WHereas there hath been, and now are great multitudes of Bibles in 12^o and in 8^o and in 24^o (known to all Booksellers by these Terms) prin­ted beyond the Seas, and Imported hither to this Common-wealth; and these Books being extreme false, as hath been found out by examination, and full of Errors, insomuch that heretofore they have been Suppressed, Seized, and taken away in Quires and Bound, yet neverthelesse there is now great quan­tities Binding and Bound up most surreptitiously, and the Bibles, not only themselves false and imperfect, and basely printed, and counterfeit; but also the binding of the said Books be bound most basely in Mutton Taffety, so termed, but in plaine Termes, in Sheeps Leather, both Black and Red, under the name of Spanish Leather and others: And also many guilded with Party Gold, and not headbanded, nor truly sowed on Slips, but on Packthread, and five Sawes in the back, and but three slips to the said sawings; so that the people that buy them be meerly cheated of their money, and couzened in the Book and binding, and they cannot last to doe good service; and they goe under false Names: As for example, The Bible in 12 Numprill, going under the name of Cambridge print by Roger Daniell, 1648, and with blacke Lines round about, a counterfeit, is one of the easiest to be known; and that and many others being sold in Tavernes, Alehouses, Inns, and in the Countrey by Hawkers, Pedlers, Running Mercuries and such like, wherby many be much couzened and deceived: Therfore this is thought fit to give notice, that all beware of this deceit, and to take notice they be sold at two shillings a Book bound, or rather under; so that by that very price, and cheaper, they may be descryed, and by the false Binding, which will be (God assisting) remedyed by the Parliament and State, and such course taken, as the Common-wealth may no longer be abused, in a very short juncture of time: And of this we wish all good people to take notice of.