Identity area
Reference code
GB 2156 TSC/E/17/09
Title
Discontented workmen printers' petitions for work
Date(s)
- 1685 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
3 original documents, plus transcripts
Context area
Repository
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
English
Script of material
Latin
Language and script notes
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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
Note
Catalogued
Note
Open
Alternative identifier(s)
RM code
Series I. A. 12