to become Jurors, especially if they are unlikely to become Liverymen but are attracted to the City’s traditions, and of course we offer the unique combination of the Southwark arrangements to propose them for the Freedom and to celebrate its receipt at View of Frankpledge and Quit Rents. We have some very senior City representatives at these events, who have indicated that they are most impressed with the ceremonial aspects and conviviality. A general rise in costs for functions over the last two years is reflected in the increase in charges for these events. The Committee is mindful that charges have to be levied at a rate that keeps them attractive for the members.

Events and Functions of the last year

Court Leet

Our most important event of the year was held on 12th November 2008 when I was sworn in as Foreman in the LSE Bankside Hall, a new venue for us which enables us to hold a Reception, Luncheon and the Court Leet all at the same convenient place. The Luncheon was attended by 71 Jurors and Guests. No new Officers were Sworn, no ordinary members applied to serve as officers. However, we have a considerable pool of talent that shall give us continuity for some years into the future. Of some importance for the future organisation of the Manor was rthat at the annual meeting we adopted new terms into our constitution and informed the High Steward, HHJ Peter Beaumont, at the Court Leet that we were asking him to request of the Court of Aldermen that they recognise the Manor organisation of Jurors formally.

Carol Service

One of newer members, Daphne Dale, is Master of the Tower Ward Club. At her invitation we held a joint Carol Service at the splendid church of St Olave’s, Hart Street in the City, on the 8^th December. I read the first Lesson.

Thames Traditional Cutter Race

The Manor’s involvement with the Bankside Winter Fair events for the third year has resulted in our becoming co-sponsors of the Thames Traditional Rowing Association’s Cutter Race in particular to formally give welcome to our City brethren the Masters of 19 Livery Companies, Rowing Clubs and their crews of which, the largest number ever, rowed over for the festivities on 13^th December. We then processed to the Tate Modern, to the delight of the many tourists in the area and then went to the Bankside pier to meet and greet the teams at the landing. We then processed all 170 attendees into The Shakespeare Under-Globe exhibition centre for a Reception and buffet, where I presented each of the participating Crews with an illuminated address and certificate of completion. I was particularly delighted to greet our ‘Southwark Livery’ neighbours the Masters of the Glaziers, Scientific Instrument Makers and Launderers with their crews. Additionally, for the first time the Watermen and Lightermen (in their Shallop Blue livery) participated. It is most fitting that the Manor be the representative body to welcome the Livery. This was the largest event ever hosted by the Manor. This we hoped to become a regular annual event, however it won’t be held in 2009 due to lack of a suitable venue. (See photo spread below).

Quit Rents and Court of Exchequer

The combined Thanksgiving Service and Quit Rents Ceremony was held on 19^th March, for new Freemen, Members and Guests. We assembled at the Chamberlain’s Court, where eleven took the oath. Once again this was held at St George the Martyr, Borough High Street. The Service was followed by the Quit Rents Ceremony. The Senior Master Steven Whitaker, the Queen’s Remembrancer, received these on behalf of the Crown from us (on behalf of the City). For this purpose he instituted the Court of Exchequer to which the Southwark Jurors were Summoned. This is only one of four City ceremonies which he participates in; the others being the Trial of the Pyx, the presentation of the Sheriffs and the presentation of the Lord Mayor. I then hosted a Luncheon at the St George’s Hall, catering by Juror Mark Grove’s ‘The Cook & The Butler’ which was of quite the best quality of catering available in the City. Some 88 Jurors and their guests attended, a record number for any formal event of the Manor. Our civic brethren and guests included the Master of the Watermen and Aldermen Wootton, Woolf, Graves and Evans. One of our practices, which has been remarked upon by visiting livery, is the reading by our new freemen of passages from Some Rules from the Conduct of Life (‘the little red book’) at the luncheon. Apparently, visiting livery are much taken with it and have indicated they are to adopt it within their own companies.

The History Tour of the Borough

The annual guided walk was held on Saturday 4^th April was conducted by our Clerk, Tony Sharp, and started at Borough Tube Station and finished at The Mudlark, Montague Close where we had excellent individual lunches and drinks. These tours are probably the most convenient and accessible way to understand the fascinating history of the Manors.

Justices and Jurors Dinner: Annual Spring Banquet

The success of the Bridge House-Yard Dinner led me to believe that the gap between two of our formal events , the Quit Rents in March and the Bridge House-Yard Dinner in late September was too long. However, an institution such as ours has to have a theme for its events and the Manor’s theme is always its ancient jurisdiction. In discussing just what this could mean with the Clerk I was surprised, not for the first time, just how unique our Borough is both historically and currently, when he explained that although Southwark was the historic home of many courts and their jurisdiction prisons, The King’s Bench and the Marshalsea, the Borough Compter, the White Lion, the Clink, the Surrey County gaols and our own Court House and the Union Hall, it is still today the home borough of three Crown Courts and its Coroner’s and two Magistrates Courts. It is hard to find any other borough with even half that number. To that end we invited the several Justices of these to attend a lecture and dinner at the London Bridge Hotel. Apart from the principal resident justice of Southwark Crown Court who is The Recorder of Westminster HHJ Geoffrey Rivlin QC, (that is too complicated to explain here!), we also entertained the senior justices of the Inner London Sessions HHJ Nicholas Philpot; the District Judge of Camberwell Green, Ann Sawetz, the District Judge of Tower Bridge, Shamoon Somjee and our old friends from the Royal Courts of Justice the Senior Master Steven Whitaker and Jill Jacobs. Only Blackfriars Crown Court and the Southwark Coroner were not represented. Frankly, that this was all organised in the space of five weeks by our Clerk is quite astonishing. Attendance of the Jurors was less than we had hoped for, at 37, but as this was at short notice and a completely new event better than we could expect. However, some of us remember that only a few years ago Manor membership stood at a little over a dozen. I fully expect that this dinner shall grow in attendance to match the status of the event in future years.

The Rochester Visit has now become a regular feature of our year, hosted by our sister FEW Guild, The Rochester Oyster and Floating Fishery, held on Saturday/ Sunday 4^th/5^th July. This is a working guild and company of fisherman and has statutory rights of Presentment at the said court which is presided over by the Admiral of the Medway the Mayor of Medway borough with a group of six robed Councillors forming the Admiralty Court. The day started with the Admiralty Court held in the beautiful Guildhall. The Manor Officers were also permitted to convey the formal Greetings of the Rt Hon the Lord Mayor Ald Ian Luder to the Mayor and Freemen of the Medway (see photo). We then processed the Mayor of Medway from the Guildhall to the river and then took to boats for beating the bounds to Hawkwood Stone and ended with an entertaining luncheon at the Rochester Cruising Club. However, this year we were provided by the City of London Port Health Authority with the Londinium III launch for both days of the event which enabled us to provide places aboard for upto 12. We are extremely grateful for the warm hospitality extended to the Manor by the Rochester guild, the Cruising Club and Mayor of Medway every year at this event. This event is by invitation to the Manor Officers and therefore as guests ourselves we cannot invite Manor members on a subscription basis. (See photo spread below).

London Bridge Fayre 800 and Sheep Drive

Another additional event, on Saturday 11^th July, this time part of the Lord Mayor’s Appeal 2009, was a display of Livery stalls as a mediaeval fair to celebrate the completion of Peter de Colechurch’s bridge in 1209, combined with a Sheep Drive over London Bridge. We were most gratified that the Rt Hon the Lord Mayor Ald Ian Luder made a specific request that the Guildable Manor welcome both himself and the participating Livery masters when they crossed into Southwark. During the Fayre an Ale Conning in spirits was held at the Distillers Co stall and a Flesh Tasting at the ‘hog roast’. The formal welcome to the Lord Mayor was conducted in our usual high ceremonial style and we presented an engraved ale conning tankard to mark the occasion. I then joined the Lord Mayor in driving a sheep over the bridge in time honoured fashion. Some thirty five members and guests attended and we had a pub lunch at the Barrow Boy and Banker which rounded off the day. We made a contribution of £225.00 to the LMA 2009.

The‘Bridge House-Yard Dinner’, was held on 16^th September at our new venue the Hall of St George the Martyr, Borough High Street. Aside from the Chief Commoner, Deputy Bill Fraser OBE CC, as our principal guest, we also entertained the Sheriff George Gillon CC and the Sheriffs ‘Elect’ Alderman David Wootton (by coincidence I am David’s Ward Beadle), The City Remembrancer - Paul Double, Master Steven Whitaker (the Queen’s Remembrancer) as well as the Masters of the Girdlers and Watermens companies. Fifty seven Members and guests attended some 20 per cent down on last year. This was without doubt an occasion matched by very few others in the City save for those at Mansion House and Guildhall for the number of senior civic dignitaries present.

Throughout the year either an Officer, the Clerk or myself represented the Manor as invited guests at Livery and City events. For example in early June a Reception was held at the Mansion House with the Lord Mayor for the Territorial and Cadet forces associated with the City. The Livery City University and Cass Business School Lectures are an opportunity to meet informally a very wide selection of Masters and Clerks. On the 10^th July the Clerk and myself were guests of the Watermen and Lightermen’s cruise and lunch following the Doggett’s Coat and Badge Wager. Indeed I was the principal guest of honour of the Master because like the Watermen we are not a Livery (the Livery are entertained by the Fishmongers). The Clerk represented us at the Tradtional Thames Rowing Association held its ‘Admiral of the River Race’ between Westminster Bridge and Westminster boating club on 14^th July. The higher profile of the Manor has meant that this has been reflected in the number of invitations we now receive to attend Livery Company events, lectures and Receptions, such as those of the Painter Stainers, Fuellers, Horners, Guild of Air Pilots. On the Morning of the Lord Mayor’s Show, 14^th November, I and the Officers shall make a presentation to the Lord Mayor Ald Nicholas Anstee.

The Committee would urge all of the members to try and come to these functions with friends, partners and paying guests. Those of you who are Liverymen who intend to sponsor persons for the Freedom by Redemption without the intervention of a Livery Company are urged to consider making use of the View of Frankpledge and Thanksgiving Service and Quit Rents Ceremony events to be proposed for and celebrate the receipt of the Freedom in a suitable commemorative and dignified way.

Finances and Audit of Accounts

With this letter you will find a copy of the Audited Accounts which are placed before the Annual Meeting. As you can see, above, the Committee has chosen Freddie Trowman and Ian Wingfield to undertake these duties from next year. Authority over expenditure on goods and services is exercised by the Committee and the Trustees.

The Tenancy Fee Account has to carry the costs of communications, the Tenancy Fee and sundry other items which the membership as a whole ought in fairness to carry, such as entertaining our official guests. We have now secured a storage shed at Colechurch for our Equipages and this meant a rise in our Lease, shown in the account. However, this year it mainly had to take the strains of what was usually afforded from our profits from General sales. It was necessary to apply support to the Quit Rents Lunch because of hire fees for the venue. The Tenancy Fee shall remain at £40.00 for 2009-10. This account also has to fund the costs associated with the Court Leet Day.

Merchandise & General Account. Usually this account is profitable from sales and this subsidised our other activities but this year was mainly of expenditure and stock purchase. The value of the stock is written down as nominal on purchase as it is acquired as a much larger order the cost of which is covered on the intitial part sale. The value of the stock is realised as full profit at sales. The prices for Guildable Manor Merchandise for our own members are deliberately set at below High Street rates to encourage membership identity, in most cases they are priced at a little above cost. These items are of exceptional quality and value.

Banqueting Account. Normally this realises surpluses, applied to charity, but this year the general inflation has increased costs while we held the Event subscription down to attract support. All of our major functions follow a format of an Event, be it ceremonial or a talk or other entertainment, a good quality meal at excellent prices with drink, usually with excellent company and official guests. This is a sensible mixture of formal and informal. No Livery Company can offer this value and no City Ward Club has this level of civic status and pomp. I would ask all members to bring guests with a prospect of joining a unique institution as an introduction to the rich heritage of both the City of London and Southwark. Charitable Donations (Banqueting Account) The Committee, in accordance with last year’s Annual Meeting made further contributions to charitable objects, many of these were laying in long-term ‘goodwill’ with various institutions to develop better relationships. Some payments for venue hire are treated as ‘gifts’. The Committee of Officers shall vary these amounts as to what is a prudent disbursement in regard to the balance of the Accounts.

Constitutional Amendments

A clarification of the roles and duties of the Trustees vis a vis the Sworn Officers.

Renumbering of Sections: The emphases of the foregoing points requires a certain rearrangement and renumbering of Sections. Any further changes required by the Court of Aldermen shall be notified in due course.

Queries

If any one has any questions arising out of this Letter, the Accounts or from the Minutes of the last General Meeting, (previously distributed and reproduced below) the point of circulating these in advance is to ask you to give me Notice, in reasonable time before the meeting, so that a detailed answer can be prepared and made at the Annual Meeting. Likewise, at any other time during the year, if members have any queries of, or want to make suggestions to, the Committee then a note about these shall receive a detailed and considered reply.

Yours sincerely,

David Boston, For and on behalf of the Committee of the Guildable Manor.

Livery and Traditional Cutter Race at the Globe

At left:A full house at the Under-Globe December 08
At right: Foreman David with Master SIM right and Master Waterman with the Escort at the Globe foyer
Visit to Rochester	below left: the City’s launch Londinium III at berth; bottom right: crew , Clerk and Foreman David

above left: Borough Solicitor, Chief Executive, Clerk and Foreman David above right: Foreman David receives the pennant from Mayor

ABSTRACT OF ACCOUNTS

Guildable Manor General and Merchandise Account

Guildable Manor re General Account: No. 10628183; Child & Co 15-80-00

Income and Expenditure from 1 October 2008 – 30 September 2009

	Expenditure		Income
		Opening Balance 1/10/2008	£99.55
Bank Charges	£Nil	Bank Interest	£1.13
Transfer to Tenancy 50% Fines	£460.00	Membership Fines x 23	£920.00
Publications	£Nil
Merchandise	£712.83	MERCHANDISE
Equipages	£339.21	Sales to third parties	£300.00
Transfer to Banqtg re St George’s BHYD	£250.00	Sales to Officers	£591.25
		Sales to Members	£42.50
		Other Sales	£Nil
TOTAL £1762.04		TOTAL = £1954.43 BAL = £192.39

We have Audited the Final Account, working papers, running accounts, bank statements, cheque and paying-in books and are satisfied that they are correct: Honorary Auditors. Ian Wingfield/Freddie Trowman

STOCK OF MERCHANDISE * †		EQUIPAGES # †
Enamel Ware x £1.00 per item) Publications Silk wear (10 x £10.00) £100.00 Ian Wingfield/Freddie Trowman	£50.00 £10.00 £40.00	Foreman’s Badge Foreman’s Chain Foreman’s Gavel Foreman’s Gown Officers Gown & Bonnet x1 Clerk’s Pen Stand Constable’s Truncheon and Stand Flesher’s Plate, Knives and Forks Affeerer’s Chest and Coins (£11) Lecterns x 2 Carriers and Storage Cases Bridge Mark Chaplain’s Cope Bibles @ £15.00 (x14) Letter Box at Colechurch High Steward’s Chair Pewter Flagons/ Loving Cups £5221.00	£250.00 £350.00 £100.00 £500.00 £135.00 £100.00 £150.00 £40.00 £61.00 £250.00 £400.00 £200.00 £500.00 £210.00 £75.00 £900.00 £1,000.00

*Stock was acquired as larger order and values are notional and is not included on the balance sheets.

†Purchases and Sales of Stock and Equipages appear as Income and Expenditure in the General Account

#Equipages are itemised as at replacement cost, but were as often gifts to the Manor; there is no depreciation policy. There is no insurance, replacement is made from current funds.

at left: Foreman David greets and welcomes

the Rt Hon Lord Mayor Ald Ian Luder

to Southwark at the LM’s request, for the first time in

very many years.

below: The HAC’s Pikemen & Musketeers escort the

Lord Mayor across the Bridge to Southwark

Guildable Manor Banqueting Account (All Functions Balances)

Guildable Manor Banqueting Account: No. 10628213; Child & Co 15-80-00

Income and Expenditure from 1 October 2008 – 30 September 2009

	Expenditures	Opening Balance 1/10/2008	Income £183.27
Bank Charges	£70.00	Bank Interest/ refunds	£74.99
Loan to Tens	£400.00	Repaid from Tens	£400.00
		EVENTS
EVENTS		Lord Mayor’s Breakfast ‘08
Lord Mayor’s Breakfast	£100.00	(Officers)	£130.00
Nov 2008 Court Leet Lunch	£2028.50	Court Leet Lunch ‘08
Quits Rents Thanksgiving Lunch ‘09	£3,559.73	(Officers)	£1,012.50
Walk Apr ‘09	£72.40	(Members)	£1,387.50
London Bridge Fayre 800	£822.70	Cutters Race ’08
Rochester Visit	£72.69	(Officers)	£425.00
Justices and Jurors Dinner ‘09	£1221.00	(Members)	£225.00
Bridge House-Yard Dinner ‘08	£2,280.00	Quits Rents 09 Lunch
		(Officers)	£1,130.00
		(Members)	£2,440.00
		Walking Tour of Borough
		(Officers)	£25.00
		(Members)	£100.00
		Justices and Jurors Dinner ‘09
		(Officers)	£440.00
CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS		(Members)	£600.00
Old Bailey Charities (Ct Lt ’08)	£202.10	Rochester Visit 09
British Legion (Wreaths Rmbce Day)	£38.00	(Officers)	£175.00
Trad’l Thames Rowing Assn	£532.50	London Bridge Fayre 800
St George the Martyr	£700.00	(Officers)	£625.00
Lord Mayor’s Appeal ’09 Sheep Drive	£225.00	(Members)	£575.00
SUB TOTAL £1697.60		Bridge House-Yard Dinner ‘09
		(Officers)	£1424.50
		(Members)	£1341.00
TOTAL = £11,924.62		TOTAL = £12,713.76
		BALANCE = £789.14

Guildable Manor Tenancy Fee Account (FINAL)

Guildable Manor Tenancy Account: No. 10628205; Child & Co 15-80-00

Income and Expenditure from 1 October 2008 – 30 September 2009

	Expenditure		Income	Reserve
		Opening Balance 1/10/2008	£Nil	£315.72
Bank Charges	£105.00	Bank Interest/ Charges rpd	£108.67	(£-1034.28)
Colechurch House Lease	£144.14	Jurors Fee	£17.60
Transfer to Reserve	£260.00	Subs Rebalance from 2007		£210.00
Copying	£854.00	Loan from Banqtg	£400.00	(£-824.28)
Office Supplies, Stationery	£120.03	Subvent from Clerk	£520.00
Postage	£357.56	TENANCY FEES :-
Sundries	£364.08	Annual £1590.00 : OFFS £280.00	£1,870.00
To Banqueting re Official Guests	£655.60	5 Year £60.00/ OFFS £120.00 *	£180.00
Cttee Meetings Room Hire etc	£500.62	Life £20.00/ OFF £60.00 #	£80.00	£260.00
Subscriptions and Affiliation Fees	£75.60	Officers Subvention	£650.00	(£-564.28)
Loans - Subvent Returns	£920.00
TOTAL = £4356.63		TOTAL = £4286.27
		BALANCE = Minus £70.36 c/o 09’10 £245.36 (£-634.64) *c/o 2009-2011: # 2008-2019		£245.36 (£-634.64 )

We have Audited the Final Account, working papers, running accounts, bank statements, cheque and paying-in books and are satisfied that they are correct: Honorary Auditors. Ian Wingfield/ Freddie Trowman

THE COURT LEET OF THE GUILDABLE MANOR OF SOUTHWARK

The names of the Free Tenants summonsed to attend as Jurors of the said Manor at John Marshall Hall, Christchurch, Blackfriars Road, London SE1

on Wednesday the 18^th day of November 2009.

Roy Alston Richard Andrews Janice Bamber Kenneth Bamber Jeremy Barrett Leoniza Barrett Gwen Batchelor Tim Benjamin Beryl Boulton David Boston* Scott Cargill Kevin Couling Lennox Cumberbatch Jane Coglan Daphne Dale Norman Dale Loraine Davis

Roger Davis* Howard Doe William Donovan Geoffrey Drust* Victor Drust Matthew Dupee Edward Errington Harry Evans Frank Everard Peter Gadbury SF T Fiona Gadbury Donald Goree* Bessie Grewcock Dr Charlotte Grezo Mark Grove Leslie Grout* James Gurling*

John Hammond Leigh Hatts Susan Haydock Hilary Haydon David Henderson Lesley Henderson Richard Hollier Janet Honnoraty* Michael Honnoraty* David Hubber Josephine Huggins Edward Jansz Paul Jaspal Bala Jaspal Glynn Jones Dominic Kelsey Stephen Kirkman

Ron Leek* Cyril Levy SF Simon McIlwaine Michele McLusky Edward Newman Stephen Nimmons Bryan Page Malcolm Potter Simonie Prior Angela Prodger Mervyn Redding Diane Riley SF Tony Sharp SF T Lynn Smith Robin Sherlock Ketan Sheth Sarah Stedeford

Michael J Stewart John Taylor Ian Tough* Barry Theobold-Hicks Frederick Trowman SF T Michael Wallis Kenneth Webber Anita Webber Kathleen Weightman Bryan Whalley Nicholas Williams David Wilson SF T Dr Ian Wingfield SF T Norman Winnett Patricia Winnett

* Officer; SF Served Foreman; T Trustee

AGENDA FOR ANNUAL MEETING: WEDNESDAY 18^th NOVEMBER 2008 at 2.15pm

to be held at

John Marshall Hall, Christchurch, Blackfriars Road, London SE1

1.i) To Accept the Minutes of the Annual Meeting of 12th November 2008 as a Correct Record.

ii) Matters Arising.

2.i) To Accept the Annual Letter as Circulated.

ii) Matters Arising.

3.i) To Receive the Audited Accounts as Circulated.

ii) Matters Arising.

4.) i) To Approve the Constitutional Changes as outlined in the Annual Letter.

5) Votes of Thanks, proposed by the Foreman.

ii) Matters Arising.

6) Any Other Business.

END.

MINUTES OF

ANNUAL MEETING: WEDNESDAY 12^th NOVEMBER 2008 at 2.45pm

held at

The LSE Bankside Hall, Bankside, London SE1

(draft Minutes, please notify Clerk of any errors or omissions)

These were circulated in November 2008 and no comments were received

1.i) Attendance:

Roy Alston; Jeremy Barrett; Leoniza Barrett; David Boston; Beryl Boulton ; Jane Coglan; Daphne Dale; Norman Dale; Loraine Davis; Roger Davis; Howard Doe; William Donovan; Geoffrey Drust; Victor Drust; Harry Evans; Peter Gadbury; Donald Goree; Dr Charlotte Grezo; Leslie Grout; James Gurling; David Hubber; Josie Huggins; Bala Jaspal; Paul Jaspal; Hilary Haydon; Peter Hamel Cooke; Susan Haydock; Richard Hollier; Janet Honnoraty; Michael Honnoraty; Stephen Kirkman; Ron Leek; Cyril Levy; Simon McIlwaine; Edward Newman; Stephen Nimmons; Malcolm Potter; Angela Prodger; Simonie Prior; Mervyn Redding; Tony Sharp; Robin Sherlock; Ian Tough; Frederick Trowman; Michael Wallis; Brian Whalley; Nicholas Williams; Dr Ian Wingfield;

2.i) To Accept the Minutes of the Annual Meeting: Wednesday 14^th November 2007 at 2.45pm

held at The John Marshall Hall, Blackfriars Road, London SE1 as a Correct Record.

Agreed Nem Com

ii) Matters Arising. None

3 i) To Accept the Annual Letter as Circulated.

Agreed Nem Com

ii) Matters Arising. None

4.i) To Receive the Audited Accounts as Circulated.

Agreed Nem Com

ii) Matters Arising. None

5.i) To Approve the Constitutional Changes as outlined in the Annual Letter.

ii) Agreed Nem Con

5.) Votes of Thanks, proposed by the Foreman. The Foreman thanked all of the Officers for their support over the last year and also the Jurors for attending functions.

6.) Any Other Business:- None. END