A biographical history of Guy's Hospital / by Samuel Wilks and G.T. Bettany.

  • Wilks, Samuel, Sir, 1824-1911.
Date:
1892
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Credit: A biographical history of Guy's Hospital / by Samuel Wilks and G.T. Bettany. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto.

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    need not the assistance of another Dr. Yates ; they are sufficient!}' ]3royided with a complete Imprimerie and Ibunding-honse of their own, which they never possessed hefore ; and all upon a day's warning to hegin and finish all the vendible books the Stationers claim right to. Evidently modesty was not now the attitude of the majority of the delegates. The agreement which the delegates thought so much of, promised the payment of the same rent as before, viz. £200 a year. The printers were to take all books in stock, and whatever the University printed at its own charge (not exceeding five hundred copies of each), at a clear profit of 20 per cent, to the University ; to collect books due to the University under two Acts of Parliament; to keep up the printing of Bibles, Prayer- books, etc., in Oxford, the prices to be fixed by the Vice- Chancellor and delegates; to indemnify the University and Bishop Fell's executors from any suits by the king's printers or any others; not to transfer the right of printing any book without permission under the common seal ot the University; to indemnify the University from the claims of i;240 and £250 made by Parker and Guy ; to give personal security for £3,000; and to employ such journeymen printers as might legally work and were then in Oxford. The University made the agreement for five years, with liberty to renew on the same terms if they thought fit ; promising not to transfer their interest during the five years, on due performance of the articles. When the new delegacy had been appointed, a series of strategic movements took place on both sides. Some of these are best described in the Ballard MSS., xlix., p. 240: — Parker and Guy seeing this (i.r. the appointment of a delegacy unl'avourable to (hem), and having pro- vided paper and other materials for printing thirty-five