Undated memorandum concerning getting Mr Edwards out of lockup house Soho.
Queen Elizabeth I's signature. Gift of E. H. Cox, Master, 1916.
History of the Hooper family and its relations with the Stationers' Company, covering the period 1559-1793. Enclosed is a letter addressed to the clerk from Hilda Hooper, 5 Oct 1944, with further research enquiries.
Twenty-five printed copies of George Bernard Shaw's will, concerning spelling reform. With correspondence between Shaw and the clerk, R. T. Rivington.
Engraved portrait of John Day. The engraving itself is dated 1562 but the advertisement for his shop beneath, 1570.
20th century notes on John Day with a short article cutting.
Correspondence of the clerk, Wells, relating to the Luke Hansard portrait. Touches on restoration work and insurance costs for the portrait. Largely with B. M. Bland, Librarian at the University of Southampton, and Professor P. Ford of the University of Southampton.
With engraved portrait and autograph letter of Luke Hansard, 8 Nov 1811. In the letter, Hansard gives notice that he has lately paid twenty guineas to The National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor.
(i) Receipt for two books of statutes, signed by John Baskett and Robert Gosling, 22 Nov 1726. Received of the Earl of Macclesfield. Witnessed by George Parker.
(ii) Marked proof of Statutes at Large, 1 Apr 1734.
(iii) Warrant addressed to the Exchequer to pay John Baskett, the King's Printer, five thousand one hundred eight six pounds nine shillings seven pence for supplying paper, as well as printing acts of parliament, proclamations, speeches and other offices, 12 Apr 1742. With details of purchase from Sotheby's 1985.
A Short but Just Account of the Tryal of Benjamin Harris (Printed in the Year 1679); The Case and Humble Petition of Benjamin Harris; Domestick Intelligence nos. 33 & 38 (London: Printed for Benjamin Harris, 1679); The Leacherous Anabaptist (London: Printed for Benjamin Harris, 1681).
Petition of Benjamin Harris to the Company. Notes that the Company had lately seized sheets of English Liberties from his house, which he claims to have only been selling as wast paper. Asks that his wast paper be damasked for the use of the poor.
Makes oath that the counterfeit primers inherited from the stock of his late father, Benjamin Harris, are the only counterfeit books in his custody, and that he has delivered the said counterfeit primers to the warehouse of the Company of Stationers. Promises to never print or be concerned in the printing of any copies belonging to the Company without their approval. Afadavit made to R. Holford, Master in Chancery.
Report of Charles Rivington, the clerk, to the committee relative to a proposed History of the Company.