Close Rolls, Henry VI: April 1450 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI: Volume 5, 1447-1454. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1947.

'Close Rolls, Henry VI: April 1450', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI: Volume 5, 1447-1454, (London, 1947) pp. 194-195. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/hen6/vol5/pp194-195 [accessed 20 April 2024]

April 1450



April 14. Westminster.	To the sheriffs of London and Middlesex. Order at their peril after receipt of these presents with all diligence to cause proclamation to be made, forbidding any man to read, pronounce, publish, deliver, or shew, copy or cause to be copied or impart to any man secretly or openly any seditious schedule or bill or one subversive of the peace, or any infamous libel which has come to his hands before such proclamation or shall come after, but forthwith to burn or tear it up, thereby giving notice that any who shall be found so doing before the proclamation or after shall be deemed the author and originator of such libel etc. until he shall produce the author; as the king is bound specially to resist them who may stir up sedition within the realm, disturb the peace, or injure the fair fame of his subjects, and being informed, or rather having evidence of the fact, that a number of persons seduced by the spirit of malice, whom it is not easy to trace, do contrive to make, dictate, write or cause to be written schedules, bills or libels whereby sedition may be aroused, the peace broken and the good fame of his subjects blackened which the authors, because they desire not to be known, do secretly affix to the doors of churches or other places, or cause to be scattered in such places as they choose, and the king's will is to resist their malice.
	[Fœdera.]