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Memorandum regarding the history of the English Stock and stating the rights of the stockholder.

Memorandum by Treasurer William Penman concerning the English Stock.

Copies of assorted records concerning the Company, including precepts of the Lord Mayor of London, Acts of Common Council, minutes of the Court of Assistants, Orders of the House of Lords and the House of Commons, Orders of the Star Chamber, petitions, letters, extracts from wills, receipts, lists of subsidies, bills of assessment, warrants, agreements and opinions on cases.

Spine reads 'Orders of Parliamt & Ld. Mayor Liber A'.

Inserted into front endpapers are 4 documents:

1. undated typescript information card reading 'Liber A containing, inter alia, the Company's donation towards the foundation of the colony of Virginia, 1609', with manuscript addition 'do not film this'.

2. undated manuscript note reading 'Names of Licensees for printing various classes of Books 1643', with addition 'do not film this'.

3. pamphlet dated 1902 titled 'Index to Liber A of the Records of the Worshipful Company of Stationers'.

4. first page of undated typewritten account titled 'The Importance of Liber 'A'', author unknown.

Records copied into volume include:

folio 81r: 'The Copy of the receipte under Sir Thomas Smithes hand for the Comp[a]nies adventure into Virginia', 28 Apr 1609; receipt is for £125.

folio 81r: bill of adventure for the Company's excursion into Virginia, 10 May 1609, and list of contributors to the above £125 donation.

At rear of volume are copy Cases and Opinions:

folios 186r-187v: 'The Case betwixt the Printers of London and the Printers of Cambridge'; opinion given by anonymous lawyers, date unknown.

folios 188r-189v: Case regarding the importation of books; opinion given by P Yorke, 2 Oct 1731.

folios 189v-191r: Case regarding the question of whether, as all the Feoffees of the Company's real estates were dead, 'it were better to continue these Estates in Feoffees or to take a Conveyance from the Heirs or Devisees of the surviving Feoffee immediately to the Company'; opinions given by Serjeant Glynn, 17 Jan 1771 and 25 Apr 1771, and William Rivet, 14 May 1771.

folios 191r-193r: 'Case upon the exclusive Right of the Company of Stationers to Primers Psalters Almanacks etc. under their Grant from King James the first'; opinions given by Sir William Jones and Sir Creswell Levings, 1 and 4 Nov 1679, and Henry Trinder, 29 May 1681; case is copied from Court Book E, folio 122.

folios 193r-195v: Case regarding the publication of several memorandum books or pocket books, thought to infringe upon the Company's exclusive right to print these; opinion given by George Hill, Sep 1771.

Memorandum on two houses in Stationers' Alley, made upon the occasion of the houses being let to Silvanus Hall on a building lease for 61 years from Michaelmas 1770.

By Robert Whitledge.

Petition of the School for the Indigent Blind (founded 1799) in St George's Fields for aid and patronage from the Company of Stationers.

Orders of service for memorial services for Stationers' Company's School and various individuals.
Services include:

4 Mar 1922: the unveiling of a Stationers' Company's School war memorial. Inserted in the order of service is a press cutting of the event.

19 Oct 1947: old boys of the Stationers' Company School killed in the Second World War.

21 Mar 1980: James Charles Moran.

20 Nov 1980: Harold Hunter.

10 Dec 1980: Ian McNaghten Parsons.

10 Feb 1987: Harold Macmillan.

6 Jul 1994: Aylmer Ingram Lenton.

1 Dec 2003: Sir Edward Pickering.

[2013]: Peter Cox.

19 Nov 2014: Jonathan Straker.

30 Jan 2015: Vernon Fitzmaurice Sullivan.

18 Dec 2018: Christopher Thurston Rivington

Also included is the sermon preached at a memorial service for Company members and old boys of Stationers' Company School who died in the First World War.

Colour photograph of memorial plaque to Edgar Wallace (author and founder member of the Newspaper Makers’ Company, 1875-1932), on wall of Abbey National Building Society in Ludgate Circus. Photograph taken 1982 to mark 50th anniversary of Wallace’s death.

Colour photograph of memorial plaque to Edgar Wallace (author and founder member of the Newspaper Makers’ Company, 1875-1932), on wall of Abbey National Building Society in Ludgate Circus. Photograph taken 1982 to mark 50th anniversary of Wallace’s death.

Colour photograph. Memorial to John Martin (died 1680; Under Warden of the Stationers’ Company 1678), in the Chapel of St Faith’s, St Paul’s Cathedral. Photograph taken March 1982.

Colour photograph. Close up of the inscription on the memorial for John Martin (died 1680; Under Warden of the Stationers’ Company 1678), in the Chapel of St Faith’s, St Paul’s Cathedral. Photograph taken March 1982.

Colour photograph. Close up of detail on memorial to John Martin (died 1680; Under Warden of the Stationers’ Company 1678), in the Chapel of St Faith’s, St Paul’s Cathedral. Photograph taken March 1982.

Colour photograph. Memorial to John Martin (died 1680; Under Warden of the Stationers’ Company 1678), in the Chapel of St Faith’s, St Paul’s Cathedral. Photograph taken March 1982.