PSLI.] 
VII. NOVELS. 
4. Arundel, 2 vols. 
2. John de Lancaster. 
5. Henry, 4 vols. 
VIII. CONTROVERSIAL. 
‘4. A Letter to Right Rev. Bishop of 
Ox——d 5 containihg some animadversions 
made by him upon a character given by the 
Scarce Tracts, Ke. 
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late Dr. Bentley, in-a Letter from a late Pro- 
fessor in the University of Oxford, to the 
Right Rev. Author of the Divine Legation 
of Moses Demonstrated. his passed through 
two editions. 
2. A Pamphlet in Opposition to tke Bishop 
of Llandaf’’s Proposal tor Equalizing the Ree 
venues of the English Hierarchy, 
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SCARCE TRACTS, WITH EXTRACTS AND ANALYSES OF 
SCARCE BOOKS. 
Tt is proposed in future to devote a few Puges of the Monthly Magazine to the 
Insertion of such Scarce Tracts as are of an interesting Nuture, with the Use 
‘of which we may be favoured by our Correspondents; and under the same Head te 
introduce also the Analyses of Scarce and Curious Books, 
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Considerations and Proposals in Order to 
the Regulation of the Press: together 
- with Diverse Instances of Treasonous 
and Seditious Pamphlets, proving the 
necessity thereof. By Roger L'Es- 
trange. London: printed by A. C. 
June 3, M.ve.LXITI. 
The Stationers are not to be entrusted 
with care of the Press, for these 
Sollowing Reasuns. 
RST, They are both parties and 
judges; fot diverse of them. have 
brought up ‘servants to the mystery of 
printing which they still retein in de- 
pendence: Others avain are both prin- 
ters and stationers themselves; so that 
sthey are entrusted (effectually) to search 
" for their own copies, io destroy their 
own interests, to prosecute their own 
agents, and to punish themselves; for 
they are the principal authors of those 
mischiefs which they pretend now to re- 
dress, and the very persons against whom 
the penalties of this intended regulation 
are chiefly levell’d. 
Qly. It is not adviseable to rely upon 
the honesty of people (if it may be 
avoided) where that honesty is to their 
loss: especially if they be such as have 
already given proof that they prefer their 
private gayn before the well-fare of the 
publique; which has been the stationer’s 
ease throughout our late troubles, some 
few excepted, whose integrity deserves 
encouragement. 
* Sly. In this trust, they have not only 
the temptation of profit, to divert them 
from their duty (a fair part of their stock 
lying in seditious ware), but the means 
of traneyressing with great privacy, and 
safety: for, make then overseers of the 
- piess, and the printers become totally so song, 
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at their devotion; so that the whole 
trade passes through the fingers of their 
own creatures, which, upon the matter, 
concludes rather in a combination, then 
a remedy. 
4ly. It seems a little too much to re- 
ward the abusers of the press with the 
credit of superintending it: upen a cons 
fidence that they that destroyed the last 
king for their benefit, will now make it 
their businesse to preserve this to their 
loss. 
5ly. It will cause a great disappoint- 
ment of searches, when the persons most 
concern’d shall have it in their power to 
spoyl all, ty notices, partiality, or delay, 
6ly. As the effectual regulation of the 
press is not at all the stationet’s interest, 
so is it strongly to be suspected that it is 
as little their aym: for not one person 
has been fin’d, and but one prosecuted, (as 
is credibly affirmed) since the late act, 
notwithstanding so much treason and sedi- 
tion printed and disperst since that time, 
gly. It is enjoyn’d- by the late Act 
“ that no man shall be admitted to be a 
master-printer, until they who were at 
that time actually master-printers, shall 
be by death or otherwise reduced to the 
number of twenty :” which provision note 
withstanding, several persons have since 
that time been suffer’d to set up masters; 
which gives to understand that the res 
ducing of the presses to a limited num- 
ber is not altogether the stationers pure 
pose. , 
The Printers are not to be entrusted with 
the Government of the Press. 
First, All the arguments already ob- , 
jected against the stationers, hold good 
also against the printers, but not fally 
That is, they are both pare 
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