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Receipt of John Reeves of the gift of Christopher Meredith, consisting of thirty-two Bibles in quires with service and psalms at the value of four pounds, for the poor children of Christ's Hospital, 3 June 1699. Place name: Christ's Hospital. Personal names: John Reeves, Christopher Meredith.

Receipt of Robert Stephens in the sum of four pounds for 40 Bibles for Christ's Hospital. Received of Warden Hodgkin, 7 May 1705. This charitable donation of Bibles was provided for by the Meredith bequest. Place name: Christ's Hospital. Personal names: Robert Stephens, Thomas Hodgkin, Christopher Meredith.

Two receipts. Signed receipt of Robert Steele for 12 Bibles for Christ's Hospital received of Robert Stephens from the Company, 6 October 1707. On the verso is the signed receipt of Robert Stephens in the sum of four pounds for Bibles for the school from Warden Collins, 10 December 1707. This charitable donation of Bibles was provided for by the Meredith bequest. Place name: Christ's Hospital. Personal names: Robert Stephens, Robert Steele, Freeman Collins.

Receipt of Robert Stephens in the sum of four pounds for 60 Bibles for the Bluecoat Hospital (Christ's Hospital school). Received of Warden Baskett, 14 Dec 1709. This charitable donation of Bibles was provided for by the Meredith bequest. Place name: Christ's Hospital. Personal names: Robert Stephens, John Baskett, Christopher Meredith.

Two receipts. Signed receipt of Jane Steele for 44 Bibles delivered by Robert Stephens for the use of Christ's Hospital, 20 April 1712. On the verso is the signed receipt of Stephens in the sum of four pounds for delivery of the Bibles, received of Warden Browne, 22 May 1712. This charitable donation of Bibles was provided for by the Meredith bequest. Place name: Christ's Hospital. Personal names: Robert Stephens, Jane Steele, Daniel Browne, Christopher Meredith.

Receipt of Robert Stephens in the sum of four pounds for delivering Bibles to Mrs Jane Steele of the Bluecoat Hospital (Christ's Hospital school). Received of Warden Freeman, 31 March 1713. This charitable donation of Bibles was provided for by the Meredith bequest. Place name: Christ's Hospital. Personal names: Robert Stephens, Freeman Collins, Jane Steele, Christopher Meredith.

Receipt of Robert Stephens in the sum of four pounds for Bibles delivered to Mrs Jane Steele for the use of the Bluecoat Hospital (Christ's Hospital school), 11 December 1713. This charitable donation of Bibles was provided for by the Meredith bequest. Place name: Christ's Hospital. Personal names: Robert Stephens, Jane Steele, John Lawrence.

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

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.

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].

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].

Christopher Meredith (fl. 1624-1653) was a bookseller, specialising in theological books, who served as an Assistant of the Stationers’ Company from 1645 to his death in 1653. He left his two houses in St Paul’s Churchyard (the Crane and the Marigold) to the Company. He specified the following purposes for the annual rents:

• That ten pounds be paid as a loan to poor men of the Company every 29 September
• That ten pounds be split for (1) the purchase of Bibles, either in octavo or duodecimo in a plain binding with clasps and stamped in gold letters ‘Kempsey Manor’, for Meredith’s tenants at Kempsey Manor in Worcester; (2) a gift of school books to the poor boys of Kempsey School, whose parents could not buy them books; (3) a gift of small Bibles to the poor children of Christ’s Hospital.

Meredith had been a governor of Christ's Hospital in his life. He also left ten pounds to the Company to attend his burial and purchase a piece of plate.

i: draft lease of 11 and 12 Wood Street, parties: (1) Stationers' Company, (2) William Vanning, William Sabine, Philip River and Stephen Wilson, (3) William Stanbridge and John Tagg, 19 Jul 1795.

ii: draft lease of 11 and 12 Wood Street, parties: (1) Stationers' Company, (2) William Vanning, William Sabine, Philip River and Stephen Wilson, (3) William Stanbridge and John Tagg, 20 May 1795.

iii: draft lease of 13 Wood Street, parties: (1) Stationers' Company, (2) William Lambert, 9 Jul 1795.

iv: draft lease of 12 Wood Street, parties: (1) William Stanbridge and John Tagg, (2) Daniel Hooper and William Lane, 18 May 1796.

v: draft lease of 11 Wood Street, parties: (1) Stationers' Company, (2) Stephen Wilson, 29 Nov 1794.

vi: draft lease of a messuage and premises in Clements Court and Friars Alley, parties: (1) Stationers' Company, (2) Benjamin Fuller, 9 Jul 1795.

vii-x: schedules of fixtures for 11, 12 and 13 Wood Street and Clement Court, Oct 1795 [4 items].

xi-xxxviii: balance sheets for the Wood Street estate, 1830, 1858 [8 items], undated, 1860 [2 items], 1861 [3 items], 1862-1864, 1838, 1889, 1900-1901, 1903-1904, 1905 [2 items], 1906, 1907 [2 items], 1908; [30 items total]; items xvi-xvii consist of balance sheets for the rent and profits of property held in respect of the William Norton, George Bishop, Christopher Meredith and John Norton loan charities, applicable to the school, 1858 [includes Wood Street properties].

xxxix-xlviii: advertisements, sale particulars and proposals for taking leases in Wood Street, Friars Alley and Clements Court, 2 Sep-7 Oct 1794 [10 items].

xlix: vellum indenture of bequest of Wood Street, St Pancras churchyard and Fleet Street properties, parties: (1) Abraham Kitson, son and heir of Anthony Kitson, (2) Thomas Kitson, son of Anthony Kitson, Hugh Lewes and Anne, daughter of Anthony Kitson, (3) Leonard Milles and Thomas Feaskett, 18 Nov 1582.

l-lv: correspondence between Mr Dann and Mr Baldwin regarding leases and repairs in Wood Street, 29 Jun 1795-7 Jan 1796 [6 items].

lvi: estimate of repairs to a house in Wood Street late inhabited by Mr Brown, 4 Feb 1772.

lvii: list of leases of estate in Wood Street, 20 Jan 1794.

lviii: letter from Mr Stanbridge and Mr Tagg to the company regarding 12 Wood Street, 2 Sep 1794.

lix: memorandum regarding 11 and 13 Wood Street, 7 Oct 1794.

lx-lxiii: proposals for taking leases in Wood Street, 7 Oct 1794 [4 items].

lxiv: letter from Thomas Bolton regarding a draft lease for 11 Wood Street, 23 Dec 1795.

lxv-lxvi: lists of rent and sums proposed to be spent on repairs for houses on Wood Street, undated [2 items].