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Finding NoDDGR/42/4/101
Extent1 item
TitleLetter to John Grimston at Kilnwick from John Hildyard at York
Date10 Oct 1754
DescriptionIncludes references to having laid by one of the Supplement to Chambers in sheets for him till he receives his Volume as a pattern for the Binding; will secure Grimston a good Impression of Hogarth's Election print as soon as it is published; having sent Vol[umes] 2, 3, 4 and 5 of [Guicciardine] with Grimston's magazine; Mr Goddard's proposals to pay one Guinea on subscribing and on delivery of the fourth Volume in sheets a Guinea more, being the whole subscription in sheets and those who do not subscribe to be charged per volume; having entered Grimston on the footing of a subscriber and will remit the money as he seems in haste; Mr Goddard being a troublesome accountant; having finished the History of the Churches of York and Canterbury to this time; it having been a considerable expense to him as there are one hundred and eighteen Copper plates, it being sold neatly bound for twenty shillings; the inscription on Admiral Medley's monument and others now being added; the last paragraph but one being the the most Glaring instance of the approach of Popery that has appeared in any history; a request for Grimston to send the last of his Volumes of the Abrigm[en]t of the Philos: Transactions and he will get the those from the time Grimston's ends bound in the same manner and arrangements to send them out yearly as published in future
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