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Printed by R. Nutt, includes transcripts of the 1557 Charter of Incorporation, the 1603 English Stock Patent and the 1684 Charter of Incorporation. Bound by R.L. Green (Freeman) in 1977.

One soft-bound copy of 'The Charters and Grants of the Company of Stationers of the City of London', printed by R. Nutt, marked as George Woodfall's copy. Two soft-bound copies of 'The Charters and Grants of the Company of Stationers of the City of London, with observations thereon'.

Statutes relating to printing in England and the activities of the Stationers' Company.

This was the earliest public enactment to mention the Stationers' Company, and the first to affect its procedure after its in incorporation. As part of wider provisions for the suppression of superstition, hypocrisy and abuses, section 51 proposes licensing in order to remedy 'great abuse in the printers of bookes', specifially requiring the Company's obedience with regard to licensing by the City of London Court of High Commission.

On front pastedown is written 'Giuseppe Valletta 21 Aprile 1700'.

On page opposite front pastedown is written in a modern hand the initals 'SH' and the text 'See reference in par. no 51 (verso of D1) 'agaynst heretical & seditious bookes' Queen Elizabeth 'straytely commaundeth all maner her subjects, and specially the Wardens and companie of Stationers to be obedient'. Underneath this is written '(Printed by R. Jugge 1559) Master 1568, 1569, 1573 and 1574 ?STC 10095'.

General accounts and financial records.

Records relating to the establishment, constitution, privileges and internal regulation of the Stationers' Company.

Records of trade activities specific to the Stationers' Company, chiefly concerning print regulation, legal deposit and the Stationers' Register. Additional trade activities were carried out by the Company's joint stock company dealing in titles owned by the Company, the English Stock; for ease of reference, English Stock records are catalogued in a separate subfonds, TSC/STO.

Records concerning the domestic, social and ceremonial life of the Stationers' Company; miscellaneous records.

Injunctions relating to the role of the Stationers' Company in the regulation of printing; internally enforced bye-laws regulating the operation of the Company itself..

Official minutes of the meetings of the Court of Assistants, signed by the Master from 2 Mar 1875-2 Jul 1991 and intermittently from 30 Jul 1991-25 Jun 2006.

For each meeting the decisions of the Court are recorded as orders. From Court Book F (1683-97), the minutes are standard in formula.

Text of some documents received by the company have been copied in.

Entries are in chronological order; minutes of two or more courts are often conflated under one date; minutes are divided into paragraphs with headings written in the margin; minutes for some committee meetings are included; layout of record is inconsistent. Dates are listed at the top, recorded predominantly in Latin to Apr 1651 and with regnal year often used in addition to calendar year to Aug 1630; names of those present are often omitted, particularly in conflated entries; when listed, names are given in the margin of the minutes, parallel to or below the date, to Mar 1615, and centrally under the date from Mar 1615.

Spine reads 'Court Booke', 'L: C 1602: to 1654' and 'C'.

Front cover reads 'Lib: C'.

At top of title page is inscribed 'The Book of orders in the Company of Stac[i]oners made the ffirste daye of Nouember An[n]o 1602 Quadragesimo Quarto R Ris Elizabethe Mr Byshope then beinge Master Mr Mann Mr Waterson then beinge Wardens Libir C:'; at foot of page are notes listing folio numbers of entries relating to the appointment of [Mr] Woodstreete as a feoffee, the 'Gramer case' and 'Oxford & ye Comp.'

Attached to folio 114r is a slip of paper inscribed 'W[illia]m Tyrril of Adthrop in ye County of Northam[pton] bound to Rich[ar]d Woodland in 10L to pay 5L on the 16th of July next'.

At back of volume is inscribed an extract from a letters patent of James I, giving the High Commission further powers over those offending against Star Chamber decrees 'touchinge the reformac[i]on of divers disorders in the printinge and utteringe of Bookes'.

Entries are in chronological order; dates are predominantly in Latin from Jul 1662; location of court meetings is rarely given except during the rebuilding of Stationers' Hall following the Great Fire of London (folios 124r-140v); minutes are divided into paragraphs with headings written in the margin; type of court meeting is not always stated until 7 Aug 1666; minutes for some committee meetings are included; layout of record is not consistent throughout volume.

Spine reads 'Court Book 1654 to 1679' and 'D'

Entries in volume mention the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, including:

folio 112v: '...and likewise such other small sumes to ye poore from time to time (during this tyme of Infection) as shall be thought fitt...', 26 Sep 1665.

folio 124r: 'Co[u]rt 2 October 1666 Att Cookes Hall, being the first co[u]rt after the ffire in ye City...Ordered, That the Wardens provide laborers for the digging upp, and searching the ruins, and rubbish, at Stationers Hall; and that the same be watched, day and night, at the doing thereof'.

Entry for 3 Jan 1678 (folios 294v-310r) includes the texts of company by-laws passed forthwith, titled 'Orders Rules & Ordinances ordained devised & made by the Ma[ste]r & Keepers or Wardens & Com[m]alty of the Mistery or Art of Stac[i]oners of the Citty of Lond[o]n for the well governing of that Society', and texts of the Master's, Wardens', freeman's, Clerk's, Beadle's and Assistants' oaths.

Draft and fair copy minutes in chronological order; entries in both sets of minutes are divided into paragraphs with headings written in the margin; type of court meeting and date are normally given in the margin at top of entries, with the word 'present' opposite; names of those present given under 'present'; location of court meeting is always stated in fair copy minutes.

Spine reads 'Court Book Liber. E. from 1674 to 16 [83]', 'E' and 'Byelaws Eng[lis]h Stock'.

On recto of first front endpaper is an inscription reading '1st March yearly. Read such of the By laws of English Stock. Fo[lio] 131 as are marked X'. On verso of second front endpaper is a note in late 18th-early 19th century hand reading 'NB. For all proceedings of Court, to Oct[obe]r 24th 1679, inclusive, p. 93 see book D p. 244b, &c, where they are also entered: so that properly speaking, this book begins p. 94.' Added to this is a modern note reading 'being, until then, the continuation of the previous Waste Court Book'.

In front half of volume are draft minutes:

folios 1r-94r: draft minutes, 1 Mar 1675-29 Oct 1679; at end is a note reading 'This follows the Court Book Liber D from the Court hold in October ye 24th. 1679'.

folios 94v-105v: draft minutes, 3 Nov 1679-6 Dec 1680; these have no surviving fair copies.

Fair copy minutes begin on folio 106r.

Near front of fair minutes is a copy case and opinions:

folios 122r-124v: 'A Stated Case w[i]th Counsell's opinion concerning the Stock'; opinions given by Sir William Jones and Sir Creswell Levings, 1 and 4 Nov 1679, and Henry Trinder, 29 May 1681; case is copied into Liber A, folios 191r-193r.

At rear of volume is 1 folio of caveats, unnumbered and bound upside down, dated 3 May 1675-11 Aug 1679.

Minutes are unsigned; minutes are given for ordinary court meetings, private courts, court meetings for the election of corporation officers, courts for the election of master and wardens, pension courts, meetings of partners of the English Stock and general assemblies of the master, wardens and commonalty of the company held at their Common Hall; courts for the election of corporation officers are not titled as such; courts for the election of master and wardens are titled 'Election Courts'.

Typical order of entries for ordinary court meetings is: place, date and time of court meeting; list of those present, consisting of the master, wardens and assistants; confirmation of the orders of court from the preceding court meeting(s), from 5 Jul 1686 onwards; court business, including administration of English Stock shares, leases and committees, and orders relating to reports, petitions to the company, correspondence and other matters; administration of the livery, from 11 Oct 1686; details of those made free of the company and bound as apprentices, 4 Dec 1693-8 Jun 1696 and from 3 May 1697 onwards.

Spine reads 'Court Book 1683 to 1697' and 'F'.

Inserted into front flyleaves is a small card with typescript inscription regarding the entry for 6 Nov 1693, with handwritten annotations.

Volume includes committee minutes:

folio 25r: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee appointed ab[ou]t Peter Parker and Tho[ma]s Guy', 11 Oct 1684

folio 27v: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee concerning the Subpressing Lybells', 27 Dec 1684

folio 33r: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee ab[ou]t Peter Parker and Thomas Guy', 29 Apr 1685

folio 41r: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee about Peter Parker & Thomas Guy', 25 Jul 1685

folio 67: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee appointed at last Court, to treat ab[ou]t buying the interest late of Mr Sawbridge in Cambridg Printing', 19 Nov 1686

folio 67v: minutes of a 'Meeting of the Comittee appointed at last Court ab[ou]t Mrs Leigh's Account', 26 Nov 1686

folio 78v: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee appointed ab[ou]t Haberdashers & Stall Booksellers &c', 14 Mar 1687

folio 79v: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee appointed ab[ou]t the Companys Coppies at a Court of the 7th of February last', 18 Mar 1687

folios 129v-130r: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee appointed to treate w[i]th our Master ab[ou]t Cambridge busines', 1 Mar 1690

folios 131v-132r: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee ab[ou]t Mr Starkey's busines', 3 Apr 1690

folio 134r: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee ab[ou]t Cambridge Busines', 11 Apr 1690

folios 137r-138v: minutes of 'the same Comittee' [relating to Mr Starkey], 25 Jun 1690

folios 144: minutes of 'the Comittee about Hawkers', 8 Oct 1690

folio 145r: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittees appointed ab[ou]t the Subpression of Hawkers', 15 Oct 1690

folio 174: minutes of a 'meeting of the Comittee apopointed concerning the Oxford affaire', 6 Jul 1692