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i: statements of case regarding Court powers and election of Renter Wardens, with opinions of counsel Thomas Reeve, 16 Jan 1731, and D Ryder, 1 May 1732 [2 items].

ii: statement of case regarding Court powers and election of Renter Wardens, with opinion of D Ryder, 3 Oct 1730.

iii: statement from Thomas Reeve that he had made alterations to his opinion in light of new developments, 7 Jun 1731.

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The petition of Charles Sinclear to be translated to the Girdlers' Company. With accompanying notes on fines and fees charged by other companies on translation.

Signed release of Frank Alner Hadland from the livery of the Company.

• The Charge of printing the statutes at large containing six vol in folio, no. 1500
• Copy of the will of Richard Ward, 8 Dec 1674.
• Two bills of John Lilly, with unsigned bill 1681-2.
• Abstract of Act for restraining the City & Companies, c.1690
• Legal dispute in the case of the Stationers’ Company against Peter Parker, 1697-8
• Letter of William Ward with directions to send three sets of statutes to him, 21 Jan 1736.
• Copy of a grant to the Stationers’ Company of certain schoolbooks, with the signed oath of William Marsh certifying this is a true copy, 1741.
• Statute copies inc. copy Inspeximus & Exemplification of patent of 8 Mar 13. Jac. [two copies]; copy Inspeximus & exemplification of patent of 4 May 3 &4 Philip & Mary; 4 May 3 &4 Philip & Mary – Alpant of a charter to the Stationers of London [two copies]
• Bill of Mr Hawkins. Signed in receipt for Mr Browne, Dec 1760.
• Letter of Attorney, Mr John Lee & Wife to Mr Hawkins. John Lee and Mary Lee, administrators of the wills of Elizabeth Hawkins and Thomas Coulson, appoint George Hawkins, bookseller, attorney in this matter. Witnessed by Peter Hughes and John Eeles, 20 Oct 1762.
• Printed order on taxes, signed in receipt on verso for hall tax, 3 Dec 1781
• Mounted chapbook title-page, The History of Valentine and Orson. Printed for the Company of Walking Stationers, c. 1800.
• Draft examination of Mr Charles Rivington, 1825
• Letter from the beadle excusing a member from the office of renter-warden, 28 Mar 1838
• Gross Income of the Treasurer of the English Stock, c.1875
• Extract from the Bye-Laws relating to the English Stock, 1875
• Summons for a dinner, 12 Oct 1878
• Notice about the Charity Commission, 4 Nov 1878
• Two building permissions 1880-1883, with two from 1884 in separate envelope
• Notice of dinner postponement following the decease of James Evan Adlard, 29 Oct 1890
• Stationers’ Company School particulars of scholarships and prizes, c.1896.
• The Freedom of the City of London awarded to John Robert Thurston (copy of freedom and engraved shield), with letter of explanation, 1 Dec 1911.
• Letter from F. C. Francis of the British Museum to Sidney Hodgson about copies of the London Almanack, 7 Nov 1956.
• Minutes of the House of Lords re Stationers and Newspaper Makers’ Company Bill, 21 June 1961
• Printed Memorandum for English Stockholders
• Undated menu
• Photographs of a plaque in honour of John Norton, with short newspaper cutting on the death of Sir Frederic Kenyon

Lease of land, 1686 stored I-Pl-6.
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Assorted bonds. Includes:

• Bond of the Stationers' Company to pay Edward Trench, 1673. Signed in receipt on verso by Edward's brother, Thomas Trench.
• Bond of the Stationers' Company to pay Elizabeth Coulchester, 1672. With notes on verso of money received, 1677.
• Bond of the Stationers' Company to pay money to Anne Eversden on the day of her marriage, according to the will of Stationer Henry Eversden, 1678, with note of fulfilment of this bond in 1681.
• Bond of Captain Samuel Rycroft to fulfil covenant with the Stationers, 1682.
• Bond of the Stationers' Company to pay Judith Webb, 1672, with note of fulfilment, 20 April 1686.
• Bond of the Stationers' Company to pay money to Sarah Eversden on the day of her marriage, according to the will of Stationer Henry Eversden, 1681, with note on reverse of the fulfilment of this bond on her marriage to Thomas Bawden, 1689.
• Bond of the Stationers' Company to pay Mary Hussey, 1708. Witnessed by Simon Beckley and Henry Million.
• Bond of the Stationers' Company to pay Thomas Parkhurst, 1704, with note on reverse, 1713. Witnessed by Simon Beckley.
• Bond of the Stationers' Company to pay Edward Leigh, 1710, with note on reverse of payment, 1711.
• Draft bond of A.T. to L.H., 1793, and draft form of bond, written in the same hand.

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

Receipts of payment to Lilly for exemplification of the Company's Charter (1684), and reimbursement of Randall Taylor for payment to Mr Wagstaffe, Town Clerk of London, to enroll the Charter (1685).

Signed and dated declaration against The Solemn League & Covenant. Signees: Roger Norton, Henry Hills, James Cotterell, John Bellinger, Ambrose Isted, John Baker, Robert Clavell, Thomas Bassett.

Notes and receipts, mostly eighteenth-century. Includes:

• Receipt of money for Renter Wardens' Feast, 1677.

• Receipt of payment for penny cakes and paper, 1685.

• Agreement between St Martin's and the Stationers' Company re construction of a water course, 1693.

• Itemised bill for books delivered to Kempsey and Christ Church Hospital, according to Christopher Meredith's legacy, with note of receipt of payment, 1698.

• Receipt of payment for loan of pewter, 1699-1700.

• Receipts of transfers of money from Ulster plantations to the English Stock, 1708 and 1710.

• Receipts of rent paid by the Stationers' Company to the Chamber of London, 1686 and 1709.

• Itemised bill for books delivered to Kempsey, according to Christopher Meredith's legacy, with note of receipt of payment, 1710.

• Receipt of payment to Will Meare for mucic on Lord Mayor's Day, 1717.

• Certificate of day release from Fleet Prison for William Genew, 1737.

• Receipt for delivery of a clock, 1758.

• Receipt of payment for 'care of the engine', 1787.

• Receipt of annuity from Meredith's legacy and dividends on South Sea Stock, 1764.

• Tally of rents and dividends, 1766.

• Dinner bill, 1776.

• Delivery note for surplus books, 1776.

• Summons to attend at Guildhall with list of Liverymen, 1784.

• Receipt from Union Insurance Office, 1820.

• Cover notes for remote entry into the Stationers' Register of:
  'The Evidence Upon the Duchess of Kingston's Trial', entered by William Faden and George Kearsley, 1776;
  'The History of the Reign of Louis the Thirteenth, King of France and Navarre', by Monsieur Vassar, 1699;
  'A sermon preached before the Queen at the Cathedral Church of St Paul London on the 23rd of August 1705... by Richard Will DD, Dean of Lincoln, and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty', and 'A Sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at St Margaret's Westminster on Monday the 5th of November 1705... by Richard Will DD, Dean of Lincoln, and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty';
  ' Poems upon various subjects, Latin and Enblish, by the late Isaac Hawkins Browne Esq', 1768.

Petition for greater regulation of 'hawkers', or itinerant book-traders. Includes 96 signatures.

Includes:

• Quitclaim by Thomas Braddyll of suits against Benjamin Tooke, 1682.
• Annotated list of benefactors, 1690.
• Company Court resolution re recommendations of petitioners, 1789.
• Tally of Company members, 1779.
• Admission tickets to six lectures in the history and practice of printing held at Stationers' Hall in 1873, as part of 'Technical Education in the City of London' programme, with a cover letter from Charles Robert Rivington, Clerk of the Stationers' Company.
• Note requesting funds for the repair of Daniel Midwinter's tomb, [19th century].
• Timeline of Company constitutional milestones, nd.