[113] Registry ms 33. 7. 17.
[114] Reed, Old English Letter Foundries, p. 276 (quoted in Straus and Dent, John Baskerville, p. 46).
[115] Straus and Dent, p. 50.
[116] Pollard, Fine Books, p. 300.
[117] Mr G. J. Gray has discovered that Baskerville lived in the Old Radegund Manor House in Jesus Lane.
[118] Vol. II, pp. 458 ff.
[119] René La Butte, one of Bowyer's printers who came to Cambridge with Walker and James, the founders of The Cambridge Journal, the first Cambridge newspaper; through the influence of Conyers Middleton, La Butte was established as a French teacher in Cambridge; Bentham printed his French Grammar (2nd ed.) in 1790.
[120] Archdeacon requests Mr Rivington to return it after examination, as it will save him "much trouble in transcribing."
[121] Registry ms 33. 7. 20.
[122] Wakefield had published a Latin version of Gray's Elegy in 1775 and a volume of Latin poems in 1776, but left the Church of England ten years later. He was afterwards imprisoned for a libel on Bishop Watson.