But the question was again in debate in 1393-94,
when the Chancellor and scholars petitioned Parliament to
declare and adjudge stationers and bookbinders scholars'
servants, as had been done in the case of Oxford. This
petition does not seem to have been answered. But by
the Barnwell Process of 1430, it was decided that
"transcribers, illuminators, bookbinders, and stationers have
been, and are wont and ought to be--as well by ancient
usage from time immemorial undisturbedly exercised, as
by concession of the Apostolic See--the persons belong
and are subject to the ecclesiastical and spiritual jurisdiction
of the Chancellor of the University for the time
being." Again in 1503 was it agreed, this time between
the University and the Mayor and burgesses of Cambridge,
that "stacioners, lymners, schryveners, parchment-makers,
boke-bynders," were common ministers and servants of the
University and were to enjoy its privileges.[1]
[1] Cooper, i. 57, 104, 141, 262; cf. Biblio. Soc. Monogr. 13, p.
1-6.
Fairs were so important a means of bringing together
buyers and sellers that we should expect books to be sold
at them.
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