Details

Compiled/​Created

15541209-15960802.

Summary note

Description: Register A is the earliest surviving record book at Stationers' Hall. Includes binding of apprentices, orders of the Court and details of receipts and expenditure. Entry Book of Copies & Wardens' Accounts'. Contains Entries of Copies 9 December 1554 to 2 August 1596. Wardens' annual accounts, 1554-1571, and annual cash abstracts, 1571-1596. Initial account covers 3 years [1554-1557]. Accounts include receipts for presenting apprentices, entering the freedom, fees paid for entries of copy and miscellanea, accounts for gifts received by the hall and payments made.

Notes

• Please note: Some of the metadata for this document has been taken from the Stationers' Company archival catalogue.
• AMDigital Reference: TSC/1/D/02/01.

Original version

Reproduction of: Register A 9 Dec 1554 - 2 Aug 1596.

Location of originals

The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers

Copyright note

The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers

Source of description

Description based on online resource (viewed on October 18, 2017).

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