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Secretary hand is used until 10 Sep 1673 (folio 106r); italic hand is used from 1 Oct 1673 (folio 107v).

Front pastedown contains several annotations:

1. statement 'This Wast Booke began July the 8th 1668'.

2. list of members of the 'Committee for building the Hall' at a meeting held 5 Aug 1672.

3. undated memorandum reading 'Master and Wardens, Chosen Satterday after St Peter. Stocke Keepers, Chosen i Martii & Treasurer. Renter Wardens, Chosen at our Lady day.'

4. undated list of details of four tradesmen described as 'Servants to the Companie'; names and trades listed are Mr Lamsdall, Cook, Mr Shorey, carpenter, Mr fforde, Bricklayer and Mr Wattell, Playsterer.

5. undated memorandum reading 'Mr William Laucles Will is dated 14 Maii 22 Elizabeth: As for the Settlem[en]t of his land, he refers to a former Will dated 11 October in the 16th yeere of Q[ueen] Eliz[abeth] He made a deede dated 7 Julii 9 Eliz[abeth] 1567'.

Attached to folios throughout volume are several slips of paper:

front flyleaf: undated memorandum reading 'Renter Warden Williams Booke ended w[i]th the ffreemen of the Co[u]rt of the 3d of March 1672 vizt w[i]th John Crouth & Will[ia]m Edwards. So that the next Renters Booke must begin w[i]th the ffreemen of the Co[u]rt of the 5th of May 1673 vizt w[i]th Israell Harrison & Charles Barker'.

folio 25r: receipt dated May [16]69, reading 'Rec[eived] of Mr Tokefeild a Bond of £40 for the payment of £20 due from John [paper missing] to the Companie this present May 8th day Rent & Mr Tho[mas] Hunt warden', and receipt dated 1669, reading 'Receaved of Mr Tokefeild, a Bond of £40 for the payment of £20 due from ffrancis Robynson to the Companie in July 1668'. In the margin is written 'This was [illegible] to Mr Tyler'.

folio 45v: memorandum dated 3 Sep reading 'Delivered to Mr Warden Roper the Scotch Agreem[en]t w[i]th the [illegible] etc'.

folio 92v: undated memorandum reading 'M[aste]r to call to Warden Mearne for the Kinges [illegible: possibly 'letter'] about Printing Howses etc'.

On folio 106v is added in pencil 'John Lilly's writing'. John Lilly was Clerk of the Company 1673-1681.

Back pastedown is annotated with 3 lists:

1. members of the Committee for Building, meeting of 11 Apr 1670; names listed are Sir Tho[mas] Davies, Mr Robynson, Mr Thrale, Mr Crook, Mr Tyler, Mr Smith, Mr Tibbes, Mr White, Mr Norton and Mr Mearne.

2. Feoffees for the Corporation, 3 Feb 1669; names listed are Sir Tho[mas] Davies, Mr Sam[uel] Man, Mr Phil[ip] Stephens, Mr Willi[a]m Leak, Mr Evan Tyler, Mr Ralph Smith, Mr ffranc Coles, Mr Tho[mas] Hunt, Mr Edw[ard] Husband, Mr Willi[a]m Tibbes, Mr Abell Roper, Mr Rob[er]t White, Mr James ffeather, Mr Humphrey Turbey, Mr Roger Norton, Mr Sam[uel] Mearne and Mr Tho[mas] Roycroft; beside some names is written 'mort'.

3. Feoffees for the English Stock, 3 Feb 1669; names listed are Sir Tho[mas] Davies, Mr Willi[a]m Lee, Mr Hum[phrey] Robynson, Mr Rich[ard] Thrale, Mr Andrew Crook, Mr Willi[a]m Leak, Mr Evan Tyler, Mr Ralph Smith, Mr ffranc Coles, Mr Rich[ard] Royston, Mr Tho[mas] Hunt, Mr Edw[ard] Husband, Mr Willi[a]m Tibbes, Mr Abell Roper, Mr Rob[er]t White, Mr James ffeather, Mr Hum[phrey] Turbey, Mr Roger Norton, Mr Sam[uel] Mearne and Mr Tho[mas] Roycroft; beside some names is written 'mort'; at the foot of the list is written 'Mr Belwood Councell for Mr Turner'.

Parties: (1) Jeremiah Halfehide, clothworker and William Chapman, barber chirurgeon (2) Stationers' Company and Sir Thomas Davies, William Lee, Humphrey Robinson, Richard Thrale, Andrew Crooke, William Leake, Evan Tyler, Ralph Smith, Francis Coles, Richard Royston, Thomas Hunt, Edward Husbands, William Tibbes, Abell Roper, Robert White, James Flesher, Humphrey Tucky, Roger Norton, Samuel Mearne and Thomas Roycroft, trustees nominated by and on behalf of the company.

Parties: (1) Jeremiah Halfehide, clothworker (2) Stationers' Company and Sir Thomas Davies, William Lee, Humphrey Robinson, Richard Thrale, Andrew Crooke, William Leake, Evan Tyler, Ralph Smith, Francis Coles, Richard Royston, Thomas Hunt, Edward Husbands, William Tibbes, Abell Roper, Robert White, James Flesher, Humphrey Tucky, Roger Norton, Samuel Mearne and Thomas Roycroft, trustees nominated by and on behalf of the company.

Parties: (1) Jeremiah Halfehide, clothworker (2) Stationers' Company and Sir Thomas Davies, William Lee, Humphrey Robinson, Richard Thrale, Andrew Crooke, William Leake, Evan Tyler, Ralph Smith, Francis Coles, Richard Royston, Thomas Hunt, Edward Husbands, William Tibbes, Abell Roper, Robert White, James Flesher, Humphrey Tucky, Roger Norton, Samuel Mearne and Thomas Roycroft, trustees nominated by and on behalf of the company.

There are two series of entries of copies in this volume. Much of the volume is unused. The main series of entries of copies is dated 29 Jan 1683-12 Feb 1696; information given includes name of property owner, title of work, name of author, and amount paid (usually 6d per title); entries include name of person/s under whose hand/s the copy is entered, and from 27 Feb 1683 for a period of about a year the name of a witness (mostly Martin Newton, occasionally John Walston or William Scoresby) is usually given (see description below of new method of entry on page 8); from 27 Feb 1683 to 31 Mar 1687 a signature is present for each entry, often but not always that of the property owner; from 7 Apr 1687 the entries in Liber G were copied from the draft register of entries of copies (see TSC/E/07) and the draft register contains the original signatures; there are very few cross references in the margins to entries elsewhere in the volume.

Spine reads, handwritten, 'Book of Entry of Coppies from 1682 [new calendar 1683] to 1695'. [new calendar 1696]

At the top of the first page is written 'The Register of Copies. Mr Samuel Mearn, Mr Francis Tyton, Mr Henry Hills, Wardens'.

The second series of entries of copies is dated 10-29 Apr 1710, and is found towards the end of the volume, entered upside down, comprising 23 unnumbered pages; at the top of the first page of this series of entries is written 'Anno domini 1710 Captain William Phillips, Master. Mr Thomas Hodgkin, Mr John Baskett, Wardens'; information given includes name of property owner, title of work, name of author, and amount paid (usually 6d per title); the property owner often signs the entry. An insert in this section is a sheet of paper with the text of an entry of 19 Apr 1710, from which the entry may have been made, or may be a copy of the entry.

A pencil note on the front fly leaf reads 'The 14 leaves at end should be extracted and put with the 1710-46 vol'.

On page 8 a new method of entry is recorded: 'Stationers Hall. A New Meathod of Entry of Bookes Pursuant to a By Law of this Company made & Ordained at a Comon Hall the 6 day of Decem 1682 and approved, confirmed and ratifyed by the Right Honorable Sir Francis North, knight, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England, Sir Edmund Saunders, knight, Lord Cheife Justice of His Majesties Court of Kings Bench, & Sir Francis Pemberton, knight, Lord Cheife Justice of His Majesties Court of Comon Pleas at Westminster by Deed under their hands & Seales the 10th day of February 1682, begun the 27th of February 1682'.

On the final page of the volume is a list of five entries of caveats (a sixth dated 10 Aug 1687 is scored out) restricting the entering of specified works, 4 Aug 1684-9 Aug 1687. The list is in chronological order and at the foot of the page is written, 'This was don by me the 27th March 1689. Witnesse my hand Hugh Ryder'.

An insert at pages 188-189 is a note in a later hand of page 8 'New Method of Entry' and page 20 'John Kigdale a whole Duty of Man'.

[Myers states 'Includes entries for 4 Apr 1684 to 12 Jan 1686 (7 ff) - I can't see what she is referring to, unless mistakenly to the final page of the volume]

Significant entries of copies include:

page 34: William Shakespeare's Hamlet entered for Robert Everingham, with a note, 'This book is to be printed by me for Richard Bentley, he not being free of the Company it is entred in my name in trust for him. RE'. A memorandum in the margin notes that 'a moyetie of this coppy belongs to Mr Henry Herringman. Witnesse John Garrett Ck [Clerk] this 19th Dec 1683, & was the whole entred to Mr Everingham by mistake', 19 May 1683.

page 58: John Milton's Paradise Lost, in twelve books, entered for Brabazon Aylmer, 24 Jul 1683, after being assigned to Brabazon Aylmer by Samuel Simons, 27 Oct 1680.

pages 63-73: Beaumont and Fletcher's The Mad Lover, The Wild Goose Chase, The Little French Lawyer, The Loyal Subject, The Spanish Curate, The Custom of the Country, The Double Marriage, A Wife for a Month, The Island Princess, The Pilgrim, The Laws of Candy, The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tamed, The Knights of Malta, The Captain, The Noble Enemy or The Humorous Lieutenant, Women Pleased, The Tragedy of Bonduca, The Chances, The Sea Voyage, The Maid in the Mill, The Queen of Corinth, The Coxcomb, The Noble Gentleman, The Beggar's Bush, The Honest Man's Fortune, The Martial Maid, The Tragedy of Valentinian, The Prophetess, Love's Pilgrimage and four plays or moral representations; also William Shakespeare's Henry V, Sir John Oldcastle, Titus Andronicus, Eurialus and Lucetia, 'Yorke and Lancaster' (Henry VI parts 2 and 3), Agincourt, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Hamlet, A Yorkshire Tragedy, The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, All's Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, Winter's Tale, Henry VI part 3, Henry VIII, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Cymbeline, transferred from Sarah Martin, widow of John Martin, to Robert Scott, 21 Aug 1683.

page 95: John Dryden's An Essay of Dramatick Poesie and Marriage a la Mode, entered for Master Herringman, 8 Nov 1683.

page 170: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come. The second part, entered for Nath. Ponder, 22 Nov 1684.

page 226: Aphra Behn's The Disappointed Marriage, or the Generous Mistress, entered for Edward Poole, 8 May 1686.

page 247: Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon, entered for Jos. Knight and Francis Saunders, 24 May 1687.

page 247: John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther, entered for Jacob Tonson, 27 May 1687.

page 282: Tracts of John Milton, entered for Awnsham Churchill, 30 Jan 1689.

page 309: John Dryden's The Prologue and Epilogue to the History of Bacon in Virginia, entered for Jacob Tonson, 20 Nov 1689.

page 311: John Dryden's Don Sebastian, King of Portugal, entered for Jos. Hindmarsh, 17 Dec 1689.

page 331: John Dryden's translation into English verse of the first, sixth and tenth Satires of Juvenal, entered for Jacob Tonson, 9 Feb 1691.

Entries of copies are dated 3 Dec 1645-27 Feb 1657 and fill the volume; 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 and amount paid (usually 6d per title); there are frequent cross references in the margins to entries elsewhere in the volume and in other volumes.

Front cover reads 'A Register Booke of Coppies Begining December 1645 Ending February 1656' [1657 new calendar].

At the top of the first page is written 'Mr Robert Mead, Master, Mr John Parker, Mr George Miller, Wardens' (new Masters and Wardens are named periodically through the volume).

Fly leaf reads 'Stationers Register booke for Entry of Copies. Liber E', and a scribe has practised scrolling and lettering below, including the names 'Thomas', 'J Burroughs' and 'James Cole'.

End pages at rear of volume were used for scrolling and lettering practice, including a verse, 'If thou wouldst knowe the reason why/ I scribled thus my pen to try/ Tis easie to be guest by you/ cause I had nothing els to doe. James Cole'. Elsewhere on the page, 'James Cole, servant to the said J Burroughs', 'Edward Underwood, servant to the said G Tokefeild' and 'Thomas Stephenson'. On the verso of the second end page is written, upside down, 'Richard Royston, Master, Robert White, Samuel Mearne, Wardens'.

Significant entries of copies include:

page 42: [Christopher Marlowe's] Dr Faustus and [Thomas Dekker's] The Shoemaker's Holiday, transferred from John Wright to Edward Wright, 27 Jun 1646.

page 53: Beaumont and Fletcher's The Mad Lover, The Wild Goose Chase, The Little French Lawyer, The Loyal Subject, The Spanish Curate, The Custom of the Country, The Double Marriage, A Wife for a Month, The Island Princess, The Pilgrim, The Laws of Candy, The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tamed, The Knights of Malta, The Captain, The Noble Enemy or The Humorous Lieutenant, Women Pleased, The Tragedy of Bonduca, Monsieur Thomas, The Chances, The Sea Voyage, The Maid in the Mill, The Queen of Corinth, The Coxcomb, The Noble Gentleman, The Beggar's Bush, The Honest Man's Fortune, The Martial Maid, The Tragedy of Valentinian, The Prophetess, Love's Pilgrimage and The Lover's Progress, entered for Mr Robinson and Mr Moseley, 4 Sep 1646.

page 62: John Fletcher's The Elder Brother, Monsieur Thomas and Two Noble Kinsmen [the latter attributed by some to William Shakespeare], transferred from Mr Waterson to Mr Moseley, 31 Oct 1646.

page 130: Philip Sidney's Arcadia, transferred back from Andrew Crooke to John Waterson, 8 Jul 1648.

page 237: John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton's The Widow [judged by some to be solely by Middleton], entered for Mr Moseley, 12 Apr 1652.

pages 285-286: Cardenio by Mr Fletcher and Shakespeare; Thomas Middleton's More Dissemblers Besides Women, A Right Woman or Women Beware Women, No Wit, No Help Like A Woman's, and The Puritan Maid, the Modest Wife and the Wanton Widow; The Merry Devil of Edmonton 'by William Shakespeare', and Henry I and Henry II 'by Shakespeare and Davenport', entered for Mr Moseley, 9 Sep 1653.

page 337: [William Shakespeare's] The Rape of Lucrece transferred from Martha Harrison to John Stafford and William Gilbertson, 15 Mar 1655.

page 341: [William Shakespeare's] Venus and Adonis transferred from Edward Wright to William Gilbertson, 4 Apr 1655.

Receipt for money spent at the Queen's Head tavern at a meeting between the Master, the Warden, Mr Tyler, Mr Royston, Mr Mearne, and others "about the Psalter &c." Signed by John Macock, E Tyler, Sam: Mearne. Personal names: John Macock (master); Samuel Mearne; Evan Tyler; [Richard?] Royston. Place names: Queen's Head tavern.

Parties: (1) Samuel Mearne (2) Richard Royston, Evan Tyler, Ralph Smith, Roger Norton, John Macock, John Clark and George Calvert.

List of fees and fines due to the Company from 18 July 1677 to 30 January 1677 from officers and liverymen. John Harding Livery, 20 pounds; Mr Clarke "2d years Under warden"; Mr Mearne "2d yeares Upper Warden"; Timothy Peirce livery, 20 pounds; Mr Edwin, 20 pounds; Mr Andrewes, 20 pounds; Mr Paxton for Upper Warden 6 pounds; George Downey and Samuel Roycroft livery, 20 pounds each; Esq Sawbridge to pay for Oakes materially, 48 pounds; Mr Stone to pay for his Renters fine, 24 pounds; Mr Blague "for ye like," 24 pounds; Mr Thomas Clerk, 20 pounds; Mr Flesher, 20 pounds. Personal names: John Harding; Samuel Mearne; Timothy Peirce; Mr Clarke; Mr Edwin; Mr Andrewes; Mr Paxton; George Downey; Samuel Roycroft; George Sawbridge; Oakes; Mr Stone; Mr Blague; Thomas Clerk; Miles Flesher.

Parties: (1) Stationers' Company and Sir Thomas Davies, William Lee, Humphrey Robinson, Richard Thrale, Andrew Crooke, William Leake, Evan Tyler, Ralph Smith, Francis Coles, Richard Royston, Thomas Hunt, Edward Husbands, William Tibbes, Abell Roper, Robert White, James Flesher, Humphrey Tucky, Roger Norton, Samuel Mearne and Thomas Roycroft, trustees nominated by and on behalf of the company (2) Robert Petty, merchant taylor.

Parties: (1) Stationers' Company and Sir Thomas Davies, William Lee, Humphrey Robinson, Richard Thrale, Andrew Crooke, William Leake, Evan Tyler, Ralph Smith, Francis Coles, Richard Royston, Thomas Hunt, Edward Husbands, William Tibbes, Abell Roper, Robert White, James Flesher, Humphrey Tucky, Roger Norton, Samuel Mearne and Thomas Roycroft, trustees nominated by and on behalf of the Company (2) William Little, distiller.

Parties: (1) Jeremiah Halfehide, clothworker (2) Stationers' Company and Sir Thomas Davies, William Lee, Humphrey Robinson, Richard Thrale, Andrew Crooke, William Leake, Evan Tyler, Ralph Smith, Francis Coles, Richard Royston, Thomas Hunt, Edward Husbands, William Tibbes, Abell Roper, Robert White, James Flesher, Humphrey Tucky, Roger Norton, Samuel Mearne and Thomas Roycroft, trustees nominated by and on behalf of the company.

Parties: (1) Jeremiah Halfehide, clothworker and William Chapman, barber chirurgeon (2) Stationers' Company and Sir Thomas Davies, William Lee, Humphrey Robinson, Richard Thrale, Andrew Crooke, William Leake, Evan Tyler, Ralph Smith, Francis Coles, Richard Royston, Thomas Hunt, Edward Husbands, William Tibbes, Abell Roper, Robert White, James Flesher, Humphrey Tucky, Roger Norton, Samuel Mearne and Thomas Roycroft, trustees nominated by and on behalf of the company.

Parties: (1) Richard Royston, Robert Whyte and Thomas Roycroft, stationers, Sir Thomas Davis, alderman and George Sawbridge, William Lee, Richard Thrale, Andrew Crooke, Evan Tyler, Ralph Smith, Francis Coles, Thomas Hunt, Abell Roper, Roger Norton, Samuel Mearne, Edmund Paxton, Samuel Gellibrand, John Macock, Richard Clark, John Clark, George Calvert, Thomas Vere and John Martin, stationers (2) Richard Bois, upholsterer.

Parties: (1) Jeremiah Halfhide, clothworker and William Chapman, barber chirurgeon (2) Stationers' Company and Sir Thomas Davies, William Lee, Humphrey Robinson, Richard Thrale, Andrew Crooke, William Leake, Evan Tyler, Ralph Smith, Francis Coles, Richard Royston, Thomas Hunt, Edward Husbands, William Tibbes, Abell Roper, Robert White, James Flesher, Humphrey Tucky, Roger Norton, Samuel Mearne and Thomas Roycroft, trustees nominated by and on behalf of the company.