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Bill for three different types of wine in the sum of five pounds seventeen shillings. Signed in receipt by William Browne, 4 December 1696. Personal name: William Browne.

Receipts of payments of window tax and payments for street lighting.

Material relating to the winding up of the English Stock (mainly 1960).

Papers including copy memoranda, correspondence, legal papers, reports, declarations and voting cards, relating to the passing of The Stationers and Newspaper Makers Company Act 1961. The Act dissolved the English Stock.

Notes of subscription by various booksellers, and by the Master & Wardens of the Stationers' Company, to pay William Lathom a fee for policing unauthorised hawking of books.

William Bowyer (1699-1777) was lauded as ‘the most learned Printer of the Eighteenth Century’. After entering his father’s printing firm in 1722 as a corrector of proofs, he grew the wealth of the business through acquiring lucrative copyrights and patents, such as the rights to print the votes of the House of Commons and the works of Jonathan Swift. He left a significant bequest to the Stationers’ Company, dedicated ‘for the benefit of printing’. Bowyer’s bequest had two key components. Firstly, he left a sum of money to purchase two thousand pounds at three percent. The produce and dividends thereof were to be split between three elderly printers (classed as aged sixty-three and over) chosen by the Company. They would receive payments from this dividend twice a year for the remainder of their lives. Until the marriage of his son, a further six elderly printers would be looked after in this way too. The second major part of the bequest required the purchase of one thousand pounds at three percent for one journeyman compositor. The nominated compositor must regularly attend Church, would not work on newspapers or magazines, read Latin and Greek, be over thirty-one, and preferably have attended a public school with special preference for alumni of the Merchant Taylors’ School. Until such an individual might be found, the Company was permitted to fund a close match. Acknowledging the complex conditions of his bequest, Bowyer left the Company a further 250 pounds and a small silver cup.

Wardens' vouchers for expenses incurred by whifflers, floating outriders manning tug-boats who kept clear the passage of the Company barge during the water procession on Lord Mayor's Day; vouchers consist of receipts for monies paid out by the under warden; many receipts consist of bills with receipt of payment added at a later date.

Folder is split into subfolders by name(s) of recipient(s):

i: John Barrow with Thomas Charlton, Francis Charlton and Will Hill, 11 Nov 1680-25 Jun 1708 [27 items].

ii: Thomas Charlton with Daniel Barrow, 3 Oct 1709-30 Oct 1719 [9 items].

iii: miscellaneous including Randall Taylor, Nicholas Hooper, Elijah George, Bemish Hill, Daniel Morton and Thomas Clay, 18 Nov 1680-4 Mar 1799 [14 items].

iv: Daniel Barrow, 28 Jun 1710-15 Oct 1719 [15 items].

v: Thomas Charlton, 30 Nov 1682-3 Dec 1754; includes stray modern research note into whifflers' expenses [11 items].

Miscellaneous bills for bargemaster's livery, including supplying of blue cloth for caps and coats, belts for the beadle, and for banners. Bills are from:
William Gay, 2 Aug 1680
Jeremy Wright, 8 Nov 1680
James Kniveton (?), 29 Oct 1684
James Smith draper, 15 Oct 1684
John Bateman, 19 Dec 1687
Benjamin Motte, 20 Dec 1688
John Barrow, 6 Oct 1700
John Lathum, 23 Jan 1706
Singleton, 27 Jun 1713
John Overton, 25 Nov 1766

Entries of copies are dated 7 Apr 1687-21 Nov 1695; information given includes name of property owner, name of person/s under whose hand/s the copy is entered, title of work, name of author, amount paid (usually 6d per title) and signature of property owner; there are a few cross references in the margins to entries elsewhere in the volume.

Front cover reads 'The Wast Register booke for entring of Coppies begun the vii th day of Aprill 1687'.

On the inside cover is a pencil note in a 20th century hand: 'These are the Original Entries. Those in the large volume 'Coppies' 1682 are copied in', and beside it in a contemporary hand, 'Jos Younge' and 'Younge'; on reverse of front fly leaf is a note in biro: 'See Court minute of 4 April 1687'.

At the rear of the volume (pages 252-257) are six pages of memoranda principally relating to caveats restricting the entering of specified works, 4 Aug 1684-12 Apr 1695. Memoranda predating the use of this volume for entries of copies appear to have been copied from entries in earlier volumes.

Myers notes: 'The Court ordered, 4 April 1687, that a Wast Entry Book be kept; it ceased to be used after the Licensing Laws Lapsed, 1695.' (Myers:1990, p. 25)

Royal warrant issued to Robert Stephens to apprehend Awnsham Churchill, William Churchill, John Everingham, and John Tottenham regarding the printing and publishing of a book entitled A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crown of England. Personal names: Robert Stephens, Awnsham Churchill, William Churchill, John Everingham, John Tottenham.

Under warden: William Strahan

A contemporary note on the original wrapping states that the vouchers were audited 20 Jul 1774.

Under warden: William Stephens

Under warden: William Phillips