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Interview took place at the interviewee's office in York and was conducted by Peter White.

40 minutes length - NEEDS CHECKING and adding to the extent field

Copy of TSC/2/02/01/10

Receipts for sewer rate, 1773-1786, and water rate, 1683-1819.

Folder also includes two land tax receipts, Apr 1784 and Jan 1785, and one receipt for payment towards the militia, Jun 1784.

(i) Assignment of Thomas Osborne's shares in the following books to John Fuller: Compleat System of Geography (1/18), Maitland's History of Edinburgh (1/4), Atterbury's Sermons (the whole). Signed by Osborne and two witnesses. [4 Mar 1755]

(ii) Assignment of William Johnston's shares in the following books to John Fuller: Bladens Cesar (1/12), Brown's Roman History (1/6), Compleat Parish Officer (1/8), Clare's Introduction (1/12), Grand Tour through Great Britain (1/16), Sterme's Romanus ((1/4), Jenks's Devotion (1/12), Kennet's Antiquities (1/12), Library of Trades with plates (1/4), Mason's Hymns (1/16), Stanhope's Epistles (1/18). Signed by Johnston and two witnesses. [15 Mar 1756]

(iii) Assignment of Edward Wickstead's shares in the following books as adjudicated by John Carr, trustee of Wickstead's will: Burkitt on the New Testament, Ellis on the 39 Articles, Aesop's Fables, Exercitia Latina, Meredith's Copies. [5 May 1759]

Registers of election to English Stock shares; information given is date of election, names of stock partners chosen and vacating, share number, amount of share, payment to be made and remarks; remarks consist of payment date or whether the share was declined.

Indices of shares, with stock partners listed under share numbers; information given is share number, share amount, date of partner's election, name of partner and when and why the share was vacated; thumb index at front of volumes.

Hand-written records of printing at Oxford, and of seizures of illegal printing, including:

• Copy of two orders of the Bishop of London to damask books seized from Susan Streater and Nathaniel Thompson. The original order was delivered to the Company 29 October 1678
• Copy of order of Charles, Earl of Middleton to damask books seized from Benjamin Harris, 11 November 1685
• Copy of order of the Bishop of London to damask books seized from George Croome, Mrs. Harris, and James Rawlins. The order is dated 14 December 1685.
• Copy of order of Thomas Jenner, Recorder of the City of London, to all Constables, Headboroughs, and officers of the Peace, to assist the Company in searching, 17 December 1685. Copy of similar orders dated 31 December 1685 and 16 January 1686.
• Copy of an order of the Bishop of London, Henry Compton, to damask books seized from Barnard White and Robert Roberts. The sheets were discovered by Roger L’Estrange. The order is dated 26 January 1686.
• Copies of statement by John Mayo regarding an illegal printing press, 7 January 1686.
• Copy of an order from Secretary Sunderland to the Wardens to deliver a book to Robert Scott, 8 February 1686. With Scott’s receipt of the books, 10 February 1686.
• Copy of an order from Secretary Sunderland to the Wardens to deliver a book to Henry Hills, 15 February 1686. With Hills’s receipt of books, 26 February 1686.
• Copy of order to Mayors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Constables and other officers, 8 April 1686.
• Agreement between Ann Humphries and the Company.
• Copy of order from the Archbishop of Canterbury to damask seized books, 8 April 1687.
• Copy of Rules to be observed by the Master and Wardens and members of the Company called to inspect imported books.
• Copy of an order for the delivery of psalms to Peter Parker and Thomas Guy. Signed in receipt by Parker and Guy, 20 June 1687.
• Copy of Mr Pollexfen’s advice touching the agreement with Oxford.
• Copy of Mr Trinder’s opinion in the case with Cambridge.
• Copy of the paper given the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, 20 May 1687.
• Copy of articles of agreement between John Bellinger, John Baker, Robert Clavell and Henry Hills.
• Copy of the state of the case concerning the printing at Oxford.
• Other miscellaneous records.

Assorted administrative papers including correspondence, exhibition papers, notes on Company almanacks and records including the wardens' vouchers, almanack lists, guidelines for the use of Company muniments and lists of Company paintings; most material is dated 1950s-1960s; correspondence includes research enquiries received by the Clerk and answered by him or by Hodgson on his behalf.

Correspondents include:

University Microfilms Ltd

Dr Arundell Esdaile

Houghton Memorial Library, Harvard University

J Durham Parsons

University Library Cambridge

Bodleian Library

Anthony Wood, County Archivist of Warwickshire

Harold G Fox

Mill Hill and Hendon Historical Society

20th-century scholarship and notes on Stephen College, including:

• Text of address given by G. H. Gurney Esq., 29 Apr 1969.
• J. Rahn, 'A Ra-Ree Show - A Rare Cartoon: Revolutionary Propaganda in the Treason Trial of Stephen College', Studies in Change and Revolution, Aspects of English Intellectual History 1640-1800 (1972).
• Two copies of A Raree Show
• Correspondence between Sidney Hodgson, R. H. Hill, and J. Rahn on Raree Show research, 1930-1969.

Queries addressed to the Company; most letters date from 1952-1956.

Correspondents include:

Brown's Addressing and Mailing Service

H A Shield

Prosper Lalande

Eric T B Hicks

Penguin Guides

Chamber's Encyclopaedia

Professor T H Wheeler

British Museum

William Le Hardy, County Archivist of Middlesex

Francis Fry

Saint Bride Foundation

The Arms and Armour Society

Bror Danielsson

Correspondence relating to a catalogue of records at Stationers' Hall, 1922-1925, and a project to have the records microfilmed, 1951-1963; includes a letter from Hilary Jenkinson of the Public Record Office, 10 May 1948, regarding transfer of three remaining copyright registers and indexes under the authority of the Master of the Rolls by a warrant dated 3 Jul 1912; file also contains a copy of 'Catalogue of Records at Stationers' Hall'.

Correspondents include:

Edward Unwin

Richard Austen-Leigh

University Microfilms

British Museum

Bodleian Library

Arundell Esdaile

Hilary Jenkinson

Letters to Hodgson from personal guests thanking him for help, invitations, lunches, Company events and suchlike; most letters date from 1961-1969.

Correspondents include:

J R Abbey

David Baynes-Cope

Nicholsons Ltd

Alan Burns

Christopher Dobson

Tanner Paper-makers

University of London Library

Inner Temple Library

Simon Nowell Smith

Maggs Bros

Arnold Muirhead

Public Record Office

R Partridge

Lionel & Philip Robinson Ltd

Kenneth Child, Archdeacon of Sudbury