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Minutes, agenda and correspondence.

Records created and accumulated by Samuel Bentley (1785-1868)

The bricklayers' bill for works done at Stationers' Hall to the sum of seven pounds fifteen shillings six pence. Signed in receipt by John Franell(?). Personal name: John Franell. Place name: Stationers' Hall.

Printed by R. Nutt, includes transcripts of the 1557 Charter of Incorporation, the 1603 English Stock Patent and the 1684 Charter of Incorporation. Bound by R.L. Green (Freeman) in 1977.

B/W photograph of Sir Ralph Perring (Past Lord Mayor) talking to HRH The Duke of Kent; Past Master Lt Col H A Johnson and Unknown in background. In the Stock Room of Stationers Hall during the Publicity Club of London Reception, 1976.

Adminstrative papers of the Freemen's Association of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers: correspondence, discussion papers, minutes and reports.

Bill for work done by the glaziers for the Stationers' Company in the sum of one pound seven shillings six pence. Signed in receipt by John Sims, 11 April 1696. Personal name: John Sims.

Bill of Robert Watson, glazier, for works done at Stationers' Hall. Signed in receipt by Watson in the sum of one pound fifteen shillings, 12 August 1696. Place name: Stationers' Hall. Personal name: Robert Watson.

• the Company's Plate
• bonds for 100l loan Norton's Bequest
• bonds for 50l loan Norton's Bequest
• bonds for 20l loan
• bonds for 12l & 10l loan
• the annual charge for the wardens
• bonds for 50l loan Evan Tyler's Bequest

Inserted loose is the Company's bond to Edward Littleton in 102 pounds 10 shillings for six months, 1700.

B/W Photograph. The Hall, looking to the south east. Decorated with flowers, possibly for the wedding of Glanvill and Catherine Benn 4 June 1931. 

B/W Photograph. The Hall, looking south, showing four electric chandeliers (c.1935) and gas “Sun Burner” (installed 1865) in the ceiling. 

Printed for the Company of Stationers.

between title page and page 1: authorisation for printing, given by Ri[chard] Rainsford and Fra[ncis] North [Lord Chief Justices of England], 16 Feb 1678.

pages 1-2: statement from Heneage Finch [Lord Chancellor of England], Richard Rainsford and Francis North that they had 'seen, read and examined' the following acts and ordinances of the Stationers' Company.

pages 3-25: 'Orders, Rules and Ordinances' of the Company.

pages 25-27: oaths of the Master, Wardens, freemen, Clerk, Beadle and Assistants.

page 27-28: ratification of the ordinances by Heneage Finch, Richard Rainsford and Francis North.

Attached to front pastedown is a typescript label reading 'By-Laws. Orders, Rules and Ordinances of the Company, as first printed in 1678'. Written on this, possibly in the hand of Sidney Hodgson, is an annotation reading 'The only copy of the Original Edition we possess. Later - The bill for printing, cost of paper &c. added [100 copies printed]'.

Attached to a front endpaper is a bill from John Macock to Warden Vere for printing between Sep 1677-Feb 1678, with a statement acknowledging receipt of the full sum of money from Warden Vere, 12 Jul 1678.

Inserted in back endpapers are accounts and receipts:

1. list of payments made to Mr Lilley, Sep 1681, which were then given to Lord Chief Justice North and his clerk for signing the Byelaws, Lord Chief Justice Pemberton and his clerk for signing the Byelaws, and Mr Saunders, and the sum spent on going to see Justice Pemberton at the Three Tuns with the Master present.

2. receipt recording payment of printing charges from Warden Tyton to John Macock, 15 Oct 1680.

3. receipt recording payment from Warden Tyton to John Macock for printing an advertisement for the second publication of the Byelaws, 5 Jul 1681.

Inserted between back endpaper and pastedown are 2 documents:

1. typescript note reading 'Orders, Rules and Ordinances of the Stationers' Company, printed in 1678, with the original bill from Thomas [sic] Macock the printer for 1000 copies for which he charged £3 4s. 0d.'.

2. handwritten note reading 'Orders Rules & Ordinances Original Edition 1678 with the original bill for printing this volume, by John Macock [who left us a silver gilt Loving Cup]'.

One volume divided into three sections:

section 1: edition of two sets of Company ordinances from 1678 and 1681 and an ordinance from 1683, printed in London for the Company of Stationers, 1692.

section 2: copy of 'The Charters and Grants of the Company of Stationers of the City of London, Now in Force, Containing a plain and rational Account of the Freemen's Rights and Privileges...' by R Nutt, 1741.

section 3: handwritten notes, legal queries and statement of the case of Mr Shewell with the opinions of Mr Madocks and Mr Hett, 18th-19th c.

Both publications are annotated.

Front pastedown contains annotations in a 19th century hand 'Mr Lockyer Davis' and 'given by Mr F Pinkney to Thomas Hopkins 11th March 1837' and modern pencil annotations '1678 Edition in Quarto vol of Extracts &c. in shelf below' and 'Important. with R. Nutt's "Charters & Grants (a scarce item) 1741'.

On front endpaper are annotations in a 19th century hand 'Orders, Rules & Ordinances 1677 Do. 1681 Do. 1682', 'N.B. The Court of Assistants not constituted till 1684 (36th Ch.11) See charter p.1A. it appears however from the 1st & 2d Charters 1 Ja. 1. that there were assistants to the Master & Wardens. See p.50:64 1603. 1615' and 'Case of Salisbury who refused to take up the Livery App. p.26'.

Bound into pages 28-29 of the first set of ordinances is a copy of the Partner's oath.

Edition of the 1678, 1681 and 1683 Company ordinances, printed in London for the Company.

The painter's bill for work done at Stationers' Hall. Signed in receipt by William King in the sum of nineteen shillings, 11 February 1696. Place name: Stationers' Hall. Personal name: William King.