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Licence from George V to the Westminster Bank, to transfer the property of number 20 Ludgate Hill, and to the Stationers' Company to accept said transfer and hold the same in mortmain in perpetuity.

Includes inspeximus documents and letters patent produced during the Company's negotiations with successive monarchs.

Draft minutes dated 1661-1675 and 1723-2009. These volumes were traditionally referred to as Wast Books, although the term was dropped in the late twentieth century. From 2000, draft minutes are born digital.

Draft minutes for 1 Mar 1675-6 Dec 1680 are contained in court book E; from there, the minutes for 1 Mar 1675-24 Oct 1679 are copied fair into court book D.

Front of file reads 'Court Minutes from 7th May, 1957 to 2nd December, 1958'.

Inserted into minutes is 1 document:

page 58: sample letter dated 8 Oct 1964 from G St P Wells, Clerk of the Stationers' Company, informing the recipient that he was not successful in the ballot for the Civic Dinner of 19 Nov 1964, but that his name was being transferred to the list of liverymen wishing to bring guests to the Civic Dinner of 5 May 1965.

At front of file is an incomplete index; many letters of the alphabet have no entries; page numbers given do not match any page or folio numbers in the minutes.

Pasted into minutes are 2 documents:

folio 89r: copy letter dated 21 May 1959 from Olivia Mulholland, Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, to Mr Simon, conveying the Queen Mother's thanks for entertaining her at Stationers' Hall after a service at St Paul's.

folio 89v: undated list of costs of investments, titled 'Worshipful Company of Stationers & Newspaper Makers. Investment of £600,000/£650,000'.

Inserted into minutes are 2 documents:

Court sitting of 6 Oct 1959: list of apprentices titled 'Apprentices - 8th June 1964'.

Court sitting of 1 Nov 1960: list of transfer deeds for share in external companies, titled 'The Following Transfer deeds were Duly Sealed This Day'.

Front of folder reads 'Typed copies Court Orders from 4th July 1961 to 1st June 1965'.

Inserted into minutes is 1 document:

Court sitting of 28 Jul 1964: notice of ward election for Farringdon Within dated 4 Oct 1963.

Front of folder reads 'Typed copies Court Orders from 6th July 1965 to 2nd Dec. 1969'.

Inserted into minutes are 2 documents:

front endpage: 'Extract from the Orders of the Court dated 6th May 1969'.

Court sitting of 27 Jul 1965: notice of ward election for Farringdon Within, dated 4 Oct 1963, with manuscript draft minutes on the reverse side.

Draft minutes are dated 27 Mar 1682, 3 Apr 1682, 8 May 1682, 24 and 26 Jun 1682, 1 and 3 Jul 1682, 7 Aug 1682, 4 Sep 1682, 4 Oct 1682, 6 Nov 1682, 4 Dec 1682, 7 Jan 1684, 4 Feb 1684, 1 Mar 1684, 5 Feb 1683, 1 Mar 1683, 3 Mar 1684 and 7 Mar 1683.

At front of file is a small slip of paper with the inscriptions 'Court - 1682' and, in a different and later hand, 'Water-mark "Pro Patria"'.

Some minutes have other documents inserted:

Minutes for 3 Apr 1682:

1. account of amounts due to English Stock and the Company by Mr Eglesfield in 1679-1682, undated.

2. submission to Court by Richard Jannoway concerning almanacks, 3 Apr 1682.

3. letter from Gabriel Cox to the Master asking to be excused his absence, explaining that as a convicted Catholic the goods in his shop had been seized by the Sheriff eighteen months prior, he had been forced to make over the goods to merchants, and he does not feel able to appear publically in his shop, 2 Apr 1682.

Minutes for 8 May 1682:

1. memorandum titled 'Heads agreed uppon by ye M[aste]r Wardens & assistants of ye Company of Stationers touching ye Beadle governing himselfe with Danby & respect becoming his Place to ye [illegible] M[aste]r Wardens & Assistants', undated.

Minutes for 7 Jan 1684:

1. letter patent ordering the Company to admit Simon Miller, William Cooper, Christopher Wilkinson and William Shrowsbery to be members of the Court of Assistants and to allow them to have the privileges, authorities and immunities thereunto, take the usual oaths and pay the usual Company fines, 29 Feb 1684.

Minutes for 4 Feb and 1 Mar 1684:

1. list of pensioners of Lamb's Charity, undated.

2. signed and witnessed statement stating that unpaid rent owed to the Company by the deceased George Eversden should be paid by his widow Elizabeth Eversden, 5 Feb 1684.

Minutes for 3 Mar 1684:

1. surrender by Sam[uel] Hoyle, thanking the company for admitting him to the English Stock share formerly belonging to Mrs Hendon, consenting and requesting that the share remains in the Company's hands until he pays Mrs Hendon's now husband John Rand £80 and the Christmas dividend of the share, and stating that if the Company does this then he will pay the duty and service that he owes, 4 Feb 1684.

Inserted loose:

1. alphabetical list of the court and livery, 6 Oct 1682.

2. petition by John Williams for transfer of his livery share to his son, 3 Feb 1683.