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or worse; and a printer whom I believe he paid. I am 

 sure he never consulted me about the payment of either, 

 though there was sufficient cause ; all the articles relat- 

 ing to them having been broken; but by this manage- 

 ment he had them wholly at his devotion. On the day 

 appointed (March 20, 1707-8) I took up with me to London 

 all the observations here made between September 1689 

 and December 1705, fairly copied in 175 sheets of large 

 papers. Six sheets were of the planets' places, calculated 

 from the observations made with the sextant, which ought 

 to have been printed next after the said observations, as 

 also a fair copy of the places of the stars in the ecliptical, 

 and as many of the southern constellations as I had then 

 rectified. The referees viewed them, and Sir Isaac, after 

 some time, withdrew, and calling Dr. Arbuthnot out to 

 him, produced the following, which the other referees, as 

 I remember, signed. He would not deliver it to me, but 

 gratiously permitted me to take a copy of it. 



(Here follows the agreement, dated March 20, 1707-8). 



There were present at this meeting, at the Castle Tavern 

 in Pater Noster row, Mr. Roberts, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir 

 Christopher Wren, Dr. Arbuthnot, Dr. Gregory, Mr. 

 Churchill, Mr Jamer Hodgson, and with myself, my ama- 

 nuensis Isaac Wolferman. 



The conditions on which I was to deliver this second 

 volume were very hard and unjust : for the observations 

 contained (there) were most of them made with the new 

 mural arch, which I had built at my own cost, and lay me 

 in above £120 out of my own pocket. My own instruments 

 were all my own, too ; and my assistants were paid and 

 maintained at my own charge. I had laid out, moreover, 

 above £173 in carrying on the works ; of which I had given 

 a bill both to Sir Isaac Newton and several of the referees. 

 I considered that If I should not consent to this order, Sir 

 Isaac Newton would say that I had hindered the printing 

 of my own works myself; which would serve to justify a 

 report, spread by his partisans very industriously, that I 

 was averse to the publication of them. Whereas I had 

 always endeavoured to carry them on as industriously as I 

 could ; and he had done all he could to hinder me, in order 

 to make me comply with them, and cry him up at the same 



