B/W photograph. Court Luncheon, 3 February 1981. L-R: Ray Tindle (Court Assistant); Kingman Brewster (US Ambassador) laughing whilst seated at a table as Kenneth B Robinson (Master 1980-81) stands.
B/W photograph. Court Luncheon at Stationers' Hall, 3 February 1981. L-R: Ray Tindle (Court Assistant) and Kingman Brewster (US Ambassador) are seated as Kenneth B Robinson (Master 1980-81) presents a framed document to Brewster. Two unknown members seated behind Robinson.
B/W photograph. Kingman Brewster (US Ambassador) stood at dining table delivering speech in the Main Hall during the Court Luncheon at Stationers' Hall, 3 February 1981. Members seated at table (L-R) Unknown; E Glanvill Benn; Kenneth B Robinson (Master 1980-81); Roy Fullick
B/W photograph. Kingman Brewster (US Ambassador) stood at dining table delivering speech in the Main Hall during the Court Luncheon at Stationers' Hall, 3 February 1981. Roy Fullick and two unknown members seated behind him.
B/W photograph. Kingman Brewster (US Ambassador) stood at dining table delivering speech in the Main Hall during the Court Luncheon, 3 February 1981. Ray Tindle seated to his right.
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.
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..
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'.
Notebook containing court book entries and other information on procedure relating to Company members who served as Lord Mayor or sheriffs of the City of London.
Information contained includes:
folios 1-9: copies of court book entries relating to procedure surrounding Company members who served as sheriffs, 1729-1785.
folios 13-15: copies of court book entries relating to procedure surrounding Company members who served as Lord Mayor, 1754 and 1785-1786.
folios 17v-18r: account of the proceedings on the sheriffs being sworn in at the Guildhall, 1779, 1781, 1785 and 1787.
folios 18v-19v: account of the proceedings on the sheriffs being sworn in at Westminster, 1779, 1781, 1785 and 1787.
folios 19v-20r: order of procession on the day the sheriffs were sworn in at the Guildhall, 1779.
folio 20v: order of procession on Lord Mayor's day.
folio 21r: order of presenting the Lord Mayor at the Exchequer Bar, 1779.
folios 21v-22r: account of the proceedings on the Lord Mayor being sworn in at the Guildhall, 8 Nov 1785.
folio 22: account of the proceedings on the Lord Mayor being sworn in at Westminster, 9 Nov 1785.
B/W photograph. Court of Aldermen in the Court Room, Guildhall. Sir Denis Truscott as Lord Mayor (1957) stands at the far end of the room, centre.
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.
Two copies
Correspondence, minutes and discussion papers re restructuring of Court.
Photocopies of specifications and plans regarding court room alterations, work to be carried out by William Robinson 1757.
Menu cards, table plans.