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[[Image:GrubStreet-London 300dpi.jpg|250px|thumb|alt=People congregate at the entrance to a narrow street, overlooked by two four-storey buildings.  Each floor of the right-most building projects further over the street than the floor below.  At the corner of each building, shops advertise their wares.  A cart is visible down the street, and one man appears to be carrying a large leg of meat.|19th-century ''Grub Street'' (latterly Milton Street), as pictured in ''(contracted; show full)been replaced in 1662 by an [[Anglican]].  Famous 16th-century [[Puritan]]s included [[John Foxe]], who may have authored his [[Foxe's Book of Martyrs|Book of Martyrs]] in the area,<ref name="Dentonp174"/> the historian [[John Speed]], the [[Protestant]] printer and poet [[Robert Crowley (printer)|Robert Crowley]].  The [[Protestant]] [[John Milton]] also lived near Grub Street.<ref name="Achinsteinp116">{{Harvnb|Achinstein|2003|p=116}}</ref>

===Press freedom===

Since 1557 publishers had been controlled by the [[Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers|Stationers' Company]], whoIn 1403 the City of London Corporation approved the formation of a Guild of [[stationer]]s.  Stationers were either [[bookseller]]s, [[illuminated manuscript|illuminators]], or [[bookbinding|bookbinders]].<ref>{{Citation | last = Patterson | first = Lyman Ray | authorlink = Lyman Ray Patterson | year = 1968 | title = [[Copyright in Historical Perspective]] | publisher = Vanderbilt University Press}}</ref>  [[Printing]] gradually displaced manuscript production, and by the time that the Guild received a royal charter of incorporation on May 4 1557, becoming the [[Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers|Stationers' Company]], it was in effect a Printers' Guild.  In 1559, it became the 47th livery company.{{fact}}

The Stationers' Company had considerable powers of search and seizure, andbacked by the state, (which supplied the force and authority to guarantee copyright).  This monopoly continued until 1641 when, inflamed by the treatment of religious dissenters such as [[John Lilburne]] and [[William Prynne]], the [[Long Parliament]] abolished the [[Star Chamber]] (a court which controlled the press) with the [[Habeas Corpus Act 1640]].  This lead to the de facto cessation of state censorship of the press.  Although in 1641 token punishments were given to those responsible for unlicensed and hostile pamphlets published around London&mdash;including Grub Street&mda(contracted; show full)
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