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trade became the subject of parliamentary, instead of
royal, regulation. The Statute of 14 Charles II, the objects
of which were declared therein to be the prevention of the
dissemination of "heretical schismatical blasphemous sedi
tious and treasonable Bookes Pamphlets and Papers" and
the general control of the printing trade,3 reproduces sub
1E. Arber, op. cit., II, 607. Cf. Holdsworth, History of English Law, VI,
367 et seq.
2 E. Arber, op. cit., IV, 531.
3 See Stat, of the Realm, V, 428 f. (14 Car. II, c. 33, Preamble and cl. VI), also
A. W. Pollard, "Some Notes on the History of Copyright in England, 1662
74," Library, 4th Ser., Ill, 97. This act lapsed toward the end of 1679; in
1685 it was renewed for seven years and then for one year more, and was
then finally dropped.
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