"M.DC.XIII."[24]
41.
Abuses stript and whipt, or Satirical Essayes. By George Wyther. London, 1613.
For this publication Wyther was committed to the Marshalsea, where he remained several months.
42.
A book without title or date, written by Edmund Peacham, containing a libel on the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and other libels. Circa 1614.
For writing this book Edmund Peacham, Rector of Hinton St. George, in the county of Somerset, was deprived of his living by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners on December 19th, 1614.[25] On the 18th January, 1615, Mr. Secretary Winwood, the Master of the Rolls, the Lieutenant of the Tower, and others, were directed by the Council to examine Peacham, then imprisoned in the Tower, respecting his authorship of a treasonable book, and if he should be obstinate in refusing to give needful information, to use the manacles. In a letter from Chamberlain to Carleton of February 9th, 1615, Peacham was said to have been racked, but nothing could be got from him; and the king was much incensed against him. Most of the judges concurred in finding his case treason. He was tried and condemned for high treason in the course of the year 1615, and sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered, but he died in Taunton gaol in the early part of the year 1616, as appears in a letter from Chamberlain to Carleton of March 27, 1616.[26]
43.
History of the World. By Sir Walter Raleigh, 1614.
This book was called in "for too free censuring of princes."[27]