New year's gifts, books sent as 200, Painter, anecdote of one 320 365, 398
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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 61
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
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
Scintilla; or a light broken into dark Singleton, Hugh, John Stubbs, and warehouses of some printers, sleeping stationers, and combining booksellers
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
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
- 1:345, 416, 417, 436, 458, 482, 506, 542, 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
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
Trials for practising the art of printing without serving a regular appren ticeship 651, 652
Trifler 761, 791-(at Edinburgh) 792 Trinidad Courant 840
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
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
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
Tavistock, extract from the church-
warden's account at 407
Taylor, John, poet, anecdote of 519 Tea Table 614, 634
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 £1 $79
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
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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