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Parties: (1) Oxford University (2) John Baskett, Samuel Ashurst and Robert Gosling, stationers.

Includes a schedule of books and copies mentioned in the agreement.

Letter from Gordon St P Wells, clerk of the company, giving facts relating to Stationers' and Newspapers Makers' Company Bill; includes enclosures.

Fascimile of edition printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866.

In front endpapers are inserted 2 documents relating to the transfer of shares, 11 Apr 1904 and 6 Dec 1916.

Entries cover 8 Dec 1846-28 Jul 1892; many include date of death; at front of volume are inserted letters and legal documents relating to the transfer of shares, 2 Feb 1896-2 May 1902.

Majority of volume contains stamped receipts of payment of English Stock shares assigned to others in stock partners' and widows' wills, 17 Nov 1785-4 Jan 1800; receipts are signed by or on behalf of executors or probate administrators; will extracts are dated 5 Dec 1785-18 Jul 1801.

Summaries of extracts from records documenting the transfer of English Stock shares from one stock partner or widow to another individual; these records are principally wills and other probate records; volumes 2-6 contain an index of stock partners and widows.

1. extract from a Committee for Painted Windows meeting, [1803].

2. extract from a committee meeting discussing window bills, 24 May 1803.

1. minute of the Committee on the Business of the painted Window to be given by Alderman Cadell, 28 May 1802.

2. minute of a committee discussing painted glass, 29 May [1802].

3. minute of a committee discussing repairs to a window, 8 Jun 1802.

4. minute of a committee discussing Thomas Cadell's window, 7 Sep 1802.

5. draft pencil sketch of a window, undated.

Extracts and copies of wills bequesting monies to the Stationers' Company for charitable use.
Folder contains:

i: extract from will of James Compton, 24 Sep 1858.

ii: extract from will of Jonas Davis, 11 Apr 1827.

iii: extract from will of Richard Johnson, 3 Jan 1795.

iv: extract from will of Alderman Gill, undated, with extract from notice informing the Company of the bequest and photocopies of the will [4 items].

v: draft wills of Henry Mortlock and his widow Elizabeth Mortlock concerning English Stock shares, undated.

vi: typescript transcription of will of John Norton, [21 May 1612].

vii: extract from will of William Strahan, 2 Jul 1784, with receipt for payment of the bequest, 1 Aug 1786, receipt for payment of earlier gift from Strahan, 20 Jul 1774, and pamphlet containing a printed extract from his will [4 items].

viii: extract from will of Richard Welles, 12 Mar 1803.

ix: extract from will of Beata Wilkins, 24 Nov 1773.

x: extracts from will of Alderman Wright, 4 Dec 1798 [2 items].

xi: extract from will of William Bowyer, 30 Jul 1777, with printed list of qualifications prescribed by his will for a candidate of an annuity of £30 per annum to a journeyman compositor.

xii: probate of will of Bartholomew Penny, 1798.

xiii: extract from will of Thomas Holme, 30 Apr 1870.

xiv: extract from will of James Figgins, 19 Dec 1883.

xv: extract from will of Emily Bentham, 1904.

Bundles contain:

xvi: copy will and codicils of Herbert Fitch with assorted documents relating to the administration of the terms of his will, 22 Oct 1936-10 Mar 1943.

xvii: copy will of Charles Edwin Layton, 28 Feb 1908, with assorted documents relating to the administration of the terms of his will, 15 Dec 1927-1 Dec 1940.

Printed pamphlet with extracts from the following wills: William Bowyer (1777), Beata Wilkins (1773), William Strahan (1784), Richard Johnson (1795), Thomas Wright (1794).

Document contains:

pp.1-16: version of the entry on the King's Bench, Coram Rege Roll, for hilary term 36-37 Charles II.

pp. 17-20: copy of the patent to Oxford University of 12 Nov 1632 concerning the University Press.

Includes a letter from the Public Record Office regarding the document contents, 20 May 1969.