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Correspondence of Henry Rivington (1797-1802) and C.R. Rivington (1873, 1888)

Letters from Edward Arber to C. R. Rivington with documents relating to subscriptions to Arber's transcription of the Company Registers and a list of documents in the archive.

Copy letters patent permitting the change of name of the Company from Stationers' Company to Stationers' and Newspaper Makers' Company.

Memorandum of advice given by E Blain, QC and L A Wolfe.

Letters patent issued in response to a petition requesting that the name of the Company be changed in order to reflect the large influx of members from the Newspaper Makers' Company, a livery company whose Charter of Incorporation had been granted 19 Jul 1935 and surrendered 25 Oct 1935.

Parties: (1) George VI (2) Sidney John Sandle, Sir John William Baddeley, Lord Iliffe and members of the Court of Assistants.

Substantive clauses are as follows:

(a) The Mistery or Art of a Stationer of the City of London shall hereafter be called the Mistery or Art of a Stationer and Newspaper Maker of the City of London and shall under that name enjoy, possess and exercise such rights, franchises, privileges and obligations as are on the date of these Presents appurtenant by law and of right to the Masters and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the Mistery or Art of a Stationer of the City of London.

(b) The King licenses, authorises and enables the Company, or any person on its behalf, to acquire any lands tenements or hereditaments whatsoever within the United Kingdom (such lands, tenements or hereditaments not exceeding at any time in annual value calculated as at the times of acquisition thereof respectively the sum of £10,000) and to hold all or any lands which the said Company is hereby authorised to acquire in perpetuity or in lease or otherwise and from time to time to grant, demise, alienate or otherwise dispose of the same or any part thereof.

Sealed with the Great Seal.

Licence to print school books for 31 years from 1663.

Licence to print school books for 41 years from 1691.

Draft.

Parties: (1) Charles II (2) Stationers' Company.

Substantive clauses are as follows:

(a) For the encouragement of the Company, and out of Royal Charity for the poor of the Company, all forfeitures or penalties that become due to the King by reason of offences against the 'Act for preventing the frequent abuses in printing seditious treasonable and unlicensed books and pamphlets and for regulating of Printing and Printing Presses', or against any other Act concerning printing, shall be bestowed and employed towards the support and relief of the poor of the Company.

(b) Justices of the Courts of the King's Bench and Common Pleas, and the Barons of the Exchequer, are authorised to grant process to the Company upon its request for the levying of such penalties and forfeitures (which they shall retain to the uses aforesaid) without estreating the same into the Court of Exchequer.

(c) For the accomplishment of the Royal Bounty aforesaid the High Treasurer, Commissioner of the Treasury, Chancellor, Under Treasurer and other offices of the Exchequer are authorised and appointed that if any penalties or forfeiture due upon any offence committed against the said Act of Parliament or other Acts concerning printing shall be recovered or estreated into the Court of Exchequer and levied, they cause the same to be issued out, paid and delivered to the Company for the relief of its poor.

i: letter from Cambridge vice-chancellor William Richardson regarding rent of 500 pounds due, 12 Jan 1770

ii: letter from Cambridge vice-chancellor James Brown to George Hawkins stating that a bill for rent of 500 pounds has been sent to the company, 15 May 1772.

Folder contains:

i: account of numbers of almanacks given to important people, 26 Dec 1678-1 Jan 1679.

ii: letter from Thomas Vaughan to Mr Hawkins concerning a prize of 10 ladies' diaries, 9 Jan 1759.

iii: letter from Edward Pass to Mr Hett concerning delivery of 20,000 Wing's sheet almanacks, 28 Jun 1762.

iv: letter from John Potter concerning payment for almanacks, 25 Feb 1771.

v: letter from Henry Hughes requesting permission to print almanacks following the death of his father, 11 Nov 1771.

vi: letter from S Crowden to Mr Hawkins concerning the company's refusal to take county drawn bills for almanacks, 13 Jan 1772.

vii: letter from Mr Newbery to Mr Hawkins requesting almanacks for ready money, 14 Nov 1772.

viii: letter from Thomas Parker to the Company requesting permission to print almanacks following the death of his mother, 9 Dec 1772.

ix: letter from Thomas Jackson to the Company concerning his wish to produce an almanack, giving qualifications, 25 Jan 1773.

x: letter from C Etherington to Mr Hawkins concerning an almanack advertisement in the York Chronicle, 25 Oct 1775.

xi: letter from Thomas Wright concerning receipt for compiling the Seasons Almanack, with receipt added at end, 8-12 Jun 1775.

xii: letter from William Cuttwell to George Hawkins concerning terms for sale of almanacks, 28 Oct 1775.

xiii: letter from W Bowyer and J Nichols to the Master, wardens and stock keepers, requesting permission to continue printing the title sheet of Moore's Almanack, 9 Feb 1774.

xiv: letter from Thomas Field to the Master, wardens and stock keepers stating that he has not deviated from his contract to supply the company with paper for almanacks, 8 Mar 1779.

xv: letter from John Knowles to George Hawkins ordering delivery of Ladies' Diaries, 21 Nov.

xvi: letter from Edward Rollington to the Company complaining that widow Simpson threatens to take away care of the Ladies' Diary from him, undated.

xvii: printed list of counties and their abbreviations, undated. [MISSING]

Folder also includes a letter from Charles Jacobi to R T Rivington concerning Francis Moore and sheet almanacks for 1924, 23 May 1924.

Folder contains:

i: correspondence between A Llewellyn Roberts and C R Rivington regarding editorships of almanacks, 8 Jan 1886 and 23 Nov 1893 [2 items].

ii: letter from John Saddler to C R Rivington agreeing to terms for making a plate for the company almanack, 11 Jun 1884.

iii: letter from anonymous correspondent to his brother concerning delivery of almanacks, 6 Feb 1758.

i: letter from Susan Pother to Mr Stephens concerning accusation of theft of a kitchen rack from Stationers' Hall, 12 Oct 1715.

ii: letter from Joseph Baldwin to Mr Bacon offering use of the hall to the stewards of the Sons of the Clergy, 6 Feb 1793.

iii: fragment concerning repairs to the kitchen, undated.

iv: letter concerning an addition to Mr Tagg's premises, 25 Sep 1794.

i: copy letter to John Reid from Simpkin Marshall and Co. regarding deprivation of light and air at 33 Ludgate Street, 3 May 1859, with copies of John Reid's reply and receipt for 150 pounds, 3 May 1859.

ii: letter from I Saddler regarding proofs and drawings of Eaton Hall and other buildings for Mr O'Connor, 15 Jun 1885.

iii: letter from Henry Dawson to C R Rivington regarding 2 Stationers' Hall Court, 18 Apr 1899.

iv: letter from Henry Dawson and Son to C R Rivington regarding the Oxford and Cambridge Press buildings at Stationers' Hall Court, 7 Feb 1905.

v: letter from the city surveyor to C R Rivington regarding Sessions House, 14 Mar 1907.

vi: fragment of plan with Stationers' Hall and surrounding buildings highlighted, undated.

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.

Minutes, correspondence and discussion papers re the future of the Archive. Includes statements of financial activities of the Library Trust Fund.