File 01 - Miscellaneous records

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• The Charge of printing the statutes at large containing six vol in folio, no. 1500
• Copy of the will of Richard Ward, 8 Dec 1674.
• Two bills of John Lilly, with unsigned bill 1681-2.
• Abstract of Act for restraining the City & Companies, c.1690
• Legal dispute in the case of the Stationers’ Company against Peter Parker, 1697-8
• Letter of William Ward with directions to send three sets of statutes to him, 21 Jan 1736.
• Copy of a grant to the Stationers’ Company of certain schoolbooks, with the signed oath of William Marsh certifying this is a true copy, 1741.
• Statute copies inc. copy Inspeximus & Exemplification of patent of 8 Mar 13. Jac. [two copies]; copy Inspeximus & exemplification of patent of 4 May 3 &4 Philip & Mary; 4 May 3 &4 Philip & Mary – Alpant of a charter to the Stationers of London [two copies]
• Bill of Mr Hawkins. Signed in receipt for Mr Browne, Dec 1760.
• Letter of Attorney, Mr John Lee & Wife to Mr Hawkins. John Lee and Mary Lee, administrators of the wills of Elizabeth Hawkins and Thomas Coulson, appoint George Hawkins, bookseller, attorney in this matter. Witnessed by Peter Hughes and John Eeles, 20 Oct 1762.
• Printed order on taxes, signed in receipt on verso for hall tax, 3 Dec 1781
• Mounted chapbook title-page, The History of Valentine and Orson. Printed for the Company of Walking Stationers, c. 1800.
• Draft examination of Mr Charles Rivington, 1825
• Letter from the beadle excusing a member from the office of renter-warden, 28 Mar 1838
• Gross Income of the Treasurer of the English Stock, c.1875
• Extract from the Bye-Laws relating to the English Stock, 1875
• Summons for a dinner, 12 Oct 1878
• Notice about the Charity Commission, 4 Nov 1878
• Two building permissions 1880-1883, with two from 1884 in separate envelope
• Notice of dinner postponement following the decease of James Evan Adlard, 29 Oct 1890
• Stationers’ Company School particulars of scholarships and prizes, c.1896.
• The Freedom of the City of London awarded to John Robert Thurston (copy of freedom and engraved shield), with letter of explanation, 1 Dec 1911.
• Letter from F. C. Francis of the British Museum to Sidney Hodgson about copies of the London Almanack, 7 Nov 1956.
• Minutes of the House of Lords re Stationers and Newspaper Makers’ Company Bill, 21 June 1961
• Printed Memorandum for English Stockholders
• Undated menu
• Photographs of a plaque in honour of John Norton, with short newspaper cutting on the death of Sir Frederic Kenyon

Lease of land, 1686 stored I-Pl-6.
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