At the Court at White-hall, the four and twentieth day of July 1668. Present, the King's most excellent Majesty. ... His Majesty being informed that there are pamphlets, libells, and other seditious papers daily printed and dispersed within the cities of London and Westminster, ... Orders in Council. 1668-07-24 England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B21699 of text R226683 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. 5KB 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 B21699 Wing E801B Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.21.f.1[41] ESTC R226683 ocm99886843

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 eng Libel and slander -- Early works to 1800. Booksellers and bookselling -- Early works to 1800. eebo At the Court at White-hall, the four and twentieth day of July 1668. : Present, the King's most excellent Majesty. ... His Majesty being informed that England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) 1668 1 663 1 0 0 0 0 0 15.08 C The rate of 15.08 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-04 Sampled and proofread 2014-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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At the Court at WHITE-HALL , the four and twentieth day of July 1668. Present , The KING's most Excellent Majesty . His Royal Highness the Duke of York . His Highness Prince Rupert . Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury . Lord Privy-Seal . Duke of Albemarle . Duke of Ormond . Marquess of Dorchester . Earl of Anglesey . Earl of Bathe . Earl of Carlisle . Earl of Craven . Earl of Lauderdail . Earl of Middleton . Earl of Carbery . Earl of Orery . Lord Berkley . Lord Holles . Mr. Treasurer . Mr. Vice-Chamberlain . Mr. Secretary Morice . Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy . Sir John Duncombe .

HIS MAJESTY being informed that there are Pamphlets , Libells , and other Seditious Papers daily printed and dispersed within the Cities of London and Westminster , and the 〈◇〉 thereof , and that this Disorder is chiefly occasioned by the Liberty the Printers , Booksellers and others take in printing and vending the same contrary to the late Act of Parliament in that behalf provided , Hath for prevention of the great Mischiefs and Inconveniencies which may attend such unlawfull Practices this day declared his Pleasure , and with the Advice of his Privy Council did accordingly Order , That the Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers London be , and they are hereby , streightly required and commanded to take effectual Care , that from henceforward no Printer , Book-seller , Book-binder , or any other person , do vend , furnish or dispose of any News-books , Gazetts or Pamphlets whatsoever , to any Hawker or other person who shall carry , cry , or sell the same about the Streets : and that the Printers and Stationers do vend all such Books and Papers as they shall print onely to such as are allowed to sell Books according to the late Act of Parliament . And the said Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers are likewise required by his MAJESTY to take effectual care , that all persons which are or shall be permitted to have the use of a Printing-Press , or a Printing-House , upon or before such his allowance obtained , be bound with Sureties to his MAJESTY in the Court of King's-bench , or before some one or more of the Justices of Assize , or the Justices of the Peace at their several Quarter-Sessions , in the summe of three hundred pounds , according to the said late Act , not to print or suffer to be printed in his House or Press any Book or Books whatsoever , but such as shall from time to time be Licensed . And it was farther Ordered by his MAJESTY , That the said Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers do cause the Act intituled , An Act for preventing the frequent Abuses in printing Seditious , Treasonable , and Unlicenced Books and Pamphlets , and for Regulating of Printing and Printing-Presses , to be duly and effectually put in Execution in all the several parts thereof ; and particularly that they indict , or cause to be indicted , all such persons as have erected any Printing-House or Printing-Press contrary to the said Act ; and likewise make frequent and diligent Searches in every Printing-House , Book-sellers or Book-binders Shop or House , and all other suspected places , for unlicensed Books and Pamphlets , and thereof to give an Account in writing under the Hands of the Master and Wardens , or one of them , for the time being , to his Grace the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury , the Lord Bishop of London , his MAJESTY's principal Secretaries of State , or one of them .

John Nicholas .

Printed by James Flesher , Printer to the Honourable City of LONDON .