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Court award concerning a dispute between the Company of Goldsmiths and the Company of Stationers in the matter of 30/32 Ludgate Hill and 7/8 Stationers' Hall Court and land and property adjourning. In relation to the Landlord and Tenant (War Damage) Acts. Ordered that the Goldsmiths' Company do pay the Stationers' Company the contested rent.

Two itemised bills of Dowbiggin, submitted to the Wardens for payment. Expenses incurred drawing up and attending to leases.

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.

Blank form of receipt for money received from John Nichols, executor of William Bowyer, 5 May 1778. With two receipts:
Receipt of £60 from John Nichols, executor of William Bowyer, April 1778.
Receipt of £75 from the executors of Sir Stephen Theodore Janssen, May 1778.

Printed copy of William Bowyer's will with four models of blank petitions to receive bequest money. Petitions include notes on how a petitioner might qualify for the bequest.

The Stationers’ Foundation is the Company’s educational charity. Key activities supported by the charity include: postgraduate bursaries, scholarships and awards, Saturday Schools, Shine School Media awards, annual or one-off grants as welfare support. The Foundation also supports various charities in the City of London; a notable example being the funding of bookbinding qualifications for ex-Servicemen as part of the Bound by Veterans initiative. The Foundation’s main fund is amalgamated from old gifts and bequests.

Correspondence with recipients of educational awards