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Parties: (1) Andrew Brice, printer (2) Stationers' Company.

Property deeds regarding the Blue Anchor, Ave Maria Lane.

Two copies of a partially coloured pen drawing, block plan of Stationers' Hall Court, showing area to be given up for road widening. Produced for Daniel Watney, Elliott Inman & Nunn, the Charterhouse, London EC1 and initialled 'J.R.R.'.

Itemised bill of food, service, and drink in the amount of five pounds 10 shillings. Items include bread and ale; wine; oranges; payment to the fishmonger; coach hire; money paid out; money paid to Mr Taylor; butter; tobacco; sugar; strawberries; dressing [the dinner] and use ["youce"] of linen; and payment to the servants and under beadle. Signed in receipt by Andrew Leake, followed by miscellaneous calculations. Personal names: Andrew Leake; Randall Taylor.

Folder is divided into subfolders:

i: rough lists of bindings and freedoms, 7 Nov 1687-2 Sep 1754 [11 items]; the majority of lists date from 1687-1690.

ii: notes regarding bindings, turnovers and freedoms, 20 Dec 1687-4 Aug 1857 [8 items].

iii: records of turnovers, 26 Sep 1877-7 Jan 1884 [7 items].

iv: balance account titled 'Stationers' Company in account with the parish of St Faith', 1841-5 Jan 1865.

v: records of bindings and freedoms, 5 Feb 1822-1 Oct 1877 [7 items]; many were removed from apprentice memorandum books at an unknown date.

B/W photograph. Wide shot of the Court of Assistants during a binding ceremony in the Court Room. Row with backs to camera, L-R: Charles Clifton Tollitt; William Will; WIlliam Henry Young; John Betts; Sidney Herbert Greenaway; John Graham Williams; Donalds Fores Kellie. Row towards camera, L-R: Unknown; Unknown; Unknown; Unknown; Robert Wylie Lloyd; Arthur George Fowler; Sidney Hodgson; Sir Guy Harrison. Back row, L-R: Edward Union; William Penman; Victor Robert Penman (Upper Warden); Sir Henry Truscott (Alderman); Cuthbert Grasemann (Master, 1956-57); Reginald Thurston Rivington (Clerk); unknown; unknown; George Percival Simon (Under Warden); Sir George Henry Wilkinson (Alderman). 

Two itemised bills on one piece of paper. On the recto, the bill of Charles Lee, dated 25 "xber" [October?] 89, in the amount of one pound, 13 shillings, six pence. Items include bread, beer, & ale; "paid ye fishmonger;" "for dressing of ye fish & foules & larkes;" and other items. Signed for by Charles Lee. On the verso, the bill of Ambrose Isted, dated 20 December 1689 in the amount of four pounds, six shillings, and six pence. Items include "ye venizon pasty," "Bill on ye other side," and "pd Stephens." Signed for by Ambrose Isted. Personal names: Charles Lee; Ambrose Isted.

(i) Bill of William Leybourn for works done at Stationers’ Hall and on stationer houses, 16 June 1673. Signed in receipt on verso by Leybourn, in the sum of six pounds ten shillings received of Warden Thomas Vere.
(ii) Bill for iron and smith work done at Stationers’ Hall, 2 Nov 1674. With note that Mr Lucas to have eight pounds ten shillings in full.
(iii) Bill of William Leybourn and Mr Pollard for painting work at Stationers’ Hall, 8 Oct 1675.
(iv) Receipt of Robert Wapshott in the sum of 120 pounds, 5 Dec 1675. With his mark and seal. Witnessed by Henry Foord and Henry Garrett.
(v) Receipt of John Withers and John Saunders in the sum of 34 pounds for four banners, 11 Jan 1676.
(vi) The mason’s bill for works done at Stationers’ Hall, 10 Jul 1676. Signed in receipt by Richard Crooke the sum of one pound fifteen shillings, 20 Feb 1678.
(vii) Bill of the beadle, Randall Taylor, in the sum of fifteen shillings six pence. Expenses include: cleaning the hall, spent at the custom house, with Mr Garrett, with Mr Briggs, a broom, travel to Whitehall, with Marlow and others. Signed in receipt, 2 Aug 1676.
(viii) Bill for labourers’ work done at Stationers’ Hall, Sep 1674-Oct 1676. Signed in receipt by Thomas Warren in the sum of ten pounds, 11 Jul 1678. With further expenses listed. [2 pieces]
(ix) Receipt of Henry Foord, carpenter, in the sum of 100 pounds due him or Robert Wapshott, bricklayer, for works on the Hall, 11 Aug 1677. With his seal. Witnessed by John Lilly and Randall Taylor.
(x) Bills for carpentry and brick work for building Stationers’ Hall. The carpenters’ bill is signed by John Lawrence and William Leybourn. The verso shows that payment was made in three instalments, received of George Sawbridge, Samuel Mearne, and Mearne’s widow, totalling 1125 pounds. c.1683.

With later notes.

Itemised bills for two dinners with a variey of food, drinks, and services in the amount of five pounds fifteen shillings; one bill for "the day of chusing parliament men;" the other for "a Cort day." Signed for in receipt by John Pether. Personal names: John Pether.

Wardens' vouchers for expenses incurred in running Stationers' Hall; 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, arranged according to trade:

i: miscellaneous, 12 Jul 1683-15 Jul 1776 [3 items].

ii: gownmakers, hatters, hosiers, haberdashers, 29 Mar 1700-17 Aug 1795 [14 items].

iii: decorators, 20 Nov 1700-17 Feb 1794 [12 items]. [1 ITEM MISSING] [loose]

iv: heating and cleaning, 5 Jul 1738-8 Apr 1795 [5 items].

v: upholsterers, 15 Aug 1771-4 Jun 1799 [5 items].

vi: carpet and mat makers, 16 Apr 1783-3 Oct 1793 [3 items].

vii: linen drapers, 4 Apr 1733-20 Jun 1787 [7 items].

viii: woollen drapers, 12 Oct 1722-19 Oct 1775 [5 items].

ix: lighting and chandeliers, 26 Nov 1700-4 Mar 1799 [17 items].

x: garden works, 5 Jun 1682-2 Oct 1766 [8 items].

xi: watchmen, 8 Oct 1707-29 Jan 1783 [20 items].

Wardens' vouchers for printing events tickets, summonses, blanks and other material.

Folder is split into two subfolders:

i: bills of Benjamin Motte, 14 Aug 1678-5 Jan 1720 [27 items].

ii: bill of Mary Harrison, 1779.

Folder also contains a bill of I Roberts, 7 Jul 1741.

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

• Bill of expenses incurred by the beadle, Randall Taylor, August-October 1677. Items include: travel by water to Lambeth and back, with Mr Leybourne, with Mr Herick, with Smart, with Mr Haris & his man, two books of Mr Kendon, with Mr Steevens, in attending the Chamberlain with Mr Mearne & Mr Leigh, quarteridge payment. Signed in receipt by Randall Taylor, 12 October 1677.
• Bill of expenses incurred by the clerk, John Lilly, relating to the following legal actions: the King against Mearne, the King against Clerke, the King against Winter. Signed in receipt by John Lilly, 11 August 1677.
• Bill for a search and seizure at Mr John Starkey’s, 26 September 1677.
• Receipt for Thomas Warren for four days attending in searches, 11 April 1678.
• Bill of expenses incurred by the clerk, John Lilly. Includes expenses relating to legal actions: the King against Marlow, the King against Sole. Signed in receipt by Lilly, 17 July 1678.
• Bill of expenses incurred by the clerk, John Lilly, relating to searching and copying Moredale’s Decree. Signed in receipt by Lilly, 23 December 1680.
• Bill of expenses incurred by the clerk, John Lilly, relating to the case of the Company of Stationers against Astwood. Signed in receipt by Lilly, 14 July 1681.
• List of expenses incurred during searches, 9-14 August 1681. Personal names: Thomas Braddyll, Lionel Jenkins, Robert Stephens, Richard Royston, Roger Norton, Samuel Mearne, Robert Scott, Horne, Henry Hills, Randall Taylor, Thomas Newcombe.
• List of expenses incurred in attending the Lord Chief Justice, 26-28 August 1681.
• Bill of Samuel Mearne with items including, coach hire to attend Secretary of State Lionel Jenkins, attending the Solicitor General, at the Queen’s Head with Mr Sherman, Mr Hills, and Captain Baker, at the Queen’s Head again. Signed in receipt by Mearne, 16 March 1682.
• Bill of the beadle, Nicholas Hooper for various expenses incurred December 1691-October 1692. Signed in receipt by Hooper, 7 April 1694.
• Bill for a dinner at the Queen’s Head, signed in receipt, 20 March 1700.
• Bill of the beadle, Nicholas Hooper, for various expenses incurred February-March 1700. Signed in receipt by Hooper, 29 March 1700.

Receipted bills for searching and other expenditures, received for or from Robert Stephens.

Receipted bills for suppressing unlicenced books and other expenditures, including:

• Bill of the beadle, Randal Taylor, for various expenses incurred July-November 1683. Items include: searching with Mr Steevens, with Mr Sawbridge and Steevens, sweeping the chimney, searching at Holloway Lane and other places, with Mr Steevens, mending the sword, searching again, paid the postman and the woman for cleaning, 8 whifflers’ staves, taking down putting up and mending the banners, candles and pipes for a court. Signed in receipt by Taylor, 24 December 1683.
• Bill of Henry Hills Sr. for going to and from Whitehall multiple times, and for seizing a catechism, 1687.
• Bill for books bought by Henry Hills Jr. in his office as Messenger of the Press. Signed in receipt by Hills Jr., 10 March 1688.
• Various bills of Henry Hills Jr., February 1688-January 1689.
• Bill of Henry Hills Sr. Signed in receipt by Hills, 12 June 1688.
• Bill of Henry Hills Sr. Items include: spent upon one giving intelligence about unlicensed books, gave for intelligence of Barnets 6 Letters or papers printed together & for one of them, promised for discovery of a private press when taken upon that intelligence, spent going to Whitehall about it & getting two warrants from Secretary Sunderland. Signed in receipt by Hills, 25 November 1687.