To undeceive the People of this commonwealth.  
WHereas there hath been, and now are great multitudes of Bibles in 12ᵒ and in 8ᵒ and in 24ᵒ (known to all Booksellers by these Terms) printed beyond the Seas, and Imported hither to this commonwealth; 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 nevertheless 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 taffeta, so termed, but in plain terms, in sheep's 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 saws in the back, and but three slips to the said sawings; so that the people that buy them be merely cheated of their money, and cozened in the Book and binding, and they cannot last to do good service; and they go under false Names: As for example, The Bible in 12 Numprill, going under the name of Cambridge print by Roger Daniel, 1648, and with black Lines round about, a counterfeit, is one of the easiest to be known; and that and many others being sold in taverns, Alehouses, Inns, and in the country by Hawkers, pedlars, Running Mercuries and such like, whereby many be much cozened and deceived: therefore 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 descried, and by the false Binding, which will be (God assisting) remedied by the Parliament and State, and such course taken, as the commonwealth may no longer be abused, in a very short juncture of time: And of this we wish all good people to take notice of.   

Printed in the year. MDCLII.