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i: copies of case and Dr Ducarel's opinion thereon, 14 May 1774, with extract from the case, undated [3 items].
ii: speech of Mr Serjeant Grose on behalf of the defendant Thomas Carnan with transcript of ensuing dialogue between Grose and LCJ, undated.
Addressed to the House of Commons; requests that no clause be inserted into any act of parliament that would remove the custom duty on imported paper.
Summary of legal situation of Million re resumption of Livery status relinquished on his appointment as beadle, with legal opinion given by Duncan Dee.
Abstract of Mr Cheyne Brownjohn's Title to a House in Ludgate Street, [24 Jan 1662-12 Apr 1734].
Mr Brownjohn's Case, 20 Jun 1735.
Articles betwixt Mr Brownjohn and Mr Combes for the Sale of a house, 13 May 1720.
Bond, parties: (1) Richard Combes (2) Cheyne Brownjohn, 14 May 1720.
Further mortgage of a tenement in Ludgate Street, parties: (1) Frances Nicholson, widow (2) Thomas Vernon, esquire, 25 Oct 1723.
Mortgage of a tenement in Ludgate Street, parties: (1) Frances Nicholson, widow (2) Thomas Vernon, esquire, 16 Dec 1723.
Bond, parties (1) Frances Nicholson (2) Thomas Vernon, 14 Jun 1721. With note that this bond was shown to Patrick Robertson & Joseph Lee on their examinations in Chancery on the part of Jane Vein, widow, one of the defendants at the suit of Cheyne Brownjohn.
Order on hearing, 27 Nov 1732.
Order, 8 Nov 1733.
Case, 5 Jul 1734.
i: case between Thomas Burke and John Burke, printers of Cambridge University, the Stationers' Company and Bonham Norton and John Bill, His Majesty's printers, undated.
ii: case between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the Stationers' Company, respecting almanacs, late 18th century.
Case for the opinion of counsel with accompanying documents.
Copy case for the opinion of counsel regarding Stationers' Hall.
Livery lists; information includes names, dates as Renter Warden and dates of cloathing.
Livery lists; information includes names, dates as Renter Warden and dates of cloathing.
Livery lists; information includes names, dates as Renter Warden, dates of cloathing and some dates of freedom; dates calls were opened or shut up are included until half way through the 1771 list.
Pages 1-36, 45-55 and 66-100 contain a register of admissions to the livery for 1606-1682, 1685-1686 and 1689-1736, arranged in chronological order and subdivided into periods of call from 19 Jun 1668 onwards; admission entries include dates of freedom, names and amounts of fines paid; folios 4-122 contain annual livery lists, 1742-1765, with names arranged in order of seniority.
The volume contains additional information:
pages 37-45: alphabetical livery list and fines account, 6 Oct 1682, using data gathered by order of the Lord Mayor of London.
pages 55-66: lists of those removed from and restored to the livery, 1687-1688.
folios 1r-2v: list of subscribers for the building and finishing of a barge and barge house, 2 Jun 1679.
Register of admission into the livery, 1606-1736, and annual livery lists, 1742-1853.