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Bill for the delivery of fourscore and two dozen penny cakes. Signed in receipt by Martha Dell in the sum of four pounds two shillings, 26 February 1697. Personal name: Martha Dell.

Bill for bells, knots, and ribbons in the sum of four pounds ten shillings. Signed in receipt, on verso, by Mary Farr, 28 December 1696. Personal names: Mary Farr.

Bill of Mary Woodland in the sum of one pound fourteen shillings four pence for building works done at Stationers' Hall for Mr Heyrick. Signed in receipt by Woodland, 8 December 1696. Place name: Stationers' Hall. Personal names: Mary Woodland, Samuel Heyrick.

Itemised bill for work done at Stationers' Hall on the Kitchen in the amount of 15 shillings 10 pence. Items include payment for a workman and two labourers; mortar; and bricks. Signed in receipt by Matthew Simpson. Verso: "Mr Simpson's Bill." Personal names: Matthew Simpson. Place names: Stationers' Hall; Kitchen.

Itemised bill of bricklayer's work done on the Hall from 27 April 1685 in the amount of five pounds 14 shillings and two pence. Items include trays of mortar; tiles; the cost of labour for workmen and labourers; and more. Signed in receipt by Matthew Simpson. Verso, cut off slightly: "ye Bricklaye[rs Bill] For ye Wor[shipful] Company of [Stationers.]" Personal names: Matthew Simpson.

Itemised bill headed "Cookes Bill," in the amount of two pounds five shillings three pence. Items include wines; "spent Tasting the wine;" tobacco; and "Bringing the Plate Candles & Pipes & Dishes." Miscellaneous calculations in lower left.

Itemised bill of Mr Appleby for work done at Stationers' Hall, 14 October 1700. Items include: wainscot, nails, work done, mending the lost on the post, mending the great gates, paving in the garden, mortar for the warehouse. Signed in receipt by Robert Stephens in the sum of nine shillings six pence, received of Warden Sprint. Place name: Stationers' Hall. Personal names: Appleby, Robert Stephens, Samuel Sprint.

Itemised list of food, drink, and service in a total of fifteen shillings purchased from Mr Blackwell [likely George Blackwell]. Items include bread and beer; for wine; fish, and others. Additional charges for a quart of white wine, beans & bacon, and monies paid to the house. Verso: "Mr Blackwells Bill." Personal names: George Blackwell.

An itemised bill for various domestic goods, including a pair of bellows, fire tongs, a mop and brush, and others. Personal names: Mr Cleaver.

A bill of expenses totalling 11 shillings six pence, labeled "Mr Cleauers Bill." Items include two pewter standishes; 10 quires of paper; 50 pens; and a glass of ink. Personal names: Mr Cleaver.

Itemised bill of cloth in the amount of one pound seven shillings purchased from N Ashton, draper, for the barge. Includes an additional charge for "making." Signed in receipt by N Ashton. Verso: "The Drapers Bill for the M[aste]rs of the Barge col[oure]d cloth set down 26 Octo 1683." Personal names: N. Ashton.

Itemised bill of charges for painting a priming around the Hall in the amount of one pound eleven shillings. Items include "For twice priming of ye shed in ye Garden and finishing of itt with lead couller [colour] in oyl;" "for coullering of a post in the gate- way;" and other similar items. Verso: "Lent Mr Steevens -1-0-0;" "Mr Thomsons." Signed in receipt by Nathaniel Pollard. Personal names: Nathaniel Pollard; Mr Steevens; Mr Thomson. Place names: Stationer's Hall and garden.

Bill of Nicholas Hooper, the beadle, for expenses from July-November 1692. Expenses include 'a dozen candles', 'mustard', '3 faggots at the auditing of Mr Warden Mortlock's account', 'wateridge to Westminster and back', '7 ashen staves for the whifflers'. Signed in receipt by Nicholas Hooper for twenty three pounds four shillings eight pence. Personal name: Nicholas Hooper.

Bill of Nicholas Hooper, the beadle, for miscellaneous expenses incurred in March 1693. Expenses include money laid out for pipes, and with Sir Joseph Seymour's servant at Westminster. Signed in receipt by Hooper in the sum of six pounds nine shillings and ten pence. Personal names: Nicholas Hooper, Joseph Seymour. Place names: Westminster, Stationers' Hall.

Bill of Nicholas Hooper, the beadle, for expenses incurred March-June 1693. Expenses include payment for pipes, soldiers, glove money, scavenger fees, and donations to the poor. Signed in receipt by Hooper in the sum of ten pounds fifteen shillings. Personal name: Nicholas Hooper.