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Receipt for four score dozen of penny cakes delivered to the Company for Ash Wednesday by Martha Averly. Signed in receipt by Grace Tatersall (?). Personal names: Martha Averly, Grace Tatersall.

Bill of Frances(?) Knowles in the sum of one pound six shillings for works done for the Company. Items include timber costs and carpenter work. Signed in receipt by Knowles, 30 June 1696. Personal names: Frances Knowles.

Receipt of William Whitfeld in the sum of one pound fifteen shillings due the rector of St Martin's Ludgate for Stationers' Hall. Place names: St Martin's Ludgate, Stationers' Hall. Personal name: William Whitfeld.

Bill for a meal in the sum of five pounds two shillings six pence. Items include: bread, beer, ale, wine, lemons and oranges, dressing of beans & bacon, dressing the pig, dressing the fowls, cheese, tobacco, and servants. Signed in receipt by Josiah Clifton, 1 July 1696. Personal name: Josiah Clifton.

Bill of the beadle, Nicholas Hooper, in the sum of six pounds eleven shillings nine pence, for expenses incurred March-May 1696. Items include: faggots, payment of soldiers, a letter sent to Warden Rawlins, six reames sent to Bull Wharf, payments to the poor, glove money, his salary and payment for extraordinary service to the Company. Place name: Bull Wharf. Personal names: Nicholas Hooper, William Rawlins. Signed in receipt by Hooper, 3 July 1696.

Receipt of Richard Simpson in the sum of five shillings for paper, binding, and ruling the index to the Court Book. Personal name: Richard Simpson.

Bill of John Lilly in the sum of five pounds eighteen shillings two pence. Items include: drawing the answer to Mrs Mill's Bill, engrossing of it, King's duty, paid Mr Filiaer's (?) fee, Lilly's fee. Signed in receipt by Lilly, 15 July 1696. Personal names: John Lilly, Mrs Mill, Mr Filiaer.

The painter's bill for work done at Stationers' Hall. Signed in receipt by William King in the sum of nineteen shillings, 11 February 1696. Place name: Stationers' Hall. Personal name: William King.

Bill of Robert Watson, glazier, for works done at Stationers' Hall. Signed in receipt by Watson in the sum of one pound fifteen shillings, 12 August 1696. Place name: Stationers' Hall. Personal name: Robert Watson.

Bill of the beadle, Nicholas Hooper, in the sum of three pounds eighteen shillings six pence. Items include: copies of Acts of Parliament, reasons against the Act, and copies of the committee. Three further expenses added below: going twice to Mr Osway (?), gathering in the books, attendance at the warehouse when the Treasurer was at Oxford seven days. Signed in receipt by Hooper, 22 January 1696. Place name: Oxford. Personal names: Nicholas Hooper, Mr Osway.

Bill of the beadle, Nicholas Hooper, in the sum of three pounds eleven shillings nine pence. Items include: faggots, candles, letter sent to Mr Williams in Kentish Town, payment for soldiers, powder, two letters sent to Warden Rawlins, travelling to and from Westminster, payments to the poor, his salary. Signed in receipt by Hooper, 7 April 1695. Place names: Kentish Town, Westminster. Personal names: Nicholas Hooper, William Rawlins, Mr Williams.

Receipt of John Relfe for the following books: Account of Denmark, Account of Sweden, Grammar with Const, Greek Grammar, Greek Testament. Received of Mr Mortlarke (Mortlack) as a gratuity for business done for the Company. Verso is a receipt for ten pounds paid to Mr Henry Mortlack for transcribing the reasons that Mr Clark gave against passing the Printing Act. Personal names: John Relfe, Henry Mortlack, Mr Clark.

Under warden: John Richardson. Some of the items have been numbered in a contemporary hand.

Receipt of Henry Barney in the sum of fifteen pounds ten shillings for pantiles covering Stationers' Hall, 22 August 1696. Place name: Stationers' Hall. Personal name: Henry Barney.

Receipt of Samuel Tebbatt and John King, collectors, for tax payment on Stationers' Hall in the sum of five shillings, 1 September 1696. Place name: Stationers' Hall. Personal names: Samuel Tebbatt, John King.