Given at our Court at White-Hall, the seventeenth day of January, in the fourth yeere of our reigne, of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland. God save the King. Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and John Bill, printers to the King's most Excellent Majestie. MDCXXVIII." PART II.] [TO BE CONTINUED. 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. BY W. H. HART, F.S.A. PRICE TWO SHILLINGS. LONDON: JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE. 1873. HART, PRINTER,] [SAFFRON WALDEN. 54. A short view of the long life and raigne of Henry the Third, King of England. Presented to King James. Printed 1627. 4to. Published anonymously. (By Sir Robert Cotton.) This tract was reprinted in the first number of Morgan's Phœnix Britannicus, 1641, and also in the fourth volume of the Somers Collection of Tracts, 1651. The printers were threatened with proceedings in the Court of High Commission for printing the same without licence, and Sir Robert Cotton, who admitted the authorship, also ran some risk, as appears from the following letter of the Bishop of London (dated February 15th, 1627) to Secretary Conway, and also the examinations of the stationers and printers. My very honorable good Lord, May it please your Lordship, I have found a booke intituled A view of ye long life and raigne of Henry ye third, King of England, which I send your Lordship with the examinations of all that I find guilty of ye setting of it forth under ye hand of ye Register by whom before me there examinacions were taken. The parties ar in custody and I meane to proceede against them by ye High Comission for printing ye booke without licence, leaving the matter of state to your Lordship's wisdome. Sir Robert Cotton acknowledgeth he writt the booke some 15 yeares agone, but denies that he hath any knowledg of or hand in ye now printing of it. Good my Lord, give me leave uppon such occasions as this to repayre to your Lordship, whose wisdome will mutch strenthen my poore endeavors to his Majestie's service in this kind, or any other that lies in my ability and power; and so with my most humble acknowledgment of all your noble favours, I pray to God hartily to bless your Lordship, and remayne Your Lordship's humble servant, Geo. London. From my House, February 15th, 1626. Februarii 15to, 1626. A briefe of the severall examinations taken before the Lord Bishop of London thes weeke, touching the booke entituled A veiwe of the long life and raigne of Henry the third, King of England.