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Licensing of the Press Act 1662
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XXIII.Proviso for keeping and using a Printing Press in the City of York with Conditions.
[X1Provided alsoe That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to restrain the keeping and using of a Printing Presse in the City of Yorke so as all Bookes of Divinity there printed be first licensed by the Archbishop of Yorke for the time being or such person or persons whom he shall appoint and all other Bookes whatsoever there printed be first licensed by such persons respectively to whom the licensing thereof doth or shall appertain by the rules herein before mentioned and so as no Bibles be there printed nor any other Booke whereof the Original Copy is or shall [X2be] belonging to the Company of Stationers in London or any Member thereof and so as the Archbishop or Lord Mayor of Yorke for the time being do execute within the said City (which they are hereby impowered to do) all the Powers and Rules in this Act concerning Searchers for unlicensed Bookes and impose and levy the said penalties in the like cases Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding]
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