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A85053	A warrant of the Lord General Fairfax to the Marshall Generall of the Army, to put in execution the former ordinances & orders of Parliament, and act of Common Councell, concerning the regulating of printing, and dispersing of scandalous pamphlets. Whereunto is annexed the said ordinances and orders.	Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.; Lawrence, Richard, d. 1684.	1649 (1649)	Wing F253; Thomason E538_1; ESTC R205999	7,241	15

A WARRANT OF THE Lord General Fairfax TO THE Marshall Generall of the Army To put in Execution the former Ordinances Orders OF PARLIAMENT AND Act of Common Councell Concerning the Regulating of Printing and dispersing of scandalous Pamphlets Whereunto is annexed the said Ordinances and Orders LONDON Printed by John Macock for JOHN PARTRIDGE MDCXLIX A Coppy of the WARRANT OF THE Lord General Fairfax TO THE Marshal General of the Army BY Vertue of an Order of Parliament Dated 5. January 1648. desiring me to Command the Marshall Generall of the Army to put in Execution the Ordinances of Parliament concerning scandal●us and unlicenced Pamphlets and having received a Petition from the Masters and Wardens of the Company of Stationers desiring the putting in execution all Ordinances of Parliament concerning the same These are therefore to require and authorize Cap Richard Lawrence Marshal of the Army General under my Command his Deputy and Deputies to put the Ordinance of 28. Sept. 1647 for suppressing scandalous Pamphlets into speedy and effectual execution And likewise another Order of the Lords and Commons dated 14. June 1643. for Regulating of Printing and suppressing the great Abuses and frequent Disorders therein together with an Act of Common Councel dated 9. October 1643. for prohibiting of all persons whatsoever from crying or putting to Sale about the streets within this City and Liberties any Pamphlets Books or Papers whatsoever by way of Hawking and for punishing of the offendors therein And if any person or persons have offended or shall hereafter offend therein contrary to the said Ordinances you are hereby Required and Authorized to take them into custody and inflict upon them such corporal punishments and levy such penalties upon them for each offence as is therein mentioned and not discharge them till they have made full payment thereof and received the said punishments accordingly You are further Authorized and Required from time to time to make diligent search in all places wherein you shall think meet for all unlicensed Printing Presses any way imployed in Printing Scandalous and unlicensed Papers Pamphlets Books Ballads or any Copies of Books whatsoever either belonging to the Company of Stationers or any Member thereof without their approbation and consents or otherwise and to seize and carry away such Printing Presses Letters together with the Nut Spindle and other materials of every such irregular Printer which you shall find so mis-imployed unto the Stationers Hall London there to be defaced and made unserviceable according to Ordinance of Parliament in that behalf And likewise to make diligent search in all suspected Printing Houses Ware-houses and other Shops and places whatsoever for such unlicensed Books Papers Treatises Ballads or other sheet or sheets of News whatsoever not entered nor signed with the true name of the Printer being printed or reprinted And likewise any Book or Books or part of any Book or Books heretofore allowed and granted to the Company of Stationers for their relief and maintenance of their poor by such as have no lawful Interest to them contrary to the said Ordinances and to carry them to Stasioners Hall according to the said Ordinances and in case of opposition to break open according to the said Ordinances all doors and locks and to apprehend all persons so opposing and take them into custody till they have given satisfaction therein And you are here Authorized to dispose of one moity of the Fine paid by vertue of the said Ordinances to the person or persons apprehending the said offendors and the other moity thereof to the poor of the liberty of the Parish where the offence is committed according to the said Ordinances and the oath of one credible witness taken before any Justice of Peace or Master of Chancery shall be a sufficient conviction of any offendor in the cases mentioned in the said Ordinances The same being produced and made good to the Iudg Advocate of the Army and all Officers and Soldiers of the Army under my Command and all Mayors Sheriffs Constables the Master and Warden of the Company of Stationers and Mr Mabbot who by Ordinance of Parliament is appointed Licenser of all Papers Pamphlets and other Books of News and all other persons appointed by the said Ordinance of 14. June 1643. are hereby required to be ayding and assisting to you and your Deputies in the execution of the said Ordinances and Act of Common Councel as they will answer the contrary Given under my Hand and Seal this ninth of January 1648. T. Fairfax To Capt. Richard Lawrence Marshall Generall of the Army under my Command AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT Against Vnlicensed or Scandalous Pamphlets AND For the better Regulating of PRINTING THe Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled taking notice of the many Seditious False and Scandalous Papers and Pamphlets dayly printed and published in and about the Cities of London and Westminster and thence dispersed into all parts of this Realm and other parts beyond the Seas to the great abuse and prejudice of the People and insufferable reproach of the proceedings of the Parliament and their Army for the better suppression thereof and prevention of the like inconveniences in time to come do Order and Ordain and be it Ordered and Ordained by the said Lords and Commons That what person soever shall Make Write Print Publish Sell or Utter or cause to be Made Written Printed Published Sold or Uttered any Book Pamphlet Treatise Ballad Libel Sheet or Sheets of News whatsoever except the same be Licensed by both or either House of Parliament or by such person or persons as shall be thereunto Authorized by one or both Houses of Parliament with the Name of the Author Printer and Licenser thereunto prefixed shall for every such Offence suffer pay and incur the Punishment Fine and Penally hereafter mentioned that is to say The Maker Writer or Composer of any such unlicensed Book Pamphlet Treatise Ballad Libel Sheet or Sheets of News shall forfeit and pay forty shillings or be Imprisoned in the Common Goal for the County or Liberty where the Offence is commited or the Offendor shall be found until he shall pay the same so that the said Imprisonment exceed not forty days The Printer to forfeit and pay twenty shillings and suffer the like Imprisonment until he pay the same the said Imprisoment not exceeding twenty days and likewise to have his Press and Implements of Imprinting seized and broken in pieces The Bookseller or Stationer to forfeit and pay ten shillings or be Imprisoned in like manner until he pay the same the Imprisonment not exceeding ten days and the Hawker Pedler or Ballad-singer to forfeit and lose all his Books Pamphlets and printing Papers exposed to sale and also to be whipt as a Common Rogue in the Liberty or Parish where the said Offender shall be apprehended or the Offence committed And it is further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons That the several and