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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47832	Considerations and proposals in order to the regulation of the press together with diverse instances of treasonous, and seditious pamphlets, proving the necessity thereof / by Roger L'Estrange.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1663 (1663)	Wing L1229; ESTC R19523	23,965	49

such Receipt they give notice to that they have such Quantityes of Books in their Custody and to whom they belong They hold Intelligence Abroad by the means of Posts Carryers Hackny-Coachmen Boatmen and Marriners and for fear of Interceptions they Correspond by False Names and Private Tokens so that if a Letter or Pacquet miscarry people may not know what to make on 't As for the Purpose so many Dozen of Gloves stands for so many Dozen of Books Such a Marque for such a Price c. They enter in their Day-Books only in General terms such and such Parcells of Books without naming Particulars 1. Let every Stationer living in or about London be oblig'd to keep a Day-Book of the Particulars of all the Unlicens'd Books and Papers which he sends causes or allowes to be sent by any of the Messengers above-mentioned into any parts of his Majestyes Dominions and let him Enter the Names likewise of the Persons to whom he sends them under a Penalty if either he be prov'd to have kept a False Book or to have Corresponded under a False Name and let every Stationer elsewhere i. e. within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales be oblig'd to keep a Day-Book likewise of what Unlicens'd Books and Papers he Receives and from whom upon the like Penalty 2. Let no Stationer presume to send cause or allow to be sent either by Land or Water any Dry-Fatts Bales Packs Maunds or other Fardells or Packquets of Printed Books or Papers without superscribing them in such sort that they may be known to be Books together with the Names of the Persons from whom they are sent and to whom they are Directed Under peyn of Forfeiting all Parcels of Books that are not so superscrib'd or otherwise that are advertis'd under False Names 3. Let every Hackny-Coach-man Carrier Boatman or Mariner that knowingly Transgresses in the Private Conveighance of such Letters or Packquets as aforesaid be subjected to a Particular Penalty Concerning Books Imported They must be First Prepar'd beyond the 〈◊〉 Secondly conveighed hither and Thirdly Received and Distributed here Let the English Printer Vender or Utterer of any Books written in the English Tongue or by an English man in any Other Tongue and Printed beyond the Seas to the dishonour of his Majestie or of the Establish'd Government be required to appear from beyond the Seas by a Certain Day and under such a Penalty which if he Refuse or wilfully fayl to do Let it be made Penall for any Person Living within his Majestys Dominions after sufficient Notice of his such Contempt to hold any further Correspondence with him Either by Message Letter or otherwise till he hath given satisfaction for his Offence Let a General Penalty be layd upon the Importers of any English Books whatsoever Printed beyond the Seas And so likewise upon the Contracters for the Receivers Concealers and Dispersers of any Books whatsoever Imported into This Realm and Disposed of without due Authority It rests now to be Consider'd First What Books are to be supprest and Secondly Into what hands the Care of the Press is to be Committed The Books to be supprest are as follows FIrst All Printed Papers pressing the Murther of the late King Secondly All Printed Iustifications of that Execrable Act. Thirdly All Treatises Denying His Majesties Title to the Crown of England Fourthly All Libels against the Person of His Sacred Majesty His Blessed Father or the Royal Family Fifthly All Discourses manifestly tending to stirr up the People against the Establish'd Government Sixthly All Positions Terminating in This Treasonous Conclusion that His Majesty may be Arraign'd Iudg'd and Executed by his People such as are These Following Coordination The Sovereignty of the Two Houses or of the House of Commons or of the Diffusive Body of the People in Case of Necessity The Iustification of the Warr Rais'd in 1642. in the Name of King and Parliament The Defence of the Legality and Obligation of the Covenant The Separation of the Kings Person from His Authority The Denyal of His Majesties Power in Ecclesiastical Affairs The Mainteyning that the Long-Parliament is not yet Dissolv'd If it be objected that This Looks too farr Back It may be Answer'd that Persons are Pardon'd but not Books But to more Particular Reasons for the Suppressing of Old Pamphlets First It is with Reverence a Duty both from his Sacred Majesty and his Parliament to the Honour and Memory of the Late King to deliver the Reputation of That Blessed Martyr from the Diabolical Calumnies and Forgeries which are yet Extant against his Person and Government Secondly It is as much a Duty toward our Present Sovereign of whose Royal Family and Person as much Ill is said and Publish'd as is possible for the Wit of Man to Utter or for the Malice of Hell to Invent. Thirdly In Relation to Political Ends and to the security of the Publique they ought to be supprest for they do not only Revile and Slander his Majesties Royal Person but many of them Disclaim his very Title to the Crown and Others Subject his Prerogative and Consequently his Sacred Life to the Sovereign Power of the People and this is done too with all the Advantages of a Pestilent and Artificial Imposture Now why a Pamphlet should be Allow'd to Proclaim This Treason to the World which but whispered in a Corner would certainly bring a Man to the Gallows is not easily Comprehended Fourthly It makes the English Nation cheap in the Eyes of the World to find the Bloud and Virtues of the Late King appear so little to be consider'd beside the Hazardous Consequence of Blasting the Royal Cause and of Discourageing Loyalty to Future Generations by transmitting the whole Party of the Royallists in so many Millions of virulent Libels to Posterity for a prostitute Rabble of Villeins and Traytours Fifthly Those Desperate Libells and Discourses do not only Defame the Government Encourage and Enrich the Faction and Poyson the People but while They are Permitted Those Stationers and Printers that would otherwise be Honest are forced either to play the Knaves for Company or to Break for there 's scarce any other Trading for them but in That Trash Their Customers will be supply'd and if they ask for any of these Treasonous Books they must either Furnish them or Lose their Custom Sixthly The same Reason that prohibits New Pamphlets requires also the Suppressing of Old ones of the same Quality for 't is not the Date that does the Mischief but the Matter and the Number If they be Plausible and Cunning enough to Deceive and then Numerous enough to Spread Buchanan and Knox will do the business as sure as Baxter and Calamy Besides that in some Respects the Old Ones have a great Advantage of the New for being Written in times of Freedom and Menag'd by great Masters of the Popular Stile they speak playner and strike homer to the Capacity and