By the Queene. A proclamation against certaine seditious and schismatical bookes and libels, &c..
England and Wales.Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I)
ElizabethI,Queen of England,1533-1603.
Imprinted at London : By the deputies of Christopher Barker, printer the Queenes most excellent Maiestie.,
1588 [i.e. 1589]
The year in the imprint is according to Lady Day dating.
Mainly directed against the Marprelate tracts--STC.
The imprint is in 2 settings: 1) with full stop after date; 2) without full stop after date.
At end of text: Giuen at her Maiesties Pallace of Westminster, the xiii. of Februarie, 1588. In the xxxi. yeere of her Highnesse reigne.
Steele notation: yeeres and the.
No actual punctuation after "London" in imprint.
STC (2nd ed.),
ESTC
Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliography of royal proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns and of others published under authority, 1485-1714,
Microfilm.
Marprelate controversy
Prohibited books
England London.