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Interview took place at the interviewee's home in Wareham and was conducted by Peter White.

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Interview took place at the interviewee's home in Esher, Surrey, and was conducted by Caroline Archer.

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Interview took place at the interviewee's home in Esher, Surrey, and was conducted by Peter Hames.

This recording is part 1 of an interview arranged subsequently to the interview TSC/2/02/01/02 because the latter recording was deemed to be poor quality. The content covers much of the same ground but with additional material on personalities and visitors to Stationers' Hall.

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Interview took place at the interviewee's home in Esher, Surrey, and was conducted by Peter Hames.

This recording is part 2 of an interview arranged subsequently to the interview TSC/2/02/01/02 because the latter recording was deemed to be poor quality. The content covers much of the same ground but with additional material on personalities and visitors to Stationers' Hall.

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Wardens' vouchers for expenses incurred in undertaking work on Stationers' Hall; vouchers consist of receipts for monies paid out by the under warden; many receipts consist of bills with receipt of payment added at a later date.

Folder is split into subfolders, arranged according to trade:

i: braziers and wire workers, 27 Sep 1738-18 Jun 1793 [7 items].

ii: bricklayers and paviors, 1681-15 Nov 1779 [13 items]. [4 ITEMS MISSING]

iii: carpenters, 12 Dec 1683-1779 [7 items].

iv: gold and silver smiths, 12 Oct 1757-5 Dec 1859 [3 items].

v: locksmiths, 20 Jun 1689-1798 [10 items].

vi: masons, 22 Dec 1693-1779 [2 items].

vii: plasterers, 20 Nov 1700-13 Mar 1795 [3 items].

viii: plumbers, 23 Jun 1693-1789 [4 items].

ix: rubbish removers, 16 Jan 1715-22 Apr 1784 [5 items].

x: smiths and ironworkers, 24 Jun 1693-27 Sep 1723 [7 items].

xi: glaziers, 19 Nov 1700-5 Sep 1786 [8 items]. [2 ITEMS MISSING]

i: draft lease of 11 and 12 Wood Street, parties: (1) Stationers' Company, (2) William Vanning, William Sabine, Philip River and Stephen Wilson, (3) William Stanbridge and John Tagg, 19 Jul 1795.

ii: draft lease of 11 and 12 Wood Street, parties: (1) Stationers' Company, (2) William Vanning, William Sabine, Philip River and Stephen Wilson, (3) William Stanbridge and John Tagg, 20 May 1795.

iii: draft lease of 13 Wood Street, parties: (1) Stationers' Company, (2) William Lambert, 9 Jul 1795.

iv: draft lease of 12 Wood Street, parties: (1) William Stanbridge and John Tagg, (2) Daniel Hooper and William Lane, 18 May 1796.

v: draft lease of 11 Wood Street, parties: (1) Stationers' Company, (2) Stephen Wilson, 29 Nov 1794.

vi: draft lease of a messuage and premises in Clements Court and Friars Alley, parties: (1) Stationers' Company, (2) Benjamin Fuller, 9 Jul 1795.

vii-x: schedules of fixtures for 11, 12 and 13 Wood Street and Clement Court, Oct 1795 [4 items].

xi-xxxviii: balance sheets for the Wood Street estate, 1830, 1858 [8 items], undated, 1860 [2 items], 1861 [3 items], 1862-1864, 1838, 1889, 1900-1901, 1903-1904, 1905 [2 items], 1906, 1907 [2 items], 1908; [30 items total]; items xvi-xvii consist of balance sheets for the rent and profits of property held in respect of the William Norton, George Bishop, Christopher Meredith and John Norton loan charities, applicable to the school, 1858 [includes Wood Street properties].

xxxix-xlviii: advertisements, sale particulars and proposals for taking leases in Wood Street, Friars Alley and Clements Court, 2 Sep-7 Oct 1794 [10 items].

xlix: vellum indenture of bequest of Wood Street, St Pancras churchyard and Fleet Street properties, parties: (1) Abraham Kitson, son and heir of Anthony Kitson, (2) Thomas Kitson, son of Anthony Kitson, Hugh Lewes and Anne, daughter of Anthony Kitson, (3) Leonard Milles and Thomas Feaskett, 18 Nov 1582.

l-lv: correspondence between Mr Dann and Mr Baldwin regarding leases and repairs in Wood Street, 29 Jun 1795-7 Jan 1796 [6 items].

lvi: estimate of repairs to a house in Wood Street late inhabited by Mr Brown, 4 Feb 1772.

lvii: list of leases of estate in Wood Street, 20 Jan 1794.

lviii: letter from Mr Stanbridge and Mr Tagg to the company regarding 12 Wood Street, 2 Sep 1794.

lix: memorandum regarding 11 and 13 Wood Street, 7 Oct 1794.

lx-lxiii: proposals for taking leases in Wood Street, 7 Oct 1794 [4 items].

lxiv: letter from Thomas Bolton regarding a draft lease for 11 Wood Street, 23 Dec 1795.

lxv-lxvi: lists of rent and sums proposed to be spent on repairs for houses on Wood Street, undated [2 items].

Receipts of payments of window tax and payments for street lighting.

Material relating to the winding up of the English Stock (mainly 1960).

Notes of subscription by various booksellers, and by the Master & Wardens of the Stationers' Company, to pay William Lathom a fee for policing unauthorised hawking of books.

Wardens' vouchers for expenses incurred by whifflers, floating outriders manning tug-boats who kept clear the passage of the Company barge during the water procession on Lord Mayor's Day; vouchers consist of receipts for monies paid out by the under warden; many receipts consist of bills with receipt of payment added at a later date.

Folder is split into subfolders by name(s) of recipient(s):

i: John Barrow with Thomas Charlton, Francis Charlton and Will Hill, 11 Nov 1680-25 Jun 1708 [27 items].

ii: Thomas Charlton with Daniel Barrow, 3 Oct 1709-30 Oct 1719 [9 items].

iii: miscellaneous including Randall Taylor, Nicholas Hooper, Elijah George, Bemish Hill, Daniel Morton and Thomas Clay, 18 Nov 1680-4 Mar 1799 [14 items].

iv: Daniel Barrow, 28 Jun 1710-15 Oct 1719 [15 items].

v: Thomas Charlton, 30 Nov 1682-3 Dec 1754; includes stray modern research note into whifflers' expenses [11 items].

Miscellaneous bills for bargemaster's livery, including supplying of blue cloth for caps and coats, belts for the beadle, and for banners. Bills are from:
William Gay, 2 Aug 1680
Jeremy Wright, 8 Nov 1680
James Kniveton (?), 29 Oct 1684
James Smith draper, 15 Oct 1684
John Bateman, 19 Dec 1687
Benjamin Motte, 20 Dec 1688
John Barrow, 6 Oct 1700
John Lathum, 23 Jan 1706
Singleton, 27 Jun 1713
John Overton, 25 Nov 1766

Entries of copies are dated 7 Apr 1687-21 Nov 1695; information given includes name of property owner, name of person/s under whose hand/s the copy is entered, title of work, name of author, amount paid (usually 6d per title) and signature of property owner; there are a few cross references in the margins to entries elsewhere in the volume.

Front cover reads 'The Wast Register booke for entring of Coppies begun the vii th day of Aprill 1687'.

On the inside cover is a pencil note in a 20th century hand: 'These are the Original Entries. Those in the large volume 'Coppies' 1682 are copied in', and beside it in a contemporary hand, 'Jos Younge' and 'Younge'; on reverse of front fly leaf is a note in biro: 'See Court minute of 4 April 1687'.

At the rear of the volume (pages 252-257) are six pages of memoranda principally relating to caveats restricting the entering of specified works, 4 Aug 1684-12 Apr 1695. Memoranda predating the use of this volume for entries of copies appear to have been copied from entries in earlier volumes.

Myers notes: 'The Court ordered, 4 April 1687, that a Wast Entry Book be kept; it ceased to be used after the Licensing Laws Lapsed, 1695.' (Myers:1990, p. 25)

Under warden: William Strahan

A contemporary note on the original wrapping states that the vouchers were audited 20 Jul 1774.

Under warden: William Stephens