Register of the Worshipful Company of Stationers

Reference for the registration of the Reliquae in the 'A Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers. Volume III. 1675-1708. The Sylvester still saw the need in 1696 to submit have the Reliquae to the Register is indicative of his assiduous nature. Regulation (14 Charles II, c. 33, often called the Licensing Act) allowed the Company the right to seize illicit editions and bar the publication of any book which had not been licensed by a warden of the Company, together with a government licenser and afterwards entered in what came to be known as the 'entry book of copies' or the Stationers' Company Register. As new freedoms in print culture were created by William and Mary's acceptance of the Declaration of Rights the Licensing Act was allowed to lapse in 1695.