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Entries of copies are dated 2 Mar 1657-24 Jan 1683; 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 and amount paid (usually 6d per title); there are very few cross references in the margins to entries elsewhere in the volume.

Front cover reads 'A Register Booke of Coppies Begining March 1656 [new calendar 1657] & Ending January 1682'. [new calendar 1683]

At the top of the first page is written 'The Register of Copies. Mr Robert Meade, Master. Mr Humphrey Robinson, Mr Richard Thrale, Wardens. Anno domini 1656. Liber F' (new Masters and Wardens are named periodically through the volume).

On the final page is a list of five memoranda relating to caveats restricting the entering of specified works, 5 Sep 1675-8 Dec 1682. The list is not in chronological order. At the foot of this page titles have been written upside down that suggest the volume was intended for another use, possibly as a register of shares.

Significant entries of copies include:

page 42: William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, transferred from Bridget Hayes and Jane Graisby to William Leake, 17 Oct 1657.

page 96: Ben Jonson's Works volume 3 containing Fifteen Masques at Court and elsewhere, Horace's Poetry, English Grammar, Timber or Discoveries, Underwoods, The Magnetic Lady, A Tale of a Tub, The Sad Shepherd or A Tale of Robin Hood, and The Devil is an Ass, entered for Thomas Walkley, 17 Sep 1658.

page 107: Ben Jonson's Works volume 3 containing Fifteen Masques at Court and elsewhere, Horace's Poetry, English Grammar, Timber or Discoveries, Underwoods, The Magnetic Lady, A Tale of a Tub, The Sad Shepherd or A Tale of Robin Hood, and The Devil is an Ass, transferred from Thomas Walkley to Humphrey Moseley, 20 Nov 1658.

page 114:

, entered for Henry Herringman, 20 Jan 1659.

page 119: John Milton's A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes, entered for Thomas Newcomb, 15 Feb 1659.

page 193: Beaumont and Fletcher's The False One, The Nice Valour or The Passionate Madman, Wit at Several Weapons, The Fair Maid of the Inn and The Masque of the Gentlemen of Grays Inn and the Inner Temple, entered for Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley, 29 Jun 1660.

page 196: Beaumont and Fletcher's The Faithful Friends, and A Right Woman; also The History of King Stephen, Duke Humphrey, a Tragedy, and Iphis and Iantha or A Marriage Without a Man' by William Shakespeare', entered for Humphrey Moseley, 29 Jun 1660.

page 287: John Dryden's The Rival Ladies, entered for Henry Herringman, 27 Jun 1664.

page 302: John Dryden's The Indian Emperor, entered for Henry Herringman, 26 May 1665.

page 330: John Dryden's Annus Mirabilis, entered for Henry Herringman, 21 Jan 1667.

page 336: John Dryden's An Essay of Dramatick Poesie, The Wild Gallant and The Maiden Queen, entered for Henry Herringman, 7 Aug 1667.

page 336: Ben Jonson's Works volume 3 containing Fifteen Masques at Court and elsewhere, Horace's Poetry, English Grammar, Timber or Discoveries, Underwoods, The Magnetic Lady, A Tale of a Tub, The Sad Shepherd or A Tale of Robin Hood, Mortimer's Fall, The Devil is an Ass, and The Widow, transferred from Ann Moseley, widow of Humphrey Moseley, to Henry Herringman, 19 Aug 1667.

page 337: John Milton's Paradise Lost, in ten books, entered for Samuel Symons, 20 Aug 1667.

page 356: John Dryden's Tyrannick Love, or the Royal Martyr, entered for Henry Herringman, 14 Jul 1669.

page 369: John Milton's Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, entered for John Starkey, 10 Sep 1670.

page 378: John Dryden's Almanzor and Almahide or the First and Second Part of the Conquest of Granada, entered for 25 Feb 1671.

page 413-416: Fletcher and Beaumont's The Mad Lover, The Wild Goose Chase, The Little French Lawyer, The Loyal Subject, The Spanish Curate, The Custom of the Country, The Double Marriage, A Wife for a Month, The Island Princess, The Pilgrim, The Laws of Candy, The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tamed, The Knights of Malta, The Captain, The Noble Enemy or The Humorous Lieutenant, Women Pleased, The Tragedy of Bonduca, The Chances, The Sea Voyage, The Maid in the Mill, The Queen of Corinth, The Coxcomb, The Noble Gentleman, The Beggar's Bush, The Honest Man's Fortune, The Martial Maid, The Tragedy of Valentinian, The Prophetess, Love's Pilgrimage and The Lover's Progress, transferred from Humphrey Robinson to John Martin and Henry Herringman, 30 Jan 1673.

page 417: John Dryden's The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery, entered for Henry Herringman, 18 Mar 1673.

page 418: John Dryden's Amorous Adventures, or Marriage a la Mode, entered for Henry Herringman, 18 Mar 1673.

page 423: John Dryden's Amboyna, or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants, entered for Henry Herringman, 26 Jun 1673.

page 458: [William Shakespeare's] Henry V, Sir John Oldcastle, Titus Andronicus, Eurialus and Lucetia, 'Yorke and Lancaster' (Henry VI parts 2 and 3), Agincourt, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Hamlet, A Yorkshire Tragedy, The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, All's Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, Winter's Tale, Henry VI part 3, Henry VIII, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Cymbeline, transferred from Elianor Cotes, widow of Richard Cotes, to John Martin and Henry Herringman, 6 Aug 1674.

page 499: John Dryden's Aureng Zebe, or the Great Mogul, entered for Henry Herringman, 29 Nov 1675.

page 535: Aphra Behn's The Rover, or the Banished Cavalier, entered for John Amery, 7 Jul 1677.

page 547: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come, entered for Nath. Ponder, 22 Dec 1677.

page 557: John Dryden's All for Love, or the World Well Lost, entered for Master Herringman, 31 Jan 1678.

page 598: John Dryden's Truth Found Too Late, entered for Jacob Tonson and Abel Swall, 14 Apr 1679.

page 602: John Dryden's The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy, entered for Jacob Tonson and Abel Swall, 18 Jun 1679.

There are two series of entries of copies in this volume. Much of the volume is unused. The main series of entries of copies is dated 29 Jan 1683-12 Feb 1696; information given includes name of property owner, title of work, name of author, and amount paid (usually 6d per title); entries include name of person/s under whose hand/s the copy is entered, and from 27 Feb 1683 for a period of about a year the name of a witness (mostly Martin Newton, occasionally John Walston or William Scoresby) is usually given (see description below of new method of entry on page 8); from 27 Feb 1683 to 31 Mar 1687 a signature is present for each entry, often but not always that of the property owner; from 7 Apr 1687 the entries in Liber G were copied from the draft register of entries of copies (see TSC/E/07) and the draft register contains the original signatures; there are very few cross references in the margins to entries elsewhere in the volume.

Spine reads, handwritten, 'Book of Entry of Coppies from 1682 [new calendar 1683] to 1695'. [new calendar 1696]

At the top of the first page is written 'The Register of Copies. Mr Samuel Mearn, Mr Francis Tyton, Mr Henry Hills, Wardens'.

The second series of entries of copies is dated 10-29 Apr 1710, and is found towards the end of the volume, entered upside down, comprising 23 unnumbered pages; at the top of the first page of this series of entries is written 'Anno domini 1710 Captain William Phillips, Master. Mr Thomas Hodgkin, Mr John Baskett, Wardens'; information given includes name of property owner, title of work, name of author, and amount paid (usually 6d per title); the property owner often signs the entry. An insert in this section is a sheet of paper with the text of an entry of 19 Apr 1710, from which the entry may have been made, or may be a copy of the entry.

A pencil note on the front fly leaf reads 'The 14 leaves at end should be extracted and put with the 1710-46 vol'.

On page 8 a new method of entry is recorded: 'Stationers Hall. A New Meathod of Entry of Bookes Pursuant to a By Law of this Company made & Ordained at a Comon Hall the 6 day of Decem 1682 and approved, confirmed and ratifyed by the Right Honorable Sir Francis North, knight, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England, Sir Edmund Saunders, knight, Lord Cheife Justice of His Majesties Court of Kings Bench, & Sir Francis Pemberton, knight, Lord Cheife Justice of His Majesties Court of Comon Pleas at Westminster by Deed under their hands & Seales the 10th day of February 1682, begun the 27th of February 1682'.

On the final page of the volume is a list of five entries of caveats (a sixth dated 10 Aug 1687 is scored out) restricting the entering of specified works, 4 Aug 1684-9 Aug 1687. The list is in chronological order and at the foot of the page is written, 'This was don by me the 27th March 1689. Witnesse my hand Hugh Ryder'.

An insert at pages 188-189 is a note in a later hand of page 8 'New Method of Entry' and page 20 'John Kigdale a whole Duty of Man'.

[Myers states 'Includes entries for 4 Apr 1684 to 12 Jan 1686 (7 ff) - I can't see what she is referring to, unless mistakenly to the final page of the volume]

Significant entries of copies include:

page 34: William Shakespeare's Hamlet entered for Robert Everingham, with a note, 'This book is to be printed by me for Richard Bentley, he not being free of the Company it is entred in my name in trust for him. RE'. A memorandum in the margin notes that 'a moyetie of this coppy belongs to Mr Henry Herringman. Witnesse John Garrett Ck [Clerk] this 19th Dec 1683, & was the whole entred to Mr Everingham by mistake', 19 May 1683.

page 58: John Milton's Paradise Lost, in twelve books, entered for Brabazon Aylmer, 24 Jul 1683, after being assigned to Brabazon Aylmer by Samuel Simons, 27 Oct 1680.

pages 63-73: Beaumont and Fletcher's The Mad Lover, The Wild Goose Chase, The Little French Lawyer, The Loyal Subject, The Spanish Curate, The Custom of the Country, The Double Marriage, A Wife for a Month, The Island Princess, The Pilgrim, The Laws of Candy, The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tamed, The Knights of Malta, The Captain, The Noble Enemy or The Humorous Lieutenant, Women Pleased, The Tragedy of Bonduca, The Chances, The Sea Voyage, The Maid in the Mill, The Queen of Corinth, The Coxcomb, The Noble Gentleman, The Beggar's Bush, The Honest Man's Fortune, The Martial Maid, The Tragedy of Valentinian, The Prophetess, Love's Pilgrimage and four plays or moral representations; also William Shakespeare's Henry V, Sir John Oldcastle, Titus Andronicus, Eurialus and Lucetia, 'Yorke and Lancaster' (Henry VI parts 2 and 3), Agincourt, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Hamlet, A Yorkshire Tragedy, The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, All's Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, Winter's Tale, Henry VI part 3, Henry VIII, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Cymbeline, transferred from Sarah Martin, widow of John Martin, to Robert Scott, 21 Aug 1683.

page 95: John Dryden's An Essay of Dramatick Poesie and Marriage a la Mode, entered for Master Herringman, 8 Nov 1683.

page 170: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come. The second part, entered for Nath. Ponder, 22 Nov 1684.

page 226: Aphra Behn's The Disappointed Marriage, or the Generous Mistress, entered for Edward Poole, 8 May 1686.

page 247: Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon, entered for Jos. Knight and Francis Saunders, 24 May 1687.

page 247: John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther, entered for Jacob Tonson, 27 May 1687.

page 282: Tracts of John Milton, entered for Awnsham Churchill, 30 Jan 1689.

page 309: John Dryden's The Prologue and Epilogue to the History of Bacon in Virginia, entered for Jacob Tonson, 20 Nov 1689.

page 311: John Dryden's Don Sebastian, King of Portugal, entered for Jos. Hindmarsh, 17 Dec 1689.

page 331: John Dryden's translation into English verse of the first, sixth and tenth Satires of Juvenal, entered for Jacob Tonson, 9 Feb 1691.

Entries of copies are dated 4 Jul 1595-11 Jul 1620 (folios 1r-315v); information given includes name of property owner, name of person/s under whose hand/s the copy is entered, title of work and amount paid (usually 6d per title); occasionally name of author is included.

At front of volume are memoranda:

Five unnumbered pages are bound at the front, some blank, some with memoranda. Frequently the date or year is omitted but the memoranda are believed to date 1600-1615. The main series of memoranda is principally a record of titles to be 'staied', or not to be entered to any but the property owner named, to be entered once the latter has obtained authority, 1603-1606. Includes one title 'printed at Edinburgh 1592'.

An entry dated 4 Aug, believed to be 1600, records four books 'to be staied': As You Like It, Henry V, Every Man in his Humour and Much Ado About Nothing.

The penultimate entry in this section of unnumbered pages records that a specified title is to be transferred to a named individual if the current holder of copy fails to repay a debt to him, 21 Feb 1614.

The final entry records the instruction to notify a named individual 'if any of Mr Deane of Windsor copies come to be entred', 9 May 1615.

At rear of volume are memoranda and accounts:

Memoranda:

folio 316r&v: 'Commandments [...] delivered at Croydon by my Lord's Grace of Canterbury and the Bishop of London' relating to queries regarding the licensing of specific titles and named printers, and referring to the burning of books in the Hall, 1-4 Jun 1599.

folio 317r: memorandum of the promise of Gervase Markham to desist from writing further books relating to diseases and cures of livestock, 14 Jul 1617.

folio 318r: memorandum of entry for the Latin stock of a named book, 27 Sep 1616.

(folios 319-322 are absent)

folios 325r&v, continuing at folio 323r: names of representatives of the Company at the Lord Mayor's feast, 29 Oct 1601-29 Oct 1629.

Accounts:

folio 324v, continues at folios 323v-324r: balances of Renter's annual accounts, mostly giving name of Renter and balance of his account (one single sum), 6 May 1600-6 May 1631.

Significant entries of copies include:

fly leaf: [William Shakespeare's] As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, and [Ben Jonson's] Every Man in his Humor, 'to be staied',

4 Aug [?1600].

folio11: [William Shakespeare's] Venus and Adonis, transferred from Mr Harrison the elder to William Leeke, 25 Jun 1596.

folio 21: Gerard's Herbal, entered for John Norton, 6 Jun 1597.

folio 23: [William Shakespeare's] Richard II, entered for Andrew Wise, 29 Aug 1597.

folio 25: [William Shakespeare's] Richard III, entered for Andrew Wise, 20 Oct 1597.

folio 31: [William Shakespeare's] Henry IV, entered for Andrew Wise, 25 Feb 1598.

folio 39v: [William Shakespeare's] Merchant of Venice, entered for James Roberts, 22 Jul 1598.

folio 40v: [George Chapman's] The Blind Beggar of Alexandria, entered for William Jones 'uppon condicion thatt yt belonge to noe other man', 15 Aug 1598.

[for entries 4 Aug 1600, see 'fly leaf' above]

folio 58: [Ben Jonson's] Every Man out of his Humour, entered for William Holme, 8 Apr 1600.

folio 63: Sir John Oldcastle [accredited to Shakespeare], entered for Thomas Pavier, 11 Aug 1600.

folio 63: [Ben Jonson's] Every Man in his Humour, entered for Mr Burby and Walter Burre, 14 Aug 1600.

folio 63: [William Shakespeare's] Henry V, transferred to Thomas Pavier, 14 Aug 1600.

folio 63v: William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Henry IV part 2, entered for Andrew Wise and William Aspley, 23 Aug 1600.

folio 65v: [William Shakespeare's] A Midsummer Night's Dream, entered for Thomas Fisher, 8 Oct 1600.

folio 66: [William Shakespeare's] Merchant of Venice, entered for Thomas Hayes, 28 Oct 1600.

folio 66: [Thomas Nashe's] Summer's Last Will and Testament, entered for Thomas Hayes, 28 Oct 1600.

folio 67v: [Christopher Marlowe's] Dr Faustus, entered for Thomas Bushell, 7 Jan 1601.

folio 71: [Ben Jonson's] Narcissus the Fountain of Self Love [Cynthia's Revels], entered for Walter Burre, 23 May 1601.

folio 77v: [Ben Jonson's] Poetaster, entered for Matthew Lownes, 21 Dec 1601.

folio 78: [William Shakespeare's] The Merry Wives of Windsor, entered for John Busby then transferred to Arthur Johnson, 18 Jan 1602.

folio 80v: [William Shakespeare's] Henry VI parts 1 and 2 and Titus Andronicus, entered by warrant for Thomas Pavier by assignment from Thomas Millington, 19 Apr 1602.

folio 84v: [William Shakespeare's] Hamlet, entered for James Roberts, 26 Jul 1602.

folio 85v: The Life and Death of the Lord Cromwell (accredited to Shakespeare), entered for William Cotton, 11 Aug 1602.

folio 91v: [William Shakespeare's] Troilus and Cressida, entered for Mr Roberts 'when he hath gotten sufficient aucthority for yt', 7 Feb 1603.

folio 98: [William Shakespeare's] Richard II, Richard III and Henry IV part 1, entered for Matthew Law, transferred from Andrew Wise, 25 Jun 1603.

folio 104v: [Ben Jonson's] The Case is Altered, entered for John Smethwick, 16 Feb 1604. Following the title are the words, 'How? Ask Dallio and Millo Provided that this copie be not taken from my other to the hurt of another mans book'.

folio 105v: Ben Jonson's A Part of the King's Majesty's Right Royal and Magnificent Entertainment [alternatively titled The Coronation Triumph], entered for Edward Blount, 19 Mar 1604.

folio 115: Ben Jonson's Sajanus his Fall, entered for Edward Blount, 2 Nov 1604; a marginal note records a transfer to Thomas Thorpe, 6 Aug 1605.

folio 116: [Thomas Middleton's] The Honest Whore, entered for Thomas Man the younger, 9 Nov 1604.

folio 128v: [George Chapman, Ben Jonson and John Marston's ] Eastward Ho, entered for William Aspley and Thomas Thorpe, 4 Sep 1605.

folio 131: [George Chapman's] Vincentio and Margaret [alternatively titled The Gentleman Usher], entered for Valentine Simmes, 26 Nov 1605.

folio 147: [William Shakespeare's] Romeo and Juliet, Love's Labours Lost and The Taming of a Shrew, entered for Mr Ling, 22 Jan 1607.

folio 152v: [Thomas Middleton's] The Phoenix, entered for Arthur Johnson, 9 May 1607.

folio 153: [Thomas Middleton's] Michaelmas Term, entered for Arthur Johnson, 15 May 1607.

folio 153: [John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont's] The Woman Hater, entered for Eleazer Edgar and Robert Jackson, 20 May 1607.

folio 153v: George Chapman's The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, entered for William Aspley, 3 Jun 1607.

folio 157v: The Puritan Widow [published as The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street by 'W.S.' (William Shakespeare)], entered for George Elde, 6 Aug 1607. [some attribute the play to Thomas Middleton].

folio 158v: [Thomas Middleton's] A Trick to Catch the Old One, entered for George Elde, 7 Oct 1607.

folio 161: [William Shakespeare's] Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet and Loves Labours Lost, entered for John Smethwick, previously belonging to Nicholas Ling, 19 Nov 1607.

folio 161v: William Shakespeare's King Lear, entered for Nathaniel Butter and John Busby, 26 Nov 1607.

folio 164v: [Thomas Middleton's] Five Witty Gallants [alternatively titled Your Five Gallants], entered for Richard Bonian, 22 Mar 1608.

folio 167: 'A Yorkshire Tragedy written by Wylliam Shakespere', entered for Mr Pavier, 2 May 1608. [some attribute the play to Thomas Middleton]

folio 167v: [William Shakespeare's] Pericles, Prince of Tyre, entered for Edward Blount, 20 May 1608.

folio 167v: [William Shakespeare's] Anthony and Cleopatra, entered for Edward Blount, 20 May 1608.

folio 168v: George Chapman's The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Byron, entered for Thomas Thorpe, 5 Jun 1608.

folio 174: [Thomas Middleton's] A Mad World, My Masters, entered for Walter Burre and Eleazer Edgar, 4 Oct 1608.

folio 178v: [Ben Jonson's] The Case is Altered, entered of Henry Walley and Richard Bonian, 26 Jan 1609.

folio 178v: [William Shakespeare's] Troilus and Cressida, entered for Richard Bonian and Henry Walley, 28 Jan 1609.

folio 183v: William Shakespeare's Sonnets, entered for Thomas Thorpe, 20 May 1609.

folio 186v: [Ben Jonson's] The Case is Altered, previously entered for Henry Walley and Richard Bonian on 26 Jan 1609, entered again for Henry Walley, Richard Bonian and Bartholomew Sutton, 20 Jul 1609.

folio 199v: [Christopher Marlowe's] Dr Faustus, 'written by C.M.', entered for John Wright by assignment from Thomas Bushell, 13 Sep 1610.

folio 214v: 'The Lyfe and Death of the Lord Cromwell, by W.S', entered for John Browne by assignment from William Jones, 16 Dec 1611.

folio 218: George Chapman's The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois and The Widow's Tears, entered for Mr Browne, 17 Apr 1612.

folio 235v [Francis Beaumont's] The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn, entered for George Norton, 27 Feb 1613.

folio 248v: [William Shakespeare's] The Rape of Lucrece, entered for Roger Jackson by consent of Mr John Harrison the elder, 1 Mar 1614.

folio 260v: [John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont's] Cupid's Revenge, entered for Josias Harrison, 24 Apr 1615.

folio 270: John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont's The Scornful Lady, entered for Miles Patriche, 19 Mar 1616.

folio 279: [William Shakespeare's] Venus and Adonis, entered for Mr Barrett by assignment from Mr Leake, 16 Feb 1617.

folio 293: [John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont's] A King and No King, entered for Mr Blount, 17 Aug 1618.

folio 301: [John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont's] The Maid's Tragedy, entered for Mr Higgenbotham and Mr Constable, 28 Apr 1619.

folio 303: [William Shakespeare's] Merchant of Venice, entered for Laurence Hayes, previously the copy of his father, Thomas Hayes, 8 Jul 1619.

folio 315v: [Thomas Middleton's] A Courtly Masque or the World tossed at Tennis, entered for George Purslowe and John Trundle, 4 Jul 1620.

Chronological lists of books delivered to Stationers' Hall for distribution to legal deposit libraries, pursuant to the Copyright Act 1842; receipt of books is signed for.

Lists of serial books delivered to Stationers' Hall for distribution to legal deposit libraries, pursuant to the Copyright Act 1842; from 12 Aug 1874 the receipt is signed for.

Lists of books delivered to Stationers' Hall for distribution to the British Museum as a place of legal deposit, pursuant to the Copyright Act 1842; dates of delivery to the British Museum are recorded in volumes 1-2 to 7 Feb 1913; receipt of books is signed for in volume 2, 6 May 1913-, and all of volume 3.