By the Queene. A proclamation against certaine seditious and scismatical bookes and libelles, &c. Proclamations. 1583-06-30 England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A21816 of text S115355 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A21816 STC 8141 ESTC S115355 99850574 99850574 15785

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 eng Prohibited books -- England -- Early works to 1800. Brownists -- Early works to 1800. Dissenters, Religious -- England -- Early works to 1800. England -- Proclamations -- Early works to 1800. eebo By the Queene. A proclamation against certaine seditious and scismatical bookes and libelles, &c. England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) 1583 1 462 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-06 Sampled and proofread 2009-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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❧ By the Queene . ❧ A Proclamation against certaine seditious and scismatical Bookes and Libelles , &c.

THe Queenes most excellent Maiestie being giuen to vnderstande that there are sent from the partes beyond the seas , sundry seditious , scismaticall , and erronious printed Bookes and libelles , tending to the deprauing of the Ecclesiastical gouernment established within this Realme , set foorth by Robert Browne and Richard Harrison , fled out of the Realme as seditious persons , fearing due punishment for their sundry offences , and remaining presently in Zealande : which seuerall bookes , doe manifestly conteine in them very false , seditious , and scismatical doctrine and matter , and haue notwithstanding bene secretly solde , published , and dispersed in sundry places within this Realme , to the end to breede some scisme among her Maiesties subiectes , being persons vnclearned , and vnable to discerne the errors therein conteined : Her highnesse therefore perceiuing the wickednesse of these euil spirits , and the malicious disposition of lewde and euill disposed persons to be readie to violate and breake the peace of the Church , the Realme , and the quietnesse of her people , and knowing it also to be most requisite and conuenient for her highnesse to vse those meanes which God hath appointed for preuenting thereof , doeth will , and also straightly charge and commaunde that all maner of persons what so euer , who haue any of the sayde Bookes or any of like nature in his or their Custodie , that they and euery of them doe foorthwith vpon the publishing hereof , bring in and deliuer vp the same vnto the Ordinarie of the Diocesse , or of the place where they inhabite , to the intent they may bee burned , or vtterly defaced by the sayde Ordinary . And that from henceforth no person or persons whatsoeuer , be so hardy as to put in print or writing , sell , set foorth , receiue , giue out or distribute any more of the same or such like sedicious bookes or libels , as they tender ber Maiesties good fauour , and will answere for the contrary at their vttermost perils , and vpon such further paynes as the Lawe shall inflict vpon the offendours in that behalfe , as persons maintayning such seditious actions , which her Maiestie myndeth to haue seuerely executed .

Giuen at her Maiesties Mannor of Greenewich the last day of Iune , in the fiue and twentieth yeere of her highnesse Reigne . God saue the Queene .

Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker , Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie .