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Bill for a dinner, with expenses including bread, beer, wine, fowls, ducks, cheese, and hire. Signed in receipt by John Carpenter in the sum of one pound five shillings four pence. Other miscellaneous expenses are jotted below in a different hand, including 'given to Bradley'. Personal name: John Carpenter, Mr Bradley.

Bill for a dinner at the Horn Tavern. Items include: bread, beer, ale, wine, dressing and use of linen, pudding, cheese, porter, tobacco, fire, leg and neck of veal, bacon, ducks and fowls, savoys, servants. Signed in receipt on verso by John Carpenter in the sum of four pounds eleven shillings, 12 December 1695. Place name: Horn Tavern. Personal name: John Carpenter.

Itemised bill of wine purchased by the Company for election day in the sum of two pounds five shillings. Items include 12 bottles of Claret; three quarts of Canary; "left to pay in the Pallis;" six more bottles of Claret; two more bottles of Canary; one bottle of Sherry; and six more bottles of Claret. Signed for by John Clarke, "for the use of my mother Anne Clarke." Personal names: John Clarke; Anne Clarke.

Itemised list of expenses incurred by Clerk, John Garrett. Expenses include drawing up penal bills for livery fines and having more printed; for waterage; for going to renew leases; for allowances for paper, pens, and ink; and other expenses. Signed in receipt by John Garrett. Personal names: John Garrett; Charles Smith; Edmund Bolsworth; Mr Godden.

Itemised bill in the amount of two pounds seven shillings four pence paid to John Graves, shipwright, for work done for the Company (presumably on the Company's barge) on 24 October 1681. Items include 14 bolts of reed; a gallon of oil; two mops(?) and a stone of oakum; the labour of eight men and two boys; and more. Signed in receipt by John Graves. Verso: miscellaneous calculations. Personal names: John Graves.

Itemised bill of work done on the barge in the amount of two pounds nineteen shillings six pence. Items include pitch, resin, oil, and the labour of nine men and two boys. Signed in receipt by John Graves. Verso: "Shipwrights Bill." Personal names: John Graves.

Itemised bill in the amount of three pounds three shillings two pence paid to John Graves, barge maker, for work on the Company's barge, dated 26 October 1683. Items include pitch; oil; resin; bolts of reed; and other items, including the labour of eight men and two boys. Signed in receipt by John Graves. Verso: "The Barge Makers Bill for Leimning the Barge pd 2d Nov: 1683." Personal names: John Graves.

Itemised bill for goods purchased from a poulterer for a large dinner on 10 August 1680 in the amount of six pounds 11 shillings. Items include 15 turkeys; 20 ducks; six partridges; six tame pidgeons; six quails; and two rabbits. Signed in receipt by John Harding. Verso: "Mr Harding powlterer his byll 6-11-0." Personal names: John Harding.

Itemised bill for food, drink, and service at the Swan in Fish Street in the amount of two pounds four shillings. Items listed include lemons, oranges, wine, beer, ale, asparagus, fish, and other comestibles; also payment for the porter, tobacco, and the use of linen. Signed for by John Harris. Personal names: John Harris. Place names: the Swan, Fish Street.

Bill for pewter borrowed from John Hulls on 08 August 1689, coming to a total of four pounds, three shillings, six pence. Items borrowed include plates of different varieties, spoons, and "mazerens." Five plates and nine spoons were lost and their cost included in the total of the bill. The lending appears to have been facilitated by Edward Brewster, who writes below the itemised bill to Parkhurst, "pray please to pay the bearer his bill, he is a neighbor of myne, & used to furnish ye Hall." Signed for by John Hulls on the verso. Personal names: John Hulls; Edward Brewster. Place names: Stationer's Hall.

Bill of John Hulls in the sum of four pounds five shillings for hire and loss of pewter by the Company. Signed in receipt by Hulls, 14 January 1699. Personal name: John Hulls.

Itemised bill of new pewter bought and old pewter exchanged in the amount of 17 shillings. Signed in receipt by John Hulls on verso. Docket title: "Pewterer." Personal names: John Hulls.

Bill for pewter rented for Stationers' Hall on 10 August 1688 in the amount of three pounds six shillings three pence. Items rented include plates of different varieties; spoons; mazerens; sasers; and other items. Signed on verso in receipt by John Hulls. Docket: Pewters' Bill for Aug: 10 3: 6: 0." Personal names: John Hulls. Date entered as "8: of 7ber 1688."

Bill of John Lilly in the sum of five pounds eighteen shillings two pence. Items include: drawing the answer to Mrs Mill's Bill, engrossing of it, King's duty, paid Mr Filiaer's (?) fee, Lilly's fee. Signed in receipt by Lilly, 15 July 1696. Personal names: John Lilly, Mrs Mill, Mr Filiaer.

Itemised bill for drawing up charges and other legal documents dated 28 March 1678 including for the King against Richardson; the King against Grover; the King against Downing; and the King against Marlow, including Lilly's salary. Signed in receipt by John Lilly. Miscellaneous calculations. Personal names: Richardson; Grover; Downing; Marlow; Mr Tanner; John Lilly. Place names: Woodstreet. Remnants of wax seal.