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(i) It is agreed that an impression of the third volume of Shuckford’s ‘Connection of the sacred and prophane History’ be printed forthwith, and that A may also print the first two volumes whenever they think fit. No more than 1000 copies of each volume are to be printed. A are to pay B £30 when they print Vol. III and the rest when they print Vols. I and II. Future editions are reserved to B. If A do not print Vols. I and II till two years have passed B promises not to reprint them within another five years.

(ii) Knaplock assigns her right in the second edition of the third volume of ‘Shuckford’ to Jacob and Richard Tonson, though her name is prefixed to the title page.

(i) A agree to pay B £200 for his revision of the translation of Plutarch’s Lives (8 vols., 8vo), which he has been employed in for some time. B agrees to deliver four volumes of the work ready for the press by 24 June and another four by 29 September, and to correct the proofs.

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.

For the consideration of £105 A assigns to B the copyright of the second volume of his Grecian History, and the copyright of his additions to the first volume. The first volume was formerly purchased from A by Jacob Tonson, the father of B. Witnessed by Samuel Tonson and William Reeve.

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.

Acknowledges the receipt of £50 15s. for a moiety of £100 paid to Mr Bloss(?) for paper for the Works of Dr (Isaac) Barrow ‘by the Castle-Conger’ and 30s. for a book to print the said works from.

It is agreed that the work shall be printed in two volumes in quarto on royal paper, with the prints used in the Spanish edition printed by A. B is to procure the copy of the translation at his own expense and A are to furnish the plates for this and any future quarto editions, the cost of print and paper being divided equally between them. If B is obliged to furnish Jervas with fifty sets of books he is to pay A £25 as well as the cost of the print and paper for them. The net profits in this and any future editions printed by A and B shall be equally divided, and if they print the book in any other size the costs of engraving the plates shall be equally borne and A shall allow Mr (John) Vanderbank’s designs to be used. The property of a moiety of the translation shall be vested by B in A, but the property of the original quarto plates, after being used, shall remain in A.

Consideration, £62. Witnessed by Oakley Gwynn and Jeremiah Prichard. Signed and sealed by A.

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.

It is agreed that an impression of 1500 copies of Shuckford’s ‘Treatise on the Fall of Man’ be forthwith printed, with the same sort of letter (i.e. type) and paper as his ‘Connection of Sacred and Prophane History’, and that B shall pay A £50 as a consideration provided there is sufficient quantity of copy to make at least twenty-six sheets, ‘which will be a five Shilling volume when bound to Gentlemen’, or £40 if there is only enough copy for a 4s. volume. All future editions are reserved to A.