By the Queene. Whereas diuers traiterous and slanderous libels haue of late beene dispersed in diuers parts of our citie of London ... Proclamations. 1601-04-05 England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A21953 of text S117187 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. 2 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 A21953 STC 8286 ESTC S117187 99852402 99852402 17723

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 eng Libel and slander -- Early works to 1800. Sedition -- England -- Early works to 1800. England -- Proclamations -- Early works to 1800. eebo By the Queene. Whereas diuers traiterous and slanderous libels haue of late beene dispersed in diuers parts of our citie of London, ... England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) 1601 1 244 1 0 0 0 0 0 40.98 D The rate of 40.98 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-04 Sampled and proofread 2009-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

DIEV ET MON DROIT

HONI SOIT Q●● MAL Y PENSE

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By the Queene .

WHereas diuers traiterous and slanderous Libels haue of late beene dispersed in diuers parts of our Citie of London , and places neere thereunto adioyning , by some lewde and vngodly persons , tending to the slander of our Royal person and State , and stirring vp of rebellion and sedition within this our Realme : And to the end such wicked persons may be discouered and knowen :

These shal be to signifie to all maner of person and persons , That whosoeuer shall in any fort , either openly or secretly , discouer and make knowen to any of the Lordes or others of our priuie Counsaile , or to the Lord Maior of our said Citie , the name of any of the Authors , writers , or dispersers of any of the sayd Libels , whereby the offendors therein may be knowen and taken , shall presently haue and receine for their paines therein , the summe of one hundred pounds of currant money payed and deliuered vnto him by the Lord Mains of our sayd Citie .

Giuen at our Palace of Whitehall at Westminster the fifth of April 1601. And in the three and fortieth yeere of our raigne . God saue the Queene .

❧ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker , printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie . 1601.