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The Clerk's record of fines, fees and contributions to charitable funds received during Court meetings.

Summary of printing privileges granted to the Stationers' Company; summary of money paid by Edward Owen in an attempt to renew the Company's patent for printing school books (1741).

Brief on behalf of the company as promoter of the Stationers' and Newspaper Makers' Company Bill.

Briefs for the Stationers' Company:

i: briefs to oppose the defendant's motion at the 3rd seal after Trinity term 19 July 1774 for liberty to print an almanac for the next year, 16 Jul 1774 [4 items].

ii: briefs to oppose the notice of motion annexed, to alter minutes, 8 Apr 1774 [4 items].

iii: briefs to show cause at the 2nd seal after Hilary term Tuesday 1 March 1774 against dissolving the injunction, undated; wrappers only [3 items].

iv: brief to move on Friday 13 May 1774.

v: briefs titled 'This cause is set down among the rehearings and appeals for further directions upon the equity reserved by the order of 1st March 1774 and is in his lordship's paper for Saturday the 1st July 1775', undated [3 items].

vi: briefs to move for injunction at the rising of the court on 19 Nov 1773, undated [2 items].

vii: briefs of bill and answer, undated [2 items]; rough notes on back of first page of second copy.

Interview took place at the interviewee's home in Islington, London, and was conducted by Robin Myers.

40 minutes length - NEEDS CHECKING and adding to the extent field

INTERVIEW SUMMARY NEEDS ADDING (with times)

Parties: (1) Stationers' Company (2) Samuel Thompson, trimming manufacturer.

Contains several enclosures:

1. letter from J Ebenezer Saunders to C Rivington listing attachments to the agreement, 2 Oct 1878.

2. bill for work done in relation to 11 and 12 Wood Street by R W Mylne, company surveyor, Apr-Dec 1878.

3. bill for work done in relation to 11 and 12 Wood Street by R W Mylne, company surveyor, Nov 1878-Feb 1879.

4. note regarding Hand in Hand insurance policy for Mar 1879-Mar 1886.

5. letter from Samuel Thompson relating to 11 and 12 Wood Street, 19 Dec 1882.

Documents relating to the building of the company barge.

Folder is split into several subfolders:

i: article of agreement between the Company and Alice Hall, shipwright's widow, for rebuilding the barge, 4 Jun 1746.

ii: agreement and draft agreement between the Company and Thomas Miller, shipwright, for rebuilding the barge, 6 May 1766 [2 items].

iii: agreement and draft agreement between the Company and Richard Roberts, barge builder, for rebuilding the barge,7 Jul 1789; attached is a receipt for two hundred pounds, 8 Jan 1790 [2 items].

iv: proposal for building a new barge by George Searle, barge builder, undated [c 1788].

v: sketches for a barge, undated [2 items].

Includes:

• Cover note for burial certificate and bill for same, submitted to Daniel Battiscomb, 1789.

• Three notes re the burial of Richard Welles in 1803, certified in 1857.

• Note and certification of register extract re burial of William Chapman in 1800, certified in 1853.

• Certification of register extract re burial of Henry Clarke in 1821, certified in 1853.

• Extract from parochial register re burial of Henry Woodfall in 1805, certified in 1853.

• Extract from parochial register re burial of Hannah Wilsonl in 1822, certified in 1857.

Edition of the 1678, 1681 and 1683 Company ordinances, printed in London for the Company.

Oaths are annotated in a 19th c. hand.

Folder containing three items:

i: printed broadsheet 'The By-Law to be Read at the Administring of the Free-mans Oath, and a Printed Copy thereof to be delivered to every Member of the said Company dealing in the Stationers Trade'.

ii: fragment of printed 1681 ordinances, mounted on card.

iii: fragment of printed ordinance, mounted on card.

Miscellaneous information collated by the Clerk for his use; most information dates from between 1863-1890.

Information includes:

folios B-J: list of new books and new editions, 1863.

folio K: index.

pages 1-26: addresses of Company pensioners.

pages 28-45: lists of Company charities and their pensioners.

pages 47-49: calendar notes on gifts and pensions of the company.

pages 50-60: names of dinner invitation cards recipients, 1868-1882.

page 70: list of shields in the lumber room, Jun 1870.

pages 71-73: list of headings to Company almanacks.

pages 75-80: sent list for British Almanac and Companion presentation copies sent to contributors, 1882-1890.

page 81: sent list for Clergyman's Almanack sent to editors, 1882-1890.

pages 100-102: crossed-out data on British Almanac and Companion.

pages 108-110: notes on livery dinners, 1870-1886.

pages 114-115: notes on inauguration dinners, 1869-1875.

pages 120-129 and 140: data for 'Bibles & Prayers', 1870 and 1874-1933.

pages 130-132: forms of letters and receipts.

page 136: list of old books in closet in lumber room.

pages 137 and 149-150: list of pensioners liable to quarterage, 1870-1877.

page 141: pasted-in signatures.

page 153: data on August and November livery dinners, 1861-1885.

page 156: data on vacant shares, 1869-1871.

pages 159-160: data on Christmas boxes, 1863-1894.

page 161: list of silver plate, Apr 1869.

page 201: crossed-out data on Court gowns, 1869-1879.

back endpaper: pasted-in printed sonnets by Henry Frank Lott, including one titled 'To the Plane Tree in Stationers'-Hall-Court'.

Register of admission into the livery, 1606-1736, and annual livery lists, 1742-1853.

Pages 1-36, 45-55 and 66-100 contain a register of admissions to the livery for 1606-1682, 1685-1686 and 1689-1736, arranged in chronological order and subdivided into periods of call from 19 Jun 1668 onwards; admission entries include dates of freedom, names and amounts of fines paid; folios 4-122 contain annual livery lists, 1742-1765, with names arranged in order of seniority.

The volume contains additional information:

pages 37-45: alphabetical livery list and fines account, 6 Oct 1682, using data gathered by order of the Lord Mayor of London.

pages 55-66: lists of those removed from and restored to the livery, 1687-1688.

folios 1r-2v: list of subscribers for the building and finishing of a barge and barge house, 2 Jun 1679.

Livery lists; information includes names, dates as Renter Warden, dates of cloathing and some dates of freedom; dates calls were opened or shut up are included until half way through the 1771 list.