Petition against new methods of election to Court and governance. See Court Book C, 14 June 1645 (TSC/B/01/01, f 224r - transcript).

A mix of individual documents, including petitions, warrants, applications relating to freedom, printing, and scandalous books.

• Copy of a royal order for the appointment of John Playford, John Bellinger, Robert Scott, Robert Horne, John Baker, and Ambrose Isted to be admitted to the Court of Assistants, 16 June 1681.
• Petition of the Company of Stationers to the King regarding appointment of licensers and limiting numbers of master printers (two copies).
• Order of Court of Aldermen that all apprentices who serve masters of other companies but are printing, binding, or selling books, take their freedom from the Stationers’ Company, 1671.
• Warrant to Mayors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Constables, and other officers to assist the Stationers’ Company in searches, 1685.
• Some remarks about the business of the Stationers’ Company, 1673-1674, particularly relating to prosecutions and private printers.
• Copy of the oath of every freeman of the City of London.
• Application form for City freemen.
• Orders of the Lord Mayor of Aldermen relative to admission of freemen to liver of their companies, 1697.
• Copy of the oath of a freeman of the Company of Stationers.
• Extract from act requiring clerks to return two livery lists Lord Mayor for election purposes, 10 April 1784.
• Petition of the Company of Stationers to the King for the better regulating of printing and printing presses, 1688 (two copies).
• Orders of Court concerning seditious publications, 12 December 1792.
• Notice of Court of Common Council, 17 May 1782.
• Licence to John Henry to engrave, print and publish a map of Virginia, 1768.

i: summons for the Company to pay orphan tax to the Chamber of London, owed for binding apprentices, 16 Nov 1751.

ii: lesson or charge given by the Company to their apprentices, [18th century].

iii: form for binding apprentices, [18th century].

iv: covenants of an indenture of apprenticeship, familiarly explained and enforced by scripture, for the use of apprentices in the City of London, [18th century].

v: fragment from the Relief of Orphans Act, 1694, relating to apprentices.

List of how many apprentices and freemen were taken on for each month between 5 July 1680 and 6 June 1681, and the monthly and annual total of the fees they paid. For 85 apprentices for the entire year, the total is 10 pounds 12 shillings six pence; for 37 new freemen forthe entire year, a total of six pounds, eighteen shillings, four pence.