from State Papers, Dom.Eliz. Vols. 190,192 quoted in Arber ii, 807
My translation:
Whereas sundry decrees and ordinances have upon grave advice and deliberation been heretofore made and published for the repressing of such great enormities and abuses as of late, more than in times past, have been commonly used and practiced by diverse contentious and disorderly persons professing the art or mystery of printing or selling of books and yet notwithstanding the said abuses and enormities are not abated, but (as it is found by experience) do rather daily more and more increase to the wilful and manifest breach and contempt of the said ordinances and decrees to the great displeasure and offense of the Qunenes most excellent majesty by reason whereof sundry intollerable offences and troubles and disturbances have happened as well in the church, as in the Civil government of the state and Commonwealth of this realm, which seem to have grown because the pains and penalties contained and set down in the said ordinances and decrees have been so light and small for the correction and punishment of so grevious, heinous offenses and so the offenders and malefactors in that behalf have not been so severely punished as the quality of their offences have deserved.... Whereupon, the said most reverend father and the whole presence sitting in the honorable court this 23 day of June in the eight and twentieth year of her majesties reign, upon grave and mature deliberation, have ordained and decreed that the ordinances, constitutions, rules, and articles hereafter following from henceforth by all persons be duly and inviolably kept and observed according to the tenor, purpose, and true intent and meaning of the same, as they tender her majesty's high displeasure, and as they will answer to the contrary at their uttermost peril.