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[This Proclamation is a general warning, provoked doubtless by a partial knowledge of the Conspiracy brewing among
the Roman Catholics, which ultimately exploded in the Rebellion of the North on the 14th November 1569.

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|Heras diners bookes made or translated by certayne the Queenes Maiesties subiectes, for the
more part remayning on the other syde of the sea, without lawfull licence, contayning
sundry matters repugnaunt to trueth, derogatorie to the soueraigne estate of her Maiestie,
and stirring and nomishing sedition in this Realme, are commonly in secrete sort here dis-
pearsed by malicious persons among sundry her Maiesties subiectes, to th[e]intent to drawe them to errour,
and withdi'awe them sediciously from their dueties and allegiance due to her Maiestie, as their onlye
soueraigne. For redresse hereof, lyke as of late tyme some mylde example hath ben made in the starre
chaumber at Westminster, in correction of certayne persons founde faultie in the secrete dispearsing,
buying, and allowing of sundiy of the sayde seditious bookes : So her Maiestie meaning of her clemencie
neither to haue any aduauntage taken for thinges herein alredy past, nor any her honest and quiet subiectes
to be entangled with the lyke hereafter for lacke of admonition in due tyme : wylleth and earnestlye
chargeth all maner of persons, to forbeare vtterly from the vse or dealing with any such seditious bookes,
made or translated by any person, contayning matter derogatorie to the soueraigne estate of her Maiestie,
or impugning the orders and rites estabhshed by lawe for Christian religion and deuine seruice within
this Realme, or otherwyse styrring and nourishing matter tending to sedition: and that such as alredy haue
any of the sayde bookes^ shall present, or cause to be presented the sayde bookes, within twentie and
eyght dayes after the publishing of this proclamation, to the byshop of the diocesse, or ordinarie of the
place, and to receaue of hym a testimoniall of the tyme of the dehuerie thereof : and without expresse
licence in wryting of the sayde byshop or ordinarie, or some archbyshop, or other byshop of the Realme,
not to kepe or reade any seditious bookes, vpon payne of her Maiesties greeuous indignation, and to be
punished seuerely, as the qualitie and circumstaunces of the offence shall require and deserue.

Gyuen at her Maiesties pallaice of Westminster, the first day of March. 1568 [i. e. 1569]. the eleuenth
yere of her Maiesties raigne.

God saue the Queene.

hV   Imprinted  at   London  in  Powles

Churcheyarde by Eycharde yugge and yohn Cawood^ Printers to the

Queenes  Maiestie,

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