LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME IV PAGE Order of Procession at Nelson's Funeral between 396 & 397 facing 398 The Company's Barge, 1780. From a picture at Drapers' Maps from Sir Thomas Phillips's Survey of the Plantation between 530 & 531 APPENDICES TO VOL. III I AUTHORITIES AND ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS FROM 1603 BESIDES the Charters and Documents which are given in the Appendices, the Company possesses a large number, dating from the seventeenth century. I must here content myself with a mention of the more important. For the others, reference should be made to the Catalogues in the possession of the Company. Of these there are two: the General Catalogue, and another in seven volumes bound in white vellum. In the latter all the original documents belonging to the Company are carefully scheduled. They include a large number of title deeds to the property of the Company both trust and corporate, which would be of great value to an antiquarian. Shelf Mark. The shelf marks are in some cases so many that I have not always given them. They will be found in the General Catalogue. Ch. XX. +371. + 902. 1603'4 Letters Patent confirming the grant of Cromwell's House, 1611. Precepts of the Mayor, 1617, 1619. Book of Coats of Armour, a small folio volume with vellum cover, of the early seventeenth century. It contains the arms in colour of Henry VI and Edward IV, of Lord Grey, the Marquis of Winchester, Lord Giles Paulet, Lord Hunsdon, Sir Hugh Paulet, Sir John Ratcliff, Lord Wentworth, and Sir Francis Drake, probably because all these were members of the Company. It also contains a copy of The Drapers Arms of the day and the arms of Lord Mayors, who were Drapers from Fitz Alwyn to Sir B Shelf Mark. William Garway, and other eminent members of the As was the case in the earlier days, our main sources of Of the Minutes there is an unbroken series up to the present day, all of them written in an excellent hand, and entering carefully into the smallest details. They are, however differently named. Up to the year 1828 they are all entered under the head of Repertories or Records, of which +131-139. there are nine volumes. From the year 1734 to 1828 there is a rough duplicate of these Records in the Assistants' +234-250, Minutes'; but after 1828 the Assistants' Minutes become the 686 a. sole authority. See Catalogue. Of the Accounts of the Renters there is an unbroken series till the office was abolished in 1659. Those of the Wardens continue till 1718. Those of the Wardens for the years 16656, 1666-7, 1667–8, 1668–9, are, however, missing, some of them having been probably lost in the Great Fire. The Accounts are kept with the greatest care and minuteness and furnish us with abundant information as to the income and the expenditure of the Company. Unfortunately many of these Accounts have suffered from damp and are in places unreadable. After 1718 these Accounts are found in the Journals and Ledgers. Specimens of some of these and abstracts of others are given in the Appendices. year The Bachelors' Accounts commence with the 1615-16 and continue till 1657, at which date the subor+178. dinate organization of the Bachelors or Yeomen came to an end. The items found in these Accounts are as follows: After the extinction of the Bachelor organization in 1657, the accounts dealing with the Mayor's Shows are recorded +382. in the Book of the Show Committee. It may here be noted that the Company has just acquired 000. the original copy of the libretto of London's Triumphs which was written by Thomas Jordan for the inauguration of Sir Thomas Davies as Lord Mayor on October 30, 1676. Only two other copies are known to exist: the Althorpe Copy now in the Ryland's Library, Manchester, and one in the Guildhall Library. See Cata logue. Separate Accounts from 1655-1709 of the following trusts also survive: Bancrofts, Cf. also Ch. VII, also Exemplification of a Bill, answer, replication, interrogatories, and depositions of witnesses in a case depending in the Court of Chancery, 2 George II, with elaborate scroll designs and portrait of George II. |