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Titled 'An Account of monies laid out by Peter Parker & Thomas Guy in Defence of the Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford and their Printers in several Suits in Law, Equity & Quo Warranto brought against them by the Stationers of London & the Kings Printers'.

Bill lodged by Oxford University, the Stationers' Company, Jonathan Edwards, Chancellor of Oxford University, Henry Aldrich, Dean of Christchurch, William Sherwin, Beadle of the University, Thomas Hughes and John Hall, printers, and Henry Mortlock, John Bellinger and Benjamin Tooke, stationers.

Itemised bill of food, drink, and service in the amount of five shillings 10 pence. Items include bread and beer; wine; fire; and a dish of tripe. Endorsed by J Towse, with a note stating: "in the Company of the Warden Mr Norton Mr Clarke Mr Took about the bill in Chancery ag[ains]t Guy & Parker." Two pence added on as given to the drawer of the bill. Personal names: John Towse; Henry Clarke [likely]; Benjamin Tooke; Roger Norton; Thomas Guy; Peter Parker.

Itemised, lengthy bill of charges related to legal action in relation to the Company and the English Stock. Items include drawing up paperwork in a variety of cases, including the Company against the Hawkers; Mill against Lee; Leigh against Ponder; the Company against Ffoyle; an indictment against Streater; the same charges against Leach and Crayle; and the King against Oxford University. Personal names: Adiell Mill; Nathaniel Ponder; Benjamin Crayle; Joseph Leigh(?); Samuel Lee(?); Foyle; Leach; James Stuart; Sergeant Pemberton; John Lilly; Mr Harcourt; Colston; Thomas Guy(?); Peter Parker(?). Christopher Wilkinson; John Lilly; Mr Tanner; Mr Trinder. Place names: Old Bailey; Oxford University. Under Warden Wilkinson had previously paid Lilly 10 pounds in this bill; Tooke paid the balance of four pounds 17 shillings. Signed in receipt by John Lilly. Verso: "Mr Lillys Bill- & Receipt for - 4:17:0."

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.

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.

Petition from Gilbert Ironside, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.

Minutes are unsigned; minutes are given for ordinary court meetings, private courts, court meetings for the election of corporation officers, courts for the election of master and wardens, pension courts, meetings of partners of the English Stock and general assemblies of the master, wardens and commonalty of the company held at their Common Hall; courts for the election of corporation officers are not titled as such; courts for the election of master and wardens are titled 'Election Courts'.

Typical order of entries for ordinary court meetings is: place, date and time of court meeting; list of those present, consisting of the master, wardens and assistants; confirmation of the orders of court from the preceding court meeting(s), from 5 Jul 1686 onwards; court business, including administration of English Stock shares, leases and committees, and orders relating to reports, petitions to the company, correspondence and other matters; administration of the livery, from 11 Oct 1686; details of those made free of the company and bound as apprentices, 4 Dec 1693-8 Jun 1696 and from 3 May 1697 onwards.

Spine reads 'Court Book 1683 to 1697' and 'F'.

Inserted into front flyleaves is a small card with typescript inscription regarding the entry for 6 Nov 1693, with handwritten annotations.

Volume includes committee minutes:

folio 25r: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee appointed ab[ou]t Peter Parker and Tho[ma]s Guy', 11 Oct 1684

folio 27v: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee concerning the Subpressing Lybells', 27 Dec 1684

folio 33r: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee ab[ou]t Peter Parker and Thomas Guy', 29 Apr 1685

folio 41r: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee about Peter Parker & Thomas Guy', 25 Jul 1685

folio 67: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee appointed at last Court, to treat ab[ou]t buying the interest late of Mr Sawbridge in Cambridg Printing', 19 Nov 1686

folio 67v: minutes of a 'Meeting of the Comittee appointed at last Court ab[ou]t Mrs Leigh's Account', 26 Nov 1686

folio 78v: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee appointed ab[ou]t Haberdashers & Stall Booksellers &c', 14 Mar 1687

folio 79v: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee appointed ab[ou]t the Companys Coppies at a Court of the 7th of February last', 18 Mar 1687

folios 129v-130r: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee appointed to treate w[i]th our Master ab[ou]t Cambridge busines', 1 Mar 1690

folios 131v-132r: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee ab[ou]t Mr Starkey's busines', 3 Apr 1690

folio 134r: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee ab[ou]t Cambridge Busines', 11 Apr 1690

folios 137r-138v: minutes of 'the same Comittee' [relating to Mr Starkey], 25 Jun 1690

folios 144: minutes of 'the Comittee about Hawkers', 8 Oct 1690

folio 145r: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittees appointed ab[ou]t the Subpression of Hawkers', 15 Oct 1690

folio 174: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee apopointed concerning the Oxford affaire', 6 Jul 1692

Minutes are unsigned; minutes are given for ordinary court meetings, court meetings for the election of corporation officers, courts for the election of master and wardens, Pension courts, meetings of partners for the election of stockkeepers and treasurer of the English Stock and courts to distribute Mr Cater's Gift; courts for the election of corporation officers and for the election of master and wardens are not titled as such.

Typical order of entries for ordinary court meetings is: place, date and time of court meeting; list of those present, consisting of the master, wardens and assistants; confirmation of the orders of court from the preceding court meeting(s); choosing of wardens and assistants; court business, including administration of English Stock shares, administration of charitable annuities, administration of leases, and resolutions and orders relating to reports, applications to the company, correspondence and other matters; names and personal details of those cloathed, made free of the company and bound or turned over as apprentices.

Spine reads 'Court Book from 3 June 1717. to 30 June 1733. Liber H' and 'H'.

At top of recto of the page preceding the first entry is written in contemporary hand 'Daniel Davis Packer in Peters court Corhhill'.

Near front of volume are copy bonds:

pages 18-19: obligation and condition requiring the company to distribute yearly the sum of £50 to poor company members and widows of members, taken from a sum of £1000 given to the company by Thomas Guy for investment in the English Stock, 3 Feb 1717.

pages 20-22: obligation and condition requiring the company to pay in half-yearly installments the yearly sum of £125 to Thomas Guy and, after his death, limitors declared in his will or other writings, or if limitors are not declared then instead to the mayor, commonalty citizens of London and the governor or treasurer of St Thomas' Hospital for use by the poor of the hospital, 3 Feb 1717.

On page 123 is recorded the translation of Samuel Buckley from the Haberdashers' Company to the Stationers' Company, 25 Sep 1722.

Draft agreements between Thomas Wright and William Gill and the Stationers' Company regarding the University of Oxford's right of printing, 7 Feb-21 Jun 1766, and draft agreement between Cambridge University and the Stationers' Company, 18 Dec 1767; folder also includes typed notes on court book entries for Thomas Guy.

Given in the case of Thomas Guy and John Parker v. Jonathan Edwards, Henry Aldrich, William Sherwin, John Hall and Thomas Hughes.

Folder is divided into subfolders:

i: list of pensioners of Cater's Charity, 1 Dec 1800.

ii: 4 copies of typescript table of Company pensions, undated, with summons to cakes and ale festivities, Jan 1960 [5 items].

iii: printed table of pensions and annuitants, undated.

iv: details of the Catherine Hamblin and Jonas Davis bequests, c.1850.

v: summons to a meeting of the General Purposes Committee to consider the Company Charities with list of Company charities, C R Rivington, 1 Apr 1883.

vi: draft Charity Commission scheme concerning the Company charities, mid 20th century.

Pamphlets 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.

Front cover of first copy of pamphlet has the inscription 'Master or Chairman'.

Front cover of second copy of pamphlet has the inscriptions 'Warden' [crossed out] and 'Clerk'; content of pamphlet contains manuscript annotations and corrections.