Only turnovers are signed.
All entries are unsigned.
All indentures are signed by the Company Master; the majority are signed by the apprentice, apprentice master or occasionally both; some are also signed by the Clerk.
Apprentices:
George Battams, apprenticed to Samuel Mills junior, 6 Oct 1835.
William Bennett, apprenticed to John Bingley, 4 Feb 1834.
William Benning, apprenticed to Joseph Butterworth, 4 Mar 1806.
Alexander George Berwick, apprenticed to George Alfred Henry Dean, 4 Aug 1857 [2 items].
Joseph Billing, apprenticed to Charles Roworth, 7 May 1833.
Henry York Brace, apprenticed to Maria Frances Knock, 4 Oct 1836 [2 items].
John Cookson, apprenticed to Charles Whittingham, 4 Sep 1821.
Matthew Wilkinson Hindhaugh, apprenticed to Hilary Nicholas Nissen, 7 Mar 1854 [2 items].
George James Benjamin Isaacs, apprenticed to Edward Mottram, 4 Feb 1834.
George Robert Maskell the younger, apprenticed to James Figgins, 7 Apr 1891.
George Norman the younger, apprenticed to John Fowler Dove, 7 May 1816.
Thomas Norris, apprenticed to Dryden Leach, 5 Jan 1725. On the back is recorded Thomas Norris's turnover to John Bagnall, 7 Sep 1725.
George Painter, apprenticed to Mary Hansard, widow, 2 Jul 1833 [2 items].
William Lawrence Rowe, apprenticed to Mary Hansard, 2 Jul 1833.
George Golding Smith, apprenticed to Walter Samuel Cowell, 2 May 1888.
Charles William Stewart, apprenticed to Ernald Mosley, 14 Mar 1879.
James Fraser Wigton, apprenticed to William Stenning, 4 Feb 1834 [2 items].
Charles Carlyle Wood, apprenticed to Cholmeley Austen Leigh, 4 Nov 1890.
i: printed court order that, complaint having been made that some members were binding too many apprentices, all members must send to the court a list of apprentices he has in service currently before he may bind another apprentice.
ii: petition of journeyman printers to the Lord Mayor and aldermen against the large volume of apprentices taken by master printers, with a mayoral precept ordering the Stationers' Company to send a list of all apprentices bound to printers.
i: summons for the Company to pay orphan tax to the Chamber of London, owed for binding apprentices, 16 Nov 1751.
ii: lesson or charge given by the Company to their apprentices, [18th century].
iii: form for binding apprentices, [18th century].
iv: covenants of an indenture of apprenticeship, familiarly explained and enforced by scripture, for the use of apprentices in the City of London, [18th century].
v: fragment from the Relief of Orphans Act, 1694, relating to apprentices.
Indenture of apprenticeship of Jasper Rowley to John Haddon, 1868. Vellum indenture, accompanied by research on Rowley's family history (12 pages, photocopies).
Registers, Declarations of Freedom, and other records documenting entry level membership of the Stationers' Company.
Autographs of Company freemen employed at the King's Printing Office.
Registers of those admitted into the freedom of the Company.
Information given includes dates of admittance, names of masters, names of new freemen and the fines paid.
Front cover reads 'Freemen's Regist[er]'.
Spine reads 'Freemen's Register beginning 1605 to 1703'.
Information given includes dates of admittance, names of masters when relevant, names of new freemen and from 1723 their method of entry into the Company; each entry is stamped to show payment of stamp duty.
Spine reads 'Freemens book from the 6 of March 1703: to'.
In front endpapers is inscribed an extract from the Stamp Acts concerning the payment of duty upon vellum and paper.
Information given includes dates of admittance, names of masters or fathers when relevant, names of new freemen and their method of entry into the Company; each entry is stamped to show payment of stamp duty.
Spine reads 'Freemen's book from 29th Sept 1751 to 5th July 1796'.
Information given includes dates of admittance, names of masters or fathers when relevant, names of new freemen and their method of entry into the Company; each entry is stamped to show payment of stamp duty.
Spine reads 'Freemen's book from 29th Sept 1751 to 5th July 1796'.
Information given includes dates of admittance, names of masters or fathers when relevant, names of new freemen and their method of entry into the Company; each entry is stamped to show payment of stamp duty.
Front cover reads 'C. R Rivington Stationers Hall'.
Information given includes dates of admittance, names of masters or fathers when relevant, names of new freemen and their method of entry into the Company; each entry to Jul 1949 is stamped to show payment of stamp duty.