The Egerton papersA collection of public and private documents, chiefly illustrative of the times of Elizabeth and James I, from the original manuscripts [!], the property of the Right HonLord Francis Egerton . sement, in the hand-writing of Lord Burghley,— forasmuch as some question is made touchyng theformer Grant, I pray you to cause a new book to be made,—we may conclude thatit was at his Lordships instance. In Archaologia, xxv. p. 108, Sir Henry Ellis hasinserted Barkers account of the patent granted to William Seres. What succeeds isthe draft of the new patent sent to Lord Ellesmere and
The Egerton papersA collection of public and private documents, chiefly illustrative of the times of Elizabeth and James I, from the original manuscripts [!], the property of the Right HonLord Francis Egerton . sement, in the hand-writing of Lord Burghley,— forasmuch as some question is made touchyng theformer Grant, I pray you to cause a new book to be made,—we may conclude thatit was at his Lordships instance. In Archaologia, xxv. p. 108, Sir Henry Ellis hasinserted Barkers account of the patent granted to William Seres. What succeeds isthe draft of the new patent sent to Lord Ellesmere and corrected by him. Among othercorrections, he struck out a clause empowering the Sheriffs of London, on behalf of PATENT TO SERES, THE PRINTER. 139 William Seres and his assigns, to breaks uppe and destroy all and every the pressesof suche impressions, Mheresoever the same may be founde, and to bind suche per-son or persons with sufficyent seuertie to their good behaviour, as shall presume tooffend in any thinge contrary to the purport and intention of theis our Letters Pa-tentes. The note for the information of the Queen, at the end, is in the handwritingof Lord EUesmere.] Indorsed by Lord Indorsed, in another handwriting, Mr. Seres Patent; and by Lord EUesmere, 23 Junij, 1591. Elizabeth, &c. To all printers, bookesellers, and all otherour subjectes, greetinge. Whereas by our former Letters Pa-tentes under our Great Seale, bearinge date at Westminster thethirde day of July, in the first yeare of our Raigne, recitinge thatwhere we were duly informed how our late loving subject WilliamSeres, the elder, by the name of William Seres of our citie ofLondon, stacioner and bookseller, had, by the late graunt of ourdeere brother of worthie memorye, Kinge Edward the Sixt, licenseto print all maner of Prymers that then were and that from 140 THE EGERTON PAPERS. thenceforth shoulde be sett forth agreeable to the booke of Com-mon Prayer at the same tyme established. And in th
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