The regular establishment of licensers of the press appeared under Charles the First.
Oxford and Cambridge still grasp at this shadow of departed literary despotism; they have their licensers and their Imprimaturs.
It will suit our new licensers of public opinion, a laborious corps well known, who constitute themselves without an act of Star-chamber.
In Queen Anne's time, when the office of licensers was extinguished, a more liberal genius was rising in the nation, and literary property received a more definite and a more powerful protection.
In 1674 the first press was established in Boston by permission of the General Court; and two additional licensers were appointed--one of whom was the Rev.
There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
It will ask more than the work of twenty licensers to examine all the lutes, the violins, and the guitars in every house; they must not be suffered to prattle as they do, but must be licensed what they may say.
The General Court appointed licensers of this press, and did not scruple to interfere with the licensers themselves when any suspicion of heresy occurred to torment the minds of the worthy fathers.
Here he saw Galileo, a prisoner of the Inquisition "for thinking otherwise in astronomy than his Dominican and Franciscan licensers thought.
A printing press was set up at Cambridge in 1639, which was under the oversight of the university authorities, and afterwards of licensers appointed by the civil power.
Such licensers were either members of Parliament selected for the duty, or Parliamentary officials, or persons out-of-doors in whom Parliament could trust.
The Parliament had even tried to institute a new agency of censorship in the form of Committees for Printing, and licensers appointed by these Committees.
It is that Milton, the denouncer of the Licensing System, and the satirist of the official licensers of 1644, was himself afterwards an official censor of the Press.
For the book-licensers it is a great way to go for it.
Besides licensers of the singers and sellers, there were licensers of the ballads themselves.
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