File 02 - Petitions and other records relating to grants of charity

1 folder, containing 24 items and 1 label

Petitions, receipt, letters and other papers relating to charity granted by the Company; most records date from 1690-1851.

Folder contains:

i: court order giving Deborah Billingsley and her husband £5 on receipt of Deborah's petition, 26 Mar 1690.

ii: receipt for 20s to Thomas Dayrell to buy Scotch coal, 9 Oct 1711.

iii: letter from Thomas Wright acknowledging receipt of £5, 20 Jul 1769.

iv: letter from James Bettenham thanking the company for charity, Sep 1765.

v: letter from Elizabeth Foy informing the company that her mother had died, 28 Dec 1767.

vi: letter from John Potter junior expressing hopes of 'further civilities' towards his dying father, 5 Mar 1771.

vii: receipt for 9 shillings to Peter Warne to buy shoes for himself and his father, 23 Feb 1773.

viii: letter from Ann Boots requesting that the company pay £18 due to her brother William Shuckburgh, 18 Apr 1775.

ix: statement of pension list, midsummer 1779.

x: letter from Joseph Tansey originally enclosing a recommendation of Susannah Franks to Bethlem Hospital, 1 Oct 1786.

xi: memorandum regarding petition certificates, 6-10 Oct 1786.

xii: bill and receipt for £4 3s 6d to James Robinson to buy coal and shoes, 22 Jun 1805 [2 items].

xiii: petition of Samuel Norton on behalf of Lambeth Charity School, 22 Dec 1807.

xiv: petition of widow Mary Hall requesting assistance in publishing a work, 22 Jun 1808.

xv: petition of Edward Forster on behalf of the Refuge for the Destitute, Lambeth, requesting financial aid, 2 Nov 1808.

xvi: petition of Richard Corbett, son of late renter warden Sir Charles Corbett, requesting financial assistance, 31 Jul 1809.

xvii: petition of Mary Smith on behalf of Friendly Female Society, requesting financial aid, 21 Oct 1809.

xviii: petition of Thomas Thornton and others on behalf of composer John Whitaker, 10 Jul 1847.

xix: letter from Charles Coleman requesting financial aid to help with cleaning the City of London, 25 Jul 1851.

xx: petition of John Charley for a Bowyer charity pension, undated.

xxi: petition of Samuel Allcroft requesting to be permitted to 'walk as one of the old men on Lord Mayor's Day', undated.

xxii: petition of the governors of London Hospital, requesting financial aid, undated.

xxiii: receipt for £10 to William Beaver Price from the Darby Pension Fund, 1 Apr 1926.

xxiv: receipt for £10 to Annie Drewett from the Darby Pension Fund, 1 Oct 1932.

• English

• Latin

Microfilm copies of items 1-xxii are on reel 105, 'Records of the Stationers' Company 1554-1920: 115 Reels of Microfilm with Printed Guide', published by Chadwyck-Healy Ltd (1989)

S Hodgson, 'Papers and documents recently found at Stationers' Hall' (London: Bibliographical Society, 1944), pp. 29-30

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