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Petitions of John Birkett, Mr Walkden, John Bruce Marton, and Arthur Herbert Blunt for positions within the Company.

A mix of individual documents, including petitions, warrants, applications relating to freedom, printing, and scandalous books.

• Copy of a royal order for the appointment of John Playford, John Bellinger, Robert Scott, Robert Horne, John Baker, and Ambrose Isted to be admitted to the Court of Assistants, 16 June 1681.
• Petition of the Company of Stationers to the King regarding appointment of licensers and limiting numbers of master printers (two copies).
• Order of Court of Aldermen that all apprentices who serve masters of other companies but are printing, binding, or selling books, take their freedom from the Stationers’ Company, 1671.
• Warrant to Mayors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Constables, and other officers to assist the Stationers’ Company in searches, 1685.
• Some remarks about the business of the Stationers’ Company, 1673-1674, particularly relating to prosecutions and private printers.
• Copy of the oath of every freeman of the City of London.
• Application form for City freemen.
• Orders of the Lord Mayor of Aldermen relative to admission of freemen to liver of their companies, 1697.
• Copy of the oath of a freeman of the Company of Stationers.
• Extract from act requiring clerks to return two livery lists Lord Mayor for election purposes, 10 April 1784.
• Petition of the Company of Stationers to the King for the better regulating of printing and printing presses, 1688 (two copies).
• Orders of Court concerning seditious publications, 12 December 1792.
• Notice of Court of Common Council, 17 May 1782.
• Licence to John Henry to engrave, print and publish a map of Virginia, 1768.

Petitions, receipt, letters and other papers relating to charity granted by the Company; most records date from 1690-1851.

Folder contains:

i: court order giving Deborah Billingsley and her husband £5 on receipt of Deborah's petition, 26 Mar 1690.

ii: receipt for 20s to Thomas Dayrell to buy Scotch coal, 9 Oct 1711.

iii: letter from Thomas Wright acknowledging receipt of £5, 20 Jul 1769.

iv: letter from James Bettenham thanking the company for charity, Sep 1765.

v: letter from Elizabeth Foy informing the company that her mother had died, 28 Dec 1767.

vi: letter from John Potter junior expressing hopes of 'further civilities' towards his dying father, 5 Mar 1771.

vii: receipt for 9 shillings to Peter Warne to buy shoes for himself and his father, 23 Feb 1773.

viii: letter from Ann Boots requesting that the company pay £18 due to her brother William Shuckburgh, 18 Apr 1775.

ix: statement of pension list, midsummer 1779.

x: letter from Joseph Tansey originally enclosing a recommendation of Susannah Franks to Bethlem Hospital, 1 Oct 1786.

xi: memorandum regarding petition certificates, 6-10 Oct 1786.

xii: bill and receipt for £4 3s 6d to James Robinson to buy coal and shoes, 22 Jun 1805 [2 items].

xiii: petition of Samuel Norton on behalf of Lambeth Charity School, 22 Dec 1807.

xiv: petition of widow Mary Hall requesting assistance in publishing a work, 22 Jun 1808.

xv: petition of Edward Forster on behalf of the Refuge for the Destitute, Lambeth, requesting financial aid, 2 Nov 1808.

xvi: petition of Richard Corbett, son of late renter warden Sir Charles Corbett, requesting financial assistance, 31 Jul 1809.

xvii: petition of Mary Smith on behalf of Friendly Female Society, requesting financial aid, 21 Oct 1809.

xviii: petition of Thomas Thornton and others on behalf of composer John Whitaker, 10 Jul 1847.

xix: letter from Charles Coleman requesting financial aid to help with cleaning the City of London, 25 Jul 1851.

xx: petition of John Charley for a Bowyer charity pension, undated.

xxi: petition of Samuel Allcroft requesting to be permitted to 'walk as one of the old men on Lord Mayor's Day', undated.

xxii: petition of the governors of London Hospital, requesting financial aid, undated.

xxiii: receipt for £10 to William Beaver Price from the Darby Pension Fund, 1 Apr 1926.

xxiv: receipt for £10 to Annie Drewett from the Darby Pension Fund, 1 Oct 1932.

Petition against new methods of election to Court and governance. See Court Book C, 14 June 1645 (TSC/B/01/01, f 224r - transcript).

Petition of Abell Collier, physician, against the Stationers' Company and Margaret Brereton, relating to the abatement of annuities left by the will of Christopher Meredith pending rebuilding of houses burnt down in the Great Fire.

Copy petition with copy minute of Queen Mary's response of forwarding the petition to John, Archibishop of Canterbury, for inquiry and report.

i: copy of the petition of Thomas Carnan and notes on the case, with a slip of paper by clerk Mr Baldwin stating that Mr Mansfield is to attend the House on the second reading of the bill on behalf of the company if it is found necessary.

ii: petition of Thomas Carnan to the House of Commons, 29 Apr 1779 [2 items].

iii: notice of Chancery stating that the company must deliver to the judges of the Court of Common Pleas a certificate of approbation of the case or the company's injunction will stand dissolved, 26 Apr 1774.

iv: printed copies of Carnan's petition, 26 Oct 1776 [3 items].

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

Petition of Sir James Scarlett, His Majesty's Attorney-General, in Chancery. Copy.

Inserted is a covering letter, 12 Dec 1829.

Petition of Sarah Smith for aid from the Company. She notes that business is poor, her eyesight is failing, and she is 65 years old. [undated]

Petition of printers John Mayo, Symond Hinch and John Palmer to the Company, with attached particulars of items they had purchased to enable them to undertake work in the event of unemployment; the petition requests the return of the items or compensation for the costs.

Petition of Mary Ann Booth for aid following the death of her husband on 19 March 1850. George Booth, deceased, had been a recipient of a pension from the Company. Mary Ann, aged 63 with a dislocated hand and wrist, asks that the pension payment due her husband is afforded to her 'in consideration of my helplessness'.