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20 Aug. 1718. All accounts relating to the paper, print, etc., of the second volume in folio of Prideaux’s Connection and the second edition of the first volume in folio are today stated, and what was left of the former was equally divided. What was left of the latter remains undivided in the hands of Mr Watts, and £488 6s. 1d. in notes was also left in Knaplock’s hands to pay Mr Bowyer and Mr Watts for printing and Mr Baskett, Mr Hyde, and Mr Hoole for paper. The remaining notes relating to the volumes were equally divided between Knaplock and Tonson.

11 Sept. 1718. The remainder of the second edition of the first volume of Prideaux’s Connection was equally divided between Knaplock and Tonson.

21 Feb. 1719. All accounts relating to to all impressions of Prideaux’s Connection, both folio and octavo, are today stated and evened between Knaplock and Tonson, the printers and stationers having been paid and notes and books divided.

A empowers B to sell the copyright in certain books written by A. Witnessed by Thomas Church and William Kirke. The docket refers to the case of Knaplock and others v. Curll.

(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.

A, as one of the representatives of Anne Moseley, daughter of Humphrey Moseley, late citizen and stationer of London, has an interest in the copyrights of ‘Priamus and Thisbe’, ‘Spencers Shepherds Calendar’, and other works, as recorded in the register of the Stationers’ Company and a transcript thereof; and also (formerly) claimed an interest in the copyright of ‘Cowleys Poems, Donns Poems, Davenants Works, Crashaws Poems, Carews Poems Ben Johnsons Works, 3d Vol, Pastor Fido, Sucklings Poems Denhams Poems Wallers Poems & Miltons Poems in Latin & English, with many others’, which all belong to B and C or one of them. For the consideration of £10 A assigns to C his interest in the copyrights of the books in the first group, and releases to B and C his claim to the copyrights of the books in the second group. Witnessed by Robert Knaplock, John Baker, and Marmaduke Horsley. (The witnesses to the receipt are the same.) Signed by ‘Dorman Newman Junior’.