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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53415	An ordinance ordained, devised, and made by the Master, and Keepers or Wardens, and commonalty of the mystery or art of Stationers of the City of London for the well governing of that society.	Stationers' Company (London, England); Guilford, Francis North, Baron, 1637-1685.; Pemberton, Francis, Sir, 1624-1697.; Saunders, Edmund, Sir, d. 1683.	1683 (1683)	Wing O411; ESTC R216917	2,321	11

AN ORDINANCE Ordained Devised and Made BY THE Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the MYSTERY or ART of STATIONERS OF THE CITY OF LONDON For the Well Governing of that SOCIETY LONDON Printed for the Company of Stationers 16●● TO all Christian People to whom these Presents shall come We the Right Honourable Sir Francis North Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Sir Edmund Saunders Knight Lord Chief Justice of His Majesties Court of Kings Bench and Sir Francis Pemberton Knight Lord Chief Justice of His Majesties Court of Common Pleas at Westminster send Greeting Whereas in a Statute made in the Parliament holden at Westminster in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of the late King of Famous Memory Henry the Seventh for the Weal and Profit of his Subjects It was amongst other things Ordained Established and Enacted That no Master Wardens and Fellowships of Crafts or Mysteries or any of them or any Rulers of Guilds and Fraternities should take upon them to make any Acts or Ordinances nor to execute any Acts or Ordinances then aforemade in Disinheritance or Diminution of the Prerogative of the King nor of any other nor against the Common Profit of the People Except the same Acts or Ordinances be Examined and Approved by the Chancellor or Treasurer of England or Chief Justices of either Benches or Three of them or before both the Justices of Assize in their Circuit or Progress in the Shire where such Acts or Ordinances be made upon pain of Forfeiture of Forty Pounds for every time that they do contrary as by the said Statute more plainly doth and may appear Now know ye That the Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery or Art of Stationers of the City of London Willing and desiring that the said Act of Parliament be in all things duly observed and kept The Tenth day of February in the Five and Thirtieth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. Annoque Dom. One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty Two for the better Regulating and Ordering of the Corporation of them the said Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery or Art of Stationers of the City of London and for the preventing of Abuses and Misdemeanours in and about Printing Have Presented unto us this under-written Ordinance by them Ordained Devised and Made for the well-governing of their Corporation and Society and every Member thereof and have made their Humble Suit and Request to us to Examine Correct Amend and to Approve thereof in such manner and form as by the said Act of Parliament made in the said Nineteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh is required We therefore well considering and approving the said Supplication to be good and reasonable according to their desire and by the Authority of the said Act of Parliament to us given the same Ordinance under-written so to us exhibited have seen read and examined The Tenor whereof hereafter followeth in these Words Viz. At an Assembly of the Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of 〈◊〉 Mystery or Art of STATIONERS of the City of LONDON held at their Common Hall in the Parish of St. Martin Ludgate in the Ward of Farringdon within London on Wednesday the Sixth day of December Anno Dom. One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty and Two For the well-governing of the Members of this Company the Law and Ordinance hereafter mentioned was then made enacted and ordained by the Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery or Art of STATIONERS of the City of LONDON in manner and form following viz. WHereas It hath been the Ancient Usage of the Members of this Company for the Printer or Printers Publisher or Publishers of all Books Pamphlets Ballads and Papers except what are granted by Letters Pattents under the Great Seal of England to Enter into the Publick Register-Book of this Company remaining with the Clerk of this Company for the time being in his or their own Name or Names All Books Pamphlets Ballads and Papers whatsoever by him or them to be Printed or Published before the same Book Pamphlet Ballad or Paper is begun to be Printed To the end that the Printer or Publisher thereof may be known to justifie whatsoever shall be therein contained and have no Excuse for the Printing or Publishing thereof which Usage this Company now taking into their Consisideration do think that the due Observation thereof may be a means to prevent the Printing and Publishing of Treasonable Seditious and Scandalous Books Pamphlets Libels and Papers or Discover the Printers or Publishers thereof IT is therefore Ordained That all and every Member or Members of this Company shall before the Printing or reprinting of any Book Pamphlet Ballad or Paper except what are granted under the Great Seal of England as aforesaid in his own Person cause to be Entred into the Register-Book of this Company remaining in the Custody of the Clerk of this Company paying the usual Fees for the Entring thereof in his and their own Name and Names in words at length the Title of all every Book Pamphlet and Paper that he or they shall hereafter Print or Publish or cause to be Printed or Published And to which Entry he or they shall set and subscribe his and their respective Name and Names upon pain of forfeiting to the Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery or Art of Stationers of the City of London Twenty pounds to be by them Recovered by Action of Debt to their own Use Which said Ordinance in manner and form aforesaid made at the Request of the said Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery or Art of Stationers of the City of London by the Authority and Vertue of the said Act of Parliament made in the Nineteenth Year of the said King Henry the Seventh and for the preventing of the Penalty inflicted by the aforesaid Statute upon the Execution of Ordinances not approved as by the said Act is directed as far forth as by Law we may We the said Lord Keeper and Lords Chief Justices of either Benches do Approve Ratifie and Confirm In Witness whereof We the said Lord Keeper and Lords Chief Justices of either Benches have hereunto subscribed our Names and set our Seals the said Tenth day of February in the Five and Thirtieth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. Annoque Dom. 1682. F. North C S. Edm. Saunders Fr. Pemberton