Bestanddeel 07 - Rough court minutes

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Draft minutes are dated 2 Apr 1688, 7 May 1688, 15 and 25 Jun 1688, 6 Aug 1688, 4 Sep 1688, 11 Oct 1688, 3 Nov 1688, 3 and 19 Dec 1688 and 1, 4 and 6 Mar 1689.

Some minutes have other documents inserted:

Minutes for 7 May 1688:

1. figures for Robert Turner, Adiel Mill, Mr Porter, W[illia]m Wild and Tho[mas] Hodgkin, possibly monies owed, undated.

Minutes for 4 Sep 1688:

1. Lord Mayor's order requesting that liverymen of several companies be restored to their places, with reference to a recent royal charter restoring to the city its ancient franchises, 7 Oct 1688.

Minutes for 4 and 6 Mar 1689:

1. memorandum from Tho[mas] Dring, stating that the company is to discharge Mr Guy and Mr Parker for comprinting the company's copies and pay all arrears for rent due, that Mr Guy and Mr Parker are to deliver to the company the primers they had printed and be paid 9s 9d per reame for this, and that Mr Guy and Mr Parker are to pay the company £180 in consideration for their comprinting, 6 Mar 1689.

2. copy petition from Gilbert Ironside, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, to the king, stating that the university has been molested by the king's printers of bibles in London and the Company of Stationers for printing bibles and books of common prayer with singing psalms annexed, and praying for an order that the process of Quo Warranto issued in his Majesty's name be withdrawn and the complainants (if wronged) pursue their remedy at law in their own names in a suit.

3. order of council signed by W[illia]m Bridgeman, that a copy of the above petition be given to Henry Hills and the other King's printers of bibles in London, that the matter be heard at the board on 5 Oct 1688, and that until the king declares his pleasure on the hearing all further proceedings upon the process of Quo Warranto are to be stopped, 23 Sep 1688.

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The Court minutes of which these are drafts are contained in TSC/B/01/04 [Court Book F]; Records relating to Peter Parker, Thomas Guy and Oxford [TSC/E/20/01/17]

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