_Licensing of Books._--Can any of your readers inform me what was the law
in 1665 relative to the licensing of books? also when it was introduced (or
revived), and when modified? I find in a manual of devotion printed in that
year the following page, after the preface:--
"I have perused this book, and finding nothing in it but what may tend
to the increase of private devotion and piety, I recommend it to my
Lord the Bishop of London for his licence to have it printed."