[57] Reprinted at the Dublin University Press, 1835.
[58] His two colleagues in this office were his brother John (elected 1626) and Francis Hughes (elected 1629). By a grace of 5 December, 1664, the three bedells, "being all old and infirm," were allowed a deputy. The number of bedells was reduced to two in 1858. See also p. 49.
[59] For details of Buck's activities outside the Press, see Stokes, Esquire Bedells, 96-99. He had a special pew in St Edward's and was buried in that church.
[60] Registry ms 33. 1. 27. Cf. Bowes, Biog. Notes, p. 303, "He [Buck] is said to have resigned in 1653." This agreement makes it clear that Buck sold, but did not resign, his printing rights in 1653.
[61] Legate's only benefaction to the university seems to have been the gift of Annotations upon the Bible (a two-volume work printed by him in London in 1651) to the University Library.
[62] Field and Hills, another Republican who was his partner.
[63] Arber, Stat. Reg. III, 27.
[64] Registry ms 33. 6. 22.
[65] A copy was brought to Samuel Pepys in quires by his bookbinder on 27 May, 1667. "But," writes Pepys, "it is like to be so big that I shall not use it."
[66] Registry ms 33. 6. 27.