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No book or pamphlet may be printed, bound, stitched, or sold or
imported unless licensed and entered into the Register Book of the
Company of Stationers. Officials of this company and of Parliament
may search all places which they shall think meet for all
unlicensed printing presses and all suspected printing houses,
warehouses, and shops and other places for unlicensed books and
pamphlets and papers and seize them and apprehend all authors,
printers, and other involved people and bring them before
Parliament or the Committee on Examinations for punishment.
Justices of the peace and other officers may order doors and locks
broken for this purpose. The fine is ten pounds for authors, five
pounds for printers, two pounds for booksellers, and one pound for
buyers who conceal a book bought. One half of each fine shall go
to the person who discovers and prosecutes the offender, and the
other half shall go to the poor. This law suppressed royalist
newspapers but was enforced only with great difficulty.
All shall observe Sunday and days of Thanksgiving in their "duties
of Piety and true Religion publicly and privately" and none may
sell wares or goods, including fruit or herbs upon pain of
forfeiture of such. None may, without reasonable cause, travel,
carry burdens, or do any worldly labors or work whatsoever or pay
a fine of 10s. This work shall include grinding grain, fulling in
mills, burning turf or earth, gathering taxes, melting wax for
candles, brewing, baking, butchering cattle, tailors fitting or
carrying clothes, barbers trimming hair, being present at fairs or
markets, or washing, whiting, or drying clothes.
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