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Parties: (1) Stationers' Company (2) Gwiney and Jackson.

(i) invoice for Paul Vaillant as warden, 4 Oct 1768.
(ii) letter from W. B. Vaillant about his ancestor the eighteenth-century master of the Company, Paul Vaillant, 3 Jul 1938.
(iii) printed booklet on the history of the Vaillant family, 1932.

See Myers, entry for Series I. M. 6.

Folder contains:

i: commissioners of the stamp duties notice that printers, publishers and vendors of unstamped almanacks will be prosecuted, 8 Aug 1778.

ii: commissioners of the stamp duties note to the Company requesting that stationers comply with rules concerning binding of almanacks, 13 Aug 1778.

iii: letter to the Company from William Chapman concerning weights of 167 bundles of company paper, 25 Nov 1771.

iv: printed circular from the stamp office concerning the stamping of admission records, 21 Mar 1828.

v: lists of weights of crown paper bundles, examined by W Bayley, 15 Oct and 22 Nov 1771 [2 items].

i: 'Monmouth Routed, and taken Prisoner, With his Pimp the Lord Gray. A Song to the Tune of King James's Jigg', ballad lyrics printed for bookseller James Dean, with a handwritten note by Dean on the back, 11 Jul 1685.

ii: signed enformation of James Dean giving testimony before Roger L'Estrange regarding the ballad 'Monmouth Routed', 11 Jul 1685.

iii: signed oath of Alice Moody and Elizabeth Watson regarding the ballad 'Monmouth Routed', 11 Jul 1685.

iv: Roger L'Estrange, 'Considerations and Proposals in order to the Regulation of the Press: Together with Diverse Instances of Treasonous, and Seditious Pamphlets, Proving the Necessity thereof', [1663].

v: Roger L'Estrange, 'A Seasonable Memorial in some Historical Notes upon the Liberties of the Presse and Pulpit: With the Effects of Popular Petitions, Tumults, Associations, Impostures, and Disaffected Common Councils', 1680.

vi: 'Philopatris' [Charles Blount], 'A Justi Vindication of Learning: Or, An Humble Address to the High Court of Parliament In behalf of the Liberty of the Press', 1679.

vii: [Charles Blount], 'Reasons Humbly offered for the Liberty of Unlicens'd Printing, To which is Subjoin'd, The Just and True Character of Edmund Bohun, The Licenser of the Press', 1693.

viii: 'The Speech of the Lord Chancellor of England, in the Exchequer Chamber, touching the Post-nati', printed for the Stationers' Company 1609. John Rowe of Middle Temple has signed the titlepage.

ix: 'A Letter to a Member of Parliament; Shewing The Necessity of Regulating the Press: Chiefly From Necessity of Publick Establishments in Religion. From the Rights and Immunities of a National Church. And the Trust reposed in the Christian Magistrate to protect and Defend them. With A Particular Answer to the Objections that of late have been Advanced against it', 1699. (cf '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, in TSC/A/01/03/03.

1. form of the certificate of the amount of land tax, and the land upon which it is assessed, 6 Aug 1858.

2. declaration of the desire to redeem land tax, signed by the Company, 6 Aug 1858.

3. certificate of the contract for the redemption of land tax, 7 Aug 1858. Parties: (1) Henry Roberts, esquire, and Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, baronet, Commissioners (2) Stationers' Company.

• Copy of Michael Treadwell, ‘A New List of English Master Printers c.1686’, The Library, 4 (1), pp. 57-61. With extensive 20th century notes on lists of printers in 1693 and list of subscribers to the English Stock, 1692.
• List of printing presses seized by the Stationers, undated (2 copies)
• List of Master Printers, undated

Correspondence, form of requisitioning and compensation form relating to the occupation of Stationers' Hall by a company of the 2nd Battalion, London Rifle Brigade, for the period 10 Sep-23 Oct 1939.

• A Pedigree of the Family of Nichols by John Bowyer Nichols (photocopies).
• A Short History of the House of Nichols, 1699-1939.
• Letter from Dunstone 23 July 1949, reminiscing on time at Nichols printing firm.
• Various pieces of correspondence and notes on the history of the Nichols family and firm (20th century).
• Letters of John Gough Nichols to Samuel Bentley, 1860-1861.
• Letter of John Nichols offering portraits of Steele and Prior, 7 Jan 1800.
• Volume with cuttings, portraits, and letters of the Nichols family.

(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.

Twenty-five printed copies of George Bernard Shaw's will, concerning spelling reform. With correspondence between Shaw and the clerk, R. T. Rivington.