[97] Registry MSS 33. 6. 39, 44. Cf. also the Memoranda of Thomas Sherlock (B.M. Add. MSS 5822. 237):
They have now let their Right of printing Bibles, Almanacks etc. to the Company of Stationers for 210l per annum. The money is constantly and well paid by the Clerk of the Company. There is likewise an uncertain Revenue arising from our Press at home, the accounts of which are audited at the general audit.
[98] Registry ms 33. 6. 45. The Jonathan Pindar referred to is the second printer of that name. (See p. 73.) He also worked at the University Library and his account for 1713 includes charges for pens, ink, paper, mops, brooms, cleaning books, scouring the brass gloab, ringing St Mary's bell, weading, and Printer's Place (£5).
[99] Ged had previously won a wager from William Caslon, the famous type-founder; each had been given a page of type and allowed eight days to produce a plate, and the umpire had decided in Ged's favour.
[100] Ged's edition of Sallust, printed at Edinburgh non typis mobilibus, ut vulgo fieri solet, sed tabellis seu laminis fusis, was published in 1739.
[101] There is a series of 26 documents (Registry MSS 33. 6. 47-72) dealing with the Fenner-James dispute and the account given here is mainly based on them. Access to these has made it possible to supplement and correct one or two points in Bowes's Notes (pp. 315, 316). The account of the partnership given in Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, II, 721, is inaccurate in some details. Ged's own story of his career (which it is difficult sometimes to reconcile either with that of Fenner or of the brothers James) is given in Biographical Memoirs of William Ged, London, 1781, and Newcastle, 1819.
[102] In 1794 "Bibles, Testaments, Psalm-books, and Books of Common Prayer" were added to this list (Cooper, Annals, IV, 451).
[103] He was buried in the chancel of St Botolph's. His name appears many times in the parish book and in 1715 there is the following entry:
Received of Mr Crownfield from ye year 1708 seven shillings for a piece of ground commonly called ye round O in his garden which should have been paid at 1 shilling the year for ye use of ye poor.
The "round O" was a paschal garden which supported the Easter candle. The annual rent of one shilling was paid by Hayes up to 1703. (F. R. and A. W. G[oodman], Notes on St Botolph's Church.)