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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:  | | Stationers' Charter, London (1557) 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: xxviii-xxxii Citation: Stationers' Charter (1557), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: uk_1557 Full title Royal Charter of the Company of Stationers Full title original language N/A Abstract The Royal Charter providing the Company of Stationers with corporate legal status within the City of London, and conferring on them exclusive control over printing within England. The grant of the Charter ensured that the Company's licensing procedures became the standard by which members of the book trade secured the right to print and publish literary works, giving rise to what is generally referred to as 'stationers' copyright'. The grant of the Charter by Mary is often understood as the point at which the monarchy established an effective regulatory institution to control and censure the press, in the guise of the Stationers' Company, in exchange for an absolute monopoly over the production of printed works. Instead, the commentary suggests that censorship of the press throughout the Tudor period remained an essentially ad hoc and reactive phenomenon, and that both Mary and Elizabeth relied, not primarily upon the Company of Stationers, but on the use of statutory instruments and royal proclamations to censure heretical and treasonous texts. Bibliography Arber, E., A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1557-1640, 5 vols. (London: n.p., 1875-94) Blagden, C., The Stationers' Company: A History, 1403-1959, (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960) 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 1557 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: xxviii-xxxii Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Cawood, John (1514-1572) Dockwray, Thomas (fl.1557) Persons referred to in commentary Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Grindal, Edmund (1519-1583) Henry VIII (1491-1547) Mary I (1516-1558) Parker, Matthew (1504-1575) Stow, John (c.1525-1605) Places referred to London Places referred to in commentary London Legislation referred to N/A Legislation referred to in commentary Act of Supremacy, 1559, 1 Eliz., c.1 Act against Seditious Words and Rumours uttered against the Queens most excellent Majesty, 1581, 23 Eliz., c.2 Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to N/A Institutions referred to in commentary Court of High Commission Parliament Stationers' Company Key words censorship guild regulation licensing monopoly penalties, paid to fiscal authorities penalties, paid to publishers' organisations printing, history of Reformation, the registration 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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