The inventory of the goods, of which Daniel was to enjoy the free use, shows something of a seventeenth century printer's stock-in-trade:
Six printing presses, five copper plates, six bankes, seven great stones, one muller, thirteen frames to set cases on, all the poles for drying of bookes ... twelve candlesticks for the presses, two frames to put cases in, six and fifty paire and an halfe of cases for letters made of mettle and one case for wooden letters, five and twenty chases, twenty gallies, fifty paper and letter bords, two tressell tables, four tables with drawers, two troughs of lead and all the shelves and formes of deal in the wool-house.
Daniel, on his part, agreed to pay an annual rent of £190, to employ but three presses at a time, and to use paper, ink, and letter "very commendable and good so as the University may receive credit and honour thereby."
PRINTING-HOUSE OF THOMAS BUCK
Like others, Daniel quickly found cause of complaint against Thomas Buck. By the second deed of partnership (1633) he was to receive one-third of the profits, but in the next year protested that Buck had insisted upon impossible conditions.
One of the features of Thomas Buck's career is his close association with the London Stationers. Thus in 1631 he entered into a contract with Edmund Weaver to supply him with certain quantities of books and almanacks for three years. By this agreement Buck tied himself to print only for the Stationers for this period, Weaver "sending paper and paieing London price for the printinge," and Buck being allowed to retain as many books and almanacks as were required for sale in Cambridge. The following summary shows the type of school book most in demand and the number of books supplied during the three years:
| Aessop's Fables | 12,000 |
| Virgills | 3,000 |
| Mantuans | 6,000 |
| Castalians Dialogues | 4,250 |
| Apthonius | 2,000 |
| Pueriles Sententiae | 18,000 |
| " Confabulationes | 6,000 |
| Ludovic vir. Dialog. | 3,000 |
| Epitome Colloquiorum Ovid, Epistles | 3,000 |
| Stuvenius Epist. | 3,000 |
| Ovid, Tristia | 3,000 |
| Corderius | 3,000 |
| Almanacks | 1,560 |