Part 13

[A Divine.] Nature and Necessity of Catechising. 8º. Bateman (W.). Concio ad Clerum. 4º. Bible (Welsh). 8º. Kerrich (S.). Thanksgiving Sermon. 8º. Knowles (T.). The existence and attributes of God. 8º. Mays (C.). Thanksgiving Sermon. 8º. [Powell.] Heads of Lectures in Experimental Philosophy. 8º. Psalms (Welsh). 8º. Rutherforth (T.). Determinatio Quaestionis Theologicae. 4º. " Sermon before the House of Commons. Smart (C). Carmen Alex. Pope in S. Caeciliam Latine redditum. Ed. 2. 4º. Warner (M.). Thanksgiving Sermon. 8º. Warren (Rich.). Mutual duty of minister and people. 4º. Weston (W.). Rejection of Christian Miracles by Heathens. 8º. " Moral impossibility of conquering England. 8º.

1747

Bible, 12º. Cotes (R.). Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Lectures. Ed. 2. 8º. Heathcote (R.). Historia Astronomiae. 8º. Taylor (J.). Demosthenes. 8º.

1748

Brooke (Z.). Defensio Miraculorum. 4º. Common Prayer. Fº. " " 12º. (2 eds.) Goodall (H.). Duties attending a proper discharge of the Ministry. 4º. Gratulatio Acad. Cant. de reditu Georgii II. Fº. Rutherforth (T.). System of Natural Philosophy. 2 vols. 4º. Sternhold (T.). The Whole Book of Psalms. 12º. (2 eds.) Weston (W.). On the remarkable wonders of antiquity. 8º.

1749

Beaumont (J.). Poems. 4º. Bennet (P.). Two University Sermons. 8º. Fauchon (J.). A publick lecture to La Butte. 4º. Green (J.). Commencement Sermon. 4º. Law (E.)· Considerations on the state of the world. Ed. 2. 8º. " Discourse upon the life of Christ. 8º. Mason [W.]. Installation Ode. 4º. Moody (S.). Concio Academica. 8º. [Ross (J.).] Cicero, Epistolae. 8º. Smith (R.). Harmonics. 8º. Sternhold (T.). The Whole Book of Psalms. 12º. Taylor (J.). Sermon at Bishop-Stortford. 4º.

1750

Chapman (T.). On the Roman Senate. 8º. Common Prayer. 12º. [Grey (Z.).] Historical account of Earthquakes. 8º. Hubbard (H.). Sermon at Ipswich. 4º. Knowles (T.). Existence and Attributes of God. 8º. [Masters (R).]. List of ... members of Corpus Christi College. 4º. Michell (J.). Treatise of artificial magnets. 8º. Rutherforth (T.). Defence of [Sherlock's] discourses. Edd. 1 and 2. 8º. Smart (C). On the Eternity of the Supreme Being. 4º.

INDEX

Abendana, I., 72

Acton, Lord, 148, 149

Adams, Sir T., 54

Aldrich, R., 4

Andrewes, L., 60

Anstey, C., 105

Archdeacon, J., 111-118

Bacon, Francis, 29, 35

Baker, T., 146

Baldwin, Archbp., 11

Barker, C., 32, 33, 68

Barker, M., 68

Barnes, J., 73, 92

Barrow, I., 67, 146

Baskerville, J., 106-111

Baskett, J., 104

Bathurst, C., 102 ff.

Beale, J., 36

Bede, 60

Bentham, E., 102

Bentham, James, 101-105

Bentham, Joseph, 101-111

Bentley, R., 74-93

Blomfield, C. J., 134

Blore, E., 131 ff.

Bowes, R., 12, 13, 55, 59, 63

Bowyer, W., 112

Brewster, E., 53

Breynans, P., 16

Brooke, T., 44

Brown, E. W., 144

Browne, I. H., 118

Browne, Sir T., 93

Brownrigg, R., 42

Buck, F., 48, 75

Buck, J., 47-53, 59, 62, 63, 70

Buck, T., 44-59, 62, 70, 75

Bullock, H., 8, 11

Burges, J., 116-119

Burghley, Lord, 23, 32

Caius, Dr, 6

Camden, Marquess, 129 ff., 136

Cantaber, 1

Carter, E., 1, 2

Caxton, W., 1, 2

Cayley, A., 148

Charles I, 45

Charles II, 65, 68, 70

Charters, Printing, 19-20, 45

Clarendon, Lord, 68

Clark, J. W., 148

Clay, C. F., 143, 151

Clay, C. J., 142, 143, 145

Clay, J., 142, 143

Clowes, W., 136

Coke, Sir E., 20

Colbatch, J., 86

Cole, W., 50, 104

Colet, J., 15

Collyer, J., 72

Cotes, R., 85

Cowell, J., 43

Cox, G., 145

Crashaw, R., 56, 70

Croke, R., 3, 4

Cromwell, O., 61, 65

Crosse, T., 86

Crownfield, C., 73-101

Crownfield, J., 101

Cudworth, R., 60, 65

Daniel, R., 48-61

Davies, J., 88, 92

Day, J., 31, 32

Deighton, J., 117, 120

Dillingham, W., 69

Dilly, E., 113

Donne, J., 56

Duff, E. G., 3, 4, 7, 8, 14

Dyer, G., 73, 127

Elizabeth, 30, 31, 41

Erasmus, 3 ff., 17, 72

Fenner, M., 98, 99

Fenner, W., 95-99

Field, J., 63-70, 74

Fisher, J., 1, 4, 5, 12, 13

Flesher, M., 53

Fletcher, G., 42, 55

Fletcher, P., 41, 55

Freind, W., 116

Fuller, T., 2, 15, 20, 41, 56, 60, 65

Galen, 12

Ged, W., 95 ff.

Gibbs, J., 105

Godfrey, G., 17, 21

Gooch, B., 35

Graves, W., 62

Gray, G. J., 4, 18, 111

Gray, T., 5, 105, 116, 117

Green, R., 92

Greene, L., 44, 46, 47

Grey, Z., 105

Hamilton, Adams & Co., 145

Hansard, T., 129, 134

Hardy, J., 15

Hare, F., 84, 138

Harraden, R., 119

Harvey, W., 60

Hayes, J., 70-73

Heitland, W. E., 146

Henry VIII, 19, 45

Herbert, G., 56

Hodson, F., 120

Holdsworth, R., 61

Holme, R., 81

Hurd, R., 105

Innys, W., 91

Isola, A., 117

Jackson, J., 73

James I, 36, 37, 39, 42

James, J., 96 ff.

James, T., 96 ff.

Janssen, Sir T., 88

Jebb, Sir R. C., 148

Jenkes, H., 73

Jones, T., 117

Jugge, J., 31

Kaetz, P., 3, 14

Kelvin, Lord, 146, 148

Kilburne, W., 67

Kingston, J., 22, 31

Kipling, T., 116

Knight, S., 92

Kuster, L., 77, 87 ff.

La Butte, R., 112, 117

Lamb, J., 129

Leathes, Sir S., 16, 149

Le Clerc, J., 92

Legate, J. (the elder), 30-34, 75

Legate, J. (the younger), 53, 62, 63, 75

Legge, C., 34 ff.

Lily, W., 14, 34, 38, 45, 46, 113

Long, R., 105

Love, R., 65

Ludlam, W., 118

Luther, M., 13

Lyons, I., 92

Maclear, G. F., 147

Maitland, F. W., 2, 148

Margaret, The Lady, 4, 5, 16

Marshe, T., 31

Martin, H., 73

Martyn, T., 117

Mason, A., 144

Mason, W., 105

Masters, R., 105, 117

Maundeville, Lord, 38

Mawe, L., 36

Mayor, J. E. B., 146

Mead, R., 53

Merrill, T., 92, 113

Middleton, C., 85

Milner, I., 120 ff.

Milton, J., 58

Monk, J. H., 74 ff., 134, 138

More, H., 60

Mullinger, J. B., 4, 10, 145, 146

Nasmith, J., 117

Nevile, T., 42

Newcomb, R., 120

Newton, Sir I., 85, 90, 92, 93

Nichols, J., 112

Nicholson, S., 18, 19, 21

Noke, R., 21

Nutter, J., 128

Ockley, S., 92

Ogden, S., 116

Owen, D., 42

Owen, J., 87 ff.

Oxford, Printing at, 2, 120, 123

Parker, J., 53

Parker, J. W., 136-141

Parris, F. S., 103

Peace, J. B., 143

Pearson, J., 69

Peck, J., 73

Pepys, S., 60, 67

Perkins, W., 41, 44

Perowne, J. J. S., 146, 147

Perse, S., 41

Piers, W., 92

Pilgrim, N., 21

Pindar, J. (i), 73

Pindar, J. (ii), 73, 95

Pitt, W., 117, 129 ff.

Plumptre, R., 116

Porter, J., 34

Prior, M., 82

Prothero, Sir G. W., 149

Pulleyn, O., 62

Quarles, F., 60

Randal, J., 116

Ray, J., 68, 70

Rayleigh, Lord, 148

Reynolds, O., 148

Rivington, J., 113, 114, 134, 145

Roberts, W. H., 105

Rogers, B., 143

Sandys, Sir J. E., 146

Scholefield, J., 134, 146

Scrivener, F. H. A., 146, 147

Seeley, G., 142, 145

Seres, W., 31

Sewall, S., 72

Shelton, T., 60

Sheres, P., 21

Siberch, J., 2-14, 15, 20

Sidgwick, A., 146

Sigebert, 1

Smart, C., 105

Smith, Sir G. A., 147

Smith, J., 128-136

Smith, W. Robertson, 147, 148

Somerset, Duke of, 75, 76

Spencer, J., 65

Speryng, N., 12, 14, 17, 18, 21

Spierinck. _See_ Speryng

Squire, S., 105

Stanhope, Earl, 122

Stationers' Company, 22 ff., 30 ff., 43, 44, 51, 53, 62, 65, 68, 69, 95, 113

Stationers, University, 15 ff.

Stokes, Sir G. G., 148

Stokes, M., 104

Sylvester, J. J., 148

Tabor, J., 7, 35, 36

Tait, P. G., 146, 148

Talbot, J., 77

Taylor, J., 77, 92, 105

Thomas, T., 22-29, 32, 34, 41, 75

Tidder, J., 33, 34

Tothill, R., 31

Travers, W., 25

Usher, Archbp., 54

Verity, A. W., 146

Wakefield, G., 116

Waller, A. R., 150, 151

Walpole, H., 109

Ward, Sir A. W., 149, 150

Warde, S., 36

Watts, R., 122-128, 134

Waugh, J., 113

Weaver, E., 49, 51

Wendy, T., 18

Wesley, J., 117

West, N., 11

Westminster Abbey, 3, 14, 147

Whewell, W., 146

Whinn, M., 70

Whiston, W., 92

Whitaker, W., 22, 23

Whitgift, Archbp., 25-27

William IV, 136

Willis, R., 148

Willymot, W., 42

Wilson, A., 122-127

Wolsey, Cardinal, 8, 17, 19, 21

Wordsworth, W., 117

Wren, M., 41

Wright, R. T., 151

Wright, W. A., 148

Young, R., 53

CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY J. B. PEACE, M.A., AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

FOOTNOTES:

[1] _Cambridge Historical Register_, pp. 1, 168.

[2] The binding of a copy of this book in Lincoln Cathedral is almost certainly the work of Siberch.

[3] See below, p. 14.

[4] See G. J. Gray, _John Siberch_ (1921).

[5] John Tabor, Registrary from 1600 to 1645, wrote in 1620: "John Seberch a printer of the University of Cambridge was the first that printed in England in greeke letter" (Registry MS 33. 2. 17).

[6] _Grace Book_ Γ

[7] Mullinger, I, 546.

[8] The Bury St Edmund's copy is now lost.

[9] See also _Grace Book A_, p. 117, where there is the following item in the proctors' accounts for 1476-7:

Item stacionario pro toga xiijˢ iiijͩ

[10] Cooper, _Annals_, I, 262.

[11] "Garard et spierinck" were sureties for Jerome Leonard, the Carmelite, in 1520-1 (_Grace Book B_, p. 91). In the same volume it is recorded that Garrett Godfrey bound a book for Cardinal Wolsey in 1528-9 (p. 152).

[12] The oak panelling and carved mantelpiece belonging to this ancient house have recently been removed to the new Combination room at Magdalene College (A. B. Gray, _Cambridge revisited_, p. 46).

[13] See G. F. Browne, _C.A.S. Proc._ III, 407.

[14] Cooper, _Annals_, I, 329.

[15] Abbreviated translation quoted from Cooper, _Annals_, Ii, 368. Cooper, however, has "Chancellor _and_ his vicegerent _or_ three doctors" in one place, and Wordsworth (_Scholae Academicae_, p. 378) copies his mistake.

[16] Gray and Palmer, _Wills of Cambridge Printers_, pp. 10-30.

[17] MS Baker XXIX, 374, quoted in Cooper, _Annals_, II, 357.

[18] Cooper, _Annals_, II, 393.

[19] Cooper, _Annals_, II, 400.

[20] Cooper, _Annals_, II, 425.

[21] See Appendix II.

[22] Gray and Palmer, _Wills of Cambridge Printers_, pp. 70, 71.

[23] Strype, _Annals of the Reformation_, IV, 51, quoted in Cooper, _Annals_, II, 491.

[24] Registry MS 33. 2. 1.

[25] Arber, _Stat. Reg._ III, 88.

[26] _The Foundation of the Christian Religion_, by W. Perkins (1601), was printed for John Porter only.

[27] Arber, _Stat. Reg._ II, 157.

[28] Herbert's _Remains_, 217, 218, quoted in Cooper, _Annals_, III, 138, 139.

[29] Registry MS 33. 2. 23.

[30] Registry MSS 33. 2. 19, 95.

[31] Tabor kept a careful account of the expenses of the visit. The following is a typical extract:

Sunday night supper Brest of mutton xviijd Salletts iiijd Pullett xxiid Larkes xviijd Cheese ijd Wine and tobacco xvjd bred and bere xxd

sum viijs iiijd

Buttord Alle ijs Suger iiijd bere xd fyre ijs vid

vs xd (Registry MS 33. 2. 29)

[32] Registry MS 33. 1. 6.

[33] Registry MSS 33. 2. 2-67. See also _Scintilla_, a tract of 1641 reprinted in Arber, _Stat. Reg._ (IV, 35), and Darlow and Moule (I, 189) and containing "a remarkable testimony to the never-ending competition in the book trade."

[34] Registry MSS 33. 6. 8 and 33. 2. 95.

[35] Registry MS 33. 6. 15.

[36] _Ibid._ 33. 1. 6.

[37] Registry MS 33. 6. 15.

[38] Oak panelling, formerly part of this inn, has been preserved. (See A. B. Gray, _Cambridge revisited_, p. 102.)

[39] This amount is also referred to in Registry MSS 33. 2. 95 and 33. 6. 9 as having been printed between September, 1625, and February, 1626. From the same documents it appears that the normal output of a press at this time was 900 reams per annum.

[40] Registry MS 33. 1. 21.

[41] The king's printer.

[42] Before his election at Cambridge Daniel was already acting for Thomas Buck. The Articles of Agreement between the Bucks and Edmund Weaver (see p. 51) were written by him and the payments made by Weaver to him (Registry MS 33. 1. 13).

[43] Registry MSS 33. 1. 15 and 33. 6. 15. The "gathering of mulcts and the arresting Masters of Artes in his walke and transcribing of combinations for his said walke" were excepted from the duties which John took over from his brother.

[44] Registry MS 33. 1. 19.

[45] MSS Cole, xliii, 260. For other pictures of the house see Cranage and Stokes, _The Augustinian Friary in Cambridge_ (_C.A.S. Proc._ XXII. 53). The house was used as the headquarters of the King's army in 1647 (_Extract from certain papers of intelligence from Cambridge_, 1647). "The report is" says the writer of the letter "that it will be this night [7 June] the King's quarters."

[46] Registry MS 33. 6. 15.

[47] Registry MS 33. 1. 22.

[48] Registry MS 33. 1. 23.

[49] _Ibid._ 33. 1. 24.

[50] Arber (_Stat. Reg._ v, xxx) notes that "in Charles I's reign there came a new development in the trade: Robert Young, Miles Flesher and John Haviland formed themselves into a Syndicate, and became privately the real owners of Printing businesses carried on ostensibly in other people's names."

[51] Afterwards university printer (see p. 62).

[52] _Humble Proposals_ (Registry MS 33. 6. 25). The bible of 1638 remained the standard text until 1762 (Darlow and Moule, I, 182). Isaac Barrow also paid a tribute to Buck in his _Mathematic Lectures_:

He, with the loss of his health and money, took the greatest care of the University Press, out of regard to the honour of it: and with what types he printed, especially the sacred writings, all posterity will admire (Stokes, _Esquire Bedells_, 97).

[53] Parr, _Life of Usher_, pp. 342, 343.

[54] Registry MS 33. 6. 16.

[55] Bowes, in a note on _Pietas Acad. Cant. in funere ... Carolinae_ (1738), says: "This appears to be the first occasion on which Arabic types were available at the Univ. Press, as up to 1736 all verses in that language were printed in Hebrew characters" (_Catalogue_, p. 121).

[56] He was 17th in the _Ordo Senioritatis_ of 1612-13; George Herbert was 2nd in the same year.

[57] Reprinted at the Dublin University Press, 1835.

[58] His two colleagues in this office were his brother John (elected 1626) and Francis Hughes (elected 1629). By a grace of 5 December, 1664, the three bedells, "being all old and infirm," were allowed a deputy. The number of bedells was reduced to two in 1858. See also p. 49.

[59] For details of Buck's activities outside the Press, see Stokes, _Esquire Bedells_, 96-99. He had a special pew in St Edward's and was buried in that church.

[60] Registry MS 33. 1. 27. Cf. Bowes, _Biog. Notes_, p. 303, "He [Buck] is said to have resigned in 1653." This agreement makes it clear that Buck sold, but did not resign, his printing rights in 1653.

[61] Legate's only benefaction to the university seems to have been the gift of _Annotations upon the Bible_ (a two-volume work printed by him in London in 1651) to the University Library.

[62] Field and Hills, another Republican who was his partner.

[63] Arber, _Stat. Reg._ III, 27.

[64] Registry MS 33. 6. 22.

[65] A copy was brought to Samuel Pepys in quires by his bookbinder on 27 May, 1667. "But," writes Pepys, "it is like to be so big that I shall not use it."

[66] Registry MS 33. 6. 27.

[67] Probably William Dillingham, Master of Emmanuel College.

[68] Registry MS 33. 2. 106.

[69] Registry MS 33. 1. 26.

[70] _Steinschneider Festschrift_, p. 90, brought to my notice by Mr Israel Abrahams.

[71] Registry MS 33. 1. 32.

[72] Massachusetts Historical Society, 1878, quoted in Bowes, _Biog. Notes_, p. 309.

[73] In 1699 _The Tablet of Cebes_ was printed by Crownfield for Pindar, who held one of the printer's patents until 1730, receiving a salary of £5 per annum. See p. 95.

[74] Monk, _Life of Bentley_, p. 56.

[75] This was paid back by 10 Dec. 1697 (_Press Accounts_, 1697).

[76] "52 Alphabetts, or Setts of Printing Letters, Call'd Types" for the University Press were brought to Harwich in the Bridgeman Sloope from Brill on 28 January, 1698 (_Press Accounts_, 1698).

[77] See Carter, 469; Willis and Clark, III, 133; Bowes, _Biog. Notes_, 314. Some of the items of expenditure upon the new Press have been preserved in remarkable detail. Robert Smith's account of 12 October, 1696, for carpenter's work, consists of about 80 items.

[78] This book is, most unfortunately, not now to be found. The extracts, therefore, are necessarily taken from Wordsworth, _Scholae Academicae_ (Appendix IX).

[79] This Dˢ Penny had been placed second in the _Ordo Senioritatis_ of 1697-98 and was paid 9ͩ per sheet (i.e. one sixth of the compositor's allowance) for his revision of the proofs.

[80] Copy-money was the money granted in lieu of copies of books, to which the workmen were originally entitled.

[81] Hone, _Everyday Book_, Ii, 1133.

[82] _Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi_, 1787, I, xciii ff.

[83] The Knightbridge professorship, founded in 1683, was originally described as that of "Moral Theology or Casuisticall Divinity."

[84] Registry MSS 33. 6. 31, 32.

[85] Bowes, _C. A. S. Proc._ VI, 362 and _Biographical Notes_ (Errata).

[86] Crownfield had also purchased a press from Owen in 1703 for the sum of £11 16_s_ 6_d_ (_Press Accounts_, 1702-3).

[87] _Correspondence of Bentley_, ed. Wordsworth, I. 245.

[88] Registry MS 33. 6. 33.

[89] Registry MS 33. 6. 35.

[90] Bowes, _C. A. S. Proc._ VI, 364.

[91] Registry MSS 33. 6. 36, 37.

[92] The university and town entertained Queen Anne on 16 April, 1705, when the conduits ran with wine and Isaac Newton was knighted (Cooper, IV, 71, 72).

[93] This number seems to have been increased to "3 or 400" (Registry MS 33. 6. 83).

[94] William Innys, referred to by Hume as "the great bookseller in Paul's Churchyard." Samuel Johnson, in his will, left £200 to be paid to his representatives. The Thomas Johnson who assisted in the negotiations between Innys and the university (Registry MS 33. 6. 77) may have been Johnson's cousin.

[95] Registry MS 33. 6. 83.

[96] _Ibid._ 33. 6. 86.

[97] Registry MSS 33. 6. 39, 44. Cf. also the _Memoranda_ of Thomas Sherlock (B.M. Add. MSS 5822. 237):

They have now let their Right of printing Bibles, Almanacks etc. to the Company of Stationers for 210_l_ per annum. The money is constantly and well paid by the Clerk of the Company. There is likewise an uncertain Revenue arising from our Press at home, the accounts of which are audited at the general audit.

[98] Registry MS 33. 6. 45. The Jonathan Pindar referred to is the second printer of that name. (See p. 73.) He also worked at the University Library and his account for 1713 includes charges for pens, ink, paper, mops, brooms, cleaning books, scouring the brass gloab, ringing St Mary's bell, weading, and Printer's Place (£5).

[99] Ged had previously won a wager from William Caslon, the famous type-founder; each had been given a page of type and allowed eight days to produce a plate, and the umpire had decided in Ged's favour.

[100] Ged's edition of Sallust, printed at Edinburgh _non typis mobilibus, ut vulgo fieri solet, sed tabellis seu laminis fusis_, was published in 1739.

[101] There is a series of 26 documents (Registry MSS 33. 6. 47-72) dealing with the Fenner-James dispute and the account given here is mainly based on them. Access to these has made it possible to supplement and correct one or two points in Bowes's _Notes_ (pp. 315, 316). The account of the partnership given in Nichols, _Literary Anecdotes_, II, 721, is inaccurate in some details. Ged's own story of his career (which it is difficult sometimes to reconcile either with that of Fenner or of the brothers James) is given in _Biographical Memoirs of William Ged_, London, 1781, and Newcastle, 1819.

[102] In 1794 "Bibles, Testaments, Psalm-books, and Books of Common Prayer" were added to this list (Cooper, _Annals_, IV, 451).

[103] He was buried in the chancel of St Botolph's. His name appears many times in the parish book and in 1715 there is the following entry:

Received of Mr Crownfield from yͤ year 1708 seven shillings for a piece of ground commonly called ye round O in his garden which should have been paid at 1 shilling the year for ye use of ye poor.

The "round O" was a paschal garden which supported the Easter candle. The annual rent of one shilling was paid by Hayes up to 1703. (F. R. and A. W. G[oodman], _Notes on St Botolph's Church_.)

[104] Thus in 1706 he supplied six books to the University Library, the gift of Mr Tomlinson. In his account there is an item "for yͤ binding and putting yͤ Donor's Name in each book."

[105] A condition of this appointment was that if the profits should not reach £60 per annum, the university should make good the deficiency.

[106] The most important bible printed by Bentham was that of 1762, the 'standard' edition prepared by Dr T. Paris.

[107] Registry MS 33. 7. 7.

[108] Registry MS 33. 7. 4.

[109] Nichols, _Literary Anecdotes_, VIII, 451.

[110] MSS 5809. 38. The coat of arms to which Cole refers now hangs in the University Press.

[111] Cambridge is depicted in rosy colours:

The Air is very healthful, and the Town plentifully supplied with excellent Water.... Nor is it better supplied with Water, than it is with other Necessaries of life. The purest Wine they receive by the Way of _Lynn_.... Firing is cheap; Coals from Seven-pence to Nine-pence a Bushel.

[112] Willis and Clark, III, 134. Gibbs's complete design is shown on the title-page reproduced opposite p. 99.

[113] Registry MS 33. 7. 17.

[114] Reed, _Old English Letter Foundries_, p. 276 (quoted in Straus and Dent, _John Baskerville_, p. 46).

[115] Straus and Dent, p. 50.

[116] Pollard, _Fine Books_, p. 300.

[117] Mr G. J. Gray has discovered that Baskerville lived in the Old Radegund Manor House in Jesus Lane.

[118] Vol. II, pp. 458 ff.

[119] René La Butte, one of Bowyer's printers who came to Cambridge with Walker and James, the founders of _The Cambridge Journal_, the first Cambridge newspaper; through the influence of Conyers Middleton, La Butte was established as a French teacher in Cambridge; Bentham printed his _French Grammar_ (2nd ed.) in 1790.

[120] Archdeacon requests Mr Rivington to return it after examination, as it will save him "much trouble in transcribing."

[121] Registry MS 33. 7. 20.

[122] Wakefield had published a Latin version of Gray's _Elegy_ in 1775 and a volume of Latin poems in 1776, but left the Church of England ten years later. He was afterwards imprisoned for a libel on Bishop Watson.

[123] Cf. Cole's diary, 1 July, 1769: "Mr Gray's ode exceedingly elegant and well set to music."

[124] Wordsworth, _Scholae Academicae_, p. 153. See also Stokes, _Esquire Bedells_, pp. 116, 117.

[125] _Literary Anecdotes_, VIII, 414.

[126] Published in London, 1771.

[127] See _Cambridge Historical Register_, p. vii.

[128] _Collectanea_, vol. III, Part VII (_Oxford Historical Society_), where a full account (by Horace Hart) of Stanhope's invention and of his connection with the Clarendon Press will be found.

[129] Details of Wilson's bill may be seen in Registry MS 33. 7. 24, and have been printed in Bowes, _Biographical Notes_, p. 327.

[130] Registry MS 33. 7. 26.

[131] The provision of refreshment at meetings of the Syndicate had also been introduced by this time. A receipt for tea, coffee, muffins, and toast provided during the years 1815 and 1816 is preserved at the Press.

[132] In recognition of his services Hansard was presented by the Syndics with "a handsome silver inkstand with an appropriate inscription."

[133] Quoted in Willis and Clark, III, 142.

[134] Quoted in Willis and Clark, III, 142.

[135] Syndics' Minute Book 1823-43, from which various extracts are quoted in the later part of this chapter.

[136] Registry MS 33. 1. 46.

[137] See pp. 100, 115.

[138] See plan, facing p. 128.

[139] The catalogue of _Works edited for the Syndics_ (1857) contained about 25 titles.

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-Obvious print and punctuation errors fixed.

-Underlined text has been rendered as ~text~.

-Letter p with macron below has been rendered as [p_]