Note 386 — Chapter V
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A proclamation, dated February 1589, against seditious and schismatical books and writings, commands all persons who shall have in their custody any such libels against the order and government of the church of England, or the rites and ceremonies used in it, to bring and deliver up the same with convenient speed to their ordinary. Life of Whitgift, Appendix 126. This has probably been one cause of the extreme scarcity of these puritanical pamphlets.