File 01 - Court book C

1 volume

Entries are in chronological order; minutes of two or more courts are often conflated under one date; minutes are divided into paragraphs with headings written in the margin; minutes for some committee meetings are included; layout of record is inconsistent. Dates are listed at the top, recorded predominantly in Latin to Apr 1651 and with regnal year often used in addition to calendar year to Aug 1630; names of those present are often omitted, particularly in conflated entries; when listed, names are given in the margin of the minutes, parallel to or below the date, to Mar 1615, and centrally under the date from Mar 1615.

Spine reads 'Court Booke', 'L: C 1602: to 1654' and 'C'.

Front cover reads 'Lib: C'.

At top of title page is inscribed 'The Book of orders in the Company of Stac[i]oners made the ffirste daye of Nouember An[n]o 1602 Quadragesimo Quarto R Ris Elizabethe Mr Byshope then beinge Master Mr Mann Mr Waterson then beinge Wardens Libir C:'; at foot of page are notes listing folio numbers of entries relating to the appointment of [Mr] Woodstreete as a feoffee, the 'Gramer case' and 'Oxford & ye Comp.'

Attached to folio 114r is a slip of paper inscribed 'W[illia]m Tyrril of Adthrop in ye County of Northam[pton] bound to Rich[ar]d Woodland in 10L to pay 5L on the 16th of July next'.

At back of volume is inscribed an extract from a letters patent of James I, giving the High Commission further powers over those offending against Star Chamber decrees 'touchinge the reformac[i]on of divers disorders in the printinge and utteringe of Bookes'.

• English

• Latin

Entries from 1641 are indexed in Raylee P Johnston, 'The Court Books of the Stationers' Company 1641-1679: A Complete Index and Selected Entries', MA Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington (1983)

Entries to 1640 are indexed in William A Jackson, 'Records of the Court of the Stationers' Company 1602 to 1640' (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1957)

John Noorthouck, Abstract of the Orders of Court, And other Proceedings, of The Worshipful Company of Stationers: Serving as an Index to the Court Books, From the earliest entries. Compiled under the Inspection of the Clerk of the Company By John Noorthouck MDCCLXXX [TSC/1/B/xx/xx]

John Lilly and others, Index to the Court Books to 1775 [TSC/1/B/xx/xx]

A microfilm copy is on reel 56, 'Records of the Stationers' Company 1554-1920: 115 Reels of Microfilm with Printed Guide', published by Chadwyck-Healy Ltd (1989)

Transcriptions of entries to 1640 are given in Jackson, pp. 1-437

This volume follows on from TSC/F/01/01 [Liber B], which includes Court minutes, 1576-1603

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