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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.

After much discussion Mr (Thomas?) Trye has agreed for £130 for their four twelfth shares of Glasse’s Cookery, to be paid on their signing the assignment, which is to be made at Tonson’s expense, and they are to deliver to Tonson the two manuscript assignments in their possession relating to the copyright.

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.

(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.

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.

Duncan’s translation and discourse being now ready to be published in one volume folio, it is agreed that B is to pay for the translation and discourse; that A are to provide the plates formerly printed in Samuel Clarke’s edition of Caesar and pay for their alteration; and that the expenses of print, paper, etc., of this and all future editions are to be divided equally between A and B, as is the profit (‘Produce’) from them. Any costs involved in engraving plates, etc., for future editions of a smaller size shall also be equally borne, and Tonson has agreed that the designs of the folio plates may be used in any such editions. The property of a moiety of the translation and discourse is to be vested in A and the sole property of the folio plates in Tonson. The edition now printed shall be subscribed (i.e. offered for sale by subscription) to the trade, then two hundred copies shall be equally divided between A and B and the rest of the impression stocked. When the two hundred are sold, the remaining copies are to be equally divided, forty copies at a time, till the whole impression is gone.