File 01 - Iniunctions geuen by the Queene's Maiestie

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This was the earliest public enactment to mention the Stationers' Company, and the first to affect its procedure after its in incorporation. As part of wider provisions for the suppression of superstition, hypocrisy and abuses, section 51 proposes licensing in order to remedy 'great abuse in the printers of bookes', specifially requiring the Company's obedience with regard to licensing by the City of London Court of High Commission.

On front pastedown is written 'Giuseppe Valletta 21 Aprile 1700'.

On page opposite front pastedown is written in a modern hand the initals 'SH' and the text 'See reference in par. no 51 (verso of D1) 'agaynst heretical & seditious bookes' Queen Elizabeth 'straytely commaundeth all maner her subjects, and specially the Wardens and companie of Stationers to be obedient'. Underneath this is written '(Printed by R. Jugge 1559) Master 1568, 1569, 1573 and 1574 ?STC 10095'.

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• Latin

First page is fragile and almost detached.

A microfilm copy is on reel 71, 'Records of the Stationers' Company 1554-1920: 115 Reels of Microfilm with Printed Guide', published by Chadwyck-Healy Ltd (1989)

Sections 6 and 51 are printed in Edward Arber, A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1640 A.D., vol 1 (London: private press, 1875), pp. xxxviii-xxxix

W W Greg, 'Decrees and ordinances affecting the book trade', Some Aspects and Problems of London Publishing between 1550 and 1650 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956)

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