148 HISTORY OF THE PRINTING PRESS IN DERBYSHIRE. 
Guinea for six Books in Quires, one half to be paid in Hand, 
the other on Delivery. No fewer than six to be subscribed 
for. The Author proposes to give one Book in Sheets to 
every Subscriber.” This appears to be the earliest reference 
to a practice which prevails as between publishers and the 
retail trade, in which 13 books count as 12. 
Mr. Shaw was probably the Calvinist Minister so severely 
handled by the Rev. Henry Cantrell, in the preface to his 
** Royal Martyr,” 1716, but I have no further knowledge of 
the book. The earliest production of this press (other than 
the newspaper, broadsheets, &c., hitherto noticed) that I have 
seen, has been lent to me by Mr. Cooling, jun.; it is entitled 
An | ACCOUNT | of the BEGINNING and EREcTION, | of the DucHy 
and County PALANTINE of | LANCASTER, | and of the AppiTIONs made 
thereunto: | and of the Honours, RovYALTIE’s PRIvI- | LEDGES, and 
EXEMPTIONS, which have been Granted and Confirmed, unto | JOHN 
Duke of LANCASTER. | (called JouN of Gaunt) | And also unto 
all the Officers, Tenants, and Residents | therein and throughout all the 
Duchy Possessions. | And also of the Honor of TuTsury: and how, | 
and to whom, the Right of Inheritance of and in the | Offices of Feodary 
and Bailiff, Escheator, Clerk of the | Market, and Coroner, doth belong, 
and hath been | executed therein. | Proper to be known to all such who 
have any Estates, or | Interests in the said Premisses, | DerBy : Printed 
by Sam. Drewry, 1735- 
It is a quarto pamphlet of eight leaves, and is printed on 
the paper and type used for the Derby Mercury of that period. 
The matter contained therein has only been superficially used 
by the late Sir Oswald Mosley, in his valuable story of 
Tutbury, and I should like to see it reprinted. 
As years passed on, the success of Zhe Derby Mercury induced 
competition, and in 1738, Zhe Derbyshire Journal appeared, 
drawing from the printer of the J@ercury, on June 22nd of that 
year, the following caution :— 
“As to the Derbyshire Journal, as ’tis call’d, the Readers are only 
desir’'d to compare what is publish’d in it on Wednesday with Zhe Derby 
Mercury publish’d five days before it, and they will be convine’d how — 
