parties that are or fhall be fo priuiledged, authorized, or allowed to print the fame booke or books, thing or things, firft had and obtained, vpon paine that euery perfon or perfons fo offending, fhall not onely loose all fuch books and other things, but shall also haue, and fuffer fuch punishment, by imprisonment of his body, fine, or otherwife, as by this Honourable Court, or high Commission Court refpectiuely, as the feuerall caufes fhall require, it shall be to him or them limited or adiudged.

X. Item, that no Haberdasher of small wares, Ironmonger, Chandler, Shop-keeper, or any other perfon or perfons whatsoeuer, not hauing beene feuen yeeres apprentice to the trade of a Book-feller, Printer. or Book-binder, fhall within the citie or fuburbs ol London, or in any other Corporation, Market-towne, or elfwhere, receive, take or buy, to barter, fell againe, change or do away any Bibles, Teftaments, Pfalmbooks, Primers, Abcees, Almanackes, or other booke or books whatsoeuer, vpon pain of forfeiture of all such books fo receiued, bought or taken as aforefaid, and fuch other punishment of the parties fo offending, as by this Court, or the faid high Commission Court refpectiuely, as the feverall caufes fhall require, fhall be thought meet. XI. Item, for that Printing is, and for many yeers hath been an Art and manufacture of this kingdome, for the better incouraging of Printers in their honest, and iuft endeauours in their profession, and preuention of diuers libels, pamphlets, and feditious books printed beyond the feas in English, and thence transported hither;

It is further Ordered and Decreed, that no Merchant, Bookfeller, or other perfon or perfons whatsoeuer, shall imprint, or cause to be imprinted, in the parts beyond the feas or elfwhere, nor shall import or bring, nor willingly assist or confent to the importation or bringing from beyond the feas into this Realme, any English bookes, or part of bookes, or bookes whatfoeuer, which are or shall be, or the greater or more part whereof is or fhall be English, or of the English

tongue, whether the fame book or bookes haue been here formerly printed or not, vpon pain of the forrfeiture of all fuch English bookes fo imprinted or ima ported, and fuch further cenfure and punishment, as by this Court, or the said high Commission Court respectiuely, as the feuerall causes fhall require, fhall be thought meet.

XII. Item, That no ftranger or forreigner whatsoeuer, be fuffered to bring in, or vent here, any booke or bookes printed beyond the feas, in any language what€ foeuer, either by themfelues or their fecret Factors, except fuch onely as bee free Stationers of London, and fuch as haue beene brought vp in that profession, and haue their whole meanes of subsistance, and liuelihood depending thereupon, vpon paine of confiscation of all fuch Books for imported, and fuch further penalties, as by this Court, or the high Commission Court respectiuely, as the feuerall caufes fhall require, shall be thought fit to be imposed.

XIII. Item, That no perfon or perfons within the Citie of London, or the liberties thereof, or elsewhere, shall erect or cause to be erected any Presse or Printing-house, nor shall demise, or let, or suffer to be held or vsed, any house, vault, feller, or other roome whatfoeuer, to, or by any perfon or perfons, for a Printing@house, or place to print in, vnlesse he or they which shall so demise or let the fame, or fuffer the fame to be so vsed, shall firft giue notice to the faid Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers for the time being, of fuch demife, or fuffering to worke or print there, vpon paine of imprisonment, and fuch other punishment as by this Court, or the faid high Commifsion Court refpectiuely, as the feuerall Causes shall require, shall bee thought fit.

XIV. Item, That no Ioyner, or Carpenter, or other person, shall make any printing-Preffe, no Smith shall forge any Iron-worke for a printing-Preffe, and no Founder fhall caft any Letters for any perfon or persons whatsoeuer, neither fhall any perfon or persons bring, or cause to be brought in from any parts beyond

the Seas, any Letters Founded or Caft, nor buy an fuch Letters for Printing, Vnleffe he or they respec iuely shall first acquaint the said Master and Warden or fome of them, for whom the fame Preffe, Iron-work or Letters, are to be made, forged, or cast, vpon pain of fuch fine and punishment, as this Court, or the hig Commission Court refpectiuely, as the feuerall cause thall require, fhall thinke fit.

XV. Item, The Court doth declare, that as formerly fo now, there fhall be but Twentie Master Printer allowed to haue the vfe of one Preffe or more, as i after specified, and doth hereby nominate, allow, an admit these persons whose names hereafter follow, t the number of Twentie, to have the vse of a Presse, o Preffes and Printing-house, for the time being, viz. Feli Kingflone, Adam Iflip, Thomas Purfoot; Miles Flesher Thomas Harper, Iohn Beale, Iohn Legat, Robert Young John Haviland, George Miller, Richard Badger, Thoma. Cotes, Bernard Alfop, Richard Bishop, Edward Griffin Thomas Purflow, Richard Hodgkinfonne, Iohn Dawfon John Raworth, Marmaduke Parfons. And further, the Court doth order and decree, That it shall be lawfull for the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, or the Lord Bishop of London, for the time being, taking to him or them fix other high Commissioners, to supply the place or places of those which are now already Printers by this Court, as they shall fall void by death, or Cenfure, or otherwise Prouided that they exceed not the number of Twentie, befides His Maiefties Printers, and the Printers allowed for the Vniuerfities.

XVI. Item, That euery perfon or perfons, now allowed or admitted to have the vfe of a Presse, and Printing-house, fhall within Ten dayes after the date hereof, become bound with fureties to His Maiestie in the high Commission Court, in the sum of three hundred pounds, not to print or suffer to be printed in his house or Preffe, any booke, or bookes whatsoeuer, but such as shall from time to time be lawfully licensed, and that the like Bond shall be entred into by all, and euery perfon and perfons, that hereafter shall be admit

ted, or allowed to print, before he or they be suffered to haue the vse of a Presse.

XVII. Item, That no allowed Printer shall keep aboue two Preffes, vnlesse he hath been Master or vpper Warden2 of his Company, who are thereby allowed to keep three Preffes and no more, vnder paine of being difabled for euer after to keepe or vse any Preffe at all, vnleffe for some great and special occasion for the publique, he or they haue for a time leaue of the Lord ArchBishop of Canterbury, or Lord Bishop of London for the time being, to have or vse one, or more aboue the foresaid number, as their Lordships, or either of them shall thinke fit. And whereas there are some Master Printers that haue at this present one, or more Presses allowed them by this Decree, the Court doth further order and declare, That the Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers, doe foorthwith certifie the Lord ArchBishop of Canterbury, or the Lord Bishop of London, what number of Preffes each Master Printer hath, that their Lordships or either of them, taking vnto them fix other high Commiffioners, may take such present order for the fupprefsing of the fupernumerarie Preffes, as to their Lordships, or to either of them shall seem best. XVIII. Item, That no person or persons, do hereafter reprint, or cause to be reprinted, any booke or bookes whatfoeuer (though formerly printed with licence) without being reuiewed, and a new Licence obtained for the reprinting thereof. Alwayes provided, that the Stationer or Printer be put to no other charge hereby, but the bringing and leauing of two printed copies of the book to be printed, as is before expreffed of written Copies, with all fuch additions as the Author hath made.

XIX. Item, The Court doth declare, as formerly, fo now, That no Apprentices be taken into any printinghouse, otherwise then according to this proportion following, (viz.) euery Master-Printer that is, or hath beene Master or vpper Warden of his Company, may haue three Apprentices at one time and no more, and euery Master-printer that is of the Liuerie of his Company,

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may have two Apprentices at one time and no more and euery Mafter-printer of the Yeomanry of the Company may haue one Apprentice at one time and no more, neither by Copartnership, binding at the Scriueners, nor any other way whatsoeuer; neither fhall it be lawfull for any Master-Printer when any Apprentice or Apprentices, fhall run or be put away, to take another Apprentice, or other Apprentices in his or their place or places, vnlesse the name or names of him or them so gone away, be raced out of the Hallbooke, and never admitted again, vpon paine of being for euer disabled of the vse of a Presse or printinghouse, and of fuch further punishment, as by this Court or the high Commission Court refpectiuely, as the feuerall caufes fhall require, fhall be thought fit to be impofed.

XX. Item, The Court doth likewise declare, that because a great part of the secret printing in corners hath been caufed for want of orderly imployment for Iourneymen printers, Therefore the Court doth hereby require the Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers, to take especiall care that all Iourneymenprinters, who are free of the Company of Stationers, shall be set to worke, and imployed within their owne Company of Stationers; for which purpose the Court doth alfo order and declare, that if any IourneymanPrinter, and free of the Company of Stationers, who is of honeft, and good behauiour, and able in his trade, do want imployment, he shall repaire to the Master and Wardens of the Companie of Stationers, and they or one of them, taking with him or them one or two of the Master Printers, fhall go along with the faid Iourneyman-Printer, and shall offer his feruice in the first place to the Master Printer vnder whom he ferued his Apprentiship, if he be liuing, and do continue an allowed Printer, or otherwise to any other Master Printer, whom the Master and Wardens of the faid Company shall thinke fit. And euery Master Printer fhall bee bound to imploy one Iourneyman, being fo offered to him, and more, if need fhall fo require,