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§. 7.
Forging. |
Printers and Printing.
No person shall put to forge or counterfeit the Name,
Mark, or Vinnet, of
any person priviledged to Print, without his License, upon pain
to forfeit such
Books or Pamphlet. |
Chap. 76. |
§. 8.
Buying
Books. |
No person not licensed by the Bishop of the Diocess,
nor having served
seven years Apprenticeship to a Bookseller, Printer or Binder; nor
Freeman
of London, as Son of these Tradesmen; nor a Member of the
Company
of Stationers, shall receive, take, or buy to sell; put away or
exchange any
Books whatsoever, upon pain to forfeit the same. |
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§. 9.
Importing. |
No person shall Print or cause to be Printed
beyond Sea, or knowingly Import
or Consent to the Importation of any English Book, or whereof
the greatest
part is English upon pain of Forfeiture thereof. |
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§. 10.
Allen. |
No Allen, except such as be Free-Printers or
Stationers of London, shall
bring in or vend by himself, or any other, Books of any Language, except
Licensed by the Archbishop or Bishop of London, upon pain of Forfeiture
thereof. |
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§. 11.
Presses. |
No person shall erect any Press, or Printing-house,
or demise any House
or Room to that purpose, without notice given to the Master or Warden
of the Company of Stationers thereof. No Carpenter, Joyner, or Smith,
shall make any Press; nor Founders make any Letters, nor import any Letters;
nor buy such Letters, but upon such notice given, upon pain every one
to forfeit Five pound: One moiety to the King, the other to the Prosecutor. |
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§. 12.
Printers. |
None shall be admitted a Master Printer, until
by death, or otherwise they
be reduced to Twenty, besides the Kings Printers and Universities; from
thence only Twenty to be continued, and but Four Master Founders.
And upon
death or removal, the Archbishop or Bishop of London to nominate
others to
supply; who before they shall use the Trade, shall in the Kings Bench,
or
before one or more Justices of Assize, or the Justices of Peace at their
Quarter-Sessions,
become bound with Sureties in 300 l. not to Print any Book without
License. |
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No Master Printer shall keep above two Printing
Presses at once, unless he
be Master or Upper Warden of the Company, who may keep three and no
more, unless licensed thereunto by the Archbishop or Bishop of London. |
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§. 13.
Apprentices. |
A Master Printer or Master Founder, that hath
been Master or Upper-Warden
of the Company, may have three Apprentices at one time and
no more. He that is of the Livery may have two and no more; he that
is of the Yeomanry of the Company, may have one and no more: And
if
any Apprentice run away, or be put away, he may not take another,
until the other Name be razed out of the Hall-Book, and never admitted
again. |
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§. 14.
Journeymen. |
The Master Printers or Master Founders, shall
see Journeymen-Printers
that are Free, and able, and honest, to be employed: And if such
Journeymen
repair to such Master Printer, or Master Founder, not having Journeyman,
although he can do his work by himself and Apprentice, such Master
must receive him or forfeit 5 l. One moiety to the
King, the other moiety to
the Prosecutor within six Months. And if such Journey-man shall refuse
such
employment, or neglect it when undertaken, he shall suffer three Months
Imprisonment,
at the least without Bail, upon conviction by two Witnesses, before one
or more Justices of Peace, who shall examine the matter, and commit him
to
Gaol. |
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§. 15.
Englishmen. |
No Master Printer or Founder shall employ about
Printing any other
than Englishmen and Freemen, or Sons of Freemen, or Apprentices
to these
Trades. |
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