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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1.--That Dr. Manwaring shall be imprisoned during the pleasure of
the House. 2.--That he be fined £1000 to the King. 3.--That he
shall make such submission and acknowledgment of his offences as
shall be set down by a Committee in writing both at the bar and in
the House of Commons. 4.--That he shall be suspended three years
from the exercise of his ministry. 5.--That he shall hereafter be
disabled from any ecclesiastical dignity. 6.--That he shall be for
ever disabled to preach at the Court hereafter, and 7.--That his
Majesty be moved to grant a proclamation for the calling in of his
books, that they may be burnt in London and both Universities.
The following is the proclamation:--
A Proclamation for the calling in and suppressing of two Sermons,
preached and printed by Roger Manwaring, Doctor in Divinity,
intituled Religion and Allegiance.
Whereas Roger Manwaring, Doctor in Divinity, hath lately preached
two Sermons, the one upon the fourth, the other on the nine and
twentieth of July last, and after caused them to bee printed,
and bound up into one volume, and intituled by him Religion and
Allegiance; in which sermons, although the grounds thereof were
rightly laid to perswade obedience from the subjects to their
sovereigne, and that for conscience sake; yet in divers passages,
inferences, and applications thereof trenching upon the lawes of this
land and proceedings of parliaments, whereof hee was ignorant, hee
so farre erred, that hee hath drawen upon himselfe the just censure
and sentence of the High Court of Parliament, by whose judgement
also that booke stands condemned. Wee, taking this into our serious
consideration, and beeing desirous to take away all occasions of
scandall or offence, have thought fit that those sermons, in respect
of those inferences and applications which hee made thereon, bee
totally suppressed.
And to that purpose, wee doe hereby straitly charge and command all
and every person and persons whatsoever, in whose hands any of those
bookes now are, or hereafter shall be, that they foorthwith deliver,
or cause the same to be delivered, to the Bishop or other ordinary
of that diocese or place where hee or they at any time are, if it
be not within either of our Universities; and if it bee in either
of the Universities, that then he or they deliver the same to the
Vicechancellour of that Universitie, to whom wee doe heereby give
speciall charge and command to cause them to be utterly suppressed.
And wee doe further charge and command, that no man hereafter presume
to print the sayd sermons or either of them againe, upon paine of
our high displeasure, and of such further punishment, as for their
presumption in that behalfe, may any way bee inflicted upon them.
Given at our Court at Whitehall, the foure and twentieth day of June,
in the fourth yeere of our reigne of Great Britaine, France, and
Ireland.
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