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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.

Acknowledges that Jacob and Richard Tonson are entitled to one moiety of the copyrights of Dr Parnell’s Poems and a play called Chit-Chat, by Killigrew, which have previously been printed with Lintot’s name alone as proprietor; and promises that the Tonsons' names will appear as proprietors in future editions. ‘The Battle of the Frogs and Mice’ he claims as entirely his own, except when it is printed with the rest of Parnell’s Poems.