Annual accounts of the Wardens, showing sums of money received and disbursed by the Company; accounts are audited from 1679.
Company accounts for individuals, businesses and the Company, showing amounts paid in and out; thumb index at front of volumes.
Monthly cash accounts, showing cash received and paid out.
The Clerk's record of fines, fees and contributions to charitable funds received during Court meetings.
This series consists of receipts for monies paid out by the under warden, who was responsible for the Company's accounts until 1907. Many receipts consist of bills with receipt of payment added at a later date; folders also contain some bills without receipts; some later folders also contain Treasurers' vouchers.
Many different expenses are recorded, including:
Company annuities; tithes paid to St Martin's Ludgate; charitable gifts paid to Christ's Hospital, St Faith's, St Mary at Hill, St Martin Vintry and St Martin Ludgate; books sent to Kemsey Manor; maintenance of a preacher at St Paul's; tradesmen's wages and expenses; dinner expenses; Beadle's expenses; salaries of staff, including the Clerk, bargemaster, hall keeper, scavenger, watchman and gardener; payment of land, window, orphan and new river water taxes; payment of rent; payments towards the militia; water charges for Lord Mayor's Day; and payments of interest owed by the Company to members.
Official minutes of the meetings of the Court of Assistants, signed by the Master from 2 Mar 1875-2 Jul 1991 and intermittently from 30 Jul 1991-25 Jun 2006.
For each meeting the decisions of the Court are recorded as orders. From Court Book F (1683-97), the minutes are standard in formula.
Text of some documents received by the company have been copied in.
Draft minutes dated 1661-1675 and 1723-2009. These volumes were traditionally referred to as Wast Books, although the term was dropped in the late twentieth century. From 2000, draft minutes are born digital.
Draft minutes for 1 Mar 1675-6 Dec 1680 are contained in court book E; from there, the minutes for 1 Mar 1675-24 Oct 1679 are copied fair into court book D.
Includes inspeximus documents and letters patent produced during the Company's negotiations with successive monarchs.
Injunctions relating to the role of the Stationers' Company in the regulation of printing; internally enforced bye-laws regulating the operation of the Company itself..