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i: summons for the Company to pay orphan tax to the Chamber of London, owed for binding apprentices, 16 Nov 1751.

ii: lesson or charge given by the Company to their apprentices, [18th century].

iii: form for binding apprentices, [18th century].

iv: covenants of an indenture of apprenticeship, familiarly explained and enforced by scripture, for the use of apprentices in the City of London, [18th century].

v: fragment from the Relief of Orphans Act, 1694, relating to apprentices.

Contains the following Acts and commentaries (mostly print):

• Appendix to A Decree of Starre-Chamber Concerning Printing made the eleventh Day of July last past, 1637

• Act against Unlicensed and Scandalous Books and Pamphlets, and for better Regulating of Printing, 1649

• An act for preventing the frequent abuses in printing seditious, treasonable, and unlicensed books and pamphlets, 1662

• An act for preventing the frequent abuses in printing seditious, treasonable, and unlicensed books and pamphlets, 1685

• An act for the encouragement of learning, by vesting the copies of printed books in the authors or purchasers of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, 1708 (printed 1718)

• An act to amend the law of copyright, 1842

• Stamp Acts, 1757 and 1765

• Restraint against co-printing law books (manuscript, no date)

• A Letter To a Member of Parliament, Shewing, that a Restraint On the Press Is inconsistent with the Protestant Religion, and dangerous to te Liberties of the Nation, 1698 - anonymously authored tract, now variously attributed to Daniel Defoe and Matthew Tindal

• Further Reasons Humbly Offered... for making more effectual... An Act for the Encouragement of Learning - argument advanced on the Stationers' side in the Battle of the Booksellers

• A Bill for making more effectual... An act to enable to commissioners of His Majesty's stamp duties, 1735

• Legal Deposit Act, 1775 (two copies)

• An Act to enable to commissioners of His Majesty's stamp duties to stamp the paper of newspapers, 1794

• An Act for repealing the Duties on Paper, 1794

• An act from granting Samuel Buckley the sole liberty of printing and reprinting the histories of Thuanus, 1733

• Acts for prohibiting the Importation of Books re-printed Abroad, 1739 and 1746

• An Act for the further Encouragement of Learning, 1801

• Copyright Bill, 1881

Ordinance authorised by Heneage Finch (1621-1682), Baron of Daventry and Lord Chancellor from 1675, and Sir Francis North (1637-1685), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1675-1682).

Proved 14 Apr 1773.

Leaves the lease of the Sun Tavern to his nephew John Lodwich, clothworker.

Livery Committee agendas, nominations, Common Hall election papers, copy accounts, correspondence and other papers.

Front of folder reads 'Agendas forms etc.'

Minutes of the Committee respecting the Charities, 29 Dec 1829-25 Sep 1830, and minutes of the Committee respecting the Irish Estate, 29 Mar-17 May 1830, 15 Dec 1832 and 11 Oct 1835, with minutes of a joint meeting of the Stationers', Bakers' and Girdlers' committees, 2 Jun 1830; some minutes incorporate copy letters, reports and other records..

Minutes of 15 Dec 1832 and 11 Oct 1835 are loose sheets of paper inserted into the volume.

Given by John Mylne Rivington.

Property records of the English Stock.

From Series I, Box G.

TO BE COMPLETED

Proposal to share lots in 150 Bridgman's Conveyances and 100 Dalton's Justice. Signed by the following booksellers: A Bettsworth, J Baltey, C Rivington, F Clay, John Knapton, John Osborne, J Stagg, J Worrall.