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Includes:

• Broadsheet printed table of fees, 1741.

• Note on Company Court order re Freedom fees, 1787.

• Names and fees paid for Freedom by Redemption, 1776-1798 (two distinct hand-written lists).

• Circular re fees, issued by Charles Robert Rivington, Clerk, 1876 (three copies).

• List of Fees, 1880.

Records of membership fees, internal elections and other administrative records.

Lists produced to show numbers of votes cast for each candidate.

Lists of apprentices bound 1576-1605, freemen admitted 1577-1605 and liverymen cloathed 1577-1604, copied from Liber B; also includes list of fines for breaking orders of court 1576-1605, copied from Liber B, giving names of members, offences committed and sums of fines; front endpapers contain a list of benefactors to the company, undated; back endpapers contain a copy of the bill of rates of corn for the city, undated.

Folder is divided into subfolders:

i: rough lists of bindings and freedoms, 7 Nov 1687-2 Sep 1754 [11 items]; the majority of lists date from 1687-1690.

ii: notes regarding bindings, turnovers and freedoms, 20 Dec 1687-4 Aug 1857 [8 items].

iii: records of turnovers, 26 Sep 1877-7 Jan 1884 [7 items].

iv: balance account titled 'Stationers' Company in account with the parish of St Faith', 1841-5 Jan 1865.

v: records of bindings and freedoms, 5 Feb 1822-1 Oct 1877 [7 items]; many were removed from apprentice memorandum books at an unknown date.

Records kept by the renter wardens, elected annually to keep quarterage records [to 1884, when quarterage was abolished], maintain up-to-date lists of company members and addresses and keep accounts for fines and stamp duty payments; volumes cover 1851-1853, 1863-1886, 1888-1890, 1920-1922, 1926-1928, 1934-1943 and 1954-1998.

The volumes contain:

volumes 1-5: extracts of resolutions regarding dinner invitations.

volumes 1-7: list of quarterage payments owed and paid by company members and widows, including names and addresses, with a contemporary index to livery and widows' quarterage inserted.

volumes 1-6: list of running quarterage receipt totals.

volumes 6-26: list of apprentices, their masters and sums of fees and stamp duty paid.

volumes 6-26: list of members present at court meetings.

volumes 8-24: list of names and addresses of company members; volume 24 contains a list for the yeomanry only.

Bound album in a presentation case, with photographs of successive masters inserted. The title page is decorated with the Company crest and the inscription: 'Album presented by Mr John William Davy to the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers on his relinquishing theOffice of Deputy Master in January 1936.'

Scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings from Liveryman William C Young's year as Master.

Texts of speeches and toasts; golden facsimile of HRH Queen Elizabeth II being welcomed to Stationers' Hall by the Master Leonard Kenyon in 1975 (created by Liveryman Herbert Smart); photograph of a painting showing the cloathing ceremony of HRH Prince Charles at Stationers' Hall in 1983, featuring Master Peter Cox and the Court of Assistants; invitations, leaflets and newspaper clippings.

Ephemera generated by events organised by the Master of the Company, or their consort, during their year in office.

Includes:

• Invitations, promotional flyer, menu card and seating plan for 'An Evening of Music from the '40s, with Supper', organised by Master John Waterlow in aid of the Changarawe Project in 2008;

• Keepsake quill and invitation card for 'The Master's Theatre Dinner', 2013;

• Invitation card for a presentation of bookbinding organised by the Consort, 2013;

• Invitation and booklet for 'Music from Old Vienna', 2014;

• Invitation to a guided tour of St Bride's Church organised by the Consort, 2014;

• Menu cards for Consort's Lunch, 2022 & 2023;

• Menu card for Master's Methodist Recorder Lunch, 2023

  • Menu card for Master's Installation Dinner, 2025

Itemised bill of glasiers' work done on Stationers' Hall and at the coffee house in September 1688 in the amount of three pounds five shillings three pence. Items include new squares; repairing lights; repairing casements; and more. Signed in receipt by Abraham Harris. Verso: "Bill for Stationers Hall 1688 Glazier." Personal names: Abraham Harris. Place names: Stationers' Hall; the coffee house.

Receipt for one pound 15 shillings for tithes due at Michaelmas last past. Signed in receipt by Edward Pelling. Verso: "Tiths to Mr Pelling." Personal names: Edward Pelling.

Itemised bill in the amount of 15 shillings six pence for scribal work writing several copies of the case between the Company and the University of Oxford for counsel to give their opinion upon, and for writing three briefs for counsel upon hearing before the knig [sic] and counsell. Signed in receipt by David Hill. Verso: "Mr Serjeant Trinders' Clerks Bill 0. 15: 6." Personal names: Mr Trinder; David Hill. Place names: Oxford University.

Itemised bill of food, drink, and service at the Half Moon tavern in Cheapside in the amount of two pounds 13 shillings five pence. Items include bread, beer, and ale; a sirloin of beef; dressing [the dinner] and use of linen; vinegar and pepper; fruit and cheese; fire; and tobacco; also money paid to the servants. Verso: "Half moon Cheapside. Oct. 11. 2. 14. 5." Place names: Half Moon tavern, Cheapside.