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Receipt for seven pounds 16 shillings in fulfillment of John Norton's bequest for a year to the parish of St Faith the Virgin. Signed in receipt by John Owen, church warden. Personal names: John Owen, John Norton. Place names: St. Faith the Virgin.

Receipt of Samuel Smith, churchwarden, in the sum of seven pounds sixteen shillings. From the bequest of John Norton to the parish of St Faith's. Personal names: Samuel Smith, John Norton.

Receipt of Edmund Okely, churchwarden, in the sum of seven pounds sixteen shillings. Paid from the bequest of John Norton for the use of St Faith's Parish. Place name: St Faith's. Personal names: Edmund Okely, John Norton.

Receipt of Thomas Ward, churchwarden, in the sum of seven pounds sixteen shillings for the poor St Faith's. Paid from the bequest of John Norton, 6 April 1699. Personal names: Thomas Ward, John Norton.

Receipt for seven pounds sixteen shillings paid as the gift of Mr Norton to the poor of St. Faith's parish. Signed in receipt by Henry Mortlocke, churchwarden. Personal names: Henry Mortlock; John Norton. Place names: St. Faith's parish.

Receipt for seven pounds 16 shillings for John Norton's gift to the poor of St. Faith's parish. Signed in receipt by John Ayres, churchwarden. Verso: "Church Warden." Personal names: John Ayres; John Norton. Place names: St. Faith's under St. Paul's.

Exceptionally flourished receipt for seven pounds 16 shillings paid to the parish of St Faith the Virgin from the Company due at Lady Day last. Signed in receipt by John Ayres, churchwarden. Personal names: John Ayres; John Norton. Place names: parish of St Faith's under St Paul's.

Receipt for seven pounds 16 shillings paid to the parish of St. Faith the Virgin annually due from the Company as the gift of John Norton. Signed for in receipt by Richard Chiswell, Churchwarden. Personal names: John Norton; Richard Chiswell. Place names: Parish of St. Faith.

Entries of copies are dated 4 Jul 1595-11 Jul 1620 (folios 1r-315v); information given 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.

At front of volume are memoranda:

Five unnumbered pages are bound at the front, some blank, some with memoranda. Frequently the date or year is omitted but the memoranda are believed to date 1600-1615. The main series of memoranda is principally a record of titles to be 'staied', or not to be entered to any but the property owner named, to be entered once the latter has obtained authority, 1603-1606. Includes one title 'printed at Edinburgh 1592'.

An entry dated 4 Aug, believed to be 1600, records four books 'to be staied': As You Like It, Henry V, Every Man in his Humour and Much Ado About Nothing.

The penultimate entry in this section of unnumbered pages records that a specified title is to be transferred to a named individual if the current holder of copy fails to repay a debt to him, 21 Feb 1614.

The final entry records the instruction to notify a named individual 'if any of Mr Deane of Windsor copies come to be entred', 9 May 1615.

At rear of volume are memoranda and accounts:

Memoranda:

folio 316r&v: 'Commandments [...] delivered at Croydon by my Lord's Grace of Canterbury and the Bishop of London' relating to queries regarding the licensing of specific titles and named printers, and referring to the burning of books in the Hall, 1-4 Jun 1599.

folio 317r: memorandum of the promise of Gervase Markham to desist from writing further books relating to diseases and cures of livestock, 14 Jul 1617.

folio 318r: memorandum of entry for the Latin stock of a named book, 27 Sep 1616.

(folios 319-322 are absent)

folios 325r&v, continuing at folio 323r: names of representatives of the Company at the Lord Mayor's feast, 29 Oct 1601-29 Oct 1629.

Accounts:

folio 324v, continues at folios 323v-324r: balances of Renter's annual accounts, mostly giving name of Renter and balance of his account (one single sum), 6 May 1600-6 May 1631.

Significant entries of copies include:

fly leaf: [William Shakespeare's] As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, and [Ben Jonson's] Every Man in his Humor, 'to be staied',

4 Aug [?1600].

folio11: [William Shakespeare's] Venus and Adonis, transferred from Mr Harrison the elder to William Leeke, 25 Jun 1596.

folio 21: Gerard's Herbal, entered for John Norton, 6 Jun 1597.

folio 23: [William Shakespeare's] Richard II, entered for Andrew Wise, 29 Aug 1597.

folio 25: [William Shakespeare's] Richard III, entered for Andrew Wise, 20 Oct 1597.

folio 31: [William Shakespeare's] Henry IV, entered for Andrew Wise, 25 Feb 1598.

folio 39v: [William Shakespeare's] Merchant of Venice, entered for James Roberts, 22 Jul 1598.

folio 40v: [George Chapman's] The Blind Beggar of Alexandria, entered for William Jones 'uppon condicion thatt yt belonge to noe other man', 15 Aug 1598.

[for entries 4 Aug 1600, see 'fly leaf' above]

folio 58: [Ben Jonson's] Every Man out of his Humour, entered for William Holme, 8 Apr 1600.

folio 63: Sir John Oldcastle [accredited to Shakespeare], entered for Thomas Pavier, 11 Aug 1600.

folio 63: [Ben Jonson's] Every Man in his Humour, entered for Mr Burby and Walter Burre, 14 Aug 1600.

folio 63: [William Shakespeare's] Henry V, transferred to Thomas Pavier, 14 Aug 1600.

folio 63v: William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Henry IV part 2, entered for Andrew Wise and William Aspley, 23 Aug 1600.

folio 65v: [William Shakespeare's] A Midsummer Night's Dream, entered for Thomas Fisher, 8 Oct 1600.

folio 66: [William Shakespeare's] Merchant of Venice, entered for Thomas Hayes, 28 Oct 1600.

folio 66: [Thomas Nashe's] Summer's Last Will and Testament, entered for Thomas Hayes, 28 Oct 1600.

folio 67v: [Christopher Marlowe's] Dr Faustus, entered for Thomas Bushell, 7 Jan 1601.

folio 71: [Ben Jonson's] Narcissus the Fountain of Self Love [Cynthia's Revels], entered for Walter Burre, 23 May 1601.

folio 77v: [Ben Jonson's] Poetaster, entered for Matthew Lownes, 21 Dec 1601.

folio 78: [William Shakespeare's] The Merry Wives of Windsor, entered for John Busby then transferred to Arthur Johnson, 18 Jan 1602.

folio 80v: [William Shakespeare's] Henry VI parts 1 and 2 and Titus Andronicus, entered by warrant for Thomas Pavier by assignment from Thomas Millington, 19 Apr 1602.

folio 84v: [William Shakespeare's] Hamlet, entered for James Roberts, 26 Jul 1602.

folio 85v: The Life and Death of the Lord Cromwell (accredited to Shakespeare), entered for William Cotton, 11 Aug 1602.

folio 91v: [William Shakespeare's] Troilus and Cressida, entered for Mr Roberts 'when he hath gotten sufficient aucthority for yt', 7 Feb 1603.

folio 98: [William Shakespeare's] Richard II, Richard III and Henry IV part 1, entered for Matthew Law, transferred from Andrew Wise, 25 Jun 1603.

folio 104v: [Ben Jonson's] The Case is Altered, entered for John Smethwick, 16 Feb 1604. Following the title are the words, 'How? Ask Dallio and Millo Provided that this copie be not taken from my other to the hurt of another mans book'.

folio 105v: Ben Jonson's A Part of the King's Majesty's Right Royal and Magnificent Entertainment [alternatively titled The Coronation Triumph], entered for Edward Blount, 19 Mar 1604.

folio 115: Ben Jonson's Sajanus his Fall, entered for Edward Blount, 2 Nov 1604; a marginal note records a transfer to Thomas Thorpe, 6 Aug 1605.

folio 116: [Thomas Middleton's] The Honest Whore, entered for Thomas Man the younger, 9 Nov 1604.

folio 128v: [George Chapman, Ben Jonson and John Marston's ] Eastward Ho, entered for William Aspley and Thomas Thorpe, 4 Sep 1605.

folio 131: [George Chapman's] Vincentio and Margaret [alternatively titled The Gentleman Usher], entered for Valentine Simmes, 26 Nov 1605.

folio 147: [William Shakespeare's] Romeo and Juliet, Love's Labours Lost and The Taming of a Shrew, entered for Mr Ling, 22 Jan 1607.

folio 152v: [Thomas Middleton's] The Phoenix, entered for Arthur Johnson, 9 May 1607.

folio 153: [Thomas Middleton's] Michaelmas Term, entered for Arthur Johnson, 15 May 1607.

folio 153: [John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont's] The Woman Hater, entered for Eleazer Edgar and Robert Jackson, 20 May 1607.

folio 153v: George Chapman's The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, entered for William Aspley, 3 Jun 1607.

folio 157v: The Puritan Widow [published as The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street by 'W.S.' (William Shakespeare)], entered for George Elde, 6 Aug 1607. [some attribute the play to Thomas Middleton].

folio 158v: [Thomas Middleton's] A Trick to Catch the Old One, entered for George Elde, 7 Oct 1607.

folio 161: [William Shakespeare's] Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet and Loves Labours Lost, entered for John Smethwick, previously belonging to Nicholas Ling, 19 Nov 1607.

folio 161v: William Shakespeare's King Lear, entered for Nathaniel Butter and John Busby, 26 Nov 1607.

folio 164v: [Thomas Middleton's] Five Witty Gallants [alternatively titled Your Five Gallants], entered for Richard Bonian, 22 Mar 1608.

folio 167: 'A Yorkshire Tragedy written by Wylliam Shakespere', entered for Mr Pavier, 2 May 1608. [some attribute the play to Thomas Middleton]

folio 167v: [William Shakespeare's] Pericles, Prince of Tyre, entered for Edward Blount, 20 May 1608.

folio 167v: [William Shakespeare's] Anthony and Cleopatra, entered for Edward Blount, 20 May 1608.

folio 168v: George Chapman's The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Byron, entered for Thomas Thorpe, 5 Jun 1608.

folio 174: [Thomas Middleton's] A Mad World, My Masters, entered for Walter Burre and Eleazer Edgar, 4 Oct 1608.

folio 178v: [Ben Jonson's] The Case is Altered, entered of Henry Walley and Richard Bonian, 26 Jan 1609.

folio 178v: [William Shakespeare's] Troilus and Cressida, entered for Richard Bonian and Henry Walley, 28 Jan 1609.

folio 183v: William Shakespeare's Sonnets, entered for Thomas Thorpe, 20 May 1609.

folio 186v: [Ben Jonson's] The Case is Altered, previously entered for Henry Walley and Richard Bonian on 26 Jan 1609, entered again for Henry Walley, Richard Bonian and Bartholomew Sutton, 20 Jul 1609.

folio 199v: [Christopher Marlowe's] Dr Faustus, 'written by C.M.', entered for John Wright by assignment from Thomas Bushell, 13 Sep 1610.

folio 214v: 'The Lyfe and Death of the Lord Cromwell, by W.S', entered for John Browne by assignment from William Jones, 16 Dec 1611.

folio 218: George Chapman's The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois and The Widow's Tears, entered for Mr Browne, 17 Apr 1612.

folio 235v [Francis Beaumont's] The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn, entered for George Norton, 27 Feb 1613.

folio 248v: [William Shakespeare's] The Rape of Lucrece, entered for Roger Jackson by consent of Mr John Harrison the elder, 1 Mar 1614.

folio 260v: [John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont's] Cupid's Revenge, entered for Josias Harrison, 24 Apr 1615.

folio 270: John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont's The Scornful Lady, entered for Miles Patriche, 19 Mar 1616.

folio 279: [William Shakespeare's] Venus and Adonis, entered for Mr Barrett by assignment from Mr Leake, 16 Feb 1617.

folio 293: [John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont's] A King and No King, entered for Mr Blount, 17 Aug 1618.

folio 301: [John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont's] The Maid's Tragedy, entered for Mr Higgenbotham and Mr Constable, 28 Apr 1619.

folio 303: [William Shakespeare's] Merchant of Venice, entered for Laurence Hayes, previously the copy of his father, Thomas Hayes, 8 Jul 1619.

folio 315v: [Thomas Middleton's] A Courtly Masque or the World tossed at Tennis, entered for George Purslowe and John Trundle, 4 Jul 1620.

i: Text of indenture for the Company to send one copy of every newly-printed book to the Bodleian Library, dated 12th December 1610.

Parties: (1) the Stationers' Company (2) Oxford University.

ii: Text of indenture for the Company to send one copy of every newly-printed book to the Bodleian Library, dated 28th January 1612. Signees for the Company include the Master, John Norton, and the Wardens, Richard Field and Humfrey Lownes.

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.

Orders of service for the annual Company Ash Wednesday service, founded by Master John Norton on his death in 1612; service sheets date from 1930-1940, 1943-1944, 1947-1958, 1960, 1962, 1967-1968, 1970, 1972-1981, 1985, 1991, 1993, 1995-1996, 1998-2006, 2010, 2012, 2014-2016, 2018,, 2019, 2023-2026.

Box also includes:

Sermons preached to the Company, 1920 and 1923.

Photographs of plaques commemorating John Norton, sermons preached at the Ash Wednesday service, 1920 and 1923.

Invitation to cakes and ale and the service, 3 Mar 1965 and 18 Feb 2015-10 Feb 2016, and entry ticket to cakes and ale, 13 Feb 2013.

Invitation to the service to unveil a plaque commemorating John Norton, 14 Dec 1948.

Invitation to a livery dinner held 17 Feb 1965.

Publication details: London : Printed by C. Roworth and Sons, Bell Yard, Temple Bar, 1858.

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

Extracts and copies of wills bequesting monies to the Stationers' Company for charitable use.
Folder contains:

i: extract from will of James Compton, 24 Sep 1858.

ii: extract from will of Jonas Davis, 11 Apr 1827.

iii: extract from will of Richard Johnson, 3 Jan 1795.

iv: extract from will of Alderman Gill, undated, with extract from notice informing the Company of the bequest and photocopies of the will [4 items].

v: draft wills of Henry Mortlock and his widow Elizabeth Mortlock concerning English Stock shares, undated.

vi: typescript transcription of will of John Norton, [21 May 1612].

vii: extract from will of William Strahan, 2 Jul 1784, with receipt for payment of the bequest, 1 Aug 1786, receipt for payment of earlier gift from Strahan, 20 Jul 1774, and pamphlet containing a printed extract from his will [4 items].

viii: extract from will of Richard Welles, 12 Mar 1803.

ix: extract from will of Beata Wilkins, 24 Nov 1773.

x: extracts from will of Alderman Wright, 4 Dec 1798 [2 items].

xi: extract from will of William Bowyer, 30 Jul 1777, with printed list of qualifications prescribed by his will for a candidate of an annuity of £30 per annum to a journeyman compositor.

xii: probate of will of Bartholomew Penny, 1798.

xiii: extract from will of Thomas Holme, 30 Apr 1870.

xiv: extract from will of James Figgins, 19 Dec 1883.

xv: extract from will of Emily Bentham, 1904.

Bundles contain:

xvi: copy will and codicils of Herbert Fitch with assorted documents relating to the administration of the terms of his will, 22 Oct 1936-10 Mar 1943.

xvii: copy will of Charles Edwin Layton, 28 Feb 1908, with assorted documents relating to the administration of the terms of his will, 15 Dec 1927-1 Dec 1940.