the vulgar tonges of englische, frenche, or duche,
in suche maner as within this proclamation is expressed.

The Kinge, oure most dradde soveraigne lorde, studienge and providynge
dayly for the weale, benefite, and honour of this his most [n]oble
realme, well and evidently perceiveth, that partly through the
malicious suggestion of our gostly enemy, partly by the yvell and
perverse inclination and sedicious disposition of sundry persons,
divers heresies and erronio[us] [o]pinions have ben late sowen and
spredde amonge his subjectes of this his said realme, by blasphemous
and pestiferous englishe bokes, printed in other regions and sent into
this realme, to the entent as well to perverte and withdrawe the people
from the catholike and true fayth of Christe, as also to stirre and
incense them to sedition and disobedience agaynst their princes,
soveraignes, and heedes, as also to cause them to contempne and neglect
all good lawes, customes, and vertuous maners, to the final subversion
and desolacion of this noble realme, if they myght have prevayled
(which God forbyd) in theyr most cursed [p]ersuasions and malicious
purposes. Where upon the kynges hignes (_sic_), by his incomparable
wysedome, forseinge and most prudently considerynge, hath invited and
called to hym the primates of this his gracis realme, and also a
sufficient nombre of discrete, vertuous, and well-lerned personages in
divinite, as well of either of the universites, Oxforde and Cambrige,
as also hath chosen and taken out of other parties of his realme;
gyvinge unto them libertie to speke and declare playnly their advises,
judgmentes, and determinations, concernynge as well the approbation or
rejectynge of suche bokes as be in any parte suspected, as also the
admission and divulgation of the Olde and Newe Testament translated
into englishe. Wher upon his highnes, in his owne royall person,
callynge to hym the said primates and divines, hath seriously and
depely, with great leisure and longe deliberation, consulted, debated,
inserched, and discussed the premisses: and finally, by all their free
assentes, consentes, and agrementes, concluded, resolved, and
determyned, that these bokes ensuynge, that is to say, the boke
entitled the wicked Mammona, the boke named the Obedience of a Christen
Man, the Supplication of Beggars,