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Receipt of William Whitfeld for one pound fifteen shillings tithes payment, January 1699. Personal name: William Whitfeld.

Bill of works done for the Company of Stationers 'altering the doore casse & staires going into the garding' to the sum of eleven pounds six shillings five pence.

Bill of works done on Company properties in the sum of ten pounds. Signed in receipt by the carpenter, William Biggs, 13 November 1695. Personal name: William Biggs.

Itemised bill of food, drink, and service in the amount of one pound. 17 shillings of which were spent at the Three Tuns tavern, 2 shillings at the Queen's Head. Items include bread and beer; wine; oysters and vinegar; two pullets with eggs; and cheese. Services paid for include a porter, and fire. There is an additional charge for "spent wth the Constable etc at Queenes head." Verso: "Genrall Search Jan 31 1677." Place names: Three Tuns tavern; Queen's Head tavern.

Itemised bill of food, drink, and service in the amount of 19 shillings. Items include bread and beer; wine and sugar; herring and dressing; a quart of sack; and cheese. Services paid for include fire, and use of linen. There is also a line item for "spent at the Kings Armis." Verso: "Journymen Printers." Place names: King's Arms tavern.

Itemised bill of food, drink, and services in the amount of one pound 11 shillings associated with Mr Starkey's business. Items include bread, beer, and ale; wine and sugar; oysters and vinegar; herring; and butter and cheese. Services include monies paid for dressing and the use of linen; for the fish; "to the man;" coach hire; and "serving an order of Counsell upon Starky & others." Verso: "Mr Starkeys Bussines Oct 19" as well as miscellaneous calculations. Personal names: Mr Starkey [John Starkey?]

Itemised bill in cryptic hand, in the amount of one pound 18 shillings six pence. Possibly related to Oxford ("Oxon" appears twice).

Two copies.

i: manuscript copies of the bill titled 'An Act to vest the sole right of printing almanacks in that part of Great Britain called England in the two universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the Company of Stationers in the City of London respectively', 18th century [3 items].

ii: list of bylaws taken to the House of Lords on appeal, undated.

Itemised bill for food, drink, and other expenses in the amount of one pound 12 shillings one pence. Items include bread, beer, and ale; wine; oranges and lemons; dressing the fish; fire; fish; coach hire that day; money spent at the Rose Tavern in Charing Cross; and coffee. A note below states: "searching for Bookes and pictures at severall places." Place names: Rose tavern, Charing Cross.

Receipted bills for suppressing unlicenced books and other expenditures, including:

• Bill of the beadle, Randal Taylor, for various expenses incurred July-November 1683. Items include: searching with Mr Steevens, with Mr Sawbridge and Steevens, sweeping the chimney, searching at Holloway Lane and other places, with Mr Steevens, mending the sword, searching again, paid the postman and the woman for cleaning, 8 whifflers’ staves, taking down putting up and mending the banners, candles and pipes for a court. Signed in receipt by Taylor, 24 December 1683.
• Bill of Henry Hills Sr. for going to and from Whitehall multiple times, and for seizing a catechism, 1687.
• Bill for books bought by Henry Hills Jr. in his office as Messenger of the Press. Signed in receipt by Hills Jr., 10 March 1688.
• Various bills of Henry Hills Jr., February 1688-January 1689.
• Bill of Henry Hills Sr. Signed in receipt by Hills, 12 June 1688.
• Bill of Henry Hills Sr. Items include: spent upon one giving intelligence about unlicensed books, gave for intelligence of Barnets 6 Letters or papers printed together & for one of them, promised for discovery of a private press when taken upon that intelligence, spent going to Whitehall about it & getting two warrants from Secretary Sunderland. Signed in receipt by Hills, 25 November 1687.

Receipted bills for searching and other expenditures, received for or from Robert Stephens.

• Bill of expenses incurred by the beadle, Randall Taylor, August-October 1677. Items include: travel by water to Lambeth and back, with Mr Leybourne, with Mr Herick, with Smart, with Mr Haris & his man, two books of Mr Kendon, with Mr Steevens, in attending the Chamberlain with Mr Mearne & Mr Leigh, quarteridge payment. Signed in receipt by Randall Taylor, 12 October 1677.
• Bill of expenses incurred by the clerk, John Lilly, relating to the following legal actions: the King against Mearne, the King against Clerke, the King against Winter. Signed in receipt by John Lilly, 11 August 1677.
• Bill for a search and seizure at Mr John Starkey’s, 26 September 1677.
• Receipt for Thomas Warren for four days attending in searches, 11 April 1678.
• Bill of expenses incurred by the clerk, John Lilly. Includes expenses relating to legal actions: the King against Marlow, the King against Sole. Signed in receipt by Lilly, 17 July 1678.
• Bill of expenses incurred by the clerk, John Lilly, relating to searching and copying Moredale’s Decree. Signed in receipt by Lilly, 23 December 1680.
• Bill of expenses incurred by the clerk, John Lilly, relating to the case of the Company of Stationers against Astwood. Signed in receipt by Lilly, 14 July 1681.
• List of expenses incurred during searches, 9-14 August 1681. Personal names: Thomas Braddyll, Lionel Jenkins, Robert Stephens, Richard Royston, Roger Norton, Samuel Mearne, Robert Scott, Horne, Henry Hills, Randall Taylor, Thomas Newcombe.
• List of expenses incurred in attending the Lord Chief Justice, 26-28 August 1681.
• Bill of Samuel Mearne with items including, coach hire to attend Secretary of State Lionel Jenkins, attending the Solicitor General, at the Queen’s Head with Mr Sherman, Mr Hills, and Captain Baker, at the Queen’s Head again. Signed in receipt by Mearne, 16 March 1682.
• Bill of the beadle, Nicholas Hooper for various expenses incurred December 1691-October 1692. Signed in receipt by Hooper, 7 April 1694.
• Bill for a dinner at the Queen’s Head, signed in receipt, 20 March 1700.
• Bill of the beadle, Nicholas Hooper, for various expenses incurred February-March 1700. Signed in receipt by Hooper, 29 March 1700.