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Transcipts of bequests and the attendant conditions. The majority of entries date from 1593-1679, with additional entries made in 1884 and 1908.

i: draft balance accounts for the loan charities of William Norton, George Bishop, Christopher Meredith and John Norton, 1860 and 1864-1865, and for the Wood Street estates, 1864-1865 [5 items].

ii: summonses to appear before the Commissioner, 8 Jan 1851-28 Apr 1858 [11 items].

iii: acknowledgement of papers sent to the Charity Commission by the Clerk, 20 Jul 1863.

iv: assorted papers: (1) summons to attend the Court of Chancery and pay monies to the Attorney-General, 28 Jan 1852-13 Jul 1855, (2) receipts for monies paid to the Attorney-General, 20 Feb 1852-19 Mar 1858, (3) list of actions undertaken in relation to the Company's case in Chancery, 4 May 1830-12 Jun 1833, (4) observations relating to the Company's case in Chancery, undated, (5) certificate of the sum remaining on the credit of the case in Chancery, 6 Jun 1856, (6) proposed minutes [1857], (7) letter from the Charity Commission stating details of the Company charities, 2 Nov 1857, and (8) notices of attendance at Stationers' Hall on inspection duties, 7-14 Jul 1863 [13 items].

i: contemporary printed copy of Thomas Guy's will, 1725. Printed by John Osborn, bound in paper.

ii: scheme for the regulation and administration of the William Norton, George Bishop, Christopher Meredith and John Norton charities, 1858. Bound in cloth.

iii: pamphlet printed for use by company members and officials; contains details of all company charities, consisting of benefactions of Beale Blackwell, William Bowyer, Theophilus Cater, John Clarke, James Compton, Jonas Davis [and Reverend and Mrs C A Barlow], Charles Dilly, Alderman James Figgins, Thomas Guy, Catherine Hamblin, Luke Hansard [two benefactions], Richard Johnson, Joseph Johnson Miles, John Nichols and John Bowyer Nichols, Andrew Strahan [two benefactions], William Strahan, Charles Whittingham, Beata Wilkins and Thomas Wright, and the Company's stock pensions, 1917; inserted is a slip detailing candidate requirements for Charles Edwin Layton's gift.

Folder is divided into subfolders:

i: receipts of charitable gift payments, 19 Jan 1685-30 Dec 1782; also includes a card from London booksellers urging lords to attend the Committee of the Whole House reading of the Booksellers' Bill, 14 May 1774, with annotations listing the recipients and with numbers or comments beside some names [12 items].

ii: receipts of charitable gift payments and draft accounts, 15 Aug 1813-27 Dec 1922 and 18 Feb 1977 [12 items].

iii: printed notices stating that no Company members, nor their widows, may be a pensioner unless they have paid quarterage, 1774 reprints of 1718 notice [2 items].

Clerk's book divided into six principal sections:

folios 17r-129v: register of apprentices bound, 17 Jul 1576-25 Jul 1605.

folios 130r-318v: entries of copies, 17 Jul 1576-25 Jun 1595.

folios 319r-352r: register of freemen admitted, 14 Jan 1577-2 Jul 1605.

folios 393r-414v and 417r: fines for breaking of orders, 28 Jan 1577-28 Jun 1605.

folios 415 and 418r-420r: calls for the livery, 1 Jul 1577-30 Jun 1604.

folios 427r-486r: Court minutes and Clerk's memoranda, 1 Oct 1576-29 Dec 1603.

On the title page are two 18th or 19th century inscriptions:

Index reading:

'Apprentices to page 130

Entrys of Coppies from 130 to 318

Freemen from p 319

Book of Fines from 393 to 415

Calls on the Livery from 415 to 427

Decrees or Orders or probably the Court Book from July 1576 to November 1603. from page 427 to the End'

Inscription reading: 'The copies prior to their date, are to be found from the grant of the charter, in the old Wardens acct. book, classed distinctly under every year to 1571'.

At front of volume are memoranda and other records:

folio [1r]: [to be completed]

folio [1v]: register of those appointed to go to the Lord Mayor's feast at the Guildhall, 29 Oct 1583-29 Oct 1595.

folio 2r: memoranda by Richard Collins stating that he was chosen Clerk of the Company, 30 May 1575, and listing what he had been charged to enter into the volume, with folio numbers; details of gilt spoons, 1589; register of those appointed to go to the Lord Mayor's feast, 29 Oct Oct 1596-30 Oct 1598.

folio 2v: memorandum that the gift and legacy of John Waller had been distributed that day, 27 Jan 1587; memorandum that Mr Jones had printed a book that had been received by Warden Cawood but is not entered; register of those appointed to go to the Lord Mayor's feast, 29 Oct 1599-29 Oct 1600.

folio 3r: annual receipts of monies received for use of the hall by the wardmote and for weddings, 13 Jan 1578-10 Apr 1592.

folio 3v: receipts for monies received for use of the hall by the wardmote and for a member's wife's burial; list of books sent from Scotland to William Norton for his cousin John Norton, seized by George Bishop, taken to Stationers' Hall and then delivered away, 17 Jun 1591.

folio 4: memoranda concerning books seized

folio 5r: list of names of those appointed to search, 3 Sep 1576

folio 5v: [to be completed]

folio 6r: 'A copie of certen orders concerning printing'.

folio 6v: [to be completed]

folio 7r: Court order relating to [to be completed]

Information given in the entries of copies includes name of property owner, name of person/s under whose hand/s the copy is entered, title of work and amount paid (usually 6d per title); occasionally name of author is included. Significant entries of copies include:

folio 164v: [Edmund Spenser's] The Shepheardes Calender, entered for Hugh Singelton, 5 Dec 1579.

folio 170r: [Edmund Spenser & Gabriel Harvey's] Three Proper, and Wittie, Familiar Letters, entred for Henry Bynneman, 30 Jun 1580.

folio 231v: Sir Philip Sidney's [New] Arcadia, entered for William Ponsonby, 23 Aug 1588.

folio 251v: [Edmund Spenser's] The Faerie Queene, entered for William Ponsonby, 1 Dec 1589.

folio 262v: [Christopher Marlowe's] Tamburlaine parts 1 and 2, entered for Richard Jones, 14 Aug 1590.

folio 297v: [William Shakespeare's] Venus and Adonis, entered for Richard Feild, 18 Apr 1593

folio 299v: [Christopher Marlowe's] Edward II, entered for William Jones, 6 Jul 1593.

folio 304v: [William Shakespeare's] Titus Andronicus, entered for John Danter, 6 Feb 1594.

folio 305v: [William Shakespeare's] Henry VI part 1, entered for Thomas Millington, 12 Mar 1594.

folio 306v: [William Shakespeare's] The Taming of the Shrew, entered for Peter Shorte, 2 May 1594.

folio 309v: [William Shakespeare's] Richard III, entered for Thomas Creede, 19 Jun 1594.

folio 315v: A treatise in commendation of poetry by Sir Philip Sidney, entered for William Ponsonby, 29 Nov 1594.

Topics covered by the Court minutes include elections of the Master, Wardens, Court Assistants and Renter Wardens, Court attendance, administration of Company officials, regulation of apprentices and journeymen, disputes between members, granting or administration of charity, administration of property, and regulation of printing.

At back of volume are Renter Warden balance receipts and memoranda:

folio 486v: receipts for balances paid to the Company by the Renter Wardens, 6 May 1577-6 May 1586.

folio 487r: memoranda recording the transfer of licence to print one impression of 'Quenes Iniuntions and Artycles' from Master Barker to Thomas Purfoote, 5 Aug 1583, a payment for 'Catechismes' from Master Coldock to Master Newbery, 2 Sep 1583, and the fact that the cup given by Henry Fflycke must be entered in the book of gifts, 3 Nov 1583; receipts for balances paid to the Company by the Renter Wardens, 6 May 1587-6 May 1591.

folio 487v: note of T Cantroller's printing privileges from 1573-1574; list of items in the armoury additional to that specified in the inventory, 8 Jul 1578; receipts for balances paid to the Company by the Renter Wardens, 6 May 1592-7 May 1599.

Certified balance accounts for the loan charities of William Norton, George Bishop, Christopher Meredith and John Norton; accounts date from 1860-1864, 1898, 1900-1901 and 1903-1904.

Miscellaneous receipts, notes and correspondence, mostly eighteenth century.

Includes:

• Receipt of payment for window lights, 1701

• Receipt of payment for assessment of the poor, 1713

• Receipt of payment for five sets of Nathaniel Hooke's 'Roman History', 1762

• Itemised bill for smithwork done for the Hall, 1715

• Itemised butcher's bill, 1677

• Letter from John Leslie (1766-1832), declining an invitation to write a biography of James Gregory, 1787

• Receipt of payment by George Hawkins to Henry Woodfall for printing, nd [mid- to late eighteenth century]

• Receipt of payment from John Wilkes to John Rivington, 1783

• Receipt of transfer of money from Derry plantation [Pellipar] rent to the English Stock, 1698

• Receipt of payment of chancery clerk's bill, 1688

• Letter from John Hinchliffe (1731-1794), then vice-chancellor of Trinity College, Cambridge, re payment of a draft, 1769

• Bill for vellum to print Company by-laws, 1684

• List of rents due, 1765-1766

• Receipt of payment by Under-Warden Charles Hitch to Isaac Dimsdale for coaches and pairs to Putney Bowling Green, 1756

• Receipt of payment for serving a caveat, 1717

• Receipt for payment of scavenger's bill, 1710

• Receipt of payments to Christ Hospital from the bequests of George Bishop and Christopher Meredith, 1752

• Itemised courier's bill, 1786

• Itemised bill of expenses submitted to George Hawkins by John Cooke, 1768

• Itemised painter's bill, 1744

• Receipt of payment for Paul's Cross preachers from the bequest of George Bishop, 1699

• Note to Treasurer George Hawkins, with wax seal, itemising enclosed payments, [1766-1776]

• Note on granting of patents/monopolies [1720s]

• Itemised bill for legal expenses, 1681-1682

• Letter to Sidney Hodgson from James G. McManaway re photographing Stationers' Hall, 1954

• Printed articles about St Bride's, [1950s]

• Receipt of payment for turf [?], 1758

Receipt for six pounds for a year's rent charge due from the Company to Christ's Hospital at Michaelmas 1688 as the gift of George Bishopp. Signed in receipt by John Reeve. Personal names: George Bishopp; John Reeve. Place names: Christ's Hospital.

Receipt for six pounds paid to Christ's Hospital London as a yearly annuity from the gift of George Bishopp, alderman, through the Company. Signed in receipt by Nathaniel Hawes, treasurer, and John Reeve, witness. Verso: "Hospital." Personal names: George Bishopp; Nathaniel Hawes; John Reeve. Place names: Christ's Hospital, London.

Receipt for six pounds in payment of George Bishopp's gift to Christ's Hospital, due from the Company. Signed in receipt by John Reeve. Verso: "Christs Hospitall." Personal names: George Bishopp; John Reeve. Place names: Christ's Hospital.

Receipt for six pounds as a year's annuity due to Christ's Hospital as the gift of George Bishopp. Signed in receipt by John Reeve. Verso: "Christ Hosptl Recept due ab Mich last May 14t 1684." Personal names: George Bishopp; John Reeve. Place names: Christ's Hospital.

Two receipts for gifts made by Company members, in a total of six pounds 13 shillings four pence. The first to Christ's Hospital, six pounds for a year's annuity on the gift of George Bishopp, signed in receipt by John Reeves. The second, a note about 13 shillings and four pence, and an acquittance given to Christchurch for the gift of Mr William Norton. Received of Mr Stephenson for the Churchwardens. Personal names: John Reeves; George Bishopp; William Norton; Mr Stephenson. Place names: Christchurch; Christ's Hospital.

Receipt for 12 pounds in full of two years' annuity of the gift of Mr George Bishopp due to Christ's Hospital. Signed in receipt by John Reeve. Verso: "Christ Hospitall receipt." Personal names: George Bishopp; John Reeve. Place names: Christ's Hospital.

Receipt for six pounds for a year's payment due to Christ's Hospital for 1689, per the gift of George Bishopp, deceased. Signed for by John Reeve. Personal names: John Reeve; George Bishopp. Place names: Christ's Hospital.

Receipt of John Reeves in the sum of six pounds for a year's rent due to Christ's Hospital from the gift of George Bishop. Personal names: John Reeves, George Bishop. Place name: Christ's Hospital.