Scintilla, or a Light broken into dark ivarehouses, 8fc.    {ni^»tf«;tive D^uments.
 

£^eo«s Printers. Flesher, most cunningly combined with the Kings Printers here, and so
sunke the Printing-house there, so that now Scotland is destitute [i. e. of any printing of
Bibles] ', and by this means Books are raysed to greater rates here, and there likewise.

The Kings Printers and others here being interessed in the Irish stock, sold
IMaster. William Bladon of Buhlin their Stock there, and Pattent, and haue so Bound
Ireland Patent       him, as he shall uot Print but what they list of their priviledge, so that

^'               Scotland and Ireland must grind at their Mill.     Observe in what a case

these be: for Bibles especially, if the last Decree in Star-chamber [of 11 July 1637,
see Addendum] had held, concerning Printing: for all must be bought at one place to
serve three Kingdomes.

Camhridge Bible Folio.
It is judged that           Cambridge Large Polio   Bible   Roman, of  the   best   paper,  sold   at

in^an'^'S^^rSn    ^^ 10^ in quires, or cheaper, they raysed it 10® on a Book, and sold it 2^.
of J these three              Cambridge   Med yum Polio   Bible   Roman,  sold at, or cheaper  then

sorts, IS not lesse     -,   ^     ^j  .     "^    .                i      t»/i-              t              •       *.*      1%a        i               n  -i     j   ii   <■/%€.

in the totaii then    T 2® 6* lu quircs ; the Mouopolists raiso 7®, 6** and so sell it at 1^ 10®.
MonopoiSts have          Cambridge thinne paper Polio Roman, sold at, or cheaper than 16® in

th^That they'*^   quires; the Monopolists raised it 4®, and so sell it at 1^ in quires.
shall print no                         See the orrors corrected in the  Cambridge Bibles, which were

more Bibles, but                                -t^  '   ,    -i   '     l^       t       t       r            n

for the Mono-                         Printed m the Bondon \ onesj.

P^^'®*^-                       Cambridge Quarto Roman Letter Bibles, with Psalms, sold at 7®. They

[i. e, the Monopolists] have raised on a Book 3®, and so sell it with Psalmes at 10® in
quires, which if the Monopolists should buy [i. e. of the Cambridge printers] but a
1000. it would be raised 150^

Cambridge Quarto English Letter_, with Psalmes sold in quires at 6®. raysed on a
Book 2® 4^. now the Monopolists sell it at 8® 4^: if 3000 be ingrossed by them, it
would raise 300^

Observe, they  have   not   only bought   in  al[l]   those   Bibles with   Psalmes,   and

Grammers, and Schoole Books, but have for ever agreed for what shalbe printed both

Oxford Charter       there and at Oxford [under their] Books Priviledge : and where[as] they

2-              where there Printed bravely, true, and in good paper, now look for other.

London Bibles in Quarto.

Bondon Bible Quarto English Letter, with the Notes and Concordance of the old
Translation [? the Geneva version] in times past was sold at 7®^. in quires, and then it
was 139. sheets, and now but 116 and no Notes, and sold at 9.®^- 2^ with Concordance :
3000 raysed makes 350^.

Bondon Quarto Roman [letter] with Notes, sold in times past at 7®. The Quarto
Roman now with no Notes sold at 10.®^- in quires, so raysed in an Impression of
3000[,] 600^.

There hath been at least 12000 of these Bibles Quarto with Notes Printed in
Holland, and sold very reasonable: and many brought from thence hither, and they have
been seised by the Kings Printers, and the parties that Imported them, not only lost
n The High         them, but Were put iu *Burgatory, and there glad to lose their Bibles and

Commission.         ^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ q^. ^^^ ^.j^^j^ ^^^ MouopoUsts sold them again, and so

kept al[l] others in awe.

I have known              Great pitty our Printing should be forced to be carryed to Strangers,

divers punished i^ my judgement: better to have our own Nation set at work. More
b?t noS'^^"'' punishment for selling a 4*« Bible with Notes, then a 100. Masse Books[,]
Masse Books.        ^^ ^^^ jj-^^ Commission.

In former times Bibles in Octavo sold at 3.®^- 4^ in quires, are now sold at 4.®^-
in quires, though then 9. sheets more then now. There have been 10000. printed a
year, which might have been afforded at 3.®^- a Book, so that there might have been
saved to the Subject in an Impression 500^

xonczon Bibles of a         Bibles 8*<* of a Large paper, not 3^ [worth of paper] in a Book more

iittieLargerpaper. ^^^^ ^^^ Qt\iQv, and sold at 6.®^" 2^ in quires: are   [therefore]  raysed
2sh. 2^ in a Book, which makes in that Impression of 6000. the summe of 650^.
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