THE CONTENTS OP THIS YOLUME.
 

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♦** In this List the Illustrative Pieces are arranged under the Annual Accounts to which they relate, and not as we have
been able to find room for them in the blank pages occurring in the Text.

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Short Title................                 i

Title.................               iii

Registration Page...............                iv

Inscription................                v

List of Subscribers..............vi__viii

The Contents of this Volume.......^       .       .       .       .       ,         ix—xii

INTBODUCTION.............        xiii—2

The Ordinances of the Company, 1578—1582 A.D.........          3—26

On the present Transcript     .       .       .       . ^.........          27—30

Note as to the principal records of the Corporation of London  .......   473
 

20 May 1357.   Writers of Court-hand and Text-letters not to be summoned in the Sheriffs' courts

in London .............' xxii

12 July 1403.    Order of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen for the foundation of the Joint-Brotherhood

of the Limners and Text-Writers  ......... xxiii

24 October 1526.   Translation of Richard Nelb from the Craft of the Stationers to that of the Iron¬
mongers .          .           . '     .          .        .          ,.....,   xxi

Wit^inUx %......            31

Three Notes of various dates.............               32

1st Account (9 December 1554—14 July 1557)      ...         T. Dockwray. | ^ ^c^^°^*}          33—68

Receipts.     Apprentices, 37—43.  Freemen, &c., 33—37.  Book Entries, 45.  Pines, 44—i5.  Misc  46—51 67
Gifts.    '      To the Hall, 61-2 and 48-9.    The Inventory, &c. (? July 1557}, 63—66.                          ''            '     '

Payments.   The Incorporation, 56.   The Dinner, 57—59.   Misc., 53—56, 60.

13 June 1555.    Proclamation against Protestant books      ••.....     52

4 May 1556.    The Charter of the Company of Stationers of London          .       xxviii—xxxii

27 September 1556.    Act of Common Council as to Apprentices           .          .          .          .          .         .     xli

3 June 1557.    The enrollment of the Stationers' Charter in the Corporation Records    !         *,    496

6 September 1557.    The Grant of Arms to the Stationers' Company by Sir G. Dethick           .          xxxvi

2nd Annual Account (19 July 1557—9 July 1558)     .       .       .       T. Dockwray. | J- ^"^f' \          69—92
 

Apprentices,  73—74.   :,Freemen, &c.,  69—73.    Boor Entries, 74—79.    Fines   69—73
Misc., 69—73, 86.                                                                                                            '              *

Gifts.            To THE Hall, 86, 90.   The Inventory, &c,, 9 July 1558, 87—89.

Payments.   Dinners, 81, 84—85.   Setting forth men, 82—83.   Misc., 80—81.

6 June 1558.   Proclamation against Protestant books of * heresye sedityon and treason *       ,     92

3rd Annual Account (10 July 1558—10 July 1559)     ....    R. Waye-1 J* J^^|^* j         93—]16

*** Note what a short account this is; probably occasioned \)y the uncertainty through the change of
government.

Receipts.     Apprentices, 97—100.    Freemen, &c., 97—100.    Book Entries, 94—97     Fines  93—94
100—101.    Misc., 102—105, 113.                                                      »             •               ,             »

Payments.    The Dinner, 107—110.   Setting forth men, 112.    Misc., 105—106, 113.    Gifts, 103—105.

Facsimile of the Tricking of the Company's Common Seal of 1558           .    ' xxxvii

28 May 1559.   Extracts from the Will of T. Dockwray; the First Master      ...        xxxiv

[1559] R. Faulsete,   Articles contained in a Book for the Stationers drawn out in form of law (see » 106)   350
20 November 1558—? June 1559.   The Queen's Printers* First Account .         .          .        .          T '      ,   564

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