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- 1851-1998 (Creation)
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26 volumes
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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.
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Language of material
English
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Latin
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Microfilm copies of volumes 1-11 are on reels 81-82, 'Records of the Stationers' Company 1554-1920: 115 Reels of Microfilm with Printed Guide', published by Chadwyck-Healy Ltd (1989)
Related units of description
Names of those admitted to the freedom or cloathed are in the Court Books [TSC/B/01] and Court Book indexes and abstracts [TSC/B/07]; Livery lists [TSC/C/01/01]; Beadle's book [TSC/C/01/02]; Livery address book [TSC/C/01/04]; Call of the Livery volume 4 [TSC/C/01/06/04]; Freemen's registers [TSC/C/04/03]; Declarations of Freemen [TSC/C/04/04]; list of pensioners liable to quarterage, 1870-1877, in C R Rivington's book [TSC/F/06]
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