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44 To this I answer, that if it be too great it must be so, either in respect of the Books it will buy and print, or in respect of the Persons that may pay it; but it is not too great in respect of the Books it will buy and print, but rather too little, for the printing of an large Book as the five volumns of Pools Criticks upon the Bible, will more than exhaust all, and then what shal bring home New Books and Re-print them, and what shall maintain the Correspondence with all the printing places in Europe.

Neither is it too great in respect of the Persons that must pay it, for the half of it which is to be payed by the Heretors, is only the 1/20 part of their valued