dgment. It was not the coffee-houses which produced
political feeling, but the reverse. Whenever government ascribes effects
to a cause quite inadequate to produce them, they are only seeking means
to hide the evil which they are too weak to suppress.

FOOTNOTES:

[243] The whole story is in 12 Co. 746. I owe this curious fact to
the author of Eunomus, ii. 116.

[244] A quarto volume was published by Barker, the king's printer,
and is entitled "A Booke of Proclamations Published since the
beginning of his Majestie's most happy Reign over England, until
this present month of Feb. 1609." It contains 110 in all. The
Society of Antiquaries of London possesses at the present time the
largest and most perfect collection of royal proclamations in
existence, brought together since the above was written. They are on
separate broadsheets, as issued.

[245] In 1529 the king had issued a proclamation for resisting and
withstanding of most dampnable heresyes sowen within the realme by
the discyples of Luther and other "heretykes, perverters of Christes
relygyon." In June, 1530, this was followed by the proclamation "for
dampning (or condemning) of erronious bokes and heresies, and
prohibitinge the havinge of holy scripture translated into the
vulgar tonges of englishe, frenche, or dutche," he notes many bookes
"printed beyonde the see" which he will not allow, "that is to say,
the boke called the wicked Mammona, the boke named the Obedience of
a Christen Man, the Supplication of Beggars, and the boke called the
Revelation of Antichrist, the Summary of Scripture, and divers other
bokes made in the Englishe tongue," in fact all books in the
vernacular not issued by native printers. "And that having respect
to the malignity of this present tyme, with the inclination of
people to erronious opinions, the translation of the newe testament
and the old into the vulgar tonge of englysshe, shulde rather be the
occasion of contynuance or increase of errours amonge the said
people, than any benefit or commodite toward the weale of their
soules," and he determines therefore that the scriptures shall only
be expounded to the people as heretofore, and that these books "be
clerely extermynate and exiled out of this realme of Englande for
ever."

[246] History of the Reformation, vol. ii. p. 96, folio.

[247] In June