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Parties: (1) Oxford University (2) Stationers' Company.

Includes a ground plan.

Parties: (1) Stationers' Company (2) Oxford University.

Answer of James Rivington and James Fletcher.

Item 2. i is missing

'A Letter to a Member of Parliament from Mr. John Partridge, touching his Alamanack for the Year 1710, and the Injunction, whereby the Publishing of it is staid for the present'; 'The Last Wills and Testaments of J. Partridge, Student in Physick and Astrology; and Dr. Burnett, Master of the Charter-House', 1716; 'The Second Part of Mene Tekel: Treating of the year 1689', by John Partridge.

Arrest warrants for 'hawking' untaxed almanacs. .

Assorted prints and engravings:

• ten engravings cut from the headpieces of editions of the Stationers' Almanack from 1778 to 1787 and bound into a book;

• mounted engraving of Tycho Wing's printer's device;

• ten engravings cut from the headpieces of editions of the Stationers' Almanack from 1758 to 1767, unbound;

• engravings cut from the headpieces of the Stationers' Almanack. 1805;

• single sheet almanac, 'Stationers' Company Almanac for 1877';

• single sheet almanac, 'Stationers' Almanack', 1768;

• single sheet almanac by M. F. Philomath, 1779;

• single sheet almanac by M. F. Philomath, 1764;

• single sheet almanac by Vincent Wing, 1774;

• single sheet almanac by Vincent Wing, 1779;

• single sheet almanac by Vincent Wing, 1725;

  • advertisements for almanacs published by the Company of Stationers, 1831 and 1832;

  • lower section cut from the Cambridge Almanack, previously used to wrap a bunde of bankers' vouchers from 1767. Text contains a note of the change from the Julian calendar (Old Style dating) to the Gregorian calendar (New Style dating), which took place in Britain and its colonies in 1752.

A complete run of single sheet almanacs from the London Almanack/Almanac series.

Specimens of almanacs produced by Thomas Carnan and purchased possibly for use in the trial; specimens are dated 1774, 1779 [3 copies] and 1781; 3 specimens dated 1774 and 1779 have contemporary, signed annotations stating that they had been bought from Mr Carnan; specimen dated 1774 also has a contemporary, signed annotation stating that it had been produced and shown to Maddeson Hunt and was referred to in his affidavit of 19 Nov 1773.

i: copy of the petition of Thomas Carnan and notes on the case, with a slip of paper by clerk Mr Baldwin stating that Mr Mansfield is to attend the House on the second reading of the bill on behalf of the company if it is found necessary.

ii: petition of Thomas Carnan to the House of Commons, 29 Apr 1779 [2 items].

iii: notice of Chancery stating that the company must deliver to the judges of the Court of Common Pleas a certificate of approbation of the case or the company's injunction will stand dissolved, 26 Apr 1774.

iv: printed copies of Carnan's petition, 26 Oct 1776 [3 items].

i: Dr Ducarel's account of almanacs prior to the company's patent granted to them by James I, extracted from his opinion on the case, undated [2 items].

ii: opinion of Lord Erskine

iii: copies of Glyn and Davy's arguments in the Court of Common Pleas, 25 May 1775, Glyn's reply and the counsel's argument at the hearing in Chancery, 1 Jul 1775.

iv: opinion of G Hill, 17 Sep 1771.

v: further questions upon the case before Mr Serjeant Hill, 15 Sep 1775.

vi: Mr Serjeant Hill's reply, undated.

vii: copy of part of Serjeant Hill's argument, undated.

viii: Mr Irvon's observations on the case, undated [2 items].

ix: request that Mr Hett give his opinion, undated.

x: copy order concerning the case, 1 Mar 1774.

xi: anonymous remarks on Carnan's petition and printed case, undated.

xii: index to the case with list of references, undated.