[270] Harl. MS. 6395.
[271] "Scintilla, or a light broken into darke Warehouses; of some
Printers, sleeping Stationers, and combining Booksellers; in which
is only a touch of their forestalling and ingrossing of Books in
Pattents, and raysing them to excessive prises. Left to the
consideration of the high and honourable House of Parliament, now
assembled. London: Nowhere to be sold, but somewhere to be given."
1641.
[272] A technical printing-term for a sheet containing twenty-four
pages.
[273] The passage is as follows, and is addressed by the apostles to
"the multitude of the disciples," who desired an improved clerical
rule:--"Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of
honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom _we_ may
appoint over this business."
[274] G. Garrard's Letter to the Earl of Strafford, vol. i. p. 208.
[275] Harl. MS. 7580.
[276] See the London Printers' Lamentation on the Press Oppressed.
Harl. Coll. iii. 280.