Headnote: Tanners' Company Ordinances
Type: Ordinances
Date: 1605-c.1742
Place of production: Coventry
Notes: Sharp did not use this record for his 1825 volume, and it survived the 1879 fire that destroyed many of Sharp's notes and manuscript guild records he had worked on. Berwick-Sayers gives 1604 as the start date; Ingram gives 1605. The MS appears in a transcript from the early 20th c, possibly by M.D. Harris. The transcript is now Coventry Records Office, Acc 241. It contains 40 leaves. See Ingram, Coventry, p. xlviii. Eleven certificates that were likely sources for the minute book entries also survive, identified by Milne; see "Early."
Source: W. C. Berwick Sayers, “Britain's Libraries and the War.” The Library Quarterly 14, no. 2 (1944): pp. 95-99; p. 97.
Source 2: Reginald W. Ingram, Records of Early English Drama: Coventry (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981), p. xlviii.
Source 3: Krista A. Milne, “Early English Drama Records and Other Manuscripts from Coventry Destroyed Before and During the Second World War,” Early Theatre, 26.2 (2023): pp. 33-55.