To the right honourable the house of Commons assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of Thomas Man ... Stationers' Company (London, England) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A72821 of text S125114 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 16786.6). 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 A72821 STC 16786.6 ESTC S125114 99898856 99898856 151069 2240899146

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A72821) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 151069) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1997:41) To the right honourable the house of Commons assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of Thomas Man ... Stationers' Company (London, England) 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1621] Against the patent of Roger Wood and Thomas Symcock for the sole printing of paper and parchment on one side--STC. Imprint from STC. Reproduction of original in the Guildhall Library, London, England. eng Man, Thomas, d. 1625 -- Early works to 1800. Symcock, Thomas, fl. 1619-1629 -- Early works to 1800. Wood, Roger, fl. 1619-1629 -- Early works to 1800. Printers -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800. Printing -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800. London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. eebo To the right honourable the house of Commons assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of Thomas Man, ... Stationers' Company 1621 1 442 2 0 0 0 0 0 45.25 D The rate of 45.25 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
To the right Honourable the House of Commons , assembled in Parliament . The humble petition of Thomas Man , Humfrey Lownes , Clement Knight , Thomas Daniel , Thomas Purfoot , William Jaggard , John Beale , Nicolas Bourne , William Ients , Simon Stafford , William Lugger , John Dawson , Nathaniel Newbery , Iohn Trundle , Henry Gosson , George Norton , Iohn Speed , George Humble , John Tappe , Christofer Purset , John Wright , ●u●hbert Wright , George Latham , Iohn Mariott , Iohn Grisman , Thomas Langly , John White , Phillip Birch , George Lowe , Richard Sharsakers , Laurence Dudley , with many others .

Whereas Roger Ward and Thomas Simcocke , for the benefit of Marine Boisloret ( a Frenchman ) haue of late obtained from the Kings most excellent Maiesty vnder the great Seale of England , a Priuiledge to imprint , vtter , & sell , all and all manner of Briefes of Letters Pattents for losses by fier or water , all Jndentures for Apprentices , all indentures for Waterworkes , all bonds and Recognizances , all licenses to gather by , licenses to marry , licenses for Victualers , all acquittances , all articles for visitacions of Bishops and Officials , all billes for teaching schollers , billes for Phisitions , and all play-billes , all pasports , Charts , Epitaphs , portractures and pictures whatsoeuer , and all other things printed , and hereafter to be printed vp●n oneside only of a sheete or sheetes of paper , or a skin or skinnes of parchment , as mort at large by the said grant may appeare .

Now may it please this Honorable Assembly to be enformed , That the Petitioners respectiuely haue euer had the free vse of printing these things , from the first times the same were imprinted , vntill the seuenteenth yeare of his Maiesties happie Raigne . And if the benefit thereof be taken from the petitioners , it will not onely be a great hinderance vnto them who haue beene brought vp in this Art , and maintained themselues and their seuerall families thereby , But also to all other his Maiesties louing subiects that haue occasion to vse any of the things mentioned in the said Letters Patents .

The humble sute of the Petitioners is , that this Honorable Assembly will take such order , that the Petitioners may haue free liberty to imprint the premises , as formerly they haue done , before the said Letters Patents were granted ,

And they shall euer pray , &c.