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CATHOLIC AFF.4II(S.

The following ig the Document which 3lr. Se-
cretary 11. hetu iequeated by the Catholic
Board to publish :
TO OUR VENERABLI: DROTIICRS THE ARCH-
BISHOPS AND BISHOPS OF IRELAND. •
Pius P.P. VII.

Venerable Brothers, Health and Apostolic:o Benediction
The perusal of your letter, delivered to ne by our Venerable
Brother., Daniel, Archbishop of Hirratudir, Coadjutor of
the Aechhishop of Do: din, at •1 Jolts), Its.bots of Cook, 110-
ralfr with certain res.thitions passed with your joint coo-
curreace at a Synod held in Dublin, on the Stid and 2lt h
AA!, of August, of the last year, Isls, iosioes•ed out
mind with a deep sense of concern. For ae. havitoog (Truly
declared the condition, to so hitch we cools, assent, its case
the expectation excited by the Government, of :raiding
Emancipation, should be realised, imagined we had, as far
as in oar power lay, renmve,l the difies,ltlra which opposed
the Emancipation of the Catholics sit the kiugatoo of Gre,f
Uritoin, and, in a certain degree, Lai prepared a way for
the obtainment of a benefit so loot and so earnestly hooked
for. With this hope, and relying 11111 i with certain confidence,
we gave instruc • sto our Veitcrable &other, Lavrtesiess, I;i•
shop of &annum, Cardinal of the Holy Buyouts Chart It, mot
Prefect of the Congregation de l'ropagueda fide. ►o 11111 l .o-
niame our serif ittlelllll in a letter to um ernes able brother she
Archbishop of Dobliti, through, whom tits y tuirht tosbkrquesst.
ly be mask known to your wlosok holy n lot, whirls lists been
performed by him according to the iiistructiuna received
from us. 111th *hat pain then Ju we find it expressly Jr.
elated in your letter, that the expedient whirls, among‘t
others, for satisfying the Governmeitt of the loyalty of those
to be decks! Bishops, out only did not meet your 'proba-
tion, but appeased to you It/ 1111V:1,1'11 driill3llloll is. the
Catholic Kehl• in Ireland. Whrrefore, in conformity
with our slaty, we dispatch the present letter to you, for
the purpose of (Ratio; (cum your minds the nut unffitieidly
well•founded opinion which you appear ill entertain, in re-
gard to the expedient above •Iludeil to. We trust that God,
■ud our Lord Jesus Christ, whose Vicar on Earth, though
from no merits of our own, we glory in being, will give
from above such force to our words, that the weighty reasons
whirls we are about to lay before you, s►all so affect your
minds, as to induce you to lay aside all anxiety illative to
the expedient already stated as approved of by tis.
It is accessary, therefore, Venerable &others, that you
should lain distinctly to your recollection the polo, of she
expedient proposed by us, which has rousts' you so much
fear and auxtriy. When it became inrumbeist 1111 is. 111
adopt sonic method by which, after thy law grantiogetnanci.
;ration should be ioised, the Government might be sat Wit .1
of the loyalty uf those to be chosen Bishops, of which
those at the head of it entertained very groundless intl.-eel,
but very si•rious apps heusions—what did we propose Was
it that under the obligation or a convention, or by any sillier
mode, or in any other form, to he submitted to, perhaps,
if not strictly eligible, the right of nomination, IV presee-
tation, of postulation, should be graated to GoVITUMeiIi, so
that those administeriug it might dictate to us the names
of Clergymen to be by us appointed Bishops hi that king-
dom? By no means; fur while we strenuously adhered to

the 'Hat priuciple of our never-to.be-forgoottru predecessor
Pope Beuedict the Fourteenth, relative to slot never grinding
to Roman Catholic Princes the privilege of nominatiug to
Bishoprics ur Abbacies, declared by him in a letter written
to the Bishop of Brealaw, on the Kith of My, is the year
1148, we carried our precautions so far, that we proposed
nothing which could with truth he Paid to convey to the lio-
vernmeot a power as to the choice of Bishops. We only
declared that we would grant a certain power of exclo.ion;
and is. order that the pow r so given might never he turned
into a privilege of election, we circumscribed it within
certain limits, and, as expressly stated in the letter of Car-
dinal Lies, already quoted, we announced, that what we
meant to permit was to extend no farther than this, "That
those whose province it is, may present to the Kiug's Mi-
nisters the list of the candidates, in order that if these be
amongst theno the name of any person displeasing to, or
suspected by, the Government, such name nosy be imme-
diately pointed out and erased, still, however, too that a
sufficient number may remain, from which his Holiness
may freely choose whom, in the Lord, he may judge
more lit for providing over the vacant Sees." This then es
what we proposed to elbow, in order that all room for doubt
eouceining the loyalty of the Prelad y slouuld be removed
from the mind of Government. Its sphere of interference
will lw, you must 1111rceive, very limited, being confined to
tin., that it shall be empowered to from the list arson-
didates to be presented to this Fluty See for appoinimesit to
vacant Bishoprics (which list we allowed should be submitted
to the King's Minima.o fur that purpose) the names of any
persons whose loyalty may be viewed with snspicion; still,
however, with this stipulation and condition, that after the
erasure of those names a sufficient member of combo's,.
shall remain, from which we, and the Popes of ROMP, our
succeasorp, may freely choose him whom we shalt judge of
all the must worthy of the Epiaropal rank and office.
IThertfore, Wendreable Brutbess, it is uniquesti 0000 ably evi-
dent, that what we hare (lane amounts linty to till': We
have agreed to act steadily towards the Bi Otitis Government,
according to the same rule (a rule in itself founded no pru-
dence) which our predecessors, the Romans Poutiffs, eve.
before those limes when the nominate 0000 of Bishops was
granted to Princes, determined, in their a isolom, to maintain
as effectually a. might be; that is, not to promote to vacant
&VII say perilous whom they might limos' to be unpleasing
to the powers tinder whom the Dioceses to be ndoessisi.ictrd
by them were situated : which rule, far from bring conai.
otered injurious to the Church, and far from having brought
any evil on it, is justly approved of loud praised by all. For
it is founded on a principle laid down by smother of our most
illustrious predeceasorio, St. Leo the Great (1) " that none he
ordained Bishop without the cones-at and postulation of the
flock, lest an unwelcome intruder incite its contempt or
hatred." Now this tiriviciple, although literally applicable
to the people only, to whose postulations at that time regard
was had iu the election oof Bishops, most rightfully he ex-
tended to Priloces„ the necessary circumstances concurring,
mod even to those who are nut iu commosoino with us, who,
from the nature of their power in temporal affairs, have au
easily the means of preventing a Bishop, who may be the
object of their dislike or suspicion, from the care of the
flock committed to his charge.

Rot yon appear to entertiiii serious apprehensions that,
if the power spoken of be panted, the Government nosy
successively Cease from the list to be presented to it the
names of those mind wut Ilty or the honour of Episcopacy,
aud by this means compel those who shall have the traitaar-
lion of the business to name the clergyman whom it shall
judge must likely to he subservient to its views, atid that the
destruction of the Catholic Religion may thence take its
rise. ObAerve, however, Venerable Rrutlicis, bow destitute
these rcur apprehensions ale of all untwist and all (mutila-
tion. Remember that the Govermortit which, under usher
circumstances, might he suspected of entertaining projects
hostile to the Catholic Relig ttttt , is the same which by IaWM,
especially those passed in thi years 17721, 1788, 1791, mill
17113, repealed a treat part of those penal statutes by which
the Catholics of the British Empire were Sit grit vutt.ly op-
pressed: remember how idlest your must excellent Kieg
George the Thiril, and lii• I Ilustrions Sun, have eattlimlvd :I heir
protection to Catholics, and mhat the Brim:sh Gower:init.:at WAS
ttttt g.tthe chulufour pportery, in procuring oum return to
the Pontifical Inisir, and our restoration to our ancient mode.
pendence w the exeveise of thmc spiruu it rights nliirlt the
hand of viol. nee had wen vied from tot l'poto what ground.,
Ctrs cforr, could any nne suspect that this *Meat G.•errom in. sit
stays !Mind • design to Magni, that mind holy itligion,

%hick hy it% favour n.ll protection. it Iroise, often goartled?
—awl it al iiii.ts sirarruUll 1114114. 111 your mhool to the
Hot) of ihw Citiloair 14110 0000 , thew 111011,61,10trdj, s fiber are
the arta of iwivair taohritho.h.„ u. all V rill Iller
MM Mull ar, •Il 12W1. 11.1.3ris 41 31gaist.t Catholic. kits:: repeal.
eel. the Nut r 'hall Ire placed, MI the Nano footing as other
llohjret... :tint lion be farther ninth' to tic tile proles-
tlf the Cnilitilic .

Now, although it were a thine In Ise tyro bends-al, which
In us apperes odilogother 11014 ilifile. that the pee jests o.f
Covert ttttttttt sere directed to the Jesting:lios of the Catho.
he Religion, yet the power o botch we declare d sto
willing to grail', could never he reverted into the means
of producing rush au • &et For the list, in a hick the
samta of the caundidlatts are to lie eoolllllli-41, will CI 111'111(y
not be made sins by the Gllerfllnient, but by the care and
atto•ntiott tit door, loving Catholic., who usually tooopoae to
thia Ser p, loons for
your kingol ; which Cotholies, towelled Ivy •i e the it
Seal for erli2ison, will too rt iu their I'B.l the roam, such
l'eclestislics only as they .hall judle best quite.' f., suitani.
log the s rialot of the Episcopal dignity ; ant G. ternetwer,
accordion: Imthetsuuhceon, thick i•, PIP 11 4. 11111-e owlet owed,
lid mike nee etAlellll4l psi t of our pi "pooled 4.01/4`4.101011, 41:. II
he allowed to point not for colonise t. the list 'tot nu, hut
fen t *oily of the names pe0p...e.1, and be be.unel to Irate
sufficient mond sr, out of n !bile a fro c chilliest' of one luny
be tussle ley ii. SI 111'11, 11111,011Z11 coin. hit re j. CNA Icy Go.
tenement, yr, over tile ctoon et ill still be occupied aboe.t sue
""IY ace by the atolfrale of Catholics. fibril have been j oidgo
the t worthy, a :Al therefore inserted on she list of caroti-
d:den, and for this reason it cell never happen (provided
the conchs- hod duos is by ms lie adhered to. front a heels
if soy des It hr made, lite comet ibtosol itself heroines in-
valid). that the Government, by rxcluding malty in sorrels.
aims. shost;ll. al lad, eolopel the I:lceberg to the choice of
sone 11111•10 Illy of the of.ire, and ly In he seilenTeirot to
its plans for the dew. siction of the Catholic Religion.
This also, Vence:o6'c Mothers, it is rl^lll that y 11 ihoceld
10.1 innerly itil•ei I to, that It Wild 1101 possible for us to re-
fosse this MOM c4lleiferefire i.e the eh clime of Bishops to the
British Government, without tg, in a set-lent degree,
the displeasure of that (internment towards Ike *hole
Church It were ituirr.l to lie vi istti il,nilit it is %bat tie ail
others most tie:oly desire, that, in the el. cti 111 l of Bishops,
we enjoy, d that full and comidete freed 11111 l who Is so pecu-
liarly makes apart odour supremacy, and that Inv Loy Power
lead any share whatever hi n snatto r sof so witch moment.
But you, yourselves, well know, how Isr we are al privet
removed from this happy state of things. For the Moe! or igna
of Europe, or stoney of the its tel leer,, have do netenie4 sod
oht•ened, (Item the Aportodoeal Si r, a greater car 1. teal r share
ofiiAucucein the 111/1111114111,11 of CllllllO6 lI'S. And henry have
*risco the etonrentions, the iadullr, 11w ;ruminations, the peas-
fulalione, the presentations, awl other earolis tits of tide kind,
by which the c stout of the pris ile2es grants el tit this way SO PO
many Catholic Sovereigns, is limited null littliscil Byrn is your
islambe, before the ever-to-be-lame cited separmi ll t. the
Roman Church took place, the Bl.hulia et-ere elooscos by the
Pope, upon the supplication of the King, as is recorele I in
the arts of the Consistory, heldd o flee fiele day of July, iif the
year 1551, during the auspicion• pontificate of Pope Julius
the Third (2). Besides, nut Catholic Surrrci4or litutie, but
others, also, who care separated from our ems
a share in the appoint:soviet of eccle.iastleal prisons to
Bishoprics, situattel in those parts eir they elemeneions
which yet adhere to the l'albolic Faith a claim ee herb this
See feels it necessary to sithenit Ice.
Such being the state of this momentous question, a bat
hope could three be entertained that the Bluish Govern-
ment would have long submitted to an • ncliiriuu (non the
share in appointing the Bishops of your island, • mei tench as
it has Been lAllth i cd, white a c lut Iso ohm resit is ob-
served, not only to Catholic Sovereigns, to those even a hose
Mona ll ill ns are of the smutted extent. best also to Pe nice •
who do not be long to one Communion' 11 idol 11/ he
feased,that if we hail illetlinesl adopting the measure •licady
mentiourel, Government would nut only lay aside all
in-
leution of granting reliant illation to the Catholics, but *Mt-
draw from them all favorer end protection, thrunhout the
whole of its see widely extended dominions
Moreover an additional motive of jealousy mutt arise
in the *Mull of Government towards us and 11w Catholic
cause f this citesinsatatiee, that the Bishops, sub.
jeet to its eluminiose, being resole-nil by the emancipation,
supposing it granted, qualifie el to sit io Parliament, new
precaution.; might appear twee •sa) y tie remove all wad-
bility of doubt concerning their loyalty. We 'grant, So.
deed, that no additional pledge of Cleat loyalty can cap.
pear niece 'ism), Sc, us, proved as it is by the testimony of
the experiem e of so many errs, and the Ilislinps 'deeding
theme. lees Sc, fidelity and obedie tire towards the Govern-
nuclei, ley the obligation of an oath, act...reline tie the seemed
of the three forms which we leave proposed. But how is it to
be 4 11114 (led that the Gorrrimient will consent 10 relinquish
11111/ nd41111014111 necessity fur the los ally of the Itisle,pa, which
i.e the case of sio many other Sovereigns and Go.cruuueots
is folly allowed Bow can it be iniegim-d that the
British Gott evinced will 11411 connive itself wife, le 13. to e.ol.
Icy the retinae! of this additional security; sir that it a ill cull
derive from it a motive of don btiur the loysloy a the Ca-
holica, UlllOl Unprincipled men ace coustatetly labouring ice
bring wider suspicion? Who ran 'whore that the refusal
uS rtees such a return at this f. r the mighty beteefit of 1:111,111.
cipation, 1111141 1141( excite deep reseut MCC( toiler minds of
those who are expecte 111 Cr 1111 ill
For the pleat mime, thee. fore, of those evils, whirls were
In be apprehended me the pal t Uf MI powerful a Govertimesit,
110 other means a plWated to Us sufficient, hut that of agree-
ing to those rules relative to clue election of Bisholes, which
are enrol d its ilw letter of Cardinal Leila.

Now, with regard to the 'lower which a e hare cxpreicird
an intentiou of granting, we consider it out only roi making
part of a fit and wise arrangenseut of Ecclesiastical Infiniti.,
which shall bent once not injoiriusis to religion, and a brans
of averting from it malty milamiiies otherwise to be feared,
hit also ass likely motive towards the obtaminetit of Eman-
cipation. which has been a principal inducement .till. Hs to
coucede it ; desirable as that F.maiwiratiiiii is to 1111. 04,11110
lies, and attended, as it must be, with a large Aare of
spiritual mil•antages. Turn your thoughts, Vcoserati c Bro.
the,., to and etimider it with particular attrition, that
we, in granting to Government Ilie indulgence so often Fir..kris
of, have been influenced by no iadilieal or temporal mo-
tives, but iiiitured solely by • consideration of Iltnar licoetits
awl advantages which must flow to the Catholic Religion
from the repecl of the Penal Lass. Fur unikr the opera-
' of those Lawn, whose . ity is to he cousidercd as
out &Mug short a ally, uvrts Ibe most ergrVOSS4 ihr Prr-
secutitsns recorded tit the anima of the Cliiirch--utiat afflic-
tions, what oppressions, was Illoi the Catholic Religion cab.
jest to in you.. Fur in Great Britain, an yon need
nut be told, the Catholics are reduced to au inconsiderable

number, •pile the succession of the Catholic Bishops it in
a manner destroyed, a few Vicar. Apostolic alone remaining;
lint in Ireland, although the legitimate sticreaslost of the
Hierarchy has been preserved inviolate thorn to the present
limy, and although the Irish Catholics leave been ever emi-
nent fur • most zealous attachment to our Holy It. hgwo,
yet thew number has been unquesi. bly diminished by the
operati .... of the Penal Laws, as a multitude of Irish Writes.
abitoulantly testify.
That the now rattle condition of the Cellulite.' in both Isl-
as& has been greatly relieved by the (leniency of George
the Third, and the repeal in P.trliamrut of many of the laws
by silorh they were grievously oppressed, we grant and
ackuotekilge—still, as you well know, many yet remain
Isotope:dell, whirls 'mit heavily ott the Catholirs of Ireland,
and still mote un those of Cogland;aud from which •he evils
resulting to the Catholic fti beton, smiler their op, ration,
most, to a certain degree at least, continue to flow. Fur
Which (rayon the Catholics of Loglaurl, alimst all, and of
at lewd a great iiiiwher, entertain a 111061 earliest

desire of the total repeal of !hue laws; and have, u is
known to all, repeatedly petit' id foe such repeal, to the
same tawnier ma, be the early ag s of the Chords, the
Christians, malting u•e of St Jossan and the other sp...
liseists, to Imola in their wishe., hew ugh* the alisogat not
of the laws *0h:444.1 against them, whirls gave rim: to the
dcra.lful persret:tion. which took place its the It m in Em-
pire. It may lie !Wowed to hope, that the day is not far
distant, a hen a law Cerr1.11111..11.11114 WWI the a i•lies of the
Catholics shall be COReII.II, whirls, ho Weyer I.w: their right td
the 4.lstitimisent nt einviwipatiois w bat it nosy, 'weer, e'er-
Anly, will pass without Our pr. vionsly glutting the p.iri.
lore in question.
The wi ight of those reasons, which we hare long and
in proportion to thy ir high iinpoet!sece, couvideis..l, has in-
.l•lreol 0., after find hearing she I of sieve, al sd. 1.111.
V. 11, r:ble Mothers, (7:sidinals of the Duly Iluitian Clonet.4
1111.1 1 naminitq the opiodun of other men, e.0i... sit t r
learniug and a know leder of ltritt.h affair., in r.- se the
h00p...411114d so rutty xplaiiied to von,. re she si
of tho matter. We .sir, ind fJ,that an huh ing, !reel .si
313 11.1.11 ii. Cr.", a-a- Ours by trade is the . (
(Intr. 1,, %der!, Ishii. for the Doman Pontiff a c plot. in•
pesoliowe in the .1. ethos of Ilishors. 11M-with regard 1..
(11..C111111P, 0111 IP igoo. rust (het thong. a may, by the
gitisie.deasehority, lw inside, lit romplirior with she .cirritm-
steno aof things and time.? And Dias i. a .priurit-le ai,i.h
our predecessors tare ',informal) nosilitaisoid : as 1111 111-
PIWIIICY of which, a 101111 e elexint of 'SI. 1.4. t. the Grs•st,
i i snarly occur: lii us, as cs tors., of in • !eft. r iii It list ictiv,
114,11.1. of Narhosisse :•—•‘
.•11.4 ie., are eel I.a.p.
• C.lll on no art-mint he altered, an are there many wile el,
from a slue cossaideration of tims a, or from the so cs siqip
thioes, It may he right to modify." We had 11.0 lier.;ie "or
tyes the rule tail down by our pro tlctx slur, rt ale
'ood, who says :—" if iv not to be vomit& rrd !shim-able
if, in conscniodue of a di:lege of tin,. a, a rhatige of human
Les also, he 1 &e1...10.111 richly when an usgs sit low. 'wily,
or an esidetd utility calls for such change." Now, vsli..t
-e [wadi/foil shat more inionentons eon usn.
stass Cell COIIIII 113 r he 11spraSed fo et:l,4llOM t life e by a kids
we fill uuls.ls, s :Ai itcd, and adirh we !:eve not le tidal.
thus to lay Lrf.s. 3 ? Soon., then-hire, the reisdiee
ofi red by its is in itself harnsle,s, and cocri..l4 sit a1..4 a oh ail
the rules of prudence ; sipper from one r 4 ftisal e:,, y
kinetics, awl, from our grant of it, 11 5.311 sI ntit 4.1111g1.,
must r.sult 111 the Chlleell (1111.1111111141111 g he iliatt:e
late, the einnuei iou of the Catholics, and the restos...o,ms
in the kingdom uremia flritaiii, of Welly in all thing. p, t.
taiiiing to relig ), why should we hesitate, aLat nt..iste
...old bare retarded as Innis openly declaring our a ish
grant the Foist!. ge in glieslinii, sir (runs eln•isig Rolle 111:44t
from the strichirps celesiastical distiplint ? We movie..
tionahly judged ilea we we re beiind to act 011 this principle,
and s:,iv outset's.% placed in such a situation, that ac might
justly adopt the ex presai tttt s of our Inviter. issue, CeLoosi.:
•• We are compelled, by the inevitable dispel:sat:on of thing.,
nod ity a due regard fu the maxims or (;,,, nisoent adopted
by the Aposhilical Sec, so 111 Wniall OW.. IP of
riser C:1110111, 10 to interpret ale dee-resit of wee: diloz I've.
tiffs, our predece.sorg, ma employing oil due and
esnisideratton, to regulate, us well as may l•r, nll th. se
things which the cessity of the presto,* :lows may notions
its lie relaxed fur 11,, n stor•lios. of t hut eIIVS."
We, then-roar, Venerable Brothers, rob rtaiii sill (lonia
that yon all, having nou.ider. 41 used duly weigh 4'l wn.st
we have thus act before yon, will as knowdedce she rata-
sure adopted by ns to be mien just, and will, of ICI 'rapes t•,
conform yourselves to it. Let your hearts glow with that re 1
fir rrligiuo, with which those truly apostoliral men aerr
inflamed, tril• lalmorid will, 1111 tlllleh 14.11eilutle, in r.-cad the
Irish nation from the erroneous celebration of E. at
prattised by them in the sixth and stivecili ay.. aof the
Church, and at length, by ,such labour nod risa..y cars..
aucceeded isi establishing, in your island, the Buse cd.-
bration au rlretisitnisly vindicated by cur prs flet:r4l9ll4,
Sono, the Fifth and John the Fourths. Now if y... 1 abaft
',hew yourselves 41,311'0111 1.1 set alt exmostsle of docility to
others, and, as your wisdom 111 pusterlolly euab,.s you to
instruct the people, and allay I die risking causalities of 11.. if
mind.; we she persuaded that the heist fat of 1:4111.11:4 ;-
ration being once granted, the long sod atm my
during which religion has still...led • p.isseciition ludo" a
and so severe, will lie followed by days of pe.ics , ph IC
with tranquillity and all other blessings. Noels day.,
ueralile Brother., our prayers most ardently solicit tor et,,
cutcrtainiug as we du tow anti. you, all him icuriercei C. • I.
ince of love sad rh:trity, ill return for yonr midis a Ina .4
the Catholic Church, and for the real awl n vino, e
you have ever manifested to this A posiolical lair, In
pledge whereof, aud with the stiongest expression of oar
dearest regard, we hereby lawlow on yon, our Ve5i.....10u
Brothers, and on the whale 114111011. our alow:14:111'ul Li tit-
diction. Detest Rouse, at St. Mary Manion., Feb. 1, 15116,
in the 16th year of our Pontificate,
PIGS P.P. 11 1.
Agreeable to the manriarript, so far as Omar give,.,
J. T 110 S. TROY, R. C. Abp. of Duld.n.

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Repine sad Resolittonas together with au Appendix.

The earliest foittidstion fur S claim from any poldie
library, to the et sh t lons delivery of new publteat Imo:, is t.i
be found in a deed "filo year tele, by which the Comp:my
of Stationers of Ironton. at the govern of Stir
Budley, engages in Ilehrer a ropy °revery book prints .1 in Il!
Company (and nut having beets before printed) to i!to
University cf Oxford. This, however, seems to be confined to
the publicatioua of the C pasty in its corporate rapacity,
and could in urn ease extend to those which might pi orLe.l
from individuals unconnected with it.
Soon after the Restoration, in the year 1042. was ossed
the 0 Act for presenting abases in printing trodloot-, t
amiable, and unlicensed books and pamphlets, and for rk-
gulating of printorg awl printing presses;' by whir Is, fur
the first lime, it was enacted, That every minter sboutid re-
serve three civics of the brat and largest pap. r of evriy
book new printed, or reprinted by him with audition., and
shall, before any public reading of the still ber.k, brim
them to the Master of the Company of Statinser., and Ms
liver them In him ; one whereof shall he ck firer. .1 to the
Keeper of his Majesty's Library, sod the oilier two to be
sent to Ibr V,ee•Cbaucellor "f the two Cciei rraptc-
lively, to she use of the public libraries of the said Voter...
This AI t was us igiisally itit.odured for two 'usu.,
bus was coldietned by two Acts of the same Parfialairiii lilt
1479, wheu it expired.
II was, howev,r, revived in the Isl year of James 12. and
filially ramie., it. 169fe.
It has beets stAled by Mr. Ciliation!, oue of th curators t.f
thr Bodleian Lthiary, w That there are several bovhi quirt-