Andrew Millar, Daniel Midwinter, William Innys, John Knapton, Samuel Birt, Daniel Brown, Thomas Longman, Richard Hett, Charles Hitch, John Shuckburgh, Mary Senex, John Rivington, Francis Gosling, and the executors of Isaac Clarke, John Pemberton, and Aaron Ward, of London, booksellers, - - - - - - - - - appellants. Alexander Kincaid, Gavin Hamilton, John Balfour, John Paton, William Drummond, John Traile, William Sands, Gideon Crawfurd, Lauchlan Hunter, Janet Brown, relict of William Brown, the executors of Alexander Symers, Alexander Brymer, William Hamilton, William Millar, Alexander Dunning, John Yare, Andrew Beveridge, the executors of Gavin Drummond, and John Aitkin, booksellers in Edinburgh; John Barrie, Andrew Stalker, Alexander Carlisle, and Robert Fowlis, booksellers in Glasgow; - - - - - - - respondents. The case of the respondents .