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Ordonnātie ende Edict des Keysers Kaerle die v. vernieuwt indẽ April, int iaer MCCCCCL; om textirpere en te nyete te brenge die secte ende errueren, opgeresen teghe theylighe kersten ghelooue ende tegen die ordōnancien van onser moeder der heyligher kercken; cataloghe van den ghereprobeerde ende verboden boecke: ende oick vande goeden boecken, die men den ionghen scholieren sal moghe leeren; by aduyse vande Rectoer, ende die vander Universiteyt van Loeuen. Gheprint te Loeuen voirs, by Seruaes Sassenus, ghesworen printer. Duer beueel der Keyserlijcker Maiesteit [1550] 45p

Northbrooke, J.

Treatise against dicing, dancing, plays and interludes. 1577

[Languet, Hubert] 1518-1581

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Vindiciae contra tyrannos; sive de principis in populum populique in principem legitima potestate, Stephano Junio Bruto Celta auctore. Edinburgh 1579 Same; tr. with subtitle: a defense of liberty against tyrants; or, of the lawful power of the prince over the people, and of the people over the prince; being a treatise written in Latin and French by Junius Brutus, and translated out of both into English. Questions discussed in this treatise [by Hubert Languet.] London, R. Baldwin 1689 164p

An extreme believer in divine right of kings, and tyranny consists in popular limitation of prerogatives, and yet saw clearly limitlessness of intellectual liberty. Quoted in Schroeder, T. "Constitutional free speech," p 406-7.

Appeared under the name of Junius Brutus. Authorship disputed.

Lodge, T.

Defense of poetry, music and stageplays. 1579

Browne, Robert

Treatise of reformation without tarrying for magistrates and of the wickedness of those preachers which will not reforme till the magistrates commande or compell them. Middleburg 1582

Only three copies known. Reprint at Boston. Index librorum expurgandorum Book censorship (books published by Spanish authority). Madrid, Alphons Gomezium 1584 159p

Elizabeth, Queen of England, 1533-1603 Proclamation against certain seditious and schismatical books and libels, etc. [Feb. 13, 1588] [London 1846] 4p

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Gallonio, Antonio, 1550?-1605

Tortures and torments of the Christian martyrs from the De SS. martyrum cruciatibus of the Rev Father Gallonio, now for the first time translated, by A. R. Allinson. [1591] Paris 1903

Gallonio's work, published in 1591, has been described as a sort of Catholic Foxe's Book of martyrs.

state trials. 2:727-42. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Browne 1816)

Legate was burned to death for his religious beliefs in March, 1612, and Wightman suffered a like fate in April, 1612. Legate was the last person to be burned to death for this reason in London, and Wightman was the last person to die thus in all England.

Abstracted in: Schroeder, T. Constitutional free speech.

Busher, Leonard, fl. 1614

Religious peace; or, a plea for liberty of conscience; long since presented to King James, and printed in the year 1614. (In: Underhill, E. B., ed. Tracts on liberty of conscience and persecution, 1614-1661. p1-81 London 1846) Objections: answered by way of dialogue,

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wherein is proved by the law of God; by the law of our land; and by His Majesty's [King James's] many testimonies that no man ought to be persecuted for his religion, so he testifie his allegeance by the oath, appointed by law. Printed 1615 (In: Underhill, E. B. Tracts on liberty of conscience 1614-1661. p83-180 London 1846)

First printed in 1615. Andreas, Valerius Quaestiones quodlibeticae tres III. Quae commodior faciliorque ad convincendos sectarios nostros via, an non ea, qua propris quis eos gladis iugulet, quoties velad Scripturam Sacram vel ad patres linguasque concurrunt? Coloniae Agrippinae 1618

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