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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This book was on February 2nd, 1641/2, voted by the House of
Commons scandalous, and ordered to be burnt by the Common Hangman
in Westminster, Cheapside, and Smithfield; the author disabled from
sitting as a member, and ordered to be committed to the Tower; the
printer was likewise prohibited from selling them. On February 5th
it was also ordered that the Stationers' Company should have power
to search the houses where they should be informed that Sir Edward
Dering's books were printing, or to be sold, and seize them, and
inform the House of the name of the printer.[69] Dr. Harris says
that this book contains many curious particulars not elsewhere to
be met with.
95.
Vox Hiberniæ.
This is a false copy of a sermon preached by the Archbishop of
Armagh before the House of Lords on the Fast day, December 22nd,
1641. It was printed by one John Nicholson; but on the petition of
the Archbishop it was ordered to be called in and suppressed by the
House of Lords on February 11th, 1641.
96.
To your Tents, O Israel. By Henry Walker. 1642.
A seditious pamphlet, for which Walker was tried at the Old Bailey
in July, 1642. On the trial the Queen's Attorney and two Serjeants
at law after causing the indictment to be read "began to show and
did make it plain how odious the matter was, and how it was a
fact of a high nature; first against his Majesty, to make him as
it were odious to his people: _To your Tents, O Israel_; as if
the King were a Tyrant, bidding as it were every man to take his
Sword and Armor; and oppose all Authority whatsoever, obeying no
Law but that of their owne humour and will; what can there be more
said, but that it was very plaine, but that this _Walker_ did by
those words labour to instigate and stir up the King's Subjects to
a mutiny, and to cause tumults to arise in this Kingdome, nay, in
the heart of this Kingdome, in the City of London too; not onely
to teach these words, but to cause them at his owne charge to be
printed, and to divulge the same through his Majestie's Kingdomes.
Nor did this _Walker_ rest himselfe therewith satisfied, but in
an audacious way, and in a bold manner, as the King's Majesty
passed through the City of London riding in his Coach, threw one
of them into the very Coach itselfe, and in the very face of the
King; what an affront was this? can any age paralell it, or any
Chronicle make mention of the like, and in a Civill Commonwealth,
and in a well governed City; I think not: nor is this all, for
this _Walker_ hath invented and writ divers Pamphlets and other
scandalous Bookes, to the great disturbance of his Majesty, and
of his Liege people; a meere sower of division, an upholder of a
new Government, an inventer of a new Doctrine; nay, he is become a
Preacher and a deliverer of this his humour even in the Church, and
openly in the Pulpit too, and on the Sunday: drawing after him, and
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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