Proclamation of Charles II condemning John Milton's books

Item date: 1660
Grant Value: £500
Item cost: £2,500
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2008
Item institution: Milton's Cottage Trust
Town/City: Chalfont St Giles
County: Buckinghamshire

The Royal Proclamation of 13 August 1660 requiring persons possessing the 'wicked and traitorous' books of John Milton and John Goodwin to deliver them to the county sheriffs to be publicly burnt by the hangman at the next assizes.

Item Provenance
Maggs Bros Limited