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- 7 May 1918-26 Mar 1925 (Creation)
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1 volume
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All minutes are signed by the master; minutes are given for ordinary court meetings, special courts, court meetings for the election of corporation officers, meetings of the court and partners and meetings of the master, wardens, court of assistants and livery.
Typical order of entries for ordinary court meetings is: place, date and time of court meeting; list of those present, consisting of the master, wardens, assistants and liverymen; report of deaths, when relevant; approval of the orders of court from the preceding court meeting; admission of new court assistants, when relevant; administration of English Stock shares; resolutions, including those relating to recommendations and reports of committees; payment of, and election to, charitable annuities and company pensions; names and personal details of those cloathed, made free of the company or bound as apprentices.
Spine reads 'Court Book 7 May 1918 to 26 March 1925' and 'h'.
Pasted into volume are 2 documents:
page 33: report dated 8 Oct 1918, titled 'Report of the Committee appointed by the Court of the Stationers' Company, on the 8th January, 1918, to prepare a scheme with a view to obtaining increased Revenue, and under which the Company might be made more useful to the Livery, and a desirable home or centre of co-operation for the various Societies connected with the Trades from which the Livery is drawn, and submit it to the Court'.
pages 34-36: report dated 8 Oct 1918, titled 'Report of the Sub-Committee appointed by the Committee of the Court on 18th January, 1918, to interview Mr. Lake, and others, as to the desirability of making Stationers' Hall a centre of co-operation for various Societies connected with the Trades from which the Livery are drawn'.
Attached in volume are 5 documents:
page 54: additional agenda, dated 8 Jan 1919, for the Court meeting on Tuesday 14 Jan 1919.
page 340: accounts titled 'Stationers' Company's School Statement of Receipts and Payments for the Year 1920-21'.
page 430: accounts titled 'Stationers' Company's School Statement of Receipts and Payments for the Year 1921-22'.
page 520: accounts titled 'Stationers' Company's School Statement of Receipts and Payments for the Year 1922-23'.
page 612: accounts titled 'Stationers' Company's School Statement of Receipts and Payments for the Year 1923-24'.
On pages 137-167 is inscribed an inventory by Toplis & Harding, valuers, titled 'An Inventory of the Furniture, Silver Pictures etc at The Stationers' Hall, Ludgate Hill, London, E6 with Valuation for Insurance Purposes', Nov 1919.
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Language of material
English
Script of material
Latin
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Finding aids
D J O'Connell, General Index of Court Records Volumes 'b' to 'm' (1875-1960) [TSC/1/B/xx/xx]
Abstracts of entries to 1919 are contained in Charles Robert Rivington, Abstract of the Orders of Court, And other Proceedings, of The Worshipful Company of Stationers: Serving as an Index to the Court Books From 1844 being a Continuation of a former Index. Compiled By Charles Robert Rivington, Clerk of the Company. MDCCCLXX [TSC/1/B/xx/xx]
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A microfilm copy to page 255 is on reel 70, 'Records of the Stationers' Company 1554-1920: 115 Reels of Microfilm with Printed Guide', published by Chadwyck-Healy Ltd (1989)
Related units of description
Drafts of these minutes are contained in TSC/B/01/36 and TSC/B/01/37; Hall valuation reports [TSC/G/04]
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