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As licenser, Mabbot had the power to withhold a license to publish from those newsbooks which displeased him ; however, he was progressively less successful.
He used his power to attempt to suppress the Moderate Intelligencer of John Dillingham in June 1648 after Dillingham inserted a brief sentence of French in the issue of May 11, 1648: " Dieu nous donne les Parlements briefe, Rois de vie longue.
" Mabbot in addition made arrangements with the printers who had handled the Moderate Intelligencer to print in its stead a newsbook more in tune with Army policy.
This he called The Moderate and numbered as if a continuation of the Moderate Intelligencer, even declaring " I have laid down my former title of ' Moderate Intelligencer ' and do go by another, viz.
However, he was thwarted by Dillingham finding an alternative printer and successfully appealing to the House of Lords to stop Mabbot confusing his readers.
It eagerly supported the abolition of the monarchy and welcomed the beheading of King Charles I ; its account of the King's funeral is the most complete.
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