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The bill of the pavier, Henry Turner for works done at Stationers' Hall. Signed in receipt by Turner in the sum of twelve shillings, 2 November 1698. Also signed by Robert Stephens. Place name: Stationers' Hall. Personal names: Henry Turner, Robert Stephens.

Parties: (1) Stationers' Company and Edward Brewster, Thomas Parkhurst, William Rawlins, Richard Simpson and Samuel Sprint, surviving feoffees and trustees for the company (2) Robert Stephens, stationer.

Written on the back is an assignment of property from Elizabeth Framewell, daughter and executrix of Robert Stephens, John Murray, upholsterer, and Sarah Murray, wife of John Murray and daughter of Robert Stephens, to the company, 24 Jul 1723.

Inserted are two documents:

1. assignment of a warehouse from Robert Stephens to Elizabeth Framewell, 26 Mar 1719.

2. assignment of a ground room from Robert Stephens and Elizabeth Framewell to Joseph Collyer, stationer, 3 Jul 1719.

Itemised bill for expenses in the amount of 16 shillings incurred while going to Fulham with Steevens and Marlow. Items include "at Coffee house;" "at cheeses;" "to R Taylor;" and "watermen." Verso: "fullum wth Steevens & Marlow." Personal names: Steevens; Marlow; Randall Taylor.

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.

i: Court order that the Bishop of London's order to damask the Assemblies' catechisms and burn sheets of De Anima Mundi be registered in the Company's book of orders, 3 Dec 1677.

ii: order of the Bishop of London to damask seditious books seized from Francis Smith and to burn any not in a fit state for damasking, 16 Jul 1678.

iii: order of the Bishop of London to damask reams of Loyal Protestant Tutor, counterfeit primers and A Papist Misrepresented and Represented, 14 Dec 1685.

iv: order of the Archbishop of Canterbury to damask reams of Seli Historia di Grand Brittagno, Dowlman of Succession, Hunt's Postscript, Hunt's noe Protestant Plott and the Bishop of London's letters, 8 Apr 1687.

v: order of the Earl of Middleton, Principal Secretary of State, to damask English Liberties, or Freeborne Subjects Inheritance, and A Scheme of Popish Cruelties, or a Prospect of what we must expect under a Popish Successor, 11 Nov 1685.

vi: order of the Bishop of London to damask Hobbe's Leviathan, 11 Dec 1673.

vii: receipt of payment for damasking Leviathan, 25 Mar 1674.

viii: receipt of payment, 1677 [MISSING].

ix: receipted account of monies due to John Garrett for tasks including damasking Dorman Newman's books, and expenses relating to Astwood's trial, 29 Jun 1681.

x: bill and receipt of payment of Robert Stephens for getting the warrant to damask books seized at Pindar's Coffee-house which was supposed to be Obadiah Walker's, 26 Feb 1690.

xi: receipt of payment for damasking, with receipt of payment of Robert Stephens on verso for services, 5 May 1690.

xii: receipts of payment of Robert Stephens for searches, 25 Jun [1680]

xiii: receipt of payment of Robert Stephens for indicting publishers, 25 Jul 1693.

xiv: order of the Bishop of London to damask books imported from beyond the seas, undated.

xv: typescript copy certificate of the burning of socinianized Common Prayer books on 7 Feb 1716.

Parties: (1) Stationers' Company and Edward Brewster, Thomas Parkhurst, William Rawlins, Richard Simpson and Samuel Sprint, surviving feoffees and trustees for the company (2) Robert Stephens, stationer.

• Bill of expenses incurred by the beadle, Randall Taylor, August-October 1677. Items include: travel by water to Lambeth and back, with Mr Leybourne, with Mr Herick, with Smart, with Mr Haris & his man, two books of Mr Kendon, with Mr Steevens, in attending the Chamberlain with Mr Mearne & Mr Leigh, quarteridge payment. Signed in receipt by Randall Taylor, 12 October 1677.
• Bill of expenses incurred by the clerk, John Lilly, relating to the following legal actions: the King against Mearne, the King against Clerke, the King against Winter. Signed in receipt by John Lilly, 11 August 1677.
• Bill for a search and seizure at Mr John Starkey’s, 26 September 1677.
• Receipt for Thomas Warren for four days attending in searches, 11 April 1678.
• Bill of expenses incurred by the clerk, John Lilly. Includes expenses relating to legal actions: the King against Marlow, the King against Sole. Signed in receipt by Lilly, 17 July 1678.
• Bill of expenses incurred by the clerk, John Lilly, relating to searching and copying Moredale’s Decree. Signed in receipt by Lilly, 23 December 1680.
• Bill of expenses incurred by the clerk, John Lilly, relating to the case of the Company of Stationers against Astwood. Signed in receipt by Lilly, 14 July 1681.
• List of expenses incurred during searches, 9-14 August 1681. Personal names: Thomas Braddyll, Lionel Jenkins, Robert Stephens, Richard Royston, Roger Norton, Samuel Mearne, Robert Scott, Horne, Henry Hills, Randall Taylor, Thomas Newcombe.
• List of expenses incurred in attending the Lord Chief Justice, 26-28 August 1681.
• Bill of Samuel Mearne with items including, coach hire to attend Secretary of State Lionel Jenkins, attending the Solicitor General, at the Queen’s Head with Mr Sherman, Mr Hills, and Captain Baker, at the Queen’s Head again. Signed in receipt by Mearne, 16 March 1682.
• Bill of the beadle, Nicholas Hooper for various expenses incurred December 1691-October 1692. Signed in receipt by Hooper, 7 April 1694.
• Bill for a dinner at the Queen’s Head, signed in receipt, 20 March 1700.
• Bill of the beadle, Nicholas Hooper, for various expenses incurred February-March 1700. Signed in receipt by Hooper, 29 March 1700.

Receipted bills for searching and other expenditures, received for or from Robert Stephens.

Receipted bills for suppressing unlicenced books and other expenditures, including:

• Bill of the beadle, Randal Taylor, for various expenses incurred July-November 1683. Items include: searching with Mr Steevens, with Mr Sawbridge and Steevens, sweeping the chimney, searching at Holloway Lane and other places, with Mr Steevens, mending the sword, searching again, paid the postman and the woman for cleaning, 8 whifflers’ staves, taking down putting up and mending the banners, candles and pipes for a court. Signed in receipt by Taylor, 24 December 1683.
• Bill of Henry Hills Sr. for going to and from Whitehall multiple times, and for seizing a catechism, 1687.
• Bill for books bought by Henry Hills Jr. in his office as Messenger of the Press. Signed in receipt by Hills Jr., 10 March 1688.
• Various bills of Henry Hills Jr., February 1688-January 1689.
• Bill of Henry Hills Sr. Signed in receipt by Hills, 12 June 1688.
• Bill of Henry Hills Sr. Items include: spent upon one giving intelligence about unlicensed books, gave for intelligence of Barnets 6 Letters or papers printed together & for one of them, promised for discovery of a private press when taken upon that intelligence, spent going to Whitehall about it & getting two warrants from Secretary Sunderland. Signed in receipt by Hills, 25 November 1687.

Bill of the Master, Robert Clavell, for expenses incurred January-June 1699. Items include: spent with Mr Beckley and portridge to him to go to Mr Pulleyn, staying at Three Tuns for Mr Baker for the almanac for judges, spent with Mr Amery Mr Hills & R Stephens about Brady, with various further miscellaneous expenses. Signed in receipt by Clavell in the sum of seventeen shillings, 28 June 1699. Place names: the Three Tuns, the Queen's Head, the Old Dog. Personal names: Robert Clavell, Simon Beckley, Mr Pulleyn, Mr Baker, Mr Amery, Henry Hills Jr., Robert Stephens, Mr Brady, Mr Sollers, Mr Moor, Mr Harris, Mr Carter, Mr Coward, Mr Sydenham, William Rawlins, Robert Andrews, Thomas Guy, Peter Parker, Nicholas Hooper, Benjamin Tooke, Samuel Sprint, Mr Snow, Henry Mortlock, John Lilly.

Itemised bill of expenses incurred by Randall Taylor, beadle, in the amount of two pounds seven shillings between 30 June and 13 August 1677. Items include pipes, pots of beer, and cost of water travel. Personal Names: Robert Steevens; Randall Taylor; several men "at dinner." Place Names: Hicks Hall; the Marshalls; Fulham; Putney; Westminster. Payment acknowledged and signed for by Randall Taylor on verso.

Itemised list of expenses laid out by Randall Taylor in the amount of four pounds sixteen shillings between 28 January 1677(1678) and 29 March 1678. Items include "att the Crowne with Mr Mearne and Mr Lyly about the Avadavetts [affadavits];" "spent in looking after ffreemen of other companys on severall dayes;" "Payd 2 porters ffor removing Marlows presse and primmers;" "with Mr Leigh at Newgate;" and a lengthy list of other similar items. Verso: "Mr Taylors Bill March 29 1678." Personal names: Randall Taylor; Samuel Mearne; John Lilly; Marlow; Mr Ffowler; Thomson; Vesey(?); Smart; Mr Whitwood; Mr Green; Mr Steevens; Mr Parker. Place names: Westminster; the Queen's Head tavern.

Itemised bill of expenses incurred by Randall Taylor between 16 February and 19 April 1681 in the amount of one pound six shillings two pence. Items include paying the dust man and "the woman" for cleaning; new brooms; and pipes; funds spent on conducting searches with Warden [Richard] Clark, Mr Davis, Mr Staynes, the Constable, Mr Mearne, and Mr Steevens; and spent attending the King and Council with Mr Steevens. Personal names: Richard Clarke; Samuel Mearne; Mr Staynes; Mr Steevens; Mr Davis; Charles Stuart (II).

Itemised list of expenses incurred by Randall Taylor in the amount of seven pounds seven shillings eight pence from 08 July to 16 August 1680. Items include "layd out by water given the Informers and spent with Mr Steevens in seizing the Tartar & his bookes;" for searching; in looking after the venison; delivering the bylaws to Whitehall; for a new scabbard for the sword; to two men for cleaning the dust and cobwebs from the top of the hall and setting up the banners; old coals, faggots, beer and ale, and bread; paid a woman for strewing and cleaning, and the old woman for fetching water and cleaning the halls; among other items. Signed in receipt by Randall Taylor. Verso: "Mr Taylers byll beadle 7-7-8." Personal names: Randall Taylor; Robert Stevens. Place names: Stationer's Hall; Whitehall.

Itemised list of expenses incurred by the Beadle, Randall Taylor, from 13 May to 13 July, 1682. Items include paying the dust man and the woman to clean the courts and passages; washing linen; paying the muster master and the watch and associated expenses such as cleaning muskets and powder; and more. Signed in receipt by Randall Taylor. Personal names: Randall Taylor; Robert Stevens. Place names: courts and passages, Stationer's Hall.