Documento 02 - Beadle's book

1 volume

List of the livery admitted 1733-1935; deaths entered to 1972; some entries have signatures and obituaries pasted in; index at front of volume.

Spine reads 'Alphabetical list of the livery of the Stationers' Company from 1786 to the present time'.

Inside of front cover reads 'This book belongs to the Beadle 1834'.

Volume also contains:

pages 5-43: scrap book album of company history.

pages 44-45 and 53: copyright returns showing number of literary works and books of prints entered each year, 1709-1944.

pages 57 and 86-90: list of stock keepers with dates of call, 1789-1960.

pages 46-47, 65 and 95-97: table showing number of English Stock shares with dividend details, 1735-1932.

pages 68-71: tally of freemen and liverymen, 1786-1962.

pages 72-73: annual tally of apprentices bound, 1794-1966.

pages 74-84: list of court members showing dates when called and when served as wardens and master, 1786-1973.

page 91: list of treasurers, clerks and beadles, 1780-1979.

pages 93-94: lists of annual livery numbers, 1733-1929.

pages 595-670: list of widows holding share in the English Stock, 1790-1930.

Names in the livery list are in alphabetical order.

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A microfilm copy is on reel 40, 'Records of the Stationers' Company 1554-1920: 115 Reels of Microfilm with Printed Guide', published by Chadwyck-Healy Ltd (1989)

Names of those admitted to the freedom, cloathed or bound as apprentices in Court Books [TSC/B/01] and Court Book indices and abstracts [TSC/B/07]; Livery lists [TSC/C/01-03]; Common Hall voter lists [TSC/C/05]; Parliamentary voter papers [TSC/C/10]

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According to Myers, 'Records of the Stationers' Company', p.39, 'The volume was in regular use from 1786 to 1973, when the then Beadle, Stanley Osborne, retired. It contains a great deal of material not noted elsewhere, such as dates of death of liverymen, obituary notices, signatures of liverymen and the like.'