By the King. A proclamation for suppressing the printing and publishing unlicensed news-books, and pamphlets of news..

An act against unlicensed and scandalous books and pamphlets, and for better regulating of printing
Published: (1649)

An act against unlicensed and scandalous books and pamphlets, and for better regulating of printing. : Die Jovis, 20 September. 1649. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliament'.
Published: (1649)

By the King. A proclamation against the disorderly printing, vttering, and dispersing of bookes, pamphlets, &c.
Published: (1623)

By the King. A proclamation for the better discovery of seditious libellers..
Published: (1675)

An order of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. : For the regulating of printing, and for suppressing the great late abuses and frequent disorders in printing many false, scandalous, seditious, libellous and unlicensed pamphlets, to the great defamation of religion and government. Also, authorizing the masters and wardens of the Company of Stationers to make diligent search, seize and carry away all such books as they shall finde printed, or reprinted by any man having no lawfull interest in them, being entred into the hall book to any other man as his proper copies. Die Mercurii. 14 June. 1643. Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that this order shall be forthwith printed and published. J. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum: Hen. Elsing Cler. D. Com.
Published: (1643)

An act for reviving of a former act, entituled, an Act against unlicensed and scandalous books and pamphlets, and for better regulating of printing; : with some additions and explanations. Friday the 7th of January, 1652. Ordered by the Parliament, that this Act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.
Published: (1652)

A seasonable memorial in some historical notes upon the liberties of the presse and pulpit. : With the effects of popular petitions, tumults, associations, impostures, and disaffected common-councils.
by: L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704
Published: (1680)

A warrant of the Lord General Fairfax to the Marshall Generall of the Army, : to put in execution the former ordinances & orders of Parliament, and act of Common Councell, concerning the regulating of printing, and dispersing of scandalous pamphlets. Whereunto is annexed the said ordinances and orders.
by: Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671
Published: (1649)

An Humble address to the truly loyal citizens of London /
by: True lover of his king and countrey
Published: (1680)

A letter to a member of Parliament, shewing, that a restraint on the press is inconsistent with the Protestant religion, and dangerous to the liberties of the nation
Published: (1700)

To the Right Honourable, the supreme authority of this nation, the Commons of England in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of firm and constant friends to the Parliament and Common-wealth, presenters and promoters of the large petition of September 11. MDCXLVIII.
Published: (1649)

Reasons humbly offered for the liberty of unlicens'd printing : to which is subjoin'd the just and true character of Edmund Bohun, the licenser of the press /
by: Blount, Charles, 1654-1693
Published: (1693)

Reasons humbly offered for the liberty of unlicens'd printing : to which is subjoin'd the just and true character of Edmund Bohun, the licenser of the press /
by: Blount, Charles, 1654-1693
Published: (1693)

The vvhole life and progresse of Henry Walker the ironmonger. : First, the manner of his conversation. Secondly, the severall offences, and scandalous pamphlets the said Walker hath writ, and for which he is now a prisoner in New-Gate. Thirdly, the forme of the inditement which is laid against him, by the Kings sergeants at law, and his learned counsell. Fourthly, his conviction by the iury. Fiftly, his recantation, and sorrow for the publicke wrong he hath done His Majesty and the whole kingdome. Here are also many remarkable passages concerning the offence, and apprehending the said Henry Walker, with a true relation of his severall escapes and rescues from the hands of justice; &c. Collected and written by Iohn Taylor.
by: Taylor, John, 1580-1653
Published: (1642)

A proclamation deuised by the kinges hyghnes, with thaduise of his most honorable counsell, to auoide and abolish suche englishe bookes, as conteine pernicious and detestable errours and heresies : made the .viii. daye of Iuly, the .xxxviii. yere of the kynges maiesties most gracious reigne.
Published: (1546)

Areopagitica; : a speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of vnlicens'd printing, to the Parlament of England.
by: Milton, John, 1608-1674
Published: (1644)

A fresh discovery of the high-Presbyterian spirit. Or The quenching of the second beacon fired. : Declaring I. The un-Christian dealings of the authors of a pamphlet, entituled, A second beacon fired, &c. In presenting unto the Lord Protector and Parlament, a falsified passage out of one of Mr John Goodwins books, as containing, either blasphemie, or error, or both. II. The evil of their petition for subjecting the libertie of the press to the arbitrariness and will of a few men. III. The Christian equity, that satisfaction be given to the person so notoriously and publickly wronged. Together with the responsatory epistle of the said beacon firers, to the said Mr Goodwin, fraught with further revilings, falsifications, scurrilous language, &c. insteed of a Christian acknowledgment of their errour. Upon which epistle some animadversions are made, /
by: Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665
Published: (1654)

A briefe treatise concerning the regulating of printing. /
by: Ball, William
Published: (1651)

A Letter to a member of Parliament, shewing the necessity of regulating the press : chiefly from the necessity of publick establishments in religion, from the rights and immunities of a national church, and the trust reposed in the Christian magistrate to protect and defend them : with a particular answer to the objections that of late have been advanced against it.
Published: (1699)

A Letter to a member of Parliament, shewing the necessity of regulating the press : chiefly from the necessity of publick establishments in religion, from the rights and immunities of a national church, and the trust reposed in the Christian magistrate to protect and defend them : with a particular answer to the objections that of late have been advanced against it.

An act against unlicensed and scandalous books and pamphlets, and for better regulating of printing.

An end of one controversie: : being an answer or letter to Master Ley's large last book, called Light for smoke. One of the Assembly at Westminster. Which he writ lately against me. In which the sum of his last book, which relates to the most material passages in it, is gathered up and replied to. /
by: Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647
Published: (1646)

An arrow against all tyrants and tyrany, : shot from the prison of New-gate into the prerogative bowels of the arbitrary House of Lords, and all other usurpers and tyrants whatsoever. wherein the originall rise, extent, and end of magisteriall power, the naturall and nationall rights, freedomes and properties of mankind are discovered, and undeniably maintained; ... the late Presbyterian ordinance (invented and contrived by the diviners, and by the motion of Mr. Bacon and Mr. Taet read in the House of Commons) examined, refuted, and exploaded, as most inhumaine, tyranicall and barbarous. /
by: Overton, Richard, fl. 1646
Published: (1646)

A letter to every person in Great-Britain : who has the least regard for the foundation of all our liberties, the liberty of the press, but, in a more particular manner, to all such merchants and tradesmen, who would have been ruined had the late excise-bill passed into law /
by: Budgell, Eustace, 1686-1737
Published: (1733)

By the King. A proclamation to inhibite the sale of Latine bookes reprinted beyond the seas, hauing been first printed in Oxford or Cambridge
Published: (1625)

By the King : a proclamation against the disorderly printing, vttering, and dispersing of bookes, pamphlets, &c.
Published: (1623)

Vox plebis, or, The peoples out-cry against oppression, injustice, and tyranny. : Wherein the liberty of the subject is asserted, Magna Charta briefly but pithily expounded. Lieutenant Colonell Lilburne's sentence published and refuted. Committees arraigned, goalers condemned, and remedies provided.
by: Overton, Richard, fl. 1646
Published: (1646)

Réflexions sur les avantages de la liberté d'écrire et d'imprimer sur les matieres de l'administration : ecrites en 1764 à l'occasion de la Déclaration du roi du 28 mars de la même année, qui fait défenses d'imprimer, débiter aucuns ecrits, ouvrages, ou projets concernant la réforme ou administration des finances, &c. /
by: Morellet, André, 1727-1819
Published: (1775)

The commoners complaint: or, A dreadful warning from Newgate, to the commons of England. Presented to the honourable committees for consideration of the commoners liberties. Wherein (as in a glasse) every free-man of England may clearly behold his own imminent insufferable bondage and slavery under the Norman-prerogative men of this kingdom, represented by the present sufferings of Richard Overton; who for his just vindication of the commoners rights and freedoms against the arbitrary domination of the House of Lords, hath by them bin imprisoned these 6 months in the goal of Newgate, his wife and his brother also by them most unjustly cast into Maiden Lane prison: ... Whereunto is annexed the respective appeales of his wife, and his brother, unto the High Court of Parliament, the Commons of England assembled at Westminster.
by: Overton, Richard, fl. 1646
Published: (1646)

By the Quene : the Quenes highnes well remembrynge what great inconuenience and daungers haue growen to this her hyghnes realme in tyme past thorough the diuersities of opinions, in questions of religion, and hearing also that now of late ... the same contentions be agayne muche renewed thorowe certeyne false and vntrue reportes and rumors ...
Published: (1553)

A true relation of all the remarkable passages, and illegall proceedings of some sathanicall or Doeg-like accusers of their brethren, against William Larner, a free-man of England, : and one of the merchant-tailers company of London, for selling eight printed sheets of paper (all of one matter,) intituled, Londons last warning; as also against John Larner, and Jane Hales his servants. ...
Published: (1646)

An act to prevent the printing of any the proceedings in the High Court of Iustice, : erected for trying of James Earl of Cambridge, and others, vvithout leave of the House of Commons, or the said court.
Published: (1648)

Letters on the subject of the proper liberty of the press : By an Englishman. First published in the paper of the world.
by: Englishman
Published: (1790)

For the liberty of unlicensed printing : pour la liberté de la presse sans autorisation ni censure : Areopagitica /
by: Milton, John, 1608-1674
Published: (1969)

By the King. A proclamation for the suppressing of seditious and treasonable books and pamphlets..
Published: (1679)

By the King, a proclamation for suppressing and preventing seditious and unlicenced books and pamphlets..
Published: (1687)