Leases and counterparts of leases, with some original parchment envelopes, relating to various messuages within the Rolls Estate, mostly on the Chancery Lane site subsequently occupied by the Public Record Office.
All the properties were within the Liberty of the Rolls, and many within the parish of St Dunstan in the West. Apart from Chancery Lane there were properties in Weedon Street (now the east end of Carey Street), Fetter Lane and Rolls Buildings. None of the properties now survive.
The leases provide information about the estate in the first half of the eighteenth century. The tenants' names are often given, and also the names of the tenants in adjacent properties. Occupations are sometimes included. Many leases have schedules which provide details of the properties concerned. There is a plan of the messuages comprising the Golden Lyon Inn.