[48] Registry ms 33. 1. 23.
[49] Ibid. 33. 1. 24.
[50] Arber (Stat. Reg. v, xxx) notes that "in Charles I's reign there came a new development in the trade: Robert Young, Miles Flesher and John Haviland formed themselves into a Syndicate, and became privately the real owners of Printing businesses carried on ostensibly in other people's names."
[51] Afterwards university printer (see p. 62).
[52] Humble Proposals (Registry ms 33. 6. 25). The bible of 1638 remained the standard text until 1762 (Darlow and Moule, I, 182). Isaac Barrow also paid a tribute to Buck in his Mathematic Lectures:
He, with the loss of his health and money, took the greatest care of the University Press, out of regard to the honour of it: and with what types he printed, especially the sacred writings, all posterity will admire (Stokes, Esquire Bedells, 97).
[53] Parr, Life of Usher, pp. 342, 343.
[54] Registry ms 33. 6. 16.
[55] Bowes, in a note on Pietas Acad. Cant. in funere ... Carolinae (1738), says: "This appears to be the first occasion on which Arabic types were available at the Univ. Press, as up to 1736 all verses in that language were printed in Hebrew characters" (Catalogue, p. 121).
[56] He was 17th in the Ordo Senioritatis of 1612-13; George Herbert was 2nd in the same year.