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Reference code
GB 2156 TSC/E/17/04
Title
Bills and receipts for searching for illegal presses
Date(s)
- 11 Aug 1677-29 Mar 1700 (Creation)
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1 folder, containing 13 items
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- Bill of expenses incurred by the beadle, Randall Taylor, August-October 1677. Items include: travel by water to Lambeth and back, with Mr Leybourne, with Mr Herick, with Smart, with Mr Haris & his man, two books of Mr Kendon, with Mr Steevens, in attending the Chamberlain with Mr Mearne & Mr Leigh, quarteridge payment. Signed in receipt by Randall Taylor, 12 October 1677.
- Bill of expenses incurred by the clerk, John Lilly, relating to the following legal actions: the King against Mearne, the King against Clerke, the King against Winter. Signed in receipt by John Lilly, 11 August 1677.
- Bill for a search and seizure at Mr John Starkey’s, 26 September 1677.
- Receipt for Thomas Warren for four days attending in searches, 11 April 1678.
- Bill of expenses incurred by the clerk, John Lilly. Includes expenses relating to legal actions: the King against Marlow, the King against Sole. Signed in receipt by Lilly, 17 July 1678.
- Bill of expenses incurred by the clerk, John Lilly, relating to searching and copying Moredale’s Decree. Signed in receipt by Lilly, 23 December 1680.
- Bill of expenses incurred by the clerk, John Lilly, relating to the case of the Company of Stationers against Astwood. Signed in receipt by Lilly, 14 July 1681.
- List of expenses incurred during searches, 9-14 August 1681. Personal names: Thomas Braddyll, Lionel Jenkins, Robert Stephens, Richard Royston, Roger Norton, Samuel Mearne, Robert Scott, Horne, Henry Hills, Randall Taylor, Thomas Newcombe.
- List of expenses incurred in attending the Lord Chief Justice, 26-28 August 1681.
- Bill of Samuel Mearne with items including, coach hire to attend Secretary of State Lionel Jenkins, attending the Solicitor General, at the Queen’s Head with Mr Sherman, Mr Hills, and Captain Baker, at the Queen’s Head again. Signed in receipt by Mearne, 16 March 1682.
- Bill of the beadle, Nicholas Hooper for various expenses incurred December 1691-October 1692. Signed in receipt by Hooper, 7 April 1694.
- Bill for a dinner at the Queen’s Head, signed in receipt, 20 March 1700.
- Bill of the beadle, Nicholas Hooper, for various expenses incurred February-March 1700. Signed in receipt by Hooper, 29 March 1700.
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Language of material
English
Script of material
Latin
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A microfilm copy is on reel 97, 'Records of the Stationers' Company 1554-1920: 115 Reels of Microfilm with Printed Guide', published by Chadwyck-Healy Ltd (1989)
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Notes area
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Catalogued
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Open
Alternative identifier(s)
RM code
Series I. A. 7
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Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Taylor, Randall (fl. 1649-1700), bookseller (Subject)
- L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704), author and press censor (Subject)
- Stephens, Robert (c. 1643-1719), Messenger of the Press (Subject)
- Royston, Richard (1601-1686), bookseller (Subject)
- Starkey, John (c. 1630-1690), bookseller (Subject)
- Thompson, Nathaniel (d. 1687), printer (Subject)
- Mearne, Samuel (1624-1683), bookseller and bookbinder (Subject)
- Sowle, Andrew (1628-1695), printer (Subject)