Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecutedHart, W. H. (William Henry)
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Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecuted
Hart, W. H. (William Henry)
Prohibited books -- England -- Bibliography
A set of verses printed and published by Nathaniel Thomson, a
printer, living in the parish of St. Dunstan in the West. For this
publication he was prosecuted. The following is a copy of the
indictment:--
Londonia. Juratores pro domino rege super sacramentum suum
præsentant quod Nathaniel Thomson nuper de parochia Sancti Dunstani
in Occidente in Warda de Farringdon exti Londoniam prædictam
Typographus decimo die Octobris anno regni domini nostri Caroli
Secundi Dei gratia Angliæ Scotiæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ regis Fidei
Defensoris &c. tricesimo tertio illicite nequiter et malitiose
machinans et intendens quietum statum et communem pacem et
tranquillitatem ligeorum et subditorum dicti domini regis infra
civitatem Londoniæ et alibi infra hoc regnum Angliæ inquietare
et perturbare, et diversas differentias inter ligeos et subditos
prædictos excitare movere et procurare, necnon quendam Titum
Oates clericum unum divulgatorum anglice _discoverers_ et testium
proditoriæ conspirationis papistarum dictum dominum regem nunc
ad murdrandum et veram protestantem religionem infra hoc regnum
Angliæ stabilitatam et professam ad destruendam in maximum odium
contemptum infamiam et scandalum cum omnibus ligeis et subditis
dicti domini regis nunc eundem Titum Oates adtunc cognoscentibus
et tunc imposterum cognoscendis inducere, ac diversas lites et
differentias inter præfatum Titum Oates ac omnes prædictos ligeos
et subditos dicti domini regis eidem Tito Oates tunc cognitos
et cognoscendos excitare movere et procurare, necnon bona nomen
famam testimonium et reputationem ejusdem Titi Oates pejorare et
auferre postea scilicet dicto decimo die Octobris anno supradicto
apud Londoniam videlicet in parochiam et warda prædictis ad
nefandissimas et malitiosas machinationes et intentiones suas
prædictas celerius efficienda et exequenda quoddam falsum
scandalosum et odiosum libellum de et concernentem præfato Tito
Oates et ad defamationem opprobium et scandalum ejusdem Titi Oates
intitulatum _A Dialogue betwixt the Devil and the Ignoramus Doctor_
illicite nequiter et malitiose devisatum compositum et scriptum per
quosdam homines quorum nomina juratoribus prædictis adhuc ignota
sunt ipse prædictus Nathaniel Thomson adtunc et ibidem illicite
nequiter libellose et malitiose impressit et publicavit et imprimi
et publicari causavit tenor cujusdem libelli sequitur scilicet:--
_A Dialogue betwixt the Devil and the Ignoramus [Salamanca][215]
Doctor._
_Devil._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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