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Crewe MS/21/f. 20 · Part · 10 Feb. 1741
Part of Crewe Manuscripts

In consideration of £12 15s. A assigns to B a fifteenth part of the copyright in Magnae Britanniae Notitia (by Edward and John Chamberlayne) and a sixth part of the copyright in Love Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister (by Aphra Behn), rights which he purchased from Benjamin Motte, deceased. Sealed and delivered in the presence of Somerset Draper and George Hall.

Crewe MS/21/f. 15 · Part · 14 Nov. 1748
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It is agreed that C shall print an edition of 1500 copies of A’s ‘Theological Lectures at Westminster Abbey’ in the form directed by A, and shall pay him two-thirds of the profits from it, after charges of paper, print, etc., have been deducted, the remaining third to be allowed to C. The copyright in this and future editions of the book shall re-main in A.