An Act for preventing abuses in printing seditious, treasonable and unlicensed books and pamphlets, and for regulating of printing and printing-presses

All titles
  • An Act for preventing abuses in printing seditious, treasonable and unlicensed books and pamphlets, and for regulating of printing and printing-presses
  • Public General Acts. 1662. 14 Car.II.c.33
  • Anno regni Caroli II Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, decimo quarto. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the eighth day of May, Anno Dom. 1661. In the thirteenth year of the reign of our most gracious sovereign Lord Chales [sic], by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland King, defender of the faith, &c. And there continued till the nineteenth of May, in the 14th year of his Majesties said reign. And thence prorogued to the 18th of February then next following; Anno XIV. Caroli II. Regis; Anno decimo quarto Caroli secundi Regis
  • Act for preventing the frequent abuses in printing seditious, treasonable, and unlicensed books and pamphlets; and for regulating of printing and printing-presses.
People / Organizations
Imprint
London : printed by the assigns of John Bill deceas'd: and by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1685.
Added name
Hills, Henry, -1689?, printer.; Newcomb, Thomas, -1691, printer. ; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)
Publication year
1685
ESTC No.
R176682
Grub Street ID
69110
Description
16 p. : coat of arms ; 2°.
Note
Title from caption title (A2r)

Wing reports title: An act for preventing the frequent abuses in printing seditious ... books; the 1662 ed. of the Act is entitled: An Act for preventing the frequent abuses in printing seditious, treasonable, and unlicensed books and pamphlets; and for regulating of printing and printing-presses

Imprint from title page which reads: Anno regni Caroli II Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, decimo quarto. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the eighth day of May, Anno Dom. 1661. In the thirteenth year of the reign of our most gracious sovereign Lord Chales, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland King, defender of the faith, &c. And there continued till the nineteenth of May, in the 14th year of his Majesties said reign. And thence prorogued to the 18th of February then next following

Text printed in black letter

With marginal notes

One of Public General Acts passed in the 14th year of Charles II's reign

This Act was also collected with others and issued in a single volume

On leaf A2r, last word of first line of text: well-government; first word of line below initial: pers,; last word of last full line of text: ordained

Signatures: A-D]2.
Uncontrolled note
Verify if also issued as part of a through-paged set with a table for the entire set added