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IV. " That all books go forfeited should be Imiiight into stationers' hall, and there one moiety of the money forfeited to be reserved to the queen's use, and the other moiety to be de- lirered to him, or them, that should first seize the books, or make complaint thereof to the warden of the said company ; and all the books so to be forfeited, to be destroyed or made waste paper.
V. " That it should be lawful for the wardens of the company for the time beings, or any two of the said company, thereto deputed by the said wardeHS, as well in any ports, ur other suspected places, to open and Tiew all packs, -dryfats, maunds, and other things, wherein books or paper shall be contained, brought into this realm, and make search in all workhouses, shops, warehouses, and other places of printers, book- sellers, and such as bring books into the realm to be sold, or where they have reasonable cause of suspicion. And all books to be found against tbe said ordinances, to seize and carry to the hall, to the uses abovesaid; and to bring the persons offending before the queen's commis- sioners in causes ecclesiastical.
VI. " Every stationer, printer, bookseller, or merchant, using any trade of book-printing, binding, selling, or bringing into the realm, should before the commissioners, or before any other persons thereto to be assigned by the queen's privy-council, enter into several re- eognizances of reasonable sums of money to her majesty, with sureties, or without, as to the commissioners shall be thought expedient, that he should truly observe all the said ordinances, well and truly yield and pay all such forfeitures, and in no point be resisting, but in all things aiding to the said wardens, and their deputies, for the true execution of the premises." And this was thus subscribed : " Upon the considera- tion before expressed, and upon the motiot) of the commissioners, we of the privy-council have agreed this to be observed, and kept, upon the pains therein contained. — At the Star-chamber, the 29 June, anno 1666, and the eighth year of the queen's majesties reign.
" N. Bacon, C. S. E. Rogers,
E. Clynton, W. Cecyl,
Ambr. Cave, R. Leicester,
Wmchester, F. KnoUys."
To which the commissioners for ecclesiastical causes also underwrit. "We underwrit think these ordinances meet and necessary to be de- creed, and observed:
" Matthue Cantuar, Edm. London, Ambr. Cave, David Lewis,
Tho. Yale, Rob. Weston, T. Huycke."
1666. An Irish Liturgy is said to have been printed for the use of the Highlanders of Scot- land ; but where it was executed, or in what character, are now equally unknown. — Ware.
1666. Alexander Lacy, dwelt in Little Bri- tain, where he printed the poor man's benevolence
to afflicted church, 29 Jan. 12mo. A copy of verses, on one side of a sheet, containing six stanzas of fourteen lines each, by W. Birch ; entitled, complaint of a tinner, vexed with paine, detiring the joy e, that ever shall remain. Printed for Richard Applow, dwelling in Patemoster- row, hard by the Castle tavern.
1666. David Moptid and John Mather, seem to havebeen partners together, and dwelt in Red-cross-street, adjoining to St. Giles church, without Cripplegate. Ames records only one book by these printers.
1666. Richard Serll dwelt at the sign of the, Half Eagle and Key, in Ileet-lane, where he printed a new almanack and prognostication servynge fortheyearof Christ ourLorde mdlxvi, diligently calculated for the longitude of London, and pole arlicke of the same, by William Cun- yngham, doctour in phisicke. Printed for W. Jhones. 12mo. A brief and piththie tumme of the chrittian faith, Sre. From the French of Theodore Beza, by Fyll, and dedicated to lord Hastings, e^l of Huntingdon, with a short pre- face and table, written by Serll.
1666. 7Ti« Uittory of the Church of England, Compiled by venerable Bede, Englishman. Translated out of Latin into English by Thomas Stapleton, student in Divinity. Imprinted at Antwerpe, by John Laet, at the sign of the rape. With privilege. 4to. This John I^et, or Latius, for he spelled his name both ways, appears to have been much employed in prmting English catholic works at Antwerp.
1566. There is in the British Museum a French bible, printed at Lyons in this year, which was once the property of queen Elizabeth, and by the date 1867, on the binding, appears to have been purposely executed for her. The book is seventeen inches long, and near eleven wide. The edges are gilt upon red, with minute dotted scroll work added. It has been rebound, but the whole, or greater part of the ornament on the sides, ingeniously cut out, and fixed to those of the new cover. The original binding was in calf, and the outline of the design strongly im- pressed, worked with gold, and coloured with while, scarlet, purple, and green, something like tbe illuminated bindings of the present day. The general outline is of a most elaborate nature, scrolls and ornamental detail being worked in a uniform manner round an oval in Uie centre, and terminating in elegant comers, &c. Tbe oval in the front, which measures three inches long, con- tains a miniature portrait of Elizabeth, with a sceptre, but now much defaced. Round it, on the garter, is impressed in gilt letters
ELIZABETH. DEI. GRATIA. ANO. FRANCE. ET. HIB. REOINA.
The other side is equally ornamented, but having
in the centre the royal arms, and inscribed round.
posvi. devm. adivtorem. mevm.
One of the compartments, under the portrait of the queen, is filled up with the design of a cherub, worked in gold.
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