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All pages of minutes are divided into two columns; entries until 4 Jul 1663 are often split between the two columns, with brief or truncated minutes in the left column and later additions in the right column giving more detail; from 9 Jul 1663 entries are more detailed, contain no additions and are written across both columns; some minutes are written in shorthand; no inserts.

On front endpapers and verso of second front endpaper a scribe has practised scrolling and lettering, including the names 'Mr John Burroughs', 'Underwood', 'Miles Flesher' and 'Mr Andrew Crooke Mr Luke Tanne Wardens' and the words 'To the most reverent'. On the front pastedown is written in a different contemporary hand 'App[re]ntice turn'd over' and two paragraphs:

'Memorand[um] Primo die ffebui 1657 (whi[ch] is the date of the Indenture)

at [illegible] xi die Maii Anno Regis

Caroli S[e]c[un]di xv Comittitur A. B.

staconans duistem Aetis

Or this:

Memorand[um] 2 die April, Anno Regis

Caroli S[e]c[un]di xxi Anno d[omi]ni 1669,

Infra noiat A. B. Comititt[ur] C.d.

staconans duistem Aetis'

and two modern inscriptions: in pencil 'Wast Book 1661-1668' and in blue ink '1661-1668 note re the great fire of London November 1666 and first meetings at Bartholomew's Hospital'. On the second front endpaper is written in contemporary hands 'Ann Batt ad[illegible] to Gertrude Dawson' and, perpendicular to the horizontal, fragments of text including the words 'wee pray you'. On verso of the second endpaper is written 'Stock keepers chosen 1 Martii Renter wardens chosen at our Lady day' and a list of servants to the Company:

'Mr Shoeby of Aldeisgate Carpenter

Rob[er]t fforde of greate St Batholomewes Bricklayer

Mr Wattell of Hollydayes yard in Ludgate parish Playsterer

Mr Lansdale of Ivey Lane Cooke'

At front of volume is a list of Assistants in order of seniority, dated May 1664, and a list of notes or reminders regarding the writing of entries in the volume.

Entries in volume mention the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, including:

26 Sep 1665: '...and likewise such other small [illegible] to the Poore from tyme to tyme (during this tyme of infection) as he shall thinke fitt...'

2 Oct 1666: 'Co[u]rt 2 October 1666 Att Cookes Hall, being the first co[u]rt after the ffire in the City...Ordered, That the Wardens provide labourers for the digging upp, and searching the ruyns, and rubbish, at Stationers Hall; and that the same be watched, day and night, at the doing thereof'.

On back endpaper are three entries:

1. undated note regarding W[illia]m Hobart, apprenticed to Richardson.

2. list of feoffees for the English Stock house, 3 Dec [16]55; names listed are Mr Walley, Mr Stepheno, Mr Norton, Mr Bower, Mr Man, Mr Latham, Mr Flesher and Mr Jeile.

3. list of feoffees for Woodstreet House, 19 Feb [16]57 and 1 Mar [16]57; names listed are Mr Jeil, Mr Lee, Mr Thomason, Mr Robinson, Mr Thrale, Mr Daulman, Mr Norton, Mr Pulleyn and Mr Crook.

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'.

Entries of copies are dated 10 Jul 1620-1 Dec 1645 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, often 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; a symbol resembling a pointing hand appears occasionally in the margins (most frequently between pages 312 and 363).

Front cover reads 'A Register Booke of Coppies Begining July 1620 Ending November 1645'.

At the top of the first page is written 'Mr Humphrey Lownes, Master, Mr Mathew Lownes, Mr George Cole, Wardens' (new Masters and Wardens are named periodically through the volume).

Fly leaf reads, handwritten, 'Liber D'.

Pasted in the front of the volume are a printed sheet entitled 'The Oath of a Stock-keeper', beginning 'You shall swear to be true to our Sovereign Lady, Queen Anne, and to be obedient unto the Master and Wardens of this Comapny' [temp Queen Anne, 1702-1714], and a letter from Eleanor Pitcher on headed notepaper of The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, 6 Apr 1954.

Inserted at pages 178-179 is a contemporary manuscript page listing selected works and dates between 31 Oct 1622 and 29 Apr 1629, some marked with a cross; some dates refer to entries of the work cited in the register.

Significant entries of copies include:

page 21: [William Shakespeare's] Othello, entered for Thomas Walkley, 6 Oct 1621.

page 69: William Shakespeare's 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, entered for Mr Blount and Isaac Jaggard, 8 Nov 1623.

pages 111-112: William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece, transferred from Roger Jackson's widow to Francis Williams, 16 Jan 1626.

page 122: [William Shakespeare's] Venus and Adonis, transferred from Mr Parker to John Haviland and John Wright, 7 May 1626.

pages 126-128: William Shakespeare's Henry V, Sir John Oldcastle (accredited to Shakespeare) and Titus Andronicus, 'Mr Paviers right in Shakesperes plaies or any of them' transferred from his widow to Edward Brewster and Robert Bird, 4 Aug 1626.

page 140: Francis Bacon's Henry VII, Walter Raleigh's History of the World, Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene, Francis Bacon's Apology, and Ben Jonson's Poetaster, transferred to Thomas Lownes from his late father, Matthew Lownes, 10 Apr 1627.

page 144: Francis Bacon's Henry VII, Walter Raleigh's History of the World, Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene and Ben Jonson's Poetaster, transferred from Thomas Lownes to Master Humphrey Lownes and Robert Young, 30 May 1627.

page 171: Francis Bacon's Henry VII, Walter Raleigh's History of the World, Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene and Ben Jonson's Poetaster, transferred from Master Humphrey Lownes to George Cole and George Latham, 6 Nov 1628.

page 146: Isaac Jaggard's part in Shakespeare's plays, transferred from his widow Dorothy Jaggard to Thomas Cotes and Richard Cotes, 19 Jun 1627.

page 160: [William Shakespeare's] Othello, transferred from Thomas Walkley to Richard Hawkins, 1 Mar 1628.

page 193: [William Shakespeare's] The Merry Wives of Windsor, transferred from Mr Johnson to Mr Meighen, 29 Jan 1630.

page 203: [William Shakespeare's] The Rape of Lucrece transferred from Francis Williams to Mr Harrison, 29 Jun 1630.

page 208: [William Shakespeare's] Henry V, Sir John Oldcastle (accredited to Shakespeare), Titus Andronicus, 'Yorke and Lancaster' (Henry VI parts 2 and 3) and Pericles, Prince of Tyre, transferred from Mr Bird to Richard Cotes, 8 Nov 1630.

page 209: [William Shakespeare's] 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 Mr Blount to Mr Allot, 16 Nov 1630.

page 211: [Francis Bacon's] Henry VII, Walter Raleigh's History of the World, [Philip Sidney's] Arcadia, [Edmund Spencer's] The Faerie Queene and [Ben Jonson's] Poetaster, transferred from Mr Cole and Mr Latham to Mr Younge, 6 Dec 1630.

page 226: Ben Jonson's The Staple of News, transferred to Mr Allot, 7 Sep 1631.

page 290: 'A Tragicomedy called the two noble kinsmen by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare', entered for John Waterson, 8 Apr 1634.

page 320: Philip Sidney's Arcadia transferred from Simon Waterson to John Waterson, 19 Aug 1635.

pages 361-362: Robert Allot's part in William Shakespeare's works and in [Ben Jonson's] The Staple of News and Bartholomew Fayre, transferred from Allot's to Mr Legatt and Andrew Crooke, 1 Jul 1637.

page 394: [William Shakespeare's] Othello, transferred from Urusla Hawkins, widow of Richard Hawkins, to Mr Mead and Mr Meredith, 29 May 1638.

page 405: [William Shakespeare's] Venus and Adonis, entered for John Haviland and John Wright, 4 Sep 1638.

page 415: The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France 'by James Shirley' [judged by some to be by George Chapman and revised by Shirley], entered for Mr Crooke and William Crooke, 24 Oct 1638.

page 425: John Fletcher's Monsieur Thomas, entered for Mr Waterson, 22 Jan 1639.

page 426-427: [William Shakespeare's] Othello, transferred from Mr Mead and Mr Meredith to William Leake, 25 Jan 1639.

page 432-434: Ben Jonson's works, transferred from Elizabeth Stansby, widow of William Stansby, to Mr Bishop, 4 Mar 1639.

page 438: [John Fletcher's] Wit Without Money, entered for Mr Crooke and William Cooke, 25 Apr 1639.

page 461: 'An addicion of some excellent poems to Shakespeares poems by other gentlemen viz. His mistris drawne and her mind by Ben: Johnson', entered for John Benson, 4 Nov 1639.

page 474: Ben Jonson's The Masque of the Gypsies, entered for John Benson, 20 Feb 1640.

page 477: Ben Jonson's The Masque of Augurs, Time Vindicated, Neptune's Triumphs, Pan's Anniversary or The Shepherd's Holiday and other elegies and poems, entered for Mr Crooke and Richard Seirger, 20 Mar 1640.

page 774: John Milton's Poems in English and Latin, entered for Master Mozeley, 6 Oct 1645.

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.

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.

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) 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.

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) 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) Stationers' Company (2) Andrew Crooke, stationer

From Andrew Crooke, stationer, to the Stationers' Company.