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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29442	A Brief discourse concerning printing and printers		1663 (1663)	Wing B4578; ESTC R10943	13,231	28

and consequently brought our rates so low as not to afford good Materials or engage good Workmen hence comes Printing to be at this pass Which they regard not for the most of them little regard how ill their work be done so it be cheap done Now as a due establishment of Printers upon a right ground would put them in a better capacity of obtaining Materials and suitable requisites for their Calling so would it enable those to whom the oversight should fall from time to time to look after such as are ignorant careless or negligent in the duties of their Calling Thus having shewed the Stationers ignorance in Printing and consequently their incapacity of the oversight thereof let us now consider their interest and if that be found to oppose the good both of Printing and Printers I think there needs no other Argument had we no more to prove them unfit to be Governours in the case I might instance in several particulars wherein the Interest of Stationers I mean Booksellers who are the most considerable and chiefly intended here opposes that of Printers yea it is hard to instance in one particular wherein their interests agree But this one consideration may suffice That they stand related to each other as the Buyer to the Seller and as reasonably in my judgement may the Buyer have the Rule of the Seller as the Book-seller govern the Printer Neither can it be reasonably said to be an ambitious humour or affectation in Printers to desire their own Rule and Government any more then it may be said to be pride in a Housholder to desire the government of his own houshold or ambition in one that hath served his Apprentiship to desire his freedom Indeed did they aim at domineering over others whose persons are out of their jurisdiction and whose affairs are above their understanding this were reprovable and yet this is the great design of the Stationers in reference to Printers and they take it for great presumption in the Printers to go about to oppose their design in procuring their own freedom calling it breach of Oath as if because of our Oath we must lie down under all their abuses and oppressions without seeking redress wherein yet we take not upon us to be our own Judges but refer our cause to the same power that gave them theirs who may resume or abridge the same upon misuser at their pleasure And whereas it was urged once before the Lords that Printers were the Mechanick part of the Company and so unfit to rule let the import of the word be considered and it will be found to bear no such slight signification as that Gentleman was pleased to put upon it For besides that a considerable branch of the noble Science Mathematical viz the Art of moving great weights goes under that denomination if it be taken for Manual Arts or handy-Crafts yet it is to be understood of such as require ingenuity of the minde Generaliter autem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dicitur opifex eorum operum quae ingenio simul manu fiunt Scap. as well as labour of the hand as the learned Scapula observes upon the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But let them be supposed to be Mechanicks in his sense that is such as are below the grandeur of Shop-keepers must they not therefore have the management of their own Affairs hath not the meanest Subject as great a command in his own Family and Affairs as the greatest Lord in his But the Gentleman miss-put the case as if the Printers aimed at the Rule of the Stationers whereas they onely aim at their own freedom and the reaping the like fruits of their servitude with other their fellow-Subjects and Citizens Nor should Mechanicks or Handy-Crafts be so lightly esteemed when the Law hath so great a regard for them and makes so manifold Provision for their improvement and the encouragement of Manufactors witness the many Statutes about the Weavers of Norwich more concerning Clothiers an ancient Decree about Cordwayners and many Statutes thereupon Barbers and Chirurgeons united for mutual benefit Clothiers to be overseen by the Lord Maior and incorporated Brewers and Sope-makers not to make their own Barrels but the Coopers Plaisterer and Painter not to intrench upon each other nor Carpenter and Joyner Indeed it were endless to enumerate the Statutes and Decrees made in favour of Manufactors to protect them from disorders and abuses to which end the meanest have been put into distinct associations and impowred to make by Lawes for their better subsistence And for the encouragement of them all there is a clause in the Statute of 5 Eliz. prohibiting any to use a Handy-Craft that hath not served seven years Apprentiship to it Neither was this care taken of them without good reason since they are essentially necessary whereas Shop-keepers are but accidental like suckers springing out of the root of the former For without the Clothier where were the Draper without the Hatmaker where were the Haberdasher and without the Printer where were the Book-seller Yea having the Clothier what need necessarily is there of the Draper having the Hat-maker what necessity of the Haberdasher and having the Printer no fear of wanting Books though there were no Bookseller But it may be alleadged that the present Constitution is ancient and therefore not to be altered I answer If evil the older the worse neither are there examples wanting of the change or suppression of more ancient Constitutions then this when once they have proved injurious or useless Nor is this the first time the present Constitution of Printers hath been complained of as a grievance for our forefathers many years since even when Printers had not experimented a tythe of what they now suffer did the like in their time as appears by some of their Papers yet extant and the testimony of persons still living Besides we want not examples both former and later of the division or separation of one part of a Company from the other when their conjunction hath been found inconvenient or injurious BUt because Printing and Printers have so light an esteem and such harsh usage in this age insomuch that neither it nor they finde like respect or care with the meanest of Occupations let us examine whether it deserve no better and herein we will not be our own Judges but refer the matter to the Learned who are both competent and capable of the decision Among whom we shall onely give you such as have already come to hand not doubting but many others bear witness to the same of which a future account may be given Dr. Hakewil in his Apologie of the power and providence of God in the government of the world p. 316. treating of divers artificial works and inventions of the later Ages matchable with those of the Ancients insists chiefly on Printing Guns and the Sea-Chard or Mariners Compass of which he brings in Cardane speaking thus His tribus tota Antiquitas