Notes of subscription by various booksellers, and by the Master & Wardens of the Stationers' Company, to pay William Lathom a fee for policing unauthorised hawking of books.

Bills and receipts.

Discussion of the application of the Act for the Encouragement of Learning [the Statute of Anne/Copyright Act 1710] to books published abroad, and financial implications for the English book trade of the importation of such books.

Three petitions addressed to the Master and Wardens of the Stationers’ Company with transcripts. One transcript dates the petitions to c.1685.

• Two petitions from free workmen (journeymen) printers complaining of lack of work because of ‘supernumerary printing houses, apprentices, and printing presses, and a multitude of aliens’.
• Petition from master and workmen printers of London complaining of printing outside London, in particular York and Oxford.