Itemised bill of Robert Stephens in the sum of three pounds ten shillings. Items include: two books bought of N. Thompson entitled Philostratus with Hunt's notes, four books of the Spirit of Mr Arnaud bought of the French booksellers, going to Mr L'Estrange, going to Hampton Court. Received of Warden Cotterell, 12 August 1684. Place name: Hampton Court. Personal names: Robert Stephens, Nathaniel Thompson, Thomas Hunt, Antoine Arnauld, Sir Roger L'Estrange, James Cotterell.

Undated bill of Robert Stephens for expenses incurred seizing a private press in a cellar at the Horse Ferry Westminster. Items include: watermen, porters, spent upon Mr Hinds (Hinch), spent upon Mr Warren, spent upon Mr Palmer, getting a warrant, spent upon Mr Mayo, time and pursuit, spent upon the petitioners. Signed in receipt by Stephens in the sum of one pound one shilling six pence. Place name: the Horse Ferry Westminster. Personal names: Robert Stephens, Ambrose Isted, Simon Hinch, James Warren, John Palmer, John Mayo.

Itemised bill of Robert Stephens in the sum of three pounds for expenses incurred in the Company's service. Items include: going to the Lord Bishop of London three times delivering almanacs, gave to the Bishop's porter, gave to the custom house porters, attending Parliament about the Act several days and writing a copy, gave for information against Mr Downing's private press that was doing the white letter primer, coach, constable and smith and porters in bringing to Hall, service at Oxford in helping to move the printing house. Signed in receipt by Stephens, 15 April 1693. Place names: Stationers' Hall, Oxford. Personal names: Robert Stephens, William Phillipps, Downing (likely William).

Itemised bill of Robert Stephens in the sum of one pound five shillings for expenses incurred 14 July - 9 September 1693. Items include: indicting of Abel Roper for the libel against the Athenian, searching the French bookseller warehouse with Warden Bassett and Mr Bentley, searching of several bookbinders and carrying almanacs to license. Received of Warden Phillipps. Personal names: Robert Stephens, William Phillippps, Abel Roper, Thomas Bassett, Richard Bentley.

Itemised bill of Robert Stephens in the sum of fifteen shillings, received of Warden Phillipps, 15 November 1693. Items include: scouring and drawing of a great carpet, going to the custom house twice, paid Adam the porter for bringing a heap of psalms to the Hall that were doing for Parkhurst from Astwood's, stopped some hymns at Mr Snowden's that was doing for Parkhurst and gave him warning to proceed no further till receiving orders from the Company, a bolt on the garden door.
Place name: Stationers' Hall, Custom House. Personal names: Robert Stephens, William Phillipps, Thomas Parkhurst, James Astwood, Thomas Snowden, Adam the porter.

Itemised bill of expenses laid out by Samuel Mearne between 26 February and 06 April 1678 in the amount of nine pound nine shillings. Items include money laid out on Febraru 26 and 27 for coach hire to attend the Archbishop of Canterbury at Bains with Warden Maycock, Mr Martyn, &c.; as well as other expenses associated with this trip; on April 6, "Pd with Mr Leigh Mr Taylor and the Messinger about the Growth of Popery for Coachhire &cs" Signed in receipt on verso by Samuel Mearne. Personal names: Samuel Mearne; William Maycock; Mr Taylor; Mr Leigh; the Archbishop of Canterbury [William Sancroft]. Place names: Bains.

Itemised bill of food, drink, and service in the amount of one pound. 17 shillings of which were spent at the Three Tuns tavern, 2 shillings at the Queen's Head. Items include bread and beer; wine; oysters and vinegar; two pullets with eggs; and cheese. Services paid for include a porter, and fire. There is an additional charge for "spent wth the Constable etc at Queenes head." Verso: "Genrall Search Jan 31 1677." Place names: Three Tuns tavern; Queen's Head tavern.

Itemised bill for food, drink, and other expenses in the amount of one pound 12 shillings one pence. Items include bread, beer, and ale; wine; oranges and lemons; dressing the fish; fire; fish; coach hire that day; money spent at the Rose Tavern in Charing Cross; and coffee. A note below states: "searching for Bookes and pictures at severall places." Place names: Rose tavern, Charing Cross.

Receipted bills for suppressing unlicenced books and other expenditures, including:

• Bill of the beadle, Randal Taylor, for various expenses incurred July-November 1683. Items include: searching with Mr Steevens, with Mr Sawbridge and Steevens, sweeping the chimney, searching at Holloway Lane and other places, with Mr Steevens, mending the sword, searching again, paid the postman and the woman for cleaning, 8 whifflers’ staves, taking down putting up and mending the banners, candles and pipes for a court. Signed in receipt by Taylor, 24 December 1683.
• Bill of Henry Hills Sr. for going to and from Whitehall multiple times, and for seizing a catechism, 1687.
• Bill for books bought by Henry Hills Jr. in his office as Messenger of the Press. Signed in receipt by Hills Jr., 10 March 1688.
• Various bills of Henry Hills Jr., February 1688-January 1689.
• Bill of Henry Hills Sr. Signed in receipt by Hills, 12 June 1688.
• Bill of Henry Hills Sr. Items include: spent upon one giving intelligence about unlicensed books, gave for intelligence of Barnets 6 Letters or papers printed together & for one of them, promised for discovery of a private press when taken upon that intelligence, spent going to Whitehall about it & getting two warrants from Secretary Sunderland. Signed in receipt by Hills, 25 November 1687.

Receipted bills for searching and other expenditures, received for or from Robert Stephens.

• 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.

Parties: (1) James Richardson, stationer, George Richardson, chemist, and Jonathan Mariott, soapmaker (2) Stationers' Company.

i: Court order that the Bishop of London's order to damask the Assemblies' catechisms and burn sheets of De Anima Mundi be registered in the Company's book of orders, 3 Dec 1677.

ii: order of the Bishop of London to damask seditious books seized from Francis Smith and to burn any not in a fit state for damasking, 16 Jul 1678.

iii: order of the Bishop of London to damask reams of Loyal Protestant Tutor, counterfeit primers and A Papist Misrepresented and Represented, 14 Dec 1685.

iv: order of the Archbishop of Canterbury to damask reams of Seli Historia di Grand Brittagno, Dowlman of Succession, Hunt's Postscript, Hunt's noe Protestant Plott and the Bishop of London's letters, 8 Apr 1687.

v: order of the Earl of Middleton, Principal Secretary of State, to damask English Liberties, or Freeborne Subjects Inheritance, and A Scheme of Popish Cruelties, or a Prospect of what we must expect under a Popish Successor, 11 Nov 1685.

vi: order of the Bishop of London to damask Hobbe's Leviathan, 11 Dec 1673.

vii: receipt of payment for damasking Leviathan, 25 Mar 1674.

viii: receipt of payment, 1677 [MISSING].

ix: receipted account of monies due to John Garrett for tasks including damasking Dorman Newman's books, and expenses relating to Astwood's trial, 29 Jun 1681.

x: bill and receipt of payment of Robert Stephens for getting the warrant to damask books seized at Pindar's Coffee-house which was supposed to be Obadiah Walker's, 26 Feb 1690.

xi: receipt of payment for damasking, with receipt of payment of Robert Stephens on verso for services, 5 May 1690.

xii: receipts of payment of Robert Stephens for searches, 25 Jun [1680]

xiii: receipt of payment of Robert Stephens for indicting publishers, 25 Jul 1693.

xiv: order of the Bishop of London to damask books imported from beyond the seas, undated.

xv: typescript copy certificate of the burning of socinianized Common Prayer books on 7 Feb 1716.

• Copy of Michael Treadwell, ‘A New List of English Master Printers c.1686’, The Library, 4 (1), pp. 57-61. With extensive 20th century notes on lists of printers in 1693 and list of subscribers to the English Stock, 1692.
• List of printing presses seized by the Stationers, undated (2 copies)
• List of Master Printers, undated