Abbreviations and select bibliography

Scriveners' Company Common Paper 1357-1628 With A Continuation To 1678. Originally published by London Record Society, London, 1968.

'Abbreviations and select bibliography', in Scriveners' Company Common Paper 1357-1628 With A Continuation To 1678, (London, 1968) pp. xxv-xxviii. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-record-soc/vol4/xxv-xxviii [accessed 19 April 2024]



	J. A. R. Abbott, 'Robert Abbott, City Money Scrivener, and his account book, 1646–1652', in Guildhall Miscellany, no. 7 (August 1956), pp. 30–39.
adm.	admitted.
app.	apprentice.
	A. B. Beaven, The Aldermen of the City of London (1908, 1913).
	M. Birks, Gentlemen of the Law (1960).
	J. Bromley and H. Child, The Armorial Bearings of the Guilds of London (1960).
	City of London Livery Companies' Commission. Report and Appendix, vol. 3 (1884), pp. 732–64.
	D. C. Coleman, 'London Scriveners and the Estate Market in the Later Seventeenth Century', in Economic History Review, Second series, vol. IV, no. 2 (1951), pp. 221–30.
co.	county.
dec'd	deceased.
	P. H. Ditchfield, The City Companies of London and their good works (1904), pp. 310–13.
Freshfield	E. Freshfield, 'Some Notarial Marks in the "Common Paper" of the Scriveners' Company', in Archaeologia, vol. 54 (1895), pp. 239–54.
gent.	gentleman.
GL	Guildhall Library.
	H. C. Gutteridge, 'The Origin and Historical Development of the Profession of Notaries Public in England', in Cambridge Legal Essays written in honour of and presented to Doctor Bond, Professor Buckland and Professor Kenny (1926), pp. 123–37.
Jenkinson	H. Jenkinson, The Later Court Hands in England, from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century (1927).
jun.	junior.
pat.	patrimony.
	T. Phillips, Londonderry and the London Companies, 1609–1629, being a survey and other documents submitted to King Charles I (1928).
	J. S. Purvis, Notarial Signs from the York Archiepiscopal Records (1957).
	J. S. Purvis, 'The Notary Public in England', in Archivum, vol. 12 (1962), pp. 121–6.
Rawl. D51	MS. Rawlinson D51, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
	T. F. Reddaway, 'The Livery Companies of Tudor London', in History, vol. 51 (1966), pp. 287–99.
redemp.	redemption.
Riley, Memorials	H. T. Riley (ed.), Memorials of London and London life, in the XIIIth, XlVth, and XVth centuries (1868).
s.	son.
s/app.	son and/or apprentice.
Sharpe, Letter-Book	R. R. Sharpe (ed.), Calendar of Letter-Books [A-L] preserved among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guildhall. 11 vols. (1899–1912).
subs.	subscribes.
	J. C. Thornley and G. W. Hastings (eds.), The Guilds of the City of London and their Liverymen (n.d.), pp. 220–2.
	G. Unwin, The Gilds and Companies of London (4th ed., 1963).
	W. Warrell, Scribes ancient and modern. (Otherwise Law Writers or Scriveners) (1889).

Nearly all the titles mentioned above give references to other sources; see also W. F. Kahl, The Development of London Livery Companies: an historical essay and a select bibliography (Boston, Mass., 1960). There are numerous incidental references to the Worshipful Company of Scriveners in general works on the Guilds and in many of the histories of other Livery Companies.

List of manuscripts of the Scriveners' Company in the Guildhall Library



MS.
366(16)	Case of the Company as to the legality of an assessment on its members towards the rebuilding of their Hall burnt in the Great Fire. With opinion of Sir Thomas Raymond, 14 May 1674.
5370	The 'Common Paper'—the subject of this present book. (fn. 1)
6199	Extracts from Court minutes (now untraceable), 1696–1820, chiefly relating to the purchase of the Company's Hall by the Coachmakers' Company and to other premises belonging to the Scriveners' Company, compiled c.1830.
8716	Original charter of incorporation granted to the Company by King James I, 28 January 1616/ 17.
8717	Original ordinances, ratified 29 January 1618/19.
8718	Original ordinances, ratified 28 May 1635.
8719	Copy of grant of arms and supporters, originally granted 11 November 1634, made at the Company's request by Stephen Peters, arms painter, 1738.
8720	Wardens' account book, 1732–1894.
8721	Members' rolls, recording admission to freedom and livery, and offices served, 1732–1892. (There are eighty-four rolls, but the record is incomplete.)
8721A	Photostat copy of MS. Rawlinson D51 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford—this record is also included in this present book. (fn. 2)
8722	Bond in £1,000 by the Coachmakers' Company to the Scriveners' Company, 13 May 1703.
8723	Copy bargain and sale by Sir Arthur Savage and Dame Sarah his wife (late wife of George Smithies, Alderman of London, dec'd) and others, to Charles Bostock, Citizen and Scrivener, of— Great messuage with garden known as Bacon House in Oat Lane, St. Mary Staining, City of London 10 June 1628; with copy fine appertaining, 8 July 1628.
9837	Deed of arrangement between (a) the Brewers' Company, the Scriveners' Company, the Corporation of London, the Pewterers' Company, the Barbersurgeons' Company and the Carpenters' Company, and (b) the Ironmongers' Company, in relation to matters arising out of the Londonderry Estates, 20 November 1884.

List of manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, relating to the Scriveners' Company

Rawlinson MS. D51 (S.C. 12869), being records of the Company of Scriveners transcribed in the time of Charles II. (fn. 3)

Rawlinson MS. D734 (S.C. 13504). Miscellaneous papers relating to the City of London and including:

(i) Petition to King Charles II on the issue of a Quo Warranto against the Company, expressing their submission, but praying for continuance of such privileges as he shall think fit (f. 79).

(ii) Two copies of a petition to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen respecting the binding of apprentices, with statement of reasons, and letter, 1672 (ff. 80–87).

(iii) Counsel's opinion, by Sir Thomas Raymond, 14 May 1674, in favour of the power of the Company to levy contributions upon the members for the rebuilding of the Hall, burned down in the Fire of London (f. 88).

Rawlinson MS. D911 (S.C. 13677). Fragmentary English papers, historical and legal, but including (f. 196) The explanac'on of the clause concerninge scriveners, etc. conteyned in the Act against usury made in the xxi yeare of Kinge James'.