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• Press law -- Sources -- Great Britain
• Press law -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800

• An ordinance ordained, devised, and made by the Master, and Keepers or Wardens, and commonalty of the mystery or art of Stationers of the City of London for the well governing of that society. (London : printed for the Company of Stationers, 168[3]), by Stationers' Company (London, England), Francis North Guilford, Francis Pemberton, and Edmund Saunders (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the relieving of all persons over rated by the ordinance for weekly assessments ... also, An order of the Commons in Parliament prohibiting the printing and publishing of any lying pamphlet scandalous to His Majesty, or to the proceedings of both or either houses of Parliament. (Printed for George Lindsey, 1981), by England and Wales Parliament and England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons (page images at HathiTrust)
• A fresh discovery of the high-Presbyterian spirit. Or The quenching of the second beacon fired. Declaring I. The un-Christian dealings of the authors of a pamphlet, entituled, A second beacon fired, &c. In presenting unto the Lord Protector and Parlament, a falsified passage out of one of Mr John Goodwins books, as containing, either blasphemie, or error, or both. II. The evil of their petition for subjecting the libertie of the press to the arbitrariness and will of a few men. III. The Christian equity, that satisfaction be given to the person so notoriously and publickly wronged. Together with the responsatory epistle of the said beacon firers, to the said Mr Goodwin, fraught with further revilings, falsifications, scurrilous language, &c. insteed of a Christian acknowledgment of their errour. Upon which epistle some animadversions are made, / by John Goodwin, a servant of God in the Gospel of his dear Son. Also two letters written some years since, the one by the said John Goodwin to Mr. J. Caryl; the other, by Mr Caryl in answer hereunto; both relating to the passage above hinted. (London, : Printed for the author, and are to be sold by H. Cripps, and L.Ll. in Popes head Alley., 1654. [i.e. 1655]), by John Goodwin and Joseph Caryl (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An act against unlicensed and scandalous books and pamphlets, and for better regulating of printing. (Printed by Edward Husband and John Field, printers to the Parliament of England, 1649), by England and Wales Parliament, Henry Scobell, John Field, and Edward Husband (page images at HathiTrust)