446 Extracts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. [June 1, 
-for a printing-house, without notice (ac 
-eording to the late Act.) 
Sly. Let no materialls belonging to 
sprinung, no letters ready founded or 
east, be imported or bought without the 
Jike notice, and for whom (according to 
the late Act). 
4ly, Let every master-printer be 
bound at least, if not sworn, not to print, 
cause or sufler to be printed in his house, 
or press; any book or books without law- 
ful licence (according to the late Act), 
5ly. Let no master-printer be allow’d 
to keep a press but in his own dwelling- 
house, and Jet no printing-house be per- 
mitted with a back-dore to it. 
Oly. Let every master-printer certifie 
what warehouses -be keeps, and not 
change them without giving notice. 
7ly. Let every master-printer set his 
name to whatsoever he prints, or causes 
to be printed, (according to the late Act.) 
Sly. Let no’ printer presume to put 
upon any book the title, marque, or vin- 
net, of any other person who has the 
priviledge of sole printing the same, 
without the consent of the person so pri- 
viledg’d (according to the late Act), and 
let.no man presume to print another 
man’s. copy. ; 
Qiy. Let no printer presume either to 
re-print or change the title of any book 
formerly printed, without licence; or to 
counterfeit a licence, or knowingly to 
put any man’s name to a book as the 
author of it, that was not so, 
10ly. Let it be penall to antedate any 
book ; for, by so doing, new books will be 
shuffled among old ones to the encrease 
of the stock, 
lily. Let the price of books be re- 
gulated. 
12ly. Let no journy-man be employ’d, 
without a certificate from the master 
Where he wrought last. ° , 
13ly. Let no master discharge a 
journy-man, nor hee leave bis master, 
under 14 dayes notice, unlesse by con- 
sent. 
idly. Let the persons employ’d be of 
known integrity; so near as may be; 
free of the sayd mysteries, and able in 
their trades (according to the lare Act). 
But if GO presses must be reduc’d to 
20, what shall all those people do for a 
livelyhood that wrought at the other 40? 
Ttis provided by the late Act, that as 
many of them shall be employ’d as the” 
printers can find honest work for, and a 
sufferance of more, is but a toleration of 
the rest to print sedition, so that the su= 
pernumeraryes are in as ill a condition 
now, as they will be then; and yet some- 
thing may be thought upon for their 
relief, 
There have been divers treasonous and 
seditious pamphlets printed since the 
Act of Indemnity; as, the speeches of the 
late King’s Judges, Sir Henry Vane’s 
[Pretended] Tryal; the Prodigies 1 Part 
and 2; and the like. Let any of these 
Necessitous persons make known at 
whose request and for whose behoofe 
these or the Jike, seditious libells have 
been printed, and they shall not only be 
pardon’d for having had a hand in it 
themselves, but the first euformer shall 
upon proof or confession be recom- 
mended to the first vacancy whereof he 
is capable in the new regulation, and the 
next to the second, and so successively : 
and moreover a fine shall be set upon the 
heads of the delinquents, to be employ’d 
toward the maintenance of so many in- 
digent printers as shall be interpreted to 
merit that regard, by such, discovery. 
Eviracts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
—— 
LOUIS XIV. AND AN OLD COURTIER. 
LIE leading characteristic of Louis 
was vanity, and so far did he carry 
Mt, that Monsieur de St. Agnan, and M. 
Dangeau, found no difficulty in per- 
“suading him that he could write verses 
as well as another, Louis made the ex- 
periment, and composed a madrigal, 
which he himself did not think very good, 
but gave it to Marshal de Gramont, as 
something which he had met with, and 
requested the marshal would tell him if he 
ever saw any thing so bad; “but,” added 
lie, “they find I have lately addicted 
myself to poetry, and bring me all man 
ner of trash.” ‘Your Majesty,” replied 
the marshall “is an excellent judge; it 
is the most execrable stuff I ever saw in 
my life.” ‘ You are right,” said the 
king, “‘ must not he be a very silly fellow 
who composed it?” ‘It isnot possible,” 
replied Gramont, ‘¢ to call him any thing 
else.’ “Tam delighted,” said the king, 
“ to hear you speak so frankly, no one 
else will be so honest; I think with you 
exactly ; I wrote it myself.” 
s PETER THE GREAT, 
When the Czar was in France, they 
presented 
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