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Bill for a dinner at the Horn Tavern, Fleet Street, in the sum of one pound fifteen shillings. Items include: bread, beer, ale, wine, fowls and oysters, rabbits, cheese, paper, tobacco, fire, payment of porter. Additional expenses added below include 'a coach home'. Signed in receipt by John Carpenter. The date has been partially blotted out. Place name: Horn Tavern. Personal name: John Carpenter.

Bill for a dinner in the sum of three pounds fourteen shillings six pence. Items include: bread, beer, ale, wine, oranges and lemons, butter and 'readishe', fire, use of linen, and given the servants. Signed in receipt by John Bromhall, 26 April 1699. Personal name: John Bromhall.

Undated bill for a dinner in the sum of one pound twelve shillings six pence. Items include: bread, beer, ale, wine, oranges, dressing, cheese, tobacco, fire, with an additional wine cost added. Signed in receipt.

Bill for a meal in the sum of one pounds seven shillings. Items include: bread, beer, wine, butter, cheese, payment of cook and coach. Signed in receipt by William Moreison, 24 April 1699. Personal name: William Moreison.

Bill for a meal in the sum of one pounds fourteen shillings. Signed in receipt by John Glover on behalf of his master, Richard Glover, 2 May 1699. Personal names: John Glover, Richard Glover.

Bill for a meal at the Queen's Head Tavern in the sum of ten shillings. Items include: bread, beer, ale, wine, sugar, a neck of lamb, salad, butter, and cheese. Signed in receipt by J. Hilkes, 24 June 1699. Place name: Queen's Head. Personal name: J. Hilkes.

Itemised list of food and drink in the amount of 12 shillings. Items include bread and beer; wine; a leg of veal(?); salads with oil and vinegar; butter; cheese; oranges and lemons; and sugar. Verso: "A Bill of May 11."

Undated bill of expenses for a meal at the King's Head, including bread, ale, wine, oranges, chicken, dressing, tobacco. Paid in full: fifteen shillings six pence. Place name: the King's Head.

Itemised bill in the amount of two pounds seven shillings six pence for expenses associated with bringing a press. Items include food, drink, services, transportation, and other charges, such as "going 3 times to Sr Roger about the Bill for printing." Includes monies given to a joiner, a porter, the warden, a carman, and spent at a variety of coffee houses. Personal names: Sir Roger. Place names: Sam's coffee house; Man's coffee house; Tart's coffee house; Westminster; Lambert.

Bill from the assignees of Elizabeth Janaway and others to the Stationers' Company.

Itemised bill over several dates; mostly for coffee (generally, but also twice for the master and once for the stock keepers), possibly all but at least once at the Wonder. Also for cloth for a cloak. With a note that "I am to mete Mr Halford on Thursday at two a Clock." Personal names: Mr Halford.

Itemised bill of food, drink, and service in the amount of two pounds 14 shillings. Items include bread and beer; wine; vinegar; roast beef and mutton; drawer and tobacco; and the use of linen.

Itemised bill of food, good, and service in the amount of eight shillings six pence. Items include bread and beer; wine and "burning;" a dish of whiting; tobacco; and fire. Signed by J Baker, Warden; Jo: Bellinger; and Ambrose Isted. [Must be pre-April 1689, as this is when John Baker died]. Personal names: Major John Baker; John Bellinger; Ambrose Isted.

Itemised bill for food, drink, and service in the amount of 17 shillings two pence. Not signed in receipt, but likely collected by someone "for my master Glover." Items include bread and beer; wine; a miscellaneous charge; dressing [the dinner]; tobacco; cheese; and payment to the porter and the servants. Verso: "Mr Ward[en] Isted Mr Bellinger Mr Scot Mr Clavel." Personal names: Ambrose Isted; John Bellinger; Robert Clavell; Robert Scott(?); Robert Glover.

Itemised bill for food, drink, and service in the amount of three pounds three shillings six pence. Items include stews(?); bread, beer, and ale; wine; oranges; payment to the fishmongers; "Lefft to pay;" payment to the poulterer; dressing [the dinner]; cheese; sugar; payment for fruit; and tobacco; as well as money given to the servants.