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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26139	The original and growth of printing collected out of history, and the records of this kingdome : wherein is also demonstrated, that printing appertaineth to the prerogative royal, and is a flower of the crown of England / by Richard Atkyns.	Atkyns, Richard, 1615-1677.	1664 (1664)	Wing A4135; ESTC R22866	21,864	35

to every Member of each House how little Benefit hath accrued to the Kingdom by the late Act of Parliament for two years Entituled An ACT for preventing the frequent Abuses in Printing Seditious Treasonable and Unlicensed Books and Pamphlets c. Which Act determines June next Nor can it be thought but that there is cause enough for another Act to take place when this is expired The Reason why this present Act hath operated so little is most apparent because the Executive Power is plac'd in the Company of Stationers who onely can offend and whose Interest it is to do so They are both Parties and Judges and 't were a high Point of Self-denial for Men to punish themselves But they will wipe their Mouthes with Solomon's Harlot and take it very unkindly if the same or a greater Power be not continued to them in the next Act to be made They will promise as fair as the Long Parliament did to the late King to make Him a Glorious King and perform it as certainly as they did too Jugglers seldome shew the same Trick twice together and the Italian Proverb is If a man deceive me once 't is his fault if twice it is mine own That the Great Councel of this Nation should further trust those that have deceived them already and believe fair Pretences contrary to Reason and Practice would be a sad Fate upon Us all when wofull Experience tells Us That if the King be taken from being Head of the Law there will not want a Law to take off His Head in a short time There were a sort of People in King David's time which imagined Mischief as a Law as in the late King's time that practised Mischief by a Law Which might incline the Parliament to frame a strict Law against this kind of Mischief But I hope the King's Mercy in forgivin such by which He imitates His Maker will find so hearty a Conversion that Ingratitude shall never joyn with Rebellion to provoke a Tyrannical Government over this Kingdom such Men if I may so call them are worse then the Gentiles of whom St. Paul saith That having not the Law and doing by Nature the things contained in the Law are a Law unto themselves which shew the Law written in their Hearts nay worse then Beasts who by Nature observe a Law amongst themselves Shall Sense and Reason alone teach Creatures willingly to confine themselves to certain Rules for the Common Good and shall Professors of Christianity break them Shall the Law of Nature command Men to be free from offending and shall the Law of God be thought to command them to be free to offend Let not our too-near Neighbours the Turks have that Advantage against Us. But whilest I declaim against others for breaking their Bounds I may be thought guilty of committing the same Errour myself I shall therefore most humbly beg your Honours Pardon and rest Your Honours Most Humble and Faithful Servant RICHARD ATKINS THE Originall and Grovvth OF PRINTING REASON is the great Distinction between Man and Beast Gusman calls the Man of most Knowledg A God amongst Men. And Bishop Hall divides the whole Duty of Man into Knowledg and Practice In the Infancy of the World especially before the Sealing of the Scripture-Canon God Revealed himself and his Will frequently either Vocally by himself as to Moses in the Mount or else by divers and sundry other manners As by Dreams Visions Prophecies Extasies Oracles and other Supernatural means Nor will I Blow up the Humours of these Times so high as to Confine these his Miraculous Revelations to Gods People onely though to them most frequently and especially but sometimes also to Hypocrites within the Church as to Saul and others yea and sometimes even to Infidels as to Pharaoh Balaam Nebuchadnezzar Abimelech c. But since the Writings of the Prophets and Apostles commonly called the Scriptures And that the Christian Church by the Preaching of the Gospel is become Oecumenical Dreams and other Supernaturall Revelations as also other things of like nature as Miracles have ceased to be of ordinary and familiar use So as now we ought rather to suspect Delusion in them than ●o expect Direction from them Yet God hath no where abridged or Limited himself from these supernatural wayes of Revealing his Will in case his Written Word should be taken from us or we from it But we of this Latter Age have all these so Lively represented to our View by the benefit of Printing as if we our selves were personally present For Printing is of so Divine a Nature that it makes a Thousand years but as yesterday by Prèsenting to our View things done so long before and so Spirituall withall that it flyes into all parts parts of the World without Weariness Finally 't is so great a Friend to the Schollar that he may make himself Master of any Art or Science that hath been treated of for 2000 years before in lesse than two years time But Virtue it self will not want Opposers and Philosophy is ever odious to ignorant Ears Nay there are a sort of People in the World that account Ignorance the Mother of Devotion and therefore out of Conscience would not have even the Scriptures Printed in the Mother Tongue But I shall not go out of my own Way to bring them unto it further than by defending the Theame I have in hand Concerning the time of bringing this Excellent ART into England and by whose Expence and Procurement it was brought Modern Writers of good Reputation do most erroniously agree together Mr. Stowe in his Survey of London speaking of the 37th year of King Henry the Sixth his Reign which was Anno Dom. 1459. saith That the Noble Science of PRINTING was about this time found in Germany at Magunce by one John Cuthenbergus a Knight And that William Caxton of London Mercer brought it into England about the Year 1471. And first practised the same in the Abby of St. Peter at Westminster With whom Sir Richard Baker in his Chronicle agrees throughout And Mr. Howell in his Historicall Discourse of London and Westminster agrees with both the former in the Time Person and Place in generall but more particularly declares the Place in Westminster to be the Almory there And that Islip Abbot of Westminster set up the first Press of Book Printing that ever was in England These three famous Historians having fill'd the World with the supposed truth of this Assertion Although possibly it might arise through the mistake of the first Writer only whose Memory I perfectly honour makes it the harder Task upon me to undeceive the World again Nor wouldI undertake this Work but under a double notion As I am a Friend to Truth and so it is unfit to suffer one Man to be intituled to the worthy Atchievements of another And as a Friend to my self not to lose one of my best Arguments of Intituling the King to