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Folder contains:

i: commissioners of the stamp duties notice that printers, publishers and vendors of unstamped almanacks will be prosecuted, 8 Aug 1778.

ii: commissioners of the stamp duties note to the Company requesting that stationers comply with rules concerning binding of almanacks, 13 Aug 1778.

iii: letter to the Company from William Chapman concerning weights of 167 bundles of company paper, 25 Nov 1771.

iv: printed circular from the stamp office concerning the stamping of admission records, 21 Mar 1828.

v: lists of weights of crown paper bundles, examined by W Bayley, 15 Oct and 22 Nov 1771 [2 items].

Folder is divided into subfolders:

i: printed almanack advertisements, 1738-1799 [59 items]. Many were originally used as covers for bundles of Treasurers' vouchers and powers to pay dividends; others have handwritten annotations and were used to note numbers of almanacks sold, unsold, to be printed or to be returned to the stamp office.

ii: printed almanack publication notices, 1778-1873 [9 items]. The 18th century items were originally used as covers for bundles of Treasurers' vouchers.

iii: letter from William Chase to George Hawkins regarding advertisement and publication of almanacks, 5 Nov 1795.

iv: extract from 'Publisher's Circular', 1884 (missing).

6 handwritten copies.

Parties: (1) Charles Knight, bookseller and publisher (2) Joseph Bonsor, esquire.

Records relating to donations or bequests to the Company for charitable purposes; the charities and estates adminstered by the Company; and other Company property, such as the barge, Hall and moveables. The charity records include those relating to the Stationers' Company School, in existence 1858-1982.

The Company's property in the Irish Estates, the Manor of Pellipar, was owned by the English Stock, so its records can be found in the English Stock subfonds (TSC/STO).