Parties: (1) George Mompesson, clerk, Abell Smith, gentleman, and George Burden and Joseph Langford, maltsters, the devisees and trustees appointed in or in pursuance of the will of the late Samuel Brunts, merchant, dated 1 Jan 1709 (2) Stationers' Company.
Additional documentation generated by Court business, comprising declarations of loyalty and summonses.
Printed summonses to attend the Lord Mayor's water procession to Westminster, using the Company barge for the following years: 1773, 1774, 1776, 1780, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1805, 1819, 1827, 1834. With a summons to attend the the water procession for the funeral of Admiral Nelson, 1805.
Notices sent out primarily by the Beadle inviting Company members to undertake a variety of duties, including meeting with stock keepers, holding courts of assistants, forming pension courts, electing the Master and Wardens, electing renter wardens and Company officials, auditing the renter warden's and the Master and Wardens' accounts, disposing Cater's charity, choosing the Treasurer and stock keepers, paying or receiving English Stock dividends, receiving stockholder quarterages, electing the Lord Mayor and City of London officials, hearing Ash Wednesday sermons at St Austin's and explaining why they refused to take the office of renter warden; summonses are printed with manuscript dates and further details; some summonses are endorsed with the names of those to whom they were to be sent.
Beadle: Edward Littleton
Beadle: Marshall Sheepey
Beadle: Marshall Sheepey
Beadle: Marshall Sheepey
Beadle: Marshall Sheepey
Beadle: Marshall Sheepey
Beadle: Thomas Millis
Beadle, 1786-1787: Marshall Sheepey