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)
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Benjamin Fisher, a stationer of the City of London, acknowledgeth
that he caused five hundred of those bookes to be printed, and no
more; five sheets whereof were printed by one Okes a printer, and
one other sheete whereof was printed by Breward Alsope and Thomas
Fawcett, two other printers.
Of these books Fisher saith they have vented four hundred and twenty
or thereabouts, and names some of the parties unto whom they have
vented them: viz.--one hundred of them to one Peter Horson, the rest
to severall stationers in the country, and that he bought the copy
thereof of one Alsope a printer, and saith it was printed without
licence.
This Alsope being examined where he had the copy saith he bought
it of one Ferdinando Ely, a broker in bookes, and that the said
Fisher sent Alsope to buy it of Ely, that he the said Alsope payd
unto Ely xijd. for it, and having bought it delivered it presently
unto Fisher, who caused it to be printed. Alsope he saith that he
printed of that sheet delivered unto him as many as should make upp a
thousand books of that sort, besides some waste sheets.
Ferdinando Ely being examined, denieth upon his oath that he ever
had the copy of the said book, or that he sold it to Alsope, but
afterwards uppon better remembrance saith that about two yeares since
he sold a copy of a small book to the said Alsope, but what was
the contents of it, or for how much money he sold it, he doth not
remember.
Peter Horson being examined, confesseth that together with a letter
he received an hundred of those books wanting two from the said
Fisher, which letter importeth that they were printed at Dort, and
that the author of them was Sir Robert Cotton, and saith it is a book
well penned; he hath dispersed divers of them and nameth some of the
parties unto whom.
Okes the printer saith his sonn printed part of that book whilest he
Okes the father was prisoner in the Compter, and saith that as his
sonn told him he printed five hundred of them and no more, and saith
they were printed for Benjamin Fisher aforesaid.[41]
Ita Testor { Thomas } deputatus Registrarii
{ Mottinshed } Regis.
55.
Religion and Allegiance. Two Sermons. By Roger Manwaring. 1627.
These two sermons were preached by Roger Manwaring, D.D., before
his Majesty on the 4th July and 29th July, 1627, and were
afterwards published under the before mentioned title, for which
Manwaring was brought to the bar of the House of Lords. On the 14th
June, 1628, that House gave judgment thus:--
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