File 01 - Rough court minutes

Manuscript

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.

• English

• Latin

The Court minutes of which these are drafts are contained in TSC/B/02/03 [Court Book E] and TSC/B/02/04 [Court Book F]

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