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Crewe MS/21/f. 18
Title
Assignment from Thomas Worrall to Henry Lintot of copyrights in various books, and copies of books
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- 30 June 1738 (Creation)
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1 single sheet
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The items assigned are as follows: the copyright of ‘The Modern Practice of the Court of Exchequer in Prosecutions relating to his Majesty’s Revenue of the Customs’, with 95 books (lot 12); the copyright of ‘a Vindication of Providence or a True Estimate of Human Life, in which the Passions are Considered in a New Light [etc.]’, by Edward Young, with 820 books (lot 17); the copyright of ‘Friendship in Death [etc.]’, by Elizabeth Singer ‘since Rowe’ (lots 53–6); and the copyright in ‘the Ocean, a Poem’ by Edward Young and ‘a Sermon called, an Apology for Princes’ (lot 60). Consideration, £212 10s. 6d. Witnessed by John Worrall and Francis Gosling.
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Pasted to a guard in Crewe MS 21 (f. 18).
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- Worrall, Thomas (d. 1767), bookseller (Subject)
- Lintot, Henry (1703–1758), bookseller (Subject)
- Young, Edward (1683-1765), writer (Subject)
- Rowe, Elizabeth (1674-1737), poet and devotional writer (Subject)