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i. Report upon certain rent charges payable by the Stationers' Company and the proposal for their redemption.
ii. Draft letter to the Charity Commissioners of England and Wales.
iii. Acknowledgement of receipt of accounts for the year 1892 from the Charity Commission.

i: Mr Walkden's calculations on numbers of freemen admitted to the livery, 1766-1800.

ii: further calculations on numbers of freemen admitted to the livery, possibly by Mr Walkden, 1856-1801.

iii: petition of Thomas Poynder junior to the Company, requesting to be cloathed despite not belonging to a trade of the guild, 7 Jul 1801.

iv: petition of Philip Pearce to the Company, requesting to be cloathed despite not belonging to a trade of the guild, 14 Apr 1801.

v: letter from William Lane to the Company, sponsoring his apprentice Anthony King Newman to be admitted to the freedom and livery, Feb 1801.

vi: letter from Robert Wilks to the Company, requesting translation from the Glovers' Company to the Stationers' Company, 3 Feb 1801.

vii: broadsheet livery list, 1744, with later annotations relating to numbers of liverymen who had since died, 1 Jan 1764-1 Oct 1777.

viii: fragment of fining accounts, 25 Jul 1675-5 Dec 1676.

ix: list of liverymen in Nicolas Hooper's hand, undated [c.1692].

Correspondence, bill for work undertaken by Clerk R T Rivington, draft ground plan and notes.

Folder is divided into subfolders:

i: certification that George Tokefield has a pensioner's place at Charterhouse, 3 May 1681, with receipt for charity payment signed by George Tokefield, 4 May 1681; also included is an exhibition caption for the item and a note giving the title of George Tokefield's catalogue of books entered into the Company registers, printed 1663 and now at the Bodleian Library [3 items].

ii: letters and other documents relating to relief of suffering of French clerical refugees, 19 Oct 1792-4 Jun 1793 [4 items]. Includes the application of the United Committees of Subscribers for the Relief of the suffering clergy of France, requesting the donation of the Stationers' Company; Letter from Mr Bacon requesting the use of Stationers' Hall for the anniversary dinner of the sons of the clergy in May 1793; Letter from the parish officers of St Martin's Ludgate requesting the assistance of the Stationers' Company towards the relief of the French refugee clergy.

iii: letter of sheriffs respecting subscription to the fund for relieving poor freemen, 19 Oct 1809.

Wardens' vouchers, menus, invitation replies and other records relating to Company and City of London dinners and other festivities.

TO BE COMPLETED

i: request by John Patison to enter William McEwen's Essays Doctrinal and Practical, 2 Jun 1767.

ii: notice of publication of Advice to young Gentlemen in the Several conditions of life by way of address from a Father to his Children by the Abbot Goussault Counsellor in Parliament; with his Sentiments and maxims upon what passes in civil society, undated.

iii: request by Jane Kettlewell to enter The Practical Believer, Christian Prudence, The Doctrine of the Cross and The Companion to the Penitent and Persecuted, 30 Oct 1699

iv: manuscript title page for Josiah Burchit's Memoires of Transactions at Sea during the Warr with France, 1703.

v: printed letter from John Snow to the livery regarding fees for entering copies since the 1842 Copyright Act, Dec 1877.

vi: request by John Gray to enter The Assembly's Shorter Catechism Explained, 16 Jan 1772.

vii: extract minute of the committee of directors of the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge in Scotland, 3 May 1770.

viii: letter from John Ven requesting a full extract of the entry of his father-in-law Ralph Erskine's works and advice on his exclusive right to print these works, 7 Sep 1769.

ix: letter from Thomas Carnan confirming that Juvenile Trials and Patersons Travelling Dictionary were to be entered as his sole property, and that the Dictionary of the World was the property of Stanley Crowder, Benjamin Collins, Mr Carnan and Mr Newbery, 20 Dec 1771, with a note requesting to know what shares each of the latter had in the Dictionary of the World, undated [2 items].

x: manuscript summons to Joseph Greenhill requiring him to produce information on the Dictionary of Natural History, The Jacobite Songs and Ballads of Scotland and Sabbath Bells Chimed by the Poets to the Guildhall Police Court, Jul 1861.

xi: statement that Regula Accentum & Spiritum Gracorum cum Observationibus utilissimus, Gracorum Dialiecti Postica cum Regulis Profodia and Eradita Pronuntiationis Catholici Indices were to be entered, 1 Oct 1700.

xii: certificates of entry of One Hundred Years of Book Auctions, issued to celebrate the centenary of Hodgson & Co in 1907, 2-3 Jun 1908.

i: notes on elections of the Master and Wardens, 1611-1679.

ii: notes on byelaws relating to the office of Clerk, 19th century.

iii: notice of election of the Beadle, 3 Mar 1869.

iv: report of a committee on hall keeper's duty and salary etc, 14 Mar 1800.

v: report of the committee to consider of the proper duty of the Beadle, 28 Feb 1787.

vi: letter from Clerk Henry Rivington concerning elections of renter wardens, 22 Apr.

vii: cuttings of City Press notices relating to the Company, including livery summonses and advertisements for the posts of Beadle and school headmaster, 21 Jun 1869-7 Aug 1890.

Records gathered by Sidney Hodgson and used for the production of the publication 'The State Barges of The Stationers' Company 1680-1850'.

From Series I, Box K.

Papers regarding the production of the company book 'The State Barges of the Stationers' Company: 1680-1850', published 1972; box also contains two folders relating to a court re-enactment of the company river journey to Richmond.

At a meeting of the Master and Wardens Committee on 30 Sep 1969 the master reported an enquiry from Leonard Kenyon concerning the history of the company's barge, and it was agreed that a committee be appointed to examine the records and collate notes upon the history of the barge. The members chosen to serve on this committee were Leonard Kenyon (chairman), Sidney Hodgson, Guy Virtue and Christopher Rivington.

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Summonses, reports and minutes of committees relating to the Company barge.

Folder is split into several subfolders:

i: committee membership list by order of 26 Mar 1789.

ii: summons to a committee meeting, 13 May.

iii: summons to attend a meeting of the committee upon the repair of the barge and fire engine, 25 Feb 1785.

iv: summons to a committee meeting, 30 Mar 1789.

v: agreement between the committee and William Powell regarding proposals for painting the barge, 11 Jul 1766.

vi: draft report of the committee regarding expenses, 7 Mar 1789.

vii: minutes of meetings, 30 Mar and 4 Apr 1789.

viii: committee report on expenses of a new barge, 7 Apr 1789.

ix: minutes of meetings of the barge and fire engine committee, 11, 18 and 25 Feb 1785.

x: minutes of a meeting of the committee respecting the office of Barge Master, 4 Sep 1832.

xi: minutes on laying down the barge, 11, 18 and 25 Feb 1785.

xii: committee report on expenses of a new barge, 15 Jun 1789, with inserted document giving numbers of relevant court book pages [2 items].

Folder also includes two letters from H K Stewell to R T Rivington stating a historical enquiry concerning the Company barge, 29 Jan-7 Feb 1930.

Livery Committee and Common Hall draft minutes, agendas, correspondence, copy accounts, reports, annotated draft notes on the Livery Committee and other papers.

Draft minutes of the Livery Committee and Sub-Committee meetings, agendas, correspondence, proposals, attendance lists, memoranda, copy accounts and Social Sub-Committee report.

Draft Livery Committee and Common Hall minutes, agendas, correspondence, Social Sub-Committee reports, proposals, attendance lists, memoranda, copy accounts and other administrative papers.