Note 447 — Chapter XI · WILLIAM CASLON, 1720.

In 1703, in the Convocation of Clergy in the Lower House, a complaint was exhibited against the printers of the Bible for the careless and defective way in which it was printed by the patentees. The editions specially complained of were those printed by Hayes, of Cambridge, in 1677 and 1678, and an edition in folio printed in London in 1701. The printers continued, however, to print the Bible carelessly, with a defective type, on bad paper; and when printed, to sell copies at an exorbitant price.