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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 the receipt of £9 16s. for the copyright of the second part of Letters Moral and Entertaining, ‘by the Author of Friendship in Death’ (Elizabeth Rowe), 14s. having been allowed for the binding of twelve books.

Acknowledges the receipt of £9 16s. for the copyright of Letters on Various Occasions, ‘by the Author of Friendship in Death’ (Elizabeth Rowe), 14s. having been allowed for the binding of twelve books.

Acknowledges the receipt of £10 10s. for Friendship in Death (by Elizabeth Rowe).

(The names are cited as ‘E. Young’ and ‘Mr Worrall’.)