Itemised lists of money due and received by the clerk, John Garret, March-July 1685. Items due Garret include: his salary, receiving rent, for the Renter Wardens' book, copy of the order for the presenting a livery, common cryer's fee, the order concerning dealers in books to be translated, copying over the Act of Parliament, stationary expenses, glove money. Items received of Garret include: rent of Bolsworth and Hackett, entering of copies 112 copies. On balancing the accounts, the total due Garret is eight pounds five shillings four pence. Signed in agreement by Warden Cotterell and Garret. Personal names: John Garret, Bolsworth, Hackett, James Cotterell.
Signed receipt of John Relfe, clerk of the House of Lords, in the sum of two pounds ten shillings, 8 March 1686. Above is an authorisation from the Master Henry Herringman to Warden Isted to pay the said Relfe. Personal names: John Relfe, Henry Herringman, Ambrose Isted.
Bill of the Treasurer, Benjamin Tooke for expenses incurred in the service of the Company. The majority of the bill is in reference to Starkey's business. Items include: at a committee at the Swan about Oxford business, various coffee house visits, copies of the petition, waiting on Sir B. Shower, multiple times at the Bell. Received of Warden Parkhurst in the sum of eight pounds twelve shillings. Place names: The Swan, The Bell. Personal names: Benjamin Tooke, Thomas Dring, Sir Bartholomew Shower, Thomas Parkhurst.
Itemised lists of money due and received by the clerk, John Garret, March-July 1685. Items due Garret include: his salary, payment of the King's tax, receiving rent, adding quires of Dutch paper & new binding to Liber A, entering 117 pages out of the Wast Register in the Great Register. Items received of Garret include: Bolsworth's rent, entering 23 copies in the Register. On balancing the accounts, the total due Garret is one pound four shillings four pence. Signed in agreement by Warden Phillipps and Garret. Personal names: John Garret, Edmund Bolsworth, William Phillipps.
Bill of the beadle Nicholas Hooper for expenses incurred in the service of the Company. Items include: writing the bylaws, writing the agreement with St Martin's Ludgate, writing a bond from Mr Grandorge, taking an abstract of several catalogues of books published 1688-1694, transcribing the same catalogue and making copies for the King's Library and University libraries. Received of Warden Phillipps in the sum of seven pounds twelve shillings, 18 June 1694. Place name: St Martin's Ludgate. Personal names: Nicholas Hooper, Christopher Grandorge, William Phillipps.
Bill for a dinner at the Horn Tavern. Items include: bread, beer, ale, wine, dressing and use of linen, pudding, cheese, porter, tobacco, fire, leg and neck of veal, bacon, ducks and fowls, savoys, servants. Signed in receipt on verso by John Carpenter in the sum of four pounds eleven shillings, 12 December 1695. Place name: Horn Tavern. Personal name: John Carpenter.
Undated bill of the beadle Nicholas Hooper in the sum of one pound ten shillings. Items include: two St Cecilia's, the dancing (?), Sr Humphrey Mackworth, the Lady's Invention. Personal names: Nicholas Hooper, Sir Humphrey Mackworth.
Bill of the beadle Nicholas Hooper addressed to Warden Sprint. Items include: staves for the Whifflers, dishes, halfpenny rolls, pipes, match, men warding, new keys, mending keys and locks, paying the scavenger, bread and money for the poor, his salary, oil for the locks, a bolt for the backdoor. Signed in receipt by Hooper in the sum of four pounds two pence, 2 January 1702. Personal names: Nicholas Hooper, Samuel Sprint.
Undated, itemised list of expenses for the Warden of the Company to receive and pay. In the hand of Nicholas Hooper, beadle of the Company 1693-1702. Personal names: Nicholas Hooper, Bolsworth, Hackett, Keetes, Mrs Battersby.
Undated bill for a dinner at the Oxford Arms upon auditing the accounts of the Renter Wardens in the sum of sixteen shillings seven pence. Items include: bread, ale, wine, oil and vinegar, butter and cheese, sugar and lemons. Place name: Oxford Arms.
Undated bill for a dinner at the Horn Tavern in the sum of one pounds eleven shillings six pence. Items include: bread, beer, ale, wine, dressing and use of linen with sprouts, served at bar, for the votes, fire, servant. Signed in receipt by Elizabeth Carpenter. Place name: Horn Tavern. Personal name: Elizabeth Carpenter.
Undated bill for a dinner at the Horn Tavern in the sum of two pounds twelve shillings nine pence. Items include: bread, beer, ale, wine, oil and vinegar, a side of lamb, two sides of fish, eggs, butter, salad, basket woman, dressing for use of linen, oranges, butter again, porter, tobacco, fire, fine, servants. Signed in receipt by John Carpenter. Place name: Horn Tavern. Personal name: John Carpenter.
Itemised account of the clerk Nathaniel Cole. Items include: consulting Mr Ryder's opinion on the power of the Court of Assistants, upon the prosecution against Mr Woodward, upon settling the declaration. Received of Warden Osborn in the sum of fifteen pounds three shillings six pence, 13 July 1732. Personal names: Nathaniel Cole, Ryder, Woodward, Reeves, Franakerly, Strange, John Osborn, Robert Knaplock, Thomas Brewer, Thomas Ward, John Pemberton.
Itemised account of moneys due the clerk John Partridge in the sum of twenty-two pounds seven shillings six pence. Received of William Strahan by Godfrey Kettle for the use of John Partridge. Items include an account of the Company's properties, attending Company business, and a new case of drawers for the Court Room. Personal names: John Partridge, William Strahan, Godfrey Kettle.
A note from Mr Wallis to the clerk, Joseph Baldwin, concerning payment to Brown & Son, 14 May 1778. Personal names: Wallis, Joseph Baldwin.