Parte f. 19 - (i) Assignment from (A) Edmund Prideaux to (B) Robert Knaplock and Jacob Tonson junior of the copyrights in various books, 16 Apr. 1715; endorsed with (ii)–(iii) receipts from (A) to (B), 12 Dec. 1715 and 25 Feb. 1718, (iv) a certificate that (i)–(iii) were shown to (A) at his examination in the case of Robert Knaplock et al. v. Edmund Curll, 5 Apr. 1722, and (v) a similar certificate relating to Thomas Glenister, c. 1722

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(i) A assigns to B (equally) the copyright in (the first volume of) The Old and New Testament Connected for a consideration of £43, half of which is not to be paid till it is printed. A also assigns to B to copyrights of ‘The Validity of the Orders of the Church Of England’, ‘The Award of King Charles the First’, ‘Directions for Church Wardens’, and ‘the Life of Mahomet’, all by Humphrey Prideaux. A second volume of The Old and New Testament Connected is now being written, and A promises to let B have the copyright in this for the same price as the first volume, in proportion to the number of sheets. Signed and sealed in the presence of Thomas Glenister and Thomas Edeline.

(iv) is signed by Thomas Warkhouse, W. Rolfe, and Edmund Locke, the examiners, (v) by Edward Northey.

Pasted to a guard in Crewe MS 21 (f. 19).