...(S. Nov. 13 ; 634) Leighton, £3 3s. Orders, Rules and Ordinances, ordained by the Master and Keepers of the Mystery or Art of Stationers of the City of London, (cut into), 4to., 1692 (P. Nov. 2 ; 423) Barnard, 18s. Ordinance for the Due and Orderly Receiving...

...copy or copies, book or books, or any part of any such copy or copies, book or books ; or shall sell, bind, stitch, or expose the same or any part or parts...member or members so offending shall FORFEIT to the masters and keepers, or wardens and commonalty of the mystery or art of stationers of the City of London,...

...own hands the rapidly increasing trade, and in 1556 the Craft was incorporated under the style of * The Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery or Art of a Stationer of the City of London,' and shortly afterwards the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen granted...

...to search the heretical books from abroad. The title in full of the newly incorporated Guild was " The Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery or Art of a Stationer of the City of London." The first Master was Thomas Dockwray, John Cawood and Henry Cooke...

...Dublin: Reprint: 1772? 1907. 1692 : The Orders, Rules and Ordinances, ordained, devised and made by the Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of...Mystery or Art of Stationers of the City of London, for the well-governing of that Society. Black letter. 4to, pp. 42. London: 1692. 1908. 1692: Archaeologiae...

...such copy or copies book or books or any part of any such copy or copies book or books, or shall sell, bind, stitch, or expose the same or any part or parts...keepers or wardens and commonalty of the mystery or an of stationers of the City of London, the sum of twelve pence for every such copy or copies book...

...printing of books under Government control. In 1556 Philip and Mary granted a charter of incorporation to the Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery or Art of a Stationer b2 of the City of London. Three years previously Queen Mary had prohibited the printing...

...their offences. And we do straitly charge, authorise, and command the Master and Keepers or Wardens of the mystery or art of Stationers of the City of London and their successors and their deputies, that they from time to time, taking with them such officers...

...respective Name and Names; upon pain of forfeiting to the Master, and Keepers or Wardens, and Commonelty of the Mystery or Art of Stationers of the City of London, Twenty Pounds; to be by them Recovered by Action of Debt, to their own use. . . . "108 A Suggested...

...Charity. WRIGHT'S CHARITY. Thomas Wright, esq., by his Will, bearing date November 24th 1794, gave to the master and keepers or wardens and commonalty of the mystery or art of a stationer of the city of London, 2,000/. four per cent Bank annuities, upon trust, to apply the dividends...