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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:  | | Star Chamber Decree, Westminster (1566) 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: 322 Citation: Star Chamber Decree (1566), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: uk_1566 Full title Ordinances decreed for reformation of divers disorders in printing and uttering of Bookes Full title original language N/A Abstract A decree prohibiting the publication of any book considered to be contrary to statute, injunction, ordinance and letters patents, as well as banning the importation of such works. This provided the first occasion on which the proprietary interests of the Stationers' Company and the ideological control of the press become explicitly linked. The commentary describes the background to the Decree and in particular the concern of Elizabeth's High Commission over the influx of Catholic texts from continental Europe. The commentary argues that the Decree is particularly significant in that it formalised, for the first time, the specific link between the interests of the government in regulating and censuring the press and the economic interests of the Stationers' Company. The formal inclusion of the category of 'letters patents' within the remit of the Decree ensured that works published under a printing privilege now attracted the formal protection of the Star Chamber. Bibliography Blagden, C., "Book Trade Control in 1566", The Library, 5th Ser., 13 (1958): 287-92 (290) Clegg, C.S., Press Censorship in Elizabethan England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) Patterson, L.R., Copyright in Historical Perspective (Nashville: Vanderbilt University, 1968) 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.p. Location Westminster Year 1566 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: 322 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Bacon, Sir Nicholas (1509-1579) Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burghley (1520-1598) Clinton, Edward, 1st Earl of Lincoln (1512-1585) Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Grindal, Edmund (1519-1583) Horne, Robert (d.1579) Huicke, Thomas (fl.1554-1566) Knolles, Sir Francis (c.1514-1596) Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of (c.1532-1588) Lewes, David (fl.1566) Parker, Matthew (1504-1575) Rogers, Sir Edward (d.1567) Weston, Robert (fl.1566) Yale, Thomas (fl.1566) Persons referred to in commentary Bede, the Venerable, St (c.673-735) Cawood, John (1514-1572) Cuningham, William (fl.1559) Day, John (1521/22-1584) Elizabeth I (1533-1603) Henry VIII (1491-1547) Hosius, Stanislaus (1504-1579) Jugge, Richard (c.1514-1577) Purfoot, Thomas (fl.1566) Seres, William (d.1578/80) Singleton, Hugh (d.1593) Staphylus, Friedrich (1512-1564) Stapleton, Thomas (1535-1598) Tottell, Richard (d.1594) Places referred to London Places referred to in commentary London Louvain York 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 Day v. Ward and Holmes (1582) Arber, II, 753 Day and his Assigns v. Dunn, Robinson and Others (1585) Arber, II, 790 Flower and Assigns v. Dunn and Robinson (1585) Arber, II, 794 Flower and Assigns v. Bourne and Others (1586) Arber, II, 800 Institutions referred to Privy Council Star Chamber Institutions referred to in commentary Church of England High Commission Privy Council Star Chamber Stationers' Company Key words book trade censorship import penalties penalties, paid to fiscal authorities Reformation, the 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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