Register A
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.
Description based on online resource (viewed on October 18, 2017).
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.
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Keywords: Company Finance; Membership; Orders of Court; Wardens' accounts, financial accounts, audit, binding of apprentices, apprenticeship, receipt, expenditure, payment, entries of copies