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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 [i.e. 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 [i.e. 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’.)