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Evan Tyler (fl. 1639-1682) served as King’s Printer in Edinburgh and Master of the Stationers’ Company during a long and successful career. Tyler left significant sums of money in his will for various charitable causes, including hospitals and church relief for the poor. At the time of making his will, Tyler had 620 pounds with the Company. His bequest to the Company established a loan scheme for ‘new beginners’ in the trade. It established that ten young freemen of the Company receive fifty pounds each. After four years, the young freemen had to repay the loan, free of interest, so that it then could be recycled into ten new young freemen. The archive holds records of Tyler’s bequest, including early nominees and their sponsors.

i: signed and witnessed requirement that the Company pay Evan Tyler the sum of £106, 16 Nov 1681.

ii: notes of debtors to the Company for loans made under the Tyler and Norton bequests, 1680s [2 items]. Recipients of the Tyler bequest (1684) include: Arthur Jones, Francis Leach, Henry Clarke, Thomas Moore, Ralph Simpson. Recipients of the Tyler bequest (1682) include: William Freeman, John Heptinstall, John Redmayne Jr., John Wallis.

Charles Whittingham (1767-1840), printer, was a highly successful businessman, printing almanacs and religious tracts in their thousands. Later in his career, he specialised in printing illustrated books. Whittingham left bequests to the Stationers’ Company, Printers’ Pension Society, and poor of Chiswick. His bequest to the Company consisted of 2000 pounds three pounds percent consolidated bank annuities. The annual produce of which was to go towards six poor widows of either compositors or pressmen, with preference for widows whose husbands had been in his employ. It was required that the widows be fifty years of age or older and would continue in the support only for as long as they remained widows.

• Letter from George Greensmith to Walford & Sons, 14 Nov 1840. Relative to the release of Whittingham’s bequest.
• Letter from Charles Rivington to Walford & Sons, 17 Nov 1840. Whittingham bequest to be discussed by Stationer Court before accepting.
• The Stationers’ Company to Thomas Walford Jr. and other executors of Whittingham’s will, 2 Mar 1842. Release papers for Whittingham's bequest.

Property deeds and records of title are contained in section TSC/G/08. These deeds often include a plan.

Pen and watercolour wash on tracing paper, with a separate sheet of backing paper, showing present arrangement and proposed alteration, scale 4 feet to 1 inch. Drawing prepared by Harvey Dyball, June 1913, and accompanied by a letter from Henry Frowde Humphrey Milford to C.R. Rivington.