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Omar, caliph, curious answer of 41
Onion, a monk, hanged 273
Oracle 611, 828

Orange Intelligence 571—Gazette 571
Oratorio, origin of 276

Order of Jesus, or "Jesuits," origin of
326-extract from Oldham's satire on
180-suppressed 736
Oriental Herald 888
Original, (by Mr. Walker) 943
Orphan 615

Paisley Advertiser 941
Palladium 893

number n 1837 932-first a Dog
mark 500

Peripatetic, meaning of 408
Perry, Sampson, singular preservation
of 877

Perth Courier 831

Palm, James Philip, bookseller shot 824
Palmyra leaf used to engrave on 21
Pamber, curious manner of holding a
court leet at 20
Pamphlet, origin of 189
Paper (a) for enobling the species 695
Paper, history of the invention 48-
first made from cotton 55-first made Peter, the wild boy, account of 34
from linen 61 curions remarks Peters, Hugh, executed 529
upon, by Fuller 530-traders of 581-Peters (Mr.) report of the army 503
made from linen introduced into Phanatique Intelligence 529
England 68-substitutes for tags in Pharos 760

Perth, extract from the weekly assem
bly at 363

Peruvians, their mode of communicat.
ing knowledge 9

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Paper marks, origin and description of Phillatius, father of bookbinding 36
271
Philip II. description of his person 321
Philosophical Magazine 747, 799–08-
servation 577-Transactions 542
Phænir $70-of Europe 303
Pilgrim 612

Paper mill, first in England 271-lines
on 201-notice of an early one 201-
first in the state of Massachusetts,
North America 642
Papers from the Scots quarters 504
Papyrus, account of 23, 24, 37
Paradise Lost published 344-Waller's
sneer at 344

Paradyse of Daynty Devises 363
Parchment or vellum, where made 24
-the different kinds used for writ-
ing upon 54
Parian chronicle 16
Paris Gazette 473

Paris university claimed the right of
regulating the price of books 133-
the printers of, authorized to wear
swords 347

Parish clerks of London, players of
interludes 79

Parker's Halfpenny Post 633
Parliament, debates of, first published)
724

Parliament Kite 508-Porter 509-Spy
721-Vulture 508
Parliamentary Intelligencer 528, 529—
Register 731 732

Parliament's Post 503-Scouts Dis-
covery 500-Screech Out 509
Parochial registers introduced 269
Parrot 640

Parry, William, M.P. executed
Parsons, Robert, the first disseminator
of political liberty 452
Particular Relation 501
Pas, family of engravers 469
Pasquin 629

Pasquinades, origin of 288
Passages concerning the king's army!

509

Pasteboard, origin of 304
Patents and monopolies 838, 840, 852,
867, 870, 877-observations on 437
Paternoster-row, origin of the name
83-first noted for booksellers 838
Patrician 621

| Patriot 609, 626
Patrons, ill treatment of 164
Peacock, bishop imprisoned 213
Peeper, (by Dr. Wilkins) 793
Peg tankard, origin of 53
Pembroke college, Oxford, founded 476
Penal mandate, forbidding the trans-

Orthodox Churchman's Magazine 793
Oxford Gazette 543-Herald 916-Jour-
nal 665, 896- Magazine 719-Spy 500
Oxford university founded 47-pur-
chase types in France, Holland, and
Germany 547-type foundery estab-
lished at 552-Oxford book 129- lation into the vulgar tongue of
vested with the copyright in books Greek, Latin, and other books with-
given by the authors 734-visit of out approbation 184, 185
the allied sovereigns to 859-new Pennsylvania Gazette 639
printing-office for the use of the uni- Penny Magazine 920-Post 612-Post:
versity 11-number of bibles and or, Tradesman's Select Pacquet 615
testaments printed at 861-printing- Weekly Journal 624
office at, destroyed by fire 500-de- Penry, John, executed 404
fended in right of new works 826- Pens alluded to 24, 26, 27
number of books at, in 1603 445-Pentateuch, singularly expressed ac-
Arundelian marbles preserved at 16|
-Arabic lecture founded at 488-
Bodleian library founded 454

count of its editor, printer, &c. 194-
printed by Day and Seres 290--trans-
lated by Tindall 252
People's Journal 927

Diurnal 498-Diurnal of the
Passages in Parliament 498-Occur-
rences 504-Passages 501, 504-Rela-
tion 498

Packet of Letters from Scotland 509-Perfect
from sir Thomas Fairfax 504
Packets of advice from Ireland 574
Packington, lady, returns two mem-
bers to parliament 351
Pacquets of advice from France 574
Page of a book, origin of 54

Periodical Essays, by archd. Nares 747
Periodical press, advantages of 725,726
Periodicals, number in the world 940—!

|

Pilgrim's Progress published 571
Pillory, ode to the, by Defoe 599
Pinkey, battle of 315

Plain Dealer 635-(by Wagstaff) 60
Plain Dealing 562—Truth 557
Plain Scottish 574

Players, first regular company of in
England 354-patent granted to by
queen Elizabeth 354-play-bill, first
printed 541-prohibited from acting
in either university 419-suppressed
507

Playhouse, church, or new actors of

Devotion, effect of its publication 730
Playing cards, history of 78-decreé pí
the government of Venice concern-
ing 114-act against the importation
in England 125-knave of bells an
early playing card 78
Plays, origin of acts of 355-the first
published with engravings 318-bot
to be read without leave 431-mode
of advertising the performance of
581-not to be performed on Sundays
435-works againt 352
Pleasures of Hope 664
Plebian 621

Poetical Courant 592—Magazine 747-
Observator 563

Poetical Miscellany, the first published
in England 363

Poet laureats, origin of 70, 209-man-
ner of creation 200-apology for 731
Poetry, first publication on the subject
of 386-Spencer's opinion of £!£

| Poet's last advice, from Chancer $1
Poets, impromptu on 679-poet's pep,
poem of 119

Poets, custom of, concerning 70.
Poictiers. battle of 541, 581
Police Gazette, expense of printing 910
Political Mercury 638-and Historical
Mercury 704-Herald and Benine 734
-Register 721-State of Europe 590
-Taller 614

Potitique Informer 521
Polyglott bibles, succinct account of
424-published at Heidelberg 377
printed at Hamburgh 494-meaning
of the word 221-Complutensian 22
Paris 502-London 524- Bagster's
889 Spanish, printed at Antwap
351-Pentateuch 635-psalter first
printed 220, 221
Polytype printing 749
Pompeii destroyed 23

Poor laws traced to Richard II. 757
Poor Richard's Almanack 36
Poor Robin's Intelligence 352-rericel
544-Public and Private Occurrence
556, 591

Pope Nicholas V.'s grant to the clergy
of London 119
Pope's bulls, description of 233-infal
libility of 280
Popish Pass Book displayed 562
Popish mass displayed 562
Porcelain paper introduced 916
Porter, Lucy, her question to Dr.John-
son 753

Poetical Garland of Julia 485

Polemi middinia, the earliest specimen
of British macaronic poetry 512-by
whom invented 512
Portfolio 863

Porticus, or Portico, meaning of 849
Post Angel 586-Boy 579, 609, 633
Postilla, meaning of 95
Posting bills, origin of 541

Post Man 600, 633-and Historical
Account 579

Practice of Preaching, errata in 167
Pratler 665

Prator 696

Present state of the republic of letters
640

in allusion to the mystery of 683-Puritan, origin of the name 340
the king's prerogative in, confirmed Pydna, battle of 34
542-in red and black 165-colours,

on calico 885-practical hints on de Queen's Masque, song from 491
corative printing, published 885-Quills, anecdote of a bunch of 96
lines on 649-ink, invention of 140 Quincuplex psalter, the first work in
which the verses are distinguished
-Rusher's improved types for 812
by Arabic numerals 213
Printing Machine, a Review for the
Quipoes, explanation of 955
Many 936
Quiz 793-Quizzical Gazette 919

Printing-office, ancient customs of 514
modern customs of 616-chapel, so
called 141, 514-poetical description Rack, used to extort confession 373
of 576-curious law concerning, in Raleigh, sir Walter, beheaded 465, 466
Ralph Roister Doister 314
Scotland 675
Printing-offices destroyed or damaged Ramble round the world 573
by fire-Bagster's 886-Bernard's 841 | Rambler 603-(by Johnson) 678, 679
Basket's 661-Bensley's 831, 871-Ranger 783

Bowyer's 600, 630-Cox and Bigg's Reader, (by Steele) 609
736-Cocks's 721-Crowder's 721- Reading Mercury 629

Dewick and Son's 940-Downes's 867 Read's Halfpenny Post 633-Journal
-Gillett's 823,840-Guy and Balne's

633

876- Hamilton's 811-Johnson and Reaper, by Mr. Maude 792
Payne's 721-Moyes's 893-Nichols's Reasoner 709, 797
833-Paris s 840- Rickaby's 761- Reconciler 604

Spottiswoode s 946-Swan's 831-Recto and Verso, origin of the terms 54
Smeaton's 835-Wilson's 893-Gore's Reflector 680

Rehearsal Rehearsed 592
Relationes Extraordinariæ 557
Religio Medici, extract from concerning
printers 497

735, and the Caxton 879, Liverpool Reformation, progress of in England
272, 273, 274, 282
-Clarendon 953, and another 500 at
Oxford-Flood's Canterbury. 848- Rhapsody 602
Hoogly 742, and Serampore 845 East
Indies-Mackenzie's 895, Upper Ca-
nada-New York 940, 944 -Skara
592, and Upsal 568, Sweden
Remarkable Occurrences 614
Printing presses and public schools Relics 268,269-preserved in books 158
suppressed in Russia 799
Proceedings at Guildhall 558, 562—of Remarkable Passages 500
the king's commission of the peace Remembrancer, by James Ralph 674
783
577, 578, 586-of both houses of Repertory of Arts and Manufactures
parliament 498, 501-of the parlia
ment of Scotland 577-of parlia- Reporter 797
ments and armies 504

Press, acts against the liberty of 682,
800, 871, 875-effects of the freedom
of 806, 808-attempt to crush it 506-
powers of 807, 808, 554, 555-utility
and influence of 583-advantages of
the periodical 725, 726-progress of
438-opinions on the liberty of, Gold.
smith's 806-Milton's511-Johnson's
583 Sheridan's 806 - sir Thomas
Brown's 497-lines on the liberty of
451, 640-association for suppressing
the liberty of 881-persecution of 779
song on the 949-lines to the 757, 640
licenser of, in England 560-in Ame-
rica 528-considerations and propo-
sals in order to the regulation of 532,
540-society of the friends of freedom
of 716, censorship in England 342-
extract from the Tears of the Press
548-meeting to remove the restric-
tions of 915-at Oxford, advice to the
corrector of 563-act against in Ire-
land 750-extracts from M'Creery's
poem of the 100, 107, 800, 807-last
restrictive laws against577-licenser
of restored 531-printing press first
made 96-petitions for the repeal of
the duty on 938-forged one 790
Pressing to death, notice of 519
Preston Review, and County Advertiser
779-Journal 832-Chronicle 939
Priest, felony to harbour 370
Primer, or Form of Public Prayer, per-
mitted to be used 290
Prince of Wales's Island Gazette 824
Principal Passages of Germany 488
Printer, anecdote of a journeyman 668
Printers of London, petition of, con-
cerning patents 497-devils, origin
of 646-list of, in the reign of George
1. 631, 632-honours paid to 160-
errors, curious notice of 161, 163-
number of, in and about London in
1666 and 1831, 543-in Ireland 543
in England in 1599, 435-nineteen
Journeymen imprisoned840-pension
society established 903-benefit for,
at Covent-garden theatre 909-bene-
fit at the Coburg theatre for the un-
employed journeymen of London
899-opposition to, at Paris 131-
of Paris, celebrated the death of Protestants, origin of the name 259
Franklin 769-May Festival 523-Protestor 688

Proclamation against the shrine and
goods of Thomas a Becket 268-for
forbidding the eating of flesh in the
time of lent 313-for the reformation
of vagabonds 313-against slander
and sedition 313-for the price of
victuals 313-to put away divers
books and images 304 305-obser-
vations on 313-against the authors,
printers, and dispersers of seditious
books and libels 290, 304, 305, 313,
322, 370, 398, 542, 547, 560, 570, 605,
625, 691, 778-against ruffs and ra-
piers 442-for calling out he ctors
and fencible men to attend the king's
host 575

Profane authors, monk's opinion of77
Projector 626, 813
Prompter 653

Reporters, observations on 883. 884
origin of 656-anecdote of Dr. John-
Reporting the debates of parliament,
son, concerning 657-complaint in
both houses against 657, 658-prose-
cution of several printers for 724-
noble conduct of the lord mayor 723
-instance of extraordinary labour
in 764-the present system 883
Reprisul 616
Restorer 612
Re Tatler 595
Retrospective Review 904
Review of the affairs of France 590
Revolutionary Plutarch
Revolution of 1689 observations on 572
Rice, Hugh ap, founds the first protes.
tant college at Oxford 395
Richard II. description of his corona-
nation 75

848

Protestant Advocate 635-Domestic In-Rights of Literature, by John Britton
telligence 557-Intelligence 562, 634
Magaizne 709-Medley 615-Mer-Rights of Man and Burke's Reply, the
number sold in one year 772
cury 579, 580-Observator 562-Ox-

ford Intelligence 546, 562-Packet Rizzio, David, murdered 389
613-Pacquet 614-Post Boy 600-Roads, state of, in England 384
(No. 112) 602

first privilege granted to 224-Gram- Provisions, price of 129, 215, 256
mar, first published 692-act of in-
demnity 809-decree against in Hol-
land 843-penalties inflicted on 538,
539-Mrs. Elianor James's advice to
597-list of, who contributed towards
the loss of Mr. Bowyer 600, 601
Printing, invention of 101-opinions

Prynne, William, fined and imprisoned
488,489

Robin's Last Shift 614
Robin Snap, (Norwich) 722
Robinson Crusoe, controversy concern-
ing the copyright of 618-privately
printed 795

Rocks used by the Danes to preserve
their laws upon 20
Psalms in Swedish verse 513-errata
in 521-curious list of tunes 408- Rogers, John, burnt 266
first edition of Sternhold's version Rolls mentioned in the bible 24-used
by the Greeks and Romans 25
306-singing first practised 283, 284-
became general in England 311-Roman sigilum, or signet 15
French version of 283
Psalter, the first publication of Faust
and Schoeffer 119-first printed in
England 202-belonging to Richard
II.83

Psalter of Tara, ancient Irish manu-
script 33

on the origin of 105, 106, 107-first
poem written in praise of 281-ac-
count of its introduction into Eng-
land 144, 145-edict at Nuremberg
against 233-lines against 133-en-
comiums on 37, 100, 176, 683, 808,
-works upon 949-first important
specimen of 117-from blocks invent-
ed 90-ornamental, practised by the
early professors 120-prices for, first
fixed 753-first machine invented for
843, 856-anniversary of the fourth Public Advertiser 815, 821, 822
centenary held at Edinburgh 949- Public Spirit of the Whigs 604
epigram on 652-a contemplation on Punctuation, specimen of early 210-
present mode of 310
the mystery of man's regeneration,'

Publications, number of, from 1666 to
1680, 561-number and cost of for
1800, 806-number of, from 1800 to
1827, 901

Romance, meaning of the word 63
Romanesche, first book printed in 440
Roman Post Boy 573
Romans, their invasion of Britain 30
-superstitious processions of 115
Rosetta stone, notice of 16, 17
Rood, meaning of 413
Rotterdam Courant 558, 560
Round Table, by William Hazlitt 896
Roxburghe club established 846
Royal Cornwall Gazette 893-Jamaica
Gazette 916-Magazine; or, Gen
tleman's Monthly Companion 704-
Mercury 807-Diurnal 509, 518-Fe
male Magazine 704
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Royal society, origin of 53069

Rubric, used in the common prayer,
origin of 166

Ruminatar, by sir S. E. Briydges 832
Rupert, prince, mezzotinto engraving
ascribed to 350

Russell, lord William, beheaded 565
Ryehouse plot 565

Sabbath-day,markets and fairs held on
59 forbid in Scotland 368-plays
forbid to be acted upon 435
Sabbatical institutions in the com-
monwealth 499

Sack, the word found in twenty three
languages 11

Sacred comedy, origin of 44
Sacred drama, or mysteries 54
Sad News from the seas 597

St. Albans, battle of. its effect upon
literature 119-St. Alban first martyr
in England 49

St. Andrew's university founded 86,138)
St. Anne, and her three husbands 222
St. Barnabas, the remains of, found 40
St. Bartholomew, massacre of 355
St. George, miracle play of 214, 215
St. Ives Mercury 624
St. James's Magazine 710, 731-Even-
ing Post 611—(Applebees') 612-Post
612, 627, 633-Chronicle 709, 936-
Weekly Journal 615-Weekly Jour-
nal; or Hanoverian Postman 622-
Journal, with Memoirs of Literature
627

St. James's palace, press erected in 644
St. John's college, extract from an old
account book belonging to 329
St. Mary's college, Oxford, statutes
concerning books 117

St. Matthew's gospel found 40-sum
paid for 118-set to music 50
St. Patrick, the apostle of Ireland
St. Paul's, the boys of, perform the first
regular drama in England 75-curi
ous custom at 115-cross, sermons
at 73

St. Peter's, feast of at Rome 115
St. Stephen's, Westminster, wages
paid for painting and glazing 73
Salisbury, earl of, curious account of
an entertainment given by 449
Salisbury Postman 611-Journal 922
Salisbury Primer, extract from 232
Salisbury, Thomas, executed 391
Sand used to write on 21
Satirist 930

Saturday Magazine 927-Post 615
Saunterer, by Hewson Clarke 824
Sawtre, sir William, burnt for heresy 83
Saxon chronicle 57

Saxon manuscripts, splendid manner
of writing and binding 46
Saxon types first used in England 345
Saxons, their arrival in Britain 31, 39
-origin of the name 32
Say, lord, beheaded 146
Scavenger's daughter, an instrument
of torture 373
Schedule, origin of 19
Schemer 705

Scholar (the) poetical description of 82
Schools, first public at Rome 36, 37-

of dialogue, between John and Ely- |Smollet's History of England, › sing
mus 565
lar manner of sale 703
Scotland, earliest specimen of printing Snotty-nose Gazette; or, Coughing In-
in 210-state of literature at the telligence 558
reformation 537, 240-the last burn-Sober, yet Jocular 562

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ing for witchcraft in 233-affirmation Societas Græcorum Editorum, society
of the clergy against Luther 237- of printers so called 550-1
library at Stirling castle, at the Society for the diffusion of useful
reformation 237-earliest song of, knowledge commenced 903.
after the Scots spoke the English Somerset, duke of beheaded 315
language 88-king's printer, earliest Sorbonne, Robert de, founded the col
patent of 281-renewed 753-censor- lege of that name, at Paris 87-cen-
ship of the press established 312- sure of the heresies of Luther at 224
early poets of 97-earliest Hebrew Soul (the) lines on 483
types in 432-act of parliament South African Commercial Advertiser 691
against heresy 23%-earliest alma- South sea scheme 634
nack published in 552

Southwell, rev Robert, executed 422 €

Ecots Courant 591-Dove 495 500-In-Spanish armada 399, 400
telligencer 500-Magazine 661-Me. Special and considerable passager 498
moirs, by way of dialogue 565—Post- Special Passages 495, 498-from Loss
man 594-Scout's Discoveries 498 don, Westminster, York, Ireland, &c.
Scots, Mary queen of, beheaded389 498
library of 393

-

Scott (lord Eldon) his severe persecu-
tion of the press 779
Scottish Mercury 500
"Scotus his funeral," name given to
conflagration of books at Oxford 305
Scourge 615, 684

Scribbleomania or the Printers' Devils
Polychronican 862
Scriptorium,or writing-room, origin of
49-notices of 49, 58, 63
Scriptures, sermon against 222
Sculpture and statuary, state of, in
England, in the 15th century 97, 98
Seal first fixed to a charter 44
Seasonable Speech 527-Writer 638
Seasons, trial concerning 722
Second and last adventure of the Wheel
of Fortune 579

Secret Mercury 586-Owl 495
Sects, lines upon 514
Seditious societies and reading-rooms
suppressed 795

Selden John, ludicrous anecdote of 484
Sentimental Magazine 731
Seren Gormer, (Swansea) 858
Sermon, curious 588
Servetus, Michael, burnt 319, 628, 629
Several Proceedings 518
Several Weighty Queries 562
Shadgett's Weekly Review 866
Shakspeare, Boydell's edition of the,
works of 912-sums paid to, the
different editors of 716-price of early
editions of 474-advertisement of
Rowe's edition 593--forgeries 938
Shamrock, Waterford 802
Sheffield Courant 903-Mercury 903—
Independent 866-Public Advertiser
866-Patriot 954-Iris 761-Register|
761

Shells used for preserving writing
upon 20

Shepherd's Calender, description of the
months from 226-by Spencer 414
Sherborne Mercury 879
Sherfield, Henry, recorder of alisbury
curious trial of 483

Sheridan, R. B. present to 850
Ship of Fools 211, 275

Shoemaker, at Newberry, burnt for

held in porticos of temples and heresy 235

porches of churches 37 - charity Signatures invented 131
schools first commenced in London Signets worn by the Jews 16

570-founded at Bangor 39-of Ire- Sign of the cross used instead of seals
land celebrated 44, 45-first opened 42

in cities and towns 51-Sunday Silent Monitor 612

schools commenced 842-jubilee held Silver types used for printing 408
Science, first periodical work of. in Singapore Free Press 946-Chronicle
England 542

888

Scintilla; or a light broken into dark Singleton, Hugh, John Stubbs, and
warehouses of some printers, sleeping
stationers, and combining booksellers

480

Sclavonians receive the privilege of
performing divine service in their
own tongue 46

William Page, punishment of 366
Sithen, curious grant to the monks 44
Skelton's description of a splendidly
bound book 235
Skeptic; or Unbeliver 731
Skins used by the Persians to write
upon 20, 21

Skipton castle, extract from the house-

Score and tally, origin of 20
Scotchman 728
Scotch Mercury 575-Memoirs, by way hold book of 486

Spectator 596, 599, 861-Country, 778
Spectator, volume the ninth and last,
by Mr. Bond 611
Speculatist, (by Concanen) 643
Speculator, by Dr. Drake 765.
Speeches in Parliament 497
Speedy Post; with more News from
Hull 498
Spendthrift 715
Sphynx 903

Spie, communicating intelligence from
Orford 500

Sporting Magazine 789.
72.
Spy 624, 500-by James Hogg 834 and
Stage, first notice of a licenser of 498
Stamford Mercury 603, 629 Dyřni
Stamp duty on periodicals commenced

584

Stanhope press invented 802 KAM
Stanley, Jas., bp.of Fly, anecdote of 199
Staple of News, extract from 476 1912
Star 944
Star chamber instituted 186-ordinan
ces of 342, 343, 374, 490
བྷོདྡོ, ཨ, ལོ༎ དྷ, མཧྨཐ
Statesman 877, 879, 910
Statio, meaning of 63
Stationers' company, or, test writers
83-formed into a guild 83—whet
first used 83-charter granted 325-
list of the original members 325-2
expense of the charter 326-expense
of the first public dinner of 327
extract from the records of 330-first
book entered at 330-a collection
gathered from 330-monthly certifi
cate of books printed by 437-plate
of, pledged 479 contributed towards
the rebuilding of St. Paul's 486
contribute towards the city pageants
481-patent from James 1. 46-
feasts of restrained 460--remöve
their hall to Bergavenny house 457
order of dress 487-books entered at
798-extract from the accounts of
413-paid for search dinners, 418—
charter of, exemplified 545, 560+
ordered to prosecute printers 375
required to attend queen Elizabetk
407-books burnt at stationers' hal
431-compelled to lend money fo
Charles I. 496-attend the king on
his return from Scotland 497-Book
of Martyrs given to the prisoner's
in Ludgate, by 501-ordered to subs
stitute the arms of the common
wealth 573-precept of the lord
mayor to 522, 529, 541-silver cups
presented to 552-ordered to seize
Buchanan's History of Scotland 529
-hall of destroyed by the fire of
London 543-demands three copies
of every printed book 544-charter
of renewed 461-origin of giving ap
prentices bibles 601-trial concern
ing the right of literary property 676
-curious account of a schism in 199
-to enter a book at optional 798-→→
their exclusive right regarding alma.
nacks detected 734-donations and
benefactions to $31, 937, 340, 34

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543, 543, 552, 661, 563. 575, 523, 616,
634, 659, 686, 704, 741, 755, 784, 794,
820, 831, 865, 867.905, 918
Statten, Herman de, curious deed of,
sale by 130!

Statute of labourers 73 ›

Steel, engraving upon, introduced into
England 870

Stenography known to the Romans 39
Stereotype, printing with 584, 585, 586,
1735, 817, 871, 895

Sterne, Dr. John, his bequests to the
university of Dublin 651

edition of the New Testament in the
English language 235-burnt 263
Titchburne Chidiock, executed 946
Tit for Tit 565

Tithes, origin of 274

Titles and ciphers to books first used
160-curious list of 504, 506-obser-
vation on 648

Tobacco introduced into England 388
Tonstall, bishop of London, anecdote
of 215

Tory Tatler 595
Touchstone 640

Town and Country Magazine 721

Trades, singular enumeration of 232
Traiteur 747

Transactions of the society of arts 750
Translating curious anecdote of 895
Translation of the Gazette into French

553

Transmutation of metals, charter for
116

Steeven's, G. singular instance of liter-Town Talk by Steel 612-by Agg 844
ary perseverance of 777
Stippling, a mode of engraving 367
Stockings of silk first worn by queen
Elizabeth 413-knit 485
Stone desks, books placed upon 42
Stone used for engraving upon 16, 17
Storm, great, in England 588
Story, Dr. John, executed 378
Stowe, John, curious extract from 443
Strange News from Arpington 573-
from the West 530-from the Deep
554-and terrible news from Oaking-
ham 551-and wonderful news from
Bridewell 554-from Norwich 562
Strawberry hill, private press at 701-Trinity college, Dublin, library pre-
printer's farewell to 797

Student, (Oxford) 680

Treaty traverst 509

Trials for practising the art of printing
without serving a regular appren
ticeship 651, 652

Trifler 761, 791-(at Edinburgh) 792
Trinidad Courant 840

sented to 444

Trinity college, Oxford, founded 329

Style, an instrument used to write Troubadours, French minstrels 82

with-origin of the term 26
Sun 870, 921, 937-True Sun 930
Sunday Monitor 851

Sunderland Herald 920-and Durham
General Skipping Gazette 920-Bea.
bacon 954

Sun fire office establishes the British
Mercury 595, 602

Supple, Mark, curious anecdote of 828
Supplement 5y3, 614
Surprise 612

Surry, earl of, beheaded 240, 294, 295
Sweden, first typographer royal 280
Swedish Intelligencer 482
"Sweet singers" renounce the printed
exbible 560

Swift, dean, his vengeance against
--certain printers 599

Sydney, Algernon, beheaded 565
Sylph 789

Syr Grey-Steil, a rare Scotch poem 414

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Table book noticed by Chaucer 37-
taken to the theatre 435
Tachygraphio, short-hand writers, and
abcalligraphi elegant writers 77
Taller (by Steel) 593-(at Edinburgh)

True and perfect Diurnal 520-and
perfect Dutch Diurnal 521
True and impartial account of the re-
markable incidents 571

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True News, laudable news 498—or Mer-
curius Anglicus 558-News 559
True Relation 546-Protestant Mer-Weekly Test Paper 571-Memorials 572
cury 560, 573-Informer 500, 506, 519,
521, 522-Briton 629-Patriot 674—
Protestant Domestic Intelligence 560
Truths from York 495
Tuesday's Post 504

Tulip mania in Holland 847
Tuner 721

Turkish Spy, account of 568, 569
Tusser, Thomas, acrostic on 299
Tutchin John, severe punishment of 601
Twynn, John, printer, executed 540
Tyler, Wat,rebellion of 78-lines on 177
Tylesworth, William, burnt 213
Tyne Mercury 813

Type founding, earliest instance of 204
-first in Scotland 668-at Oxford
552-Ordinances of the star chamber
concerning 490

Ulphilas, bishop, left out the book of
kings in his translation of the bible
38-Codex Argenteus, or silver book

599 (by Mr. Harrison) 600-by Mr.
Baker) (anonymous) 593-revived
9638-revived, or the christian philoso-Universal Intelligence 558, 562, 573-
pher and politician 680

Tatling Harlot 594

Tavistock, extract from the church-

warden's account at 407

Taylor, John, poet, anecdote of 519
Tea Table 614, 634

Technical toast 767

Telegraph 790

Intelligencer 571 -Journal 629
Magazine 674-Register 759-Review
705 5- Spectator 640- Visitor 696 –
Chronicle; or Weekly Gazette 702
Universities, remarks upon the foun-
ders of 412

Unnoticed Theories of Servetus,&c. 629
Upsal, private press at 568

Telemachus, account of its publication Urbanicus and Rusticus 574
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Packet of Advice 556-Packet of
Advice from Rome 573-Review 746
-or the Wednesday's Post 615-News
from foreign parts 501-News 642
News books 400-Advertisement of
books 560-Miscellany 638, 649-Post
Boy 652-Post 522, 527-Amusement
652, 758-Essay 661-Journal 618,
624-Journal, or the BritishGazetteer
635-Post master 503-General Post
615 Observator 615-Packet 602-2
Pacquet 609-Packet, with the price
current 617-Medley 640, 612-Med-
ley; or, the Gentleman's Recreation
617-Intelligence 498, 557- Intelli-
gencer 527-Discovery of the myste-
ries of iniquity 562-Intelligence of
the commonwealth 527-Mementofor
the ingenious 565-Amusement 758-
Comedy, or the humours of the coffee
house 593-Comedy 581-Remem
brancer 586-Survey of the World
597-Post. foreign and domestic 600
-Remarks and political Remarks
612-Register 643, 799, 810-Rehear
sal 644-Magazine (Edinburgh) 719
Magazine, or gentleman and lady's
polite company 704-Account, &c.500
527-Vision of the late popish plot
562-Chronicle (Owen's) 718-In-
⚫formation 525-Discover stript naked
562-Christian Teacher 952-Police
Gazette 944- Dispatch 855
Weepers 520
Wednesday's Mercury 500-Journal 615
Welsh bishop, anecdote of 457
Welsh Mercury 500
Welshman 929

Welshman's Declaration
Wentworth, earl of Strafford, executed

501
Wesselus, singular request of 188
West Briton 887, 944
Western Luminary 853, 879, 893
Western Informer 503
Western Star 853
Westminster Magazine 680, 731–Ga.
zette 562-Journal, or new Weekly
Miscellany 669-Review 894
Westmoreland Gazette 869
Whiffler, meaning of 528

in the university of Oxford 200, 201 Whig and tory, Johnson's definitions

of 830-from the spectator 830-
Wilkes's opinion of 722-lines on 640
-Hallam's description of 672
Whig (the) 747-Examiner 595-Maga.
zine, or Patriot Miscellany 746
Whipping Post 591
Whisperer 595, 721

list of persons who have suffered for Wyatt, sir Thomas, beheaded 329
233, 418-works upon 380, 418. 437' Wye, extract from the churchwarden's
541-annual lecture founded on 418) account at 281
-acts of parliament against 418
Winter Evenings, (by Dr. Knox) 762
Witty Apothegms of king James I.
curious extract from 467
Wolcot, Dr. John, curious agreement
between, and Messrs. Robinson and Yarmouth, Norfolk, earliest account
Walker 784-his fracas with Mr. of 537
Gifford 797
Year books 174

Whitehall Courant 615–Evening Post
627, 633, 907-Journal 633
Whittington, sir Richard, lord mayor
of London, built the library of Grey
friars, (now Christ church) 95 Wolsey, cardinal, his letter to the pope
Wiclif, his translation of the whole concerning printing, &c. 250-Shak-
bible75-followers of, called Lollards speare's description of 249-his skull
76-severe persecutions of 253, 286 purchased by R. Phillips 251
Wilkes, John, erected a private press Wonderful and strange News 472
in his house 710-prayers desired for Wood, engraving upon, history of 64
719-committed to the tower 710-Wood tablets used for preserving laws
verdict against the earl of Halifax
719-letter to Almon 722
William I. curious charter to the
citizens of London, by 49
Wine, price of 75

Wine, Beer, Ale, and Tobacco, con-
tending for superiority 527
Winnington, sir Thomas, singular re-
mark in the house of commons 657
Wishart, George, burnt 240

upon 18. 19

Worcester Journal 593, 940-Herald
871-Postman 593

Wordsworth, William, sonnet on the
writers of the reign of Charles II. 566
Works of the Learned by La Crose 574
Works of the Learned 574
World (the) 685

Worrall, John, bookseller, noble trait
in his conduct 727
Witchcraft, origin of trials for 233-Writing of the angels 8

Xavier, Francis,apostle of the Indies 326
Ximenes, cardinal, promoter of the
Complutensian Polyglott 232

Yonge, sir William, his opposition to
the liberty of the press 657
York Chronicle 728-Courant 621-
Herald 771, 938-Mercury 621
York and Lancaster, number of per-
sons killed in the wars of 135-the
wars of, effects on literature 135
York, Elizabeth of, extract from her
privy purse account 208
Yorke. sir John, his wife and brothers
fined and imprisoned 459, 460
Yorkshire Gazette 875
Young, Dr. Edward, elegy on the death
of Addison 620-anecdote of ôső
Young Lady 696

Zenger, John Peter,printer, New York,
North America, trial of, for libel 661

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