First compiled to 1716, then continued intermittently to 1776; table of headings at back.
Includes a receipt to J. Noorthouck for £80 for compiling an Abstract of the Court Books, dated 3 May 1780.
Two copies of the index.
Page index at front of file; alphabetical subject and name index in rest of file.
Inserted is an undated document titled 'Abstract of Orders 1875 to 1965. This Abstract is taken from the document prepared by Mr D. J. O'Connell, M.A., to which has been added the items extracted from the Orders from 1960 to 1965 by the Clerk'.
Two copies
This file contains both individual Court Orders circulated to members for special attention (chiefly notices of fines, fees, and meeting arrangements), and nineteenth-century transcriptions of earlier orders of especial interest, possibly study notes..
Transcripts of earlier Court minutes including contemporary references to the Great Fire of London; Court resolutions on the day of the monthly meetings, quarterage payments, and elections; extracts from Court minutes relating to dinners 1558-1596; extracts from Court minutes relating to translation of freemen 1615-1805.
Draft minutes are dated 5-13 Jun 1690, 27 Sep 1695-22 Jun 1698 and 4-21 Dec 1744.
Inserted loose are other papers:
i: brief index to books [libers] A, C, D and F and paraphrases of entries in Court minutes from 6 Jul 1644, 14 Jun 1645, Jul 1645, Jul 1642, Jul 1643-1651, 25 Jun 1573 and Jun 1575.
ii: list of meetings of the 'Comitee about Comprinting', 6 Jun 1696, 1 Feb 1697 [1 Feb 1698 new style], 7 Jun 1697, 2 Aug 1697, 3 May 1697, 6 Sep 1697 and 8 Nov 1697; information given consists of dates, names of committee members and the principal purpose of each meeting.
iii: sheet of extracts from minutes in court book N relating to pensioners, dated 23 Jun 1778, 28 Sep 1784 and 23 Dec 1783.
Folder is divided into subfolders:
i: Court attendance lists, 5 Jul 1796-18 Dec 1806 [37 items].
ii: list of assistants with date of election as Assistant, under warden, upper warden and Master, 1 Nov 1763-6 Jul 1799.
iii: summonses with agendas, 2 Aug 1883-1 Jul 1886 [4 items].
iv: manuscript notes on Court customs, possibly by C R Rivington, undated [2 items].
v: typed key for details of bindings and freedoms, undated.
i: report of the committee respecting the admitting of freemen to the cloathing, [3 Jan 1800]; copy of item iv.
ii: fragment of committee report regarding cloathing non-trade members, undated.
iii: report of the committee repecting the amount of land tax purchased by the English Stock for the corporation, 1 Sep 1800.
iv: signed report of the committee respecting the admitting of freemen to the cloathing, 3 Jan 1800.
v: fragment of draft court minutes regarding the appointment of a committee to consider the admitting of freemen to the cloathing, fragments of draft committee report and draft committee minutes, 12-17 Dec 1800 [5 items].
vi: letter from H J Clarke to Mr Baldwin regarding the increase of freemen and livery to the detriment of dividends, 1799.
Monthly summary of Court business throughout a typical year (two copies).