The Development of Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts 12
The Development of Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts 12
C a Clyde Augustus Duniway
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14, marginal note. CENSORSHIP UNDER ANDROS. 67 been more satisfactory for them to have answered it by Scripture and reason, or any way rather than by a ruinous Romish Persecution." 1 So, too, when John Winslow brought to New England "a Treasonable Paper" con- taining the news that William of Orange had taken the field against James II, Andros endeavored to suppress the paper and imprisoned its unlucky bearer. 2 Finally, an official apology of Andros for the course of his govern- ment, made to p...rove that he had faithfully attempted to carry out his instructions, recited that " order was taken that nothing should be printed without license." 8 The overthrow of the Andros government in April, 1689, followed by the resumption of authority under the forms of the colony charter, 4 again put the control of printing into the hands of the General Court It soon became evi- dent, however, that there had been no conversion to a belief in freedom of the press. "Disorderly printing" may not have been uncommon in the first months of un- settled government ; for in November the House of Rep- resentatives issued this severe warning against all such disturbances of the public peace : — Whereas many papers haue beene lately printed & dispersed tending to the disturbance of the peace & subuersion of the gouermt of this theire Maies- ties Collonie King William & Queene Mary It is therfor ordered that if any person or persons within this Collony be found guilty of any such * Andros Tracts, iii.
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