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Renter Wardens: A. W. Gardner-Woolloton, Mr Robert G. Adlard. Index to the Livery and Widows inserted loose into front endpapers.

Renter Wardens: Edward Vernon Miles, Adam Erat Harrison. A printed list of fees, Jun 1880, and handwritten instructions for renter wardens are inserted in front endpapers.

Records kept by the renter wardens, elected annually to keep quarterage records [to 1884, when quarterage was abolished], maintain up-to-date lists of company members and addresses and keep accounts for fines and stamp duty payments; volumes cover 1851-1853, 1863-1886, 1888-1890, 1920-1922, 1926-1928, 1934-1943 and 1954-1998.

The volumes contain:

volumes 1-5: extracts of resolutions regarding dinner invitations.

volumes 1-7: list of quarterage payments owed and paid by company members and widows, including names and addresses, with a contemporary index to livery and widows' quarterage inserted.

volumes 1-6: list of running quarterage receipt totals.

volumes 6-26: list of apprentices, their masters and sums of fees and stamp duty paid.

volumes 6-26: list of members present at court meetings.

volumes 8-24: list of names and addresses of company members; volume 24 contains a list for the yeomanry only.

B/W Photograph. Members of The Court seated for the Renter Wardens' dinner in the Court Room, March 1969.

B/W Photograph. Renter Wardens’ Dinner for Members of The Court, March 1969. Procession lead by Stanley Osborne (Beadle) holding the ceremonial mace through the Court Room. Followed by (L-R) James McGarry; D Wyndham-Smith; George Mandl; E Lovett-Derby

Two copies; 6" x 8" photographic print with 1/8" borders. One copy has higher contrast and slgith creasing to left corners.

Wardens' vouchers for expenses incurred in repairing the Company barge; vouchers consist of receipts for monies paid out by the under warden; many receipts consist of bills with receipt of payment added at a later date.

Folder is split into subfolders:

i: table of barge expenses, 1766-1783.

ii: wardens' vouchers for barge masters John Elderton, 3 Dec 1760, and unnamed, 17 Jun 1767-4 Jan 1783 [6 items].

iii: wardens' vouchers for John Loftus, 6 Jan 1681-5 Nov 1717 [21 items].

iv: wardens' vouchers for assorted barge masters, 17 Jul 1682-17 Jun 1767 [8 items].

'Report of the Master Wardens and Stockkeepers on the English Stock', 1887.

Annotated official copy letters patent concerning the English Stock, 1936.

Report of Charles Rivington, the clerk, to the committee relative to a proposed History of the Company.

Report by William Chadwick Mylne, surveyor, concerning repairs to the West front of Stationers' Hall and the Beadle's house.

Report by the stock-keepers.

Folder is divided into subfolders:

i: briefs for the plaintiff, 26 Apr 1774-31 May 1775 [7 items].

ii: order directing case, 1 Mar 1774.

iii: case and draft cases for the opinion of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, 1774, and wrapper for a brief for the case, 1774 [4 items].