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    Core documents by: Date Place Core documents for: Italy Germany France Britain United States All documents for: Italy Germany France Britain United States Original language: English French German Italian Latin Browse documents by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse commentaries by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse database by: Key words Editors' login:  | | Elizabethan Injunctions, London (1559) Source: Durham University Library: Arber, E., A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1557-1640, 5 vols. (London: n.p., 1875-94) 1: xxxviii Citation: Elizabethan Injunctions (1559), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Record-ID: uk_1559 Full title Elizabethan Injunctions (Items 6 and 51) Full title original language N/A Abstract Royal Proclamation setting out the manner in which the Elizabethan Church was to be reformed and governed. Injunction 51 of this Proclamation continued in the tradition of Henry VIII's 1538 Proclamation in providing the legal foundation for a system of pre-publication licensing in Elizabethan England. The commentary describes how, in accordance with the Injunctions, the licensing and censorship of the press was to be carried out, not by the Stationers' Company, but by the Privy Council and Elizabeth's newly established Ecclesiastical Commission (the High Commission). It also details how Elizabeth also continued to rely upon the sporadic use of statutory measures and royal proclamations to respond to seditious or heretical texts. Moreover, it suggests that, in practice, the extent to which the Elizabethan press was subject to regulatory control was much less draconian than has usually been suggested. Bibliography Clegg, C.S., Press Censorship in Elizabethan England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) Siebert, F.S., Freedom of the Press in England 1476-1776 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965) Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A Location London Year 1559 Language English Source Durham University Library: Arber, E., A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1557-1640, 5 vols. (London: n.p., 1875-94) 1: xxxviii Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Cawood, John (1514-1572) Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Erasmus (1466/69-1536) Grindal, Edmund (1519-1583) Heath, Nicholas (c.1501-1578) Henry VIII (1491-1547) Jugge, Richard (c.1514-1577) Parker, Matthew (1504-1575) Persons referred to in commentary Bancroft, Richard (1544-1610) Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Henry VIII (1491-1547) Mary I (1516-1558) Philip II (1527-1598) Stow, John (c.1525-1605) Whitgift, John (c.1530-1604) Places referred to London Places referred to in commentary N/A Legislation referred to N/A Legislation referred to in commentary Act of Supremacy, 1559, 1 Eliz., c.1 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to Church of England Parliament Stationers' Company University of Cambridge University of Oxford Institutions referred to in commentary Church of England High Commission Privy Council Stationers' Company Key words Bible, the book trade classics, Greek and Latin defamation censorship, pre-publication licensing Reformation, the religious works Stationers' Company Responsible editor Ronan Deazley Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. In so far as these scans are protected by copyright, they are made available on the same terms as translations and commentaries (see home page). | |||||
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