ers and ministers
within this his realme, that if they shall happen by any meanes or
wayes to knowe that any person or persons do herafter bye, receyve,
have, or deteyne any of the sayde erronious bokes, printed or written
anywhere, or any other bokes in englisshe tonge printed beyonde the
see, or the saide erronious bokes printed or written in the frenche or
duche tonge, contrarie to this present proclamation, that they beinge
therof well assured, do immediatly attache the said person or persons,
and brynge hym or them to the kynges highnes and his most honorable
counsayle; where they shalbe corrected and punisshed for theyr
contempte and disobedience, to the terrible example of other lyke
transgressours.

Moreover his highnes commaundeth, that no maner of person or persons
take upon hym or them to printe any boke or bokes in englisshe tonge,
concernynge holy scripture, not before this tyme printed within this
his realme, untyll suche tyme as the same boke or bokes be examyned and
approved by the ordinary of the diocese where the said bokes shalbe
printed: And that the printer therof, upon every of the sayde bokes
beinge so examyned, do sette the name of the examynour or examynours,
with also his owne name, upon the saide bokes, as he will answere to
the kynges highnes at his uttermost peryll.

And farthermore, for as moche as it is come to the herynge of our sayde
soveraigne lorde the kynge, that reporte is made by dyvers and many of
his subjectes, that it were to all men not onely expedyent, but also
necessarye, to have in the englisshe tonge bothe the newe testament and
the olde, and that his highnes, his noble men, and prelates, were
bounden to suffre them so to have it: His highnes hath therfore
semblably there upon consulted with the sayde primates ... discrete,
and well lerned personages, in divinite forsayde, and by them all it is
thought, that it is not necessary th ... to be in the englisshe tonge,
and in the handes of the commen people; but that the distrib ... the
said scripture ... denyenge therof dependeth onely upon the discretion
of the superiours, as ... to the malignite of this present tyme, with
the inclination of the people to erroni ... the olde in to the vulgare
tonge of englysshe, shulde rather be the occasyon of ... people, than
any benfyte or commodite to w