Among the authors may be noted the names of some of the Cambridge Platonists: Henry More's Ψυχωδία Platonica was printed in 1642, his Democritus Platonissans in 1646 and his Philosophicall Poems (second edition) in 1647; Ralph Cudworth's Sermon before the House of Commons was printed in the same year.
Thomas Fuller's most popular work, The Holy State, appeared in 1642—a small folio with an engraved title-page on which the portrait of Charles I is characteristically flanked by the emblematic figures of Truth and Justice. A second edition of the book appeared in 1648. Other noteworthy books are the Sermons of Lancelot Andrewes (1641), the second edition of Francis Quarles's Emblemes (1643), Bede's Historiae Ecclesiasticae Gentis Anglorum Libri V (1643) and William Harvey's Exercitatio Anatomica de Circulatione Sanguinis (1649). A less important medical tract is Warme Beere (1641), a treatise in which are expounded "many reasons that Beere so qualified is farre more wholesome then that which is drunke cold." In 1645 Daniel printed Tachygraphy, a work which claimed to be "the most exact and compendious methode of short and swift writing that hath ever yet been published by any." It was compiled by Thomas Shelton, "Authour and Professour of the said Art," and a special interest is attached to the book in that the principles of shorthand expounded in it were those adopted by Pepys in the writing of his Diary.
It was, however, the printing of political tracts that brought Daniel's name into greatest prominence. In 1642, "by his Majesties speciall command," he printed His Majesties answer to the Declaration of both Houses of Parliament, Concerning the Commission of Array and on 23 August of the same year he was summoned to appear before the House of Commons, which enjoined him "not to print anything concerning the Proceedings of Parliament, without the Consent or Order of one or both Houses of Parliament." A few months later the House of Commons again took offence at a book printed at Cambridge (The Resolving of Conscience, by Henry Fern); this time Daniel was arrested, but was subsequently released on bail, after Dr Holdsworth, the Vice-Chancellor, had been specially summoned to the House of Commons, under the escort of Captain Cromwell.
By an ordinance of 1649 Parliament recognised the universities (together with London, York, and Finsbury) as privileged printing-places; Daniel's printing patent, however, was cancelled, on the ground of neglect, in 1650.
He continued to print books in London after that date, but the petition for his restoration to the position of university printer in 1660 does not seem to have borne fruit.
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