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that the names of such, as shall allow the same, to be added in the end
of every such work, for a testimony of the allowance thereof. And
because many pamphlets, plays, and ballads be oftentimes printed,
wherein regard would be had that nothing therein should be either
heretical, seditious, or unseemly for Christian ears; Her Majesty
likewise commandeth that no manner of person shall enterprise to print
any such, except the same be to him licensed by such Her Majesty's
commissioners, or three of them, as be appointed in the city of London
to hear and determine divers clauses ecclesiastical, tending to the
execution of certain statutes made the last parliament for uniformity
of order in religion. And if any shall sell or utter any manner of
books or papers, being not licensed as is abovesaid, that the same
party shall be punished by order of the said commissioners, as to the
quality of the fault shall be thought meet. And touching all other
books of matters of religion, or policy, or governance, that have been
printed, either on this side the seas, or on the other side, because
the diversity of them is great, and that there needeth good
consideration to be had of the particularities thereof, Her Majesty
referreth the prohibition or permission thereof to the order, which her
said commissioners within the city of London shall take and notify.
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