THE CONTENTS OF  THIS  FIFTH VOLUME.
 

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Inscription

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The Contents of this Volume

Abbreviations, Words, &c.
 

PREFACE
 

INTRODUCTION.......       .

0. R. Rivington, P.S.A.    THE  RECORDS  OF THE  WOR¬
SHIPFUL  COMPANY OF STATIONERS   .
 

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ILLUSTRATIVE  DOCUMENTS, 1570-1641 a.d

7 September 1570.    Order of Privy Council requiring all Books to

be licensed before Publication      .        .        .

1585.    The Stationers' Patriotic Volunteer Equipment.

28 January 1588.    The Lord Mayor's Precept to the Stationers'

Company    .......

22 December 1614.    Abp. G. Abbot's Order to suppress Sir Walter

Ralegh's History of the World
16 April 1641.    Order of the House of Commons respecting the
recantation of the Licenser William Bray,
D.D. : see iv. 434        .....

A     LIST     OF     847     LONDON     PUBLISHERS

BETWEEN  1553  AND 1640 a,d,          .        .        .

The Barge of the Company of Stationers of London ....
 

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A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY OF ENGLISH
LITERATURE,   1553-1603  a.d......

AN INDEX OF THE MECHANICAL PRODUCERS
OF ENGLISH BOOKS, AND OF PERSONS
AND PLACES CONNECTED WITH THEM
AND WITH THE COMPANY OF STATIONERS
OF   LONDON  ,,,,,.,,.

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