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Combination amongst journeymen, 840
Comedian; or, Philosophical Enquirer
644

-proclamation against heretical 322 Cant language, first work on 494
-to be given to the royal library at Canterbury News Letter 664
Paris 323-first printed at Northamp- Canton Press 946-Register 908
ton, N. A. 816-ordinances of the Caoutchouc applied to the binding of Comedy, sacred, origin of 44
books 951
star chamber against 342, 343, 490-

886

Comical Observer 590
Commentator 624

Common prayer in the Welsh language
541

Compendio Mercuriale 574
Common Sense 661

Courant 563
Composition balls introduced 859--
Complete Mercury 575-or, Haarlem
rollers introduced 871

ment 259-of the Hebrew bible 117
Comptroller, in French and English 704
passed-Concordance, first, of the New Testa-
-first of the whole Bible 310-Cru-
den's 727
Condoler 595

Censor 636, 879-(by Theobald) 161
Censura Temporum 595
Certain Information, 500
Ceylonese, method of writing 22
Chains for books, expense of 329
knowledge 14
Chaldeans, mode of preserving their
Champion 644, 879

first sold by auction in England 557 Carlisle Journal 885, 899, 933
-patents and monopolies of, noticed Carlton House Magazine 761
437-Barton's eulogium on 470- Carmelites, or white friars 85
bishop Hall's eulogy on 522--Rant- Caroline, queen, printers' address to
zau's eulogium on 479-value set on
one 49-Frankfort catalogue 320-Carthusian monks, order of, founded52
ordinances of star chamber against Catch-words invented 134-first used
by the Parisian printers 225
342,343,490-patents and monopolies
of 437, 438-first noticed in the house Catholic Intelligencer 559
of commons 480-first review of in Catholics, severe enactments against
370, 448-emancipation bill
New South Wales 897-Clavel's cata-
909
logue of 551, 561-Bent's catalogue
of 812-lines on, from Milton 550-Cato's Letters 627
lottery of 546-first printed with an Cavalier's Diurnal 501
appendix 496-first motion relative Celts, why so called 29
to printing and publishing 480
Books, money given for, 33, 42, 45,
58, 68, 93, 94, 108, 169, 218, 236, 255,
261, 322, 369, 373, 386, 387,403, 406,
411, 413, 414, 415, 429, 421, 422, 424.
425, 426, 431, 434 435, 441, 449, 464
465, 474, 482, 486, 494, 496, 497, 518,
519, 524, 552, 603, 606, 607, 636, 641,
653, 654, 662, 663, 670, 673. 674, 675,
676, 680, 691, 694, 716, 772, 777, 802,
804, 834, 836, 842, 864 865, 902.
Booksellers, the first appearance of, at
Athens 33-letter to the society of
661-meetings held at taverns 684-
called stationarii 63-extract from
the poem of 750-monopoly of 731-Charter house, origin of 52
provident institution 946-literary Cheap Magazine 854
club of 744-penalties inflicted on Cheetham's library, Manchester 588
538, 539-blind of Augsburg 855-at Chelmsford Chronicle 850, 878, 922
Liverpool 855-at Avignon burnt 278, Cheltenham Chronicle 867, 896
Cherokee language invented 12, 13-
279-termed "the trade" 544
newspaper first printed 905
Bookworm, poetical character of 211
Boston Gazette 622- Weekly Maga. Cherry, Andrew, anecdote of 845
Chess, the game of, invented 157
zine, 669
Chester Courant 678-Chronicle 937
Chester mysteries 92
Chiaro-scuro engraving invented :02
Chief Passages in Parliament 407
Chinese Dictionary 447
Chinese Repository 927
Chit Chat 615
Christian Uses 500
Christians, first general persecution
against 31

Chapel, printing-office so called 141,
514-ancient customs of a514-poeti-
cal description of 576
Chapter and verse, origin of 484
Charles X. of France, ordinances
against the press 910-compelled to
abdicate the throne 910

Christian's Magazine 705
Christmas-day, origin of 228-kept by
the Princess Mary 222-carols 227,
228, 498

Botanical Magazine (Curtis) 762
Boucher, Joan, burnt for heresy 305
Boughton Joan, first female martyr213
Boy bishop 60, 61
Boyer's (Mr.) case 594
Breviaries first printed 141
Bridgewater Treatises 909
Brighton Guardian 835, 929-Guide 793
Bristol Journal 612, 804-Gazette 814
946-Mercury 812-Felix Farley's 817
Britain 604-Britain's Remembrancer
501-Britannicus Universal 574
British and Foreign Bible Society 816
British Apollo 593 Critic 777, 812-
Courant; or, Preston Journal 673- Chronica de Macao 946
Foreign and Quarterly Review 943-Chronicle of Nuremberg 197
or, Loyalist's Weekly
Harlequin 624-Journal; or, Censor, Chrysographic, a mode of writing 44
639-Magazine 704-Merchant 608, Churchman ;
Journal 624, 638
622-Mercury 595, 602- Miscellany
746-Neptune 828- Press 828-Re- Circulating library, earliest known 38
view 943-Spy; or Derby Postman
638-Spy; or, Weekly Journal 635-
Indian Monitor 826
British Librarian, (by Oldys) 837
British museum established 685-do-
nation of George IV. to 685
Briton, (by Smollett) 709
Britons, method of writing 19-lan-
guage of 29-condition of, at the
landing of Julius Cæsar 29
Brownists and Barrowists 410
Brunos, Jordanus, burnt at Rome 434
Burleigh papers, extract from 433
Bury and Norwich Post 866
Busy Body 761-(by Dr. Franklin) 629

Cabinet 783

Cade's rebellion 146
Cambridge Intelligencer 708, 779

-progress of 721
Cistercians, an order of monks 52, 53
Cities Weekly Post 504

Citizen 615-the, 638-of the world,705
City Scout 503-Mercury 557, 574
Clerc, Jean le, burned 234
Clergy, ignorance of 73-benefit of
251-convocation of 588
establishment 920
Clowes, William, extent of his printing
Clyde Commercial Advertiser 823
Coaches introduced into England 443
Cobbett's Evening Post 876-Peter
Porcupine 777, 810-Political Regis-
ter, 810-Rushlight 810

Coder Alexandrian 38, 685- Beza 49-
Argentous 38

Coffee-house Mercury 574
Colchester, trades at 68

Cambridge university,origin of 53-Colchester Spy 509

Confession and execution of Richard
Longborne 557

Conger printers, a society so called 621
Congregation of the index, or censors
books established at Rome 216
Connoisseur, meaning of 695
Constable's Miscellany 901
Connoisseur 690
40-capture 118
Constantinople, library destroyed at
Constitution 895
Constitutional 946, 947
Contest 702
Contrast 710
Controller 609

Conventical Courant 563
Cooper's John Bull 954

Copper plate printing, earliest speci-
men in England 276

Copyists employed by the booksellers

of Athens 33

Copyright act 593, 854, 910
Coranto from beyond the seas 500, an
exact 498

Corfu Gazette 865

Corn Cutters Journal 638
Cornwall Gazette and Falmouth Packet
893

Corpse-present, a perquisite to the
clergy 238

Corpus Christi, feast of 61, 87, 298
Correspondent 644

Cottager 209
Cotswold muse reprinted 518

Council of Ariminium 31-Arles 31-
Carthage 77-Constance 95-Trent
39-Rheims 46-Lateran 216-Tou-
@cumenical
louse 60-Lyons 85-
first held 38

Country Messenger 401 Gentleman
636-Gentleman's Courant 566, 592—
Journal; or, the Craftsman 636—
Oracle 668

-Herald (London)951-Magazine761
Courant 930, 869-Intelligence 557
County Chronicle 203, 921-Herald 903
Courant,; or, Weekly News, 472-of
News 473-from Vienna 473- from
Rome 473-called News 473
Courier 801, 857, 875
Court favour, lines on the dependence

of 432

Magazine 709-Journal 928, 931
Court of star chamber founded 186-
Court Mercury 501-Miscellany 714-
ordinances of 342

Covent Garden Journal 681
held at 81-anecdote of a friar at
Coventry mysteries 92-parliament
256

Coventry Mercury 668, 850, 903
Creed sent by pope Adrian IV. 58
Criminal process, observations on 424
Crisis (by lord Mountmorres) 774

first college founded 63-privileges Collection for improvement of Husban-Critical Review 6y6
dry and Trade 575
granted to by Henry VIII. 234-

Critick 617

Critics, observations on 901
Crusaders, origin of 52-notice of 59
Cry from the Wilderness 603
Croyland abbey built 52

drawback upon duties for printing Collection of Weekly Passages 503
861-Bibles and Testaments printed Collingbourne, William, executed 176
at 261-action against the printer Collin's Weekly Journal 628
of Heywood's remarks, 848- Pitt Colophon, derivation of 396
press built 933-defended in right of Columbian press introduced into Eng. Cuffe, Henry, executed 440
new works 826

land 368

Cumberland Pacquet 877

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Curiosities of Literature,illustrated 954
Current Intelligencer 544, 559, 562
Cylinder card printing machine 885

Dæmonologie defended by James I.
439

Dance of Death, 317
Danes invade England,32-great drink-

ers 53

Dumfries Times 927— Journal 680 941
Dunciad, presented to George II. 640
Dunstable priory, slave sold at 63
Dunt, or Dun, name of the hangman
of London 529
Dunton's Ghost 609
Durham County Advertiser 762, 858,
878-Chronicle 813, 879

Dutch mail, curious anecdote of 771
Daily Courant £86, 593, 609, 633-Dutch Intelligencer 520 - Prophet 581
Benefactor 611-Post 621-633-Pac-
-Spy 495, 519

ket; or, the New London Daily Post Dwarfs, fondness of the Romans for 420
626-Journal 627, 633-Gazetteer 674
-Intelligencer 500- Proceedings of Eaton Chronicle; or, the Salt Box, 763
the Armies, by sea and land 521-Pro- Echo, humorous poem of 499
ceedings in parliament 528
Edict of Nantz 439
Davy, rev. William, singular instance
of typographical labour 898
Dawks's News Letter 579

Deaf and Dumb School at Sleswick,
printing carried on at 879
Dearth, a great one in England 353
Death, manner of pressing to 519
Debates of the house of commons 562
Decalogue, curious version of
Decameron of Bocaccio, inhibition of
the 461

Declaration of the nobility, gentry, and
commonalty, at the Rendezvous, at
Nottingham 571

Declaration of the rebels 457
Dedications, price of at the time of
Dryden 581-singular one 457
Defender of the Faith, origin of 229
Delphis, oracle of 228
Democritus Ridens 562

Derby Postman; or, British Spy 638-
Herald 773--Mercury 648-Reporter
951-Derbyshire Courier 908-North
Chronicle 946
Detector 749

De Typographia Excellentia Carmen
616

Devices of early printers, observations
on 205, 206, 209

Devil and Dr. Faustus, origin of 123
Dialogue between two friends 573
Diary, by whom kept 317
Diary 519, 764, 816-of the Proceedings
of the treaty 567-of both houses of
parliament 504

Dictionary of the English language
(Johnson's) 694, 695
Director 624 832

Discourse of four pages 473
Diurnal of occurrences 496- of every

day's proceedings in parliament 259
-and particulars 498—an exact 501
Diutinus Britannicus 504

Divers remarkable proceedings 557
Doctor 617

Dolet Stephen, printer, burnt 293
Domestic Intelligence 557, 562, 505—
published gratis 557-or news from
the city and country 557-Protestant
Intelligence 559 - True Intelligence
559

Dom Boc; or Doomsday Book 51, 52,

Epitaphs, 113, 129, 194, 331, 334, 343,
358, 383, 409, 416, 431, 439, 436, 468,
470, 519, 529, 558, 561, 563, 592, 598.
60s, 616, 623, 634, 653, 658, 600, 666,
667,690, 700, 708, 713, 728, 734, 735,
744,745, 750, 751, 752, 754, 756, 757,
768 772,773, 790, 794, 795. 800, 802,
814, 822, 837, 880, 900, 9es, 927, 933,
946

Epitome, of the Weekly News, 558, 563
Errata, first notice of 161

Essay on Woman, by Wilkes 710, 70-1
Essays on the most important subjects
of natural and revented religion, 727
Essays, title, from whom derived 425
Essays on the vices and follies of the
Edinburgh, extract from the records of Times, 636
the town council 345-advocates' Essays, moral and literary 738
library established, 698-circulating Essex Gazette, 719
library established 814-number of Etching, to whom ascribed 244
printing-offices in 1779, 744--first Eugenian, 793
printing in Scotland at 210-easy European Magazine, 749
club at 697
Evening Entertainment, 638-General
Post, 615-Journal, 638–Post, 394—
633-Pacquet, 615

Edinburgh Advertiser,915-Beacon,886
Caledonian Mercury 624-Gazette 611
Evening Courant, 617-Flying Post
593, 922-Herald, 777, 814-Literary
Gazette, 922-Magazine and Review,
731, (Blackwood's) 865-(Sibbald's)
754-(Tait's) 927 Medical and Sur-
gical Journal 820 Philosophical 869|
New ditto 904 Review 696, 057
Weekly Chronicle, 922-Journal, 822,
882, 921-Magazine 869-Scotsman
869-Historical Register 774-Cham
bes' Journal 920
Educational Magazine, 943
Egypt, a descriptive poem, printed at
Alexandria 891

7

Egyptians,hieroglyphics attributed to
Eikon Basilike published 508
Elgin marbles, sum voted for by parlia-
ment 685

Elizabeth, coronation of 330, 331-in-
ventory of her jewels, &c. 349
Elliot, Ebenezer, ode to Caxton by 142
-lines on the press by 807
Elucidator, Welsh translation from 19
Enchantments, act of parliament

against 418

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Faery Queen poem, published 424
Fairy Tatler 627

Faithful Scout, 519, 528—Mercury 545,
557-Collections 611
Fame, 829

Farmer's Magazine 738, 805— Muscum
777
Farrago 775

Farringdon Hugh, abbot, hanged 273
Farthing Post 665
Fashionable World 916
Father Hubbard's tales,extract 447
Faust and Gutenberg, trial between
119

Feast of the Dead 200

Featherstone, a Catholic priest ere.
cuted 265

Encomion Chalcographiae, poem in
praise of printing 281
Encyclopædia, or Cyclopædia. when
first commenced 469-meaning of
469-Chambers' 665-Britannica 727 Felton, John, executed 357
Edinburgh 834-Ediensis 864-Lon- Female Mentor 781-Magazine 734–
dinensis 807, 837-London 908-Lou- Spectator 671-Tatler 594

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don, on gardening 886-Methodical Fiddlers, curious prosecution of 543
887-Metropolitana863-Methodique Fife Herald 930
Filmer Henry, tailor, executed 311
England, state of the roads in 1584, Fire of London, notice of 643
384-laid under an interdict 60- Five mile act passed 342
state of learning in 1216, 60-Jews Fleta Minor 563
expelled from 62

England's an unlucky soil for popery

Flying Eagle Post 501, 520, 578, 609,
633-from Paris to Amsterdam 578-
or Weekly Medley 641
England's Remembrancer, 504-memo-Fog's Weekly Journal 641
rial accidents, 498
Folio, derivation of 21

572

715
Dominicans, or Black Friars 59, 85
Donatus, early school book 118, 345
Doncaster Gazette 893
Dorchester Journal 869
Douay, books printed at, forbidden to
be read in England 370
Dowsing, origin of the term 499
Drapier's Letters 629-noble trait of
of Mr. Harding, the printer of 630
Dreams 562-Dreamer 694
Druids, brief account of 29, 30
Drury Lane Journal 693
Dublin Evening Mail 857 - Post 852-
Faulkner's Journal 640-Freeman's Englishman, 609,611, 633, 710, 746, 883
Journal 711-Gazette 945-Intelli- -(sequel to the Guardian) 604
gencer 574 - Literary Journal 652- English Primer first reprinted 287
Morning Post 901-Monitor 954- Engraving on wood 64, 65, 66, 115
Review 946-Saunders's News Letter Engraving upon copper, invention of
711 792 Volunteer Evening Post. 122-introduced into England 276
746, 747-Pue's Occurrences 582

English bishops oppose the introduc- Fool 674
tion of the Bible-song separately Fools, feast of 59, 115, 116
printed earliest specimen 89-Athel-
stan first king of the-comedy first in
prose 363-their fickleness for dress
301-primer first reprinted 287
books, sects, &c. edict against 270—
clergy, privileges of 257-statutes,
printed abridgments of 248, 289, 290
English Chronicle 771-Courant 571-
Currant 557- Examiner 611-Ga-
zette 558, 560-Gusman 565-Intel-
ligence 546, 557 — Mercury 399-Post
397-Review 781

Foolscap paper, why so called 979
Foreign Post with Domestic News 579-
Medical Review 746
Foreign Review and Continental Mis
cellany 904

Dublin university founded 412

Enquirer, 793
Entertainer, 616, 674, 691

Duel between Mr. Scott and Mr. Epigrams 260, 604, 640, 643, 652, 663,
Christie 879
805, 440, 488-two centuries of 121

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Forget me Not first English annual gea
Form of the proceedings at the Corona-
tion 586
Fountains abbey, wealth of at the dis-
solution 273

Four Ages (Exeter) 797
France laid under an interdict 981-
royal library of sent to England 91
Franciscans order of monks founded 39
Frankfort Fair, catalogue of books
printed by permission 446
Franklin, origin of the word 766-
Franklin, Dr. technical letter of 755
Fraser's Literary Chronicle 943
Free Briton, 638

Freeholder 728-(by Addison) 672-
Extraordinary 671

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Great news from Ireland 573-from the
king's army before Namur 678
Greek, first book printed wholly in 218
-capitals first used 219-mode of
writing 10-Typography 218, 219
Green's News from heaven and hell 416
Greenwich Chronicle 813

French Intelligencer 495, 719-Occur- Greville minerals, sum paid for 685

rences 520

Friend 705, 796

Friendly Intelligence 557

Friends' Society, or Quakers, origin of
513, 514

Frogmore lodge, printing press at 845
Full and true account of the besieging
and taking of Carrick fergus 573
Full narrative of the pope's death 573

Galatians or Gauls, why so called 29
Gall's Mr. invention for printing for
the blind 903
Gurdener's Gazette 946
Garland's Journal 628

Garter, order of, instituted 74
Gateshead Observer 952

Gazette à la mode; or Tom Brown's
Ghost 594

Grey-steill poem of 414
Grub-street Journal 575
Grub-street writers, origin of 415
Growler;

Hours of Leisure 826

Hue and Cry Police Gazette 910****
Rockingham 834
Hull Advertiser 783, 878-Packet 761--

Hull and East Riding Times 954
Humourist's Magazine 761

Huss John, burned at the stake 86
Hyp Doctor 643

Hypocrite,the, discovered and cured500
Icon Libellorum 189

or, Diogenes robbed of his Idem 527

tub 600
Grumble, 604, 611, (by Grose) 971
Guardian 609

Guary miracle plays, Cornwall 92
Guild, origin of 396

Gulliver s Travels, sum received for 672
Gunpowder plot 448
949
Gutenberg John, festival in honour of

Idler, curious advertisement of 702
Illuminating and binding performed
by the clergy 46

Illustrated manuscripts, latest speci-
men of 563

Image of death, poem by Southwell 422
Impartial Intelligencer 512-London
560, 562

Impeachment of the duke and duchess
of Lauderdale 557
Imperial Magazine 704
Important Protestant Mercury 562
Imprimerie royal at Paris, 284
Imprint, decision about the 821
Indentures, curious book 207
Index expurgatory 216, 339
Index to the house of commons, sums
the Independent Whig 625, 332, 849
paid for compiling and printing 742
India, East, restrictions of the press
removed 888

Hackett William, executed 416
Haerlem, anniversary of the invention
of printing held at 887-deputation
from America attended
Haerlam Courant 562, 573
British Oracle 635-Post 665
Halfpenny London Journal; or,
Hampshire Independent 903
General Advertiser 636, 883, 936-
Magazine 668-Evening Post 903-Hand (the), Bell on the use of 37
Post 600, 614, 615-Postscript 594-Hand-bills, origin of 35

Gazette et autres Avis d'Angleterre
France, Holland, &c. 563

175

Geneva Psalms, price of four books 414 Hand guns, earliest known in England
Gentleman's Diary 668-Journal 557,
626-Magazine 644, 636, 657, 689, 749
Genius 709
Gentleman 735

Geographical Intelligence 573
George, singular dedication to the
name of 460

George IV., expense of coronation 882
German Intelligencer 481
Germantown, N. A. battle of 652
Germany, book trade of 951
Gesta Romanorum 74

Ghost, the 793

Gillett v. Mawman, trial of 823
Glasgow Argus 930-Caledonia 832-
Courant 612-Courier 773, 903, 941,
Chronicle 952, 922, 950-Evening Post
894-Free Press 884-Herald 744-
Journal 642-Mechanic's Magazine
894-Packet 853-Scots Times 824-
Scottish Guardian 927-Scotsman 849
-Scottish Reformer's Gazette 952-
Weekly Christian Teacher 952-Sen-
tinal 885

Glasgow, stationers' company com-

Hand paper, origin of the name 271
Happy News to England 498
Harfleur, battle of 87
Heads of a diary 512
Heathcote's Halfpenny Post 633

Indian Observer, London and Madras 780
Indo-Chinese Gleaner 866
Indulgences, sale of 291
Infallible Astrologer 581

Infernus; or, news from the other
world 574

Hebrew bible, first concordance to 117 Informator Rusticus 500
Heraclitus Ridens 562, 617
Hellenic Trumpet 886

Heraclitus Ridens, a dialogue between
jest and earnest 586

Herald; or Patriot Proclaimer 732
Heraldry, first work upon 112
Herculaneum,destroyed23-sum grant-
ed for copying MSS. found at 814
Heresy and heretics, meaning of 76-
mode of punishment in Elizabeth's
time 373-act against in Scotland 238
Hermes Straticus 509

Hermit 612-or, a view of the world 600
Hexapla, or Sextuple, derivation of 39
-Symbols of 7
Hieroglyphics, Egyptian 2-Mexican 7
High German Doctor 609
Hippocrates Ridens 569

of London 574

menced 862-first circulating library His majesty's letter to the lord bishop
at 864-bibles printed at 864
Glastonbury abbey, donation to
abbot of executed 273
Glass windows introduced into Eng-
land 331-Glaziers introduced 42
Gleaner, by Dr. Drake 844

Gloss, meaning of 62

Gloucester Journal 624, 933

Historiam Literaram 813
42-Historia Histrionica 580, Literaria 648
Historical account of books and tran-
Historian 602
sactions of the learned world 571
Historical, Biographical, Literary, and
Scientific Magazine 802
Historical Dictionary, first published
569

Glutton mass held at Leicester, 200
God save the King, anthem of 450
Gold, printing in 844

Good news from England 503
Good news to Christendom 472
Gorbaduc, first regular drama in Eng.

lish 334

Gospel of Nicodemus, curious account
of 199, 290
Gracechurch-street, London, origin of

the name 459
Grammar, first printed in England 201
Grammar schools, origin of 116, 117
Granada Gazette 714
Grandier Urban, burnt at the stake 222
Grandison Sir Charles, singular in-
fringement of copyright 686, 687
Grand diurnal of the passages in par-
liament 498-Political Informer 521
-Journal 498-Magazine 703
Grange, private press at 718
Gray Lady Jane, executed 317-her
love of books 318
Gray's Inn Journal 684-Debates 658
Great Britain's Post 521

Historical, Political, and Literary
Register 723

Historical Register 616, 709
History of Learning 574
History of Fanny Hill, account of 763
History of Thuanus, act concerning

667

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Intelligence 544-from head quarters
518-from Scotland 501-a modest
narrative of 512-of the civil wars in
France 520

Intelligencer, the best and most perfect
518-(by Sheridan) 640
International copyright act 954
Intruder 820

Inverness Journal 859
Ipswich Journal 799, 869
Ireland converted to christianity 39--
Investigator (by Ramsay) 710
famous for its schools 45
Ireland,patent of king's printer renew-
ed, 843

Ireland's true diurnal 498
debates forbid in the English news.
Irish newspapers first stamped 73!-
papers 530-literary property act 809
-origin of language, 32
Irish Mercury 495-Monthly 518-Cou-
rant 574

Isle of Man Weekly Gazette 853, 887
Italian language popular in England

397

lar infringement of copyright 686,
History of sir Charles Grandison,singu-Italic letter invented 198
687, 688

History of the works of the learned 580,
661

of its publication 729
History of Henry II. curious account
Histriomastrix; or player's scourge 488
Hit-pricke, meaning of 299
Holland, decree against the printers of

843

Ivory tablets used by the Romans 18-
by the Burmese 22
Jacobite's Journal 677
January's Account 504
Jamaica Mercury 952
Jeffing, a system of gambling among
printers 513
Japan, the catholics expelled from 265

Jerusalem taken by the crusaders 52

Homer, poems of 20-by whom col-Jesuita Vapulans 562
lected 33

Honest Gentleman 617-TrueBriton 631
Hops introduced into England 256
Horrid news from St. Martins 554

Jesuite 621-Jesuit 749
Joan of Arc, burnt 95-poem of 783
Jockey's Intelligencer 565
John Bull 815, 879, 882, 885, 952

John O'Groat's Journal 946

Johnson's Sunday Monitor 744

Jollie, Margaret, presentation of a Leicester Herald 771-Journal 680, 680,
piece of plate to 933

Jones's Evening News Letter 615
Journal Britannique 736

Journal of the wars in England 501
Journal Polytype 749

Journal des Savans 542
Jovial Mercury 577
Joyful News 472

Junius's Letters 721, 722

Jury, trial by, granted by Alfred 47
Juryman, observation of one 577

Kaleidoscope invented 868
Kelso Mail 797, 882

Kendall Weekly Mercury 669-Diary
742-Courant 644-Chronicle 844
Kentish Fayre, or parliament sold to
their best worth 508
Kentish Gazette 783, 827-Monthly
Register 783-Post 827-Herald 909
Kett Francis, the last person who suf-
fered for heterodox opinions 370
Killing No Murder, extract from 523
King James's Letter 572
Kingdom's Scout 504-Faithful Scout
612-Intelligencer 529-Intelligencer
&c. 530, 532-Weekly Intelligencer
498-Weekly Post 500, 504, 508-
Faithful Post, 512

King's printer, earliest patent of, in
England 247-a committee appointed
upon 915-in Soctland, 655
Kings, three holy, of Cologne 226
Kinsale, battle of 444

Kit Cat club commenced 656
Kleber general, assassinated 799
Kneeling to the King, anecdote of 519
Knight Errant 941

Knights templars, order of established
76-fifty-nine burnt 76-of St. John
suppressed 282

Knowledge, remarks on the diffusion

of 842-encomiums on 807-progress
of in Britain 60

Knox, John, establishes the presbyte-

rian form of religion in Scotland 351
Knoxville Gazette 777

Koran (The) first published 41

Lacedemonian Mercury 575
Ladies Diary 591

Monthly Museum 799 Magazine
679, 704, 723

Lady's Museum 705

918-and Nottingham Journal 702
L'Estrange Roger, his pamphlet for re-
stricting the liberty of the press
532, 540

Letter from a Gentleman in the Isle of
Ely 558-from Leghorne 558-answer
558

Lexington, battle of 734

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Legendary poetry sung to the harp on Lloyds's Evening Post 702
Sundays 178
Local Observer 888
Logographic printing introduced 749
Lollard Walter burnt at the stake 67
Lollards, curious depositions against
93, 213
London Courant 571-Daily Post 501,
636-Evening Post 612, 614, 731—
·Intelligencer 511, 572-Journal 6ző,
633, 636-Magazine639, 645— Mer-
cury 563, 579, 621, 781-or, the Me.
derate Intelligencer 571-city and
country 540—or, Mercure de Londres
579-or, Great Britain's Weekly ➡
-and Dublin Magazine 653-Post
615, 508-or, Tradesman's Intelligen.
cer 615-Medical Directory 901
London bridge, cost of two arches 63
London Directory commenced 647
London Mercury, annualiy 781
London Gazette, profits arising from
917-newspaper press association

Libel, Fox's speech on the law of 778,
779-act of parliament to prevent 871,
872, 873, 874, 875, 910-Owen Felt-
ham on 898-return of all prosecu-
tions during the reigns of George
III. and IV. 910-what constitutes
one 713-law of uncertain 713-law
against in Rome 35-curious manner
of discovering the author of one 241
-notice of the house of lords upon
661-novel mode of selling 886-
first statute against 63-trials; for
757, 849, 852, 871, 878, 879, 885, 898,
936

Liberal 890

Liberty, opinions on 452
Librarii or Antiquerii 77
Library 709

953

Looker On 775

Lord mayor of London, the first pub.
lication of the annual exhibition of
386

Lord's Prayer, Lok's versification of 426
Lottery first drawn 475
Lounger 753

Library first formed by Osymandyas,
king of Egypt 33-one founded by Lover 608, 609
Nehemiah the prophet 33-public, Love in a Village, trial concerning 719
the first founded by Pisistratus 33-Lowndes's British Librarian 933
private, first possessed by Aristotle Loyal Domestic Intelligence 363-Im
33-Alexandrian, founded by Ptole-
perial Mercury 563-Mercury 563-
my Soter 33-first circulating, foun. Intelligencer 557-Protestant Intel
ded by Pamphelus, at Cæsarea 38- ligence 562-Protestant and true
first national founded in Egypt 33- Domestic Intelligence 563—Past 591
found in the temple of Apollo 34- -Protestant 562-Intelligence 557-
Octavia, founded by Augustus, at Observator 590-Observator revised,
Rome, 34-Ulpian, founded at Rome, or Garland's Journal 628
by Trajan 37-Gordian 37-Lauren- L'Union, ou Journal de la Liberte 577
stian, restored 231-first public at Lying Intelligencer 710
Constantinople 38-at Rome 34-at Lynz 793
Oxford 68-in Italy 99-in Arabian
Spain 60-destroyed 37, 38, 39, 40, Macaster Imparcial 946
41, 43, 50, 118-sold at the reforma-
tion in England 274-collected by
the bishop of Sherborne 50-first
-established in North America 644-
Pinelli 825

Library of Useful Knowledge 901-of
Natural History 916

Mercury 577-Liesveldt, Jacob a, beheaded 235
Literary Advertiser 866
Literary and Scientific Magazine 802
Literary conflagrations 263-follies 201
forgeries 204, 895-fund established
771-chronology 958-pensions, 952
treasures, destruction of 41

Lammas day 73

Lamentable and Sad News 498

Lampoons 574

Lancashire Herald 954-Literary Mu- Literary Fly (by Croft) 746

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Literary Hours (by Drake) 792
Literary Leisure 802-Times 942
Literary Journal 640–Magazine 661—
Courier of Grub-street 664
Literature, state of in the ninth century
46-in the tenth century 48-in the
reigns of Edward IV. Richard III.
Henry VII. and Henry VIII. 212-
in the Elizabeth 393-in the reign of
George I. 637-George II. 705-in
Scotland in the sixteenth century
237, 240-first protection for 216-
influence of 439-oppressive tax on
848-royal society of 887-associa-
tion for the encouragement of 916-
joint stock company of 896-com-
mercial value of in Great Britain in
1837 952

Lithography introduced in England
866-concise history of 931
Little Britain, famous for booksellers

543

Liverpool, number of printers in 750
Liverpool Advertiser (Williamson's) 669
-(Billinge's) 669-General Advertiser
(Gore's) 714-Mercantile Advertiser
(Myers's) 865, 887-Albion 897
Chronicle 88, 5, 901, 855-Courier
834-Courant 602-Herald 855-Mail
947-Kaleidoscope 868

Lives of the English Poets 754

Machine, printing by, first attempt of
843-second ditto 949-the Times
newspaper printed with 956-first in
Ireland 857

Mæcenas, the first person to whom a
book was dedicated 36
Magazine of Ants, or Pismire Journal
(Newcastle) 740

Magazine of Magazines 683
Magazine of Zoology 946
Magna charta signed by king John 95
Maidstone Journal 853
Maitland club established 904
Mallacca Observer 900
Man in the Moon 510, 817
Man of Kent 909
Man of the World 823
Manchester Argus 815 — Advertiser
(Whalley's) 897-British Volunteer
817, 887-Catholic 884-Chronicle
(Anderton's) 710-(Wheeler's) 748,
903-Courier Cowdroy's) 854—(Sow-
ler's) 812,857,897-Exchange Herald.
837, 863-Gazette 613—(Bowden and
Cowdroy) 789, 854, 855-Guardian
884-Herald (Faulkner's) 775, 669-
Iris 1822-Journal (Scholfield and
Turnbull's) 691-(Prescott's) 727-
(Macardy's) 954-Weekly (Adams's)
621-Johnsons Selector 894 - Nail
823- Magazine (Whitworth's) 643
-(Hemingway and Began's: 858-
Mercury 682, 817-Mercantile Ga
zette, and Liverpool and Manchester
Daily Advertiser 817-Observer 869-
Patriot 876--Recorder 876-Specta
tor 869-and Salford Advertiser 897,
908- Telegraph 817-Times_gos-
Townsman 815-Voice of the People
920-Manchester Vindicated 679
Manufacture, or the British Trade
truly stated 622
Manuscripts first purchased from au-
thors 223

Maps printed with moveable types 756
first set of England 369

Mariner's boke 356-song of 356
Martin Mar Prelate, account of the
works published under that name
400, 407

Martin Nonsense, his collections 509
Maryland Gazette 639

Massachusetts Gazette 894-Spy 734
Mathematical Magazine 709
Matrimony, work upon 245-not suited
to men of learning 245
Matters of Fact 557
Maty's New Review 749
Maundy Thursday, origin of 75
Mauritas, act concerning the press at
the 933

Mechanics' institutes, London

and

Glasgow 886-Mechanics' and ap-
prentices library at Lancaster 887
Medallic engraving introduced 869
Meddler 671

Medical Magazine 731

Medley 797-in a letter to the Whig
Examiner 695-or Daily Tatler 611
Meeeting of the estates of Scotland 573
Melville viscount, articles of impeach-
ment, cost of printing 826
Memoir on the Origin of Printing 876
Memoirs of Literature 593-New 635
Memoirs of the Press for the last thirty
years 668-of the Society of Grub-
street 642

Mendicants, or begging friars, 85
Mercantile Gazette 817-Merchant 609
Mercator 604, 609
Merchants' Magazine;

Guide 669

Mercure Le Anglois 501

Mercurio Volpone 609

Mock constitutional association 881
Mock Press 562

Moderate 509-Publisher 520, 521-
Intelligencer 503, 563-Messenger503,
504, 507

New Newsbooks 562, 563
New Observator 590

586
News 857, 979

Brussels 529-France

Missal, Bedford, description of 93
Missale Romanum, description of 166
Missals and books of devotion curi-New Observator on the present Times
ously decorated 324
Mist's Weekly Journal 609, 633
Mistress parliament, her gossiping 508 News from the dead 519-Newcastle 519
520-Puddle
Mitre and Crown 677
Docke 551-Kensington 551-Shore-
ditch 551-Brest 400-Italy 400, 472
-Flanders 400, 435-Lancaster 459
-the North 472-Spain and Holland
472-Gravesend472-Lough-Foyle472
-Spain 472-Florence 472-Parnas-
sus 562-the land of Chivalry 562-
Ireland 563-Sussex 552-St. John's-
street 552-Buckinghamshire 554-
Gulnick and Cleve 472-Penrith 472
Poland 472-all parts of Germany
472-New England 473-Ipswich 488
-Hull 595-Hell 495-the North 497
-our navy not at sea 498-Germany
498-the narrow seas 498-Pannier-
alley 570-the Pope to the Devil 947

Moderator 509, 575, 595, 626, 710
Modern Intelligencer 507
Momus Ridens 574

Monasteries, origin of 77-observa.
tions upon 85-wealth of at the dis-
solution 272, 273-Luther's opinion
of 273-defended 273-abolished 284
Monitor 711

Monitor 609, 635

Monitor, or British Freeholder 695
Montevideo taken by the English 829|
-printing office at 829

Monthly Account 501-Advices from

Parnassus 628-Amusement 593-
Catalogue 635-Chronicle 639-Epi-
tome 796-Extracts 773-Land Bank
578-Magazine 992-(at Chelmsford)
805-Miscellany 755, 586, 731-Mirror
792-Melody 705-Review 677-Re-
corder Transactions 593-Weather
Paper 600

Months, poetical description of 227
or Tailors' Months mind, meaning of 413
Montrose, Arbroath, and Brechin Re-
view 897

Morning Chronicle 719, 815, 828, 928-
Herald 715, 748, 835-Post 790-828
916-Journal 910

Mercurius Anglicus 499, 500, 509, 518,
521, 522, 562-Aeademicus 504, 508-
Anti-Melancholicus 507-AntiMercu- Mother to her Infant, poem of 415
rius 509-Anti-Pragmaticus 507-Muscovite 609
Anti-Britannicus 504-Aulicus 507-Muses Gazette 624
Acheronticus 495-Acquaticus 500-Muses Mercury; or, Monthly Miscel
Anlico Mastix 501-Belonicus 518,519

lany 593

-Britannicus 500, 520, 574-Bellicus Museum; or literary and historical
507-Classicus 551-Catholicus 509-

Register 674

ing, &c. 913

Musical Magazine 705
Weekly Music, copyright in 738

Caledonius 509, 530-Criticus 508-Museum Typographicum 749
Censorius 508-Cambro Britannicus Museum Worsleyanum, cost of print-
520-Ciricus 520, 557-Cœlicus 500-
Clericus; or, News from Syon 507-
Candidus,
Candidus 504-
News 507-Democritus 521, 527, 595-
-his last will and testament 520-
-Diabolicus 507
or, a nocturnal
Domesticus 507, 599-Elencticus 508,
512. 518-Eruditorum 574-Fumi-
gosus 501, 529-Fidelicus 509--Galli-
cus 509-Gallo-Belgicus 228, 445,446.
-Honestus 508-Hibernicus 501, 503
-Heroclitus 520-Icommaticus 519-
Infernus 559-Impartialis 509-In-
sanus Insanissimus 509~Jocosus 522
Medicus 507-Morticus 507-Mercu- Name-banners of the Egyptians 16
riorum stultisimus 507-Melancholi-Narrative of the late barbarous cruel-
cus 508, 509, 512-Militaris 509-

Musical notes expressed by letters of
the alphabet 50-used by Merbeche
311-Musical types first printed 782
My Pocket Book, trial about 833
Mysteries and moralities, first in Eng-
land 54-in the reign of Mary 329-|
Chester 354-origin of in France 317
-spirit of the age proved by 274-
Coventry 92-Newcastle 92-and
other Latin poems 355

ties 562

Meritrix 527-Mercurius 500-Mas-Naturalist's Pocket Magazine 771
tix 520-Politicus 518, 521, 523-Pub-Nautical affairs, first printed book rela-
tive to 359
licus 509, 560, 529-Poeticus 508,521,

522-Pragmaticus 527-Phanaticus Necromancy, accusation for 95
529-Nullus 521-Not Veridicus 500 New Custom, an interlude, to promote
the reformation 352
Reformatus 574-Rusticus 498, 500,

507, 541-Somniosus 501-Scoticus New and Strange News 494
509, 519-Urbanicus 508-Vassulans New Annual Register 748
500, 507-Veridicus529-Zeteticus 5 9 Newark Herald 780
Mercury; or, Advertisements concer- Newcastle-upon-Tyne, typographical
ning trade 546

Merry Mercury 582

Merton college, Oxford, bequest of
books to 68

Metropolitan Magazine 920
Microcosm 760

Middlehill, private press at 870
Middlesex Journal 724, 878
Military Scribe 500

Miller halfpenny 818

Miniature 753

Miracle plays noticed 87

(Limbird's) 886

Mirror 621, 702-(at Edinburgh)

society at 867

Newcastle Advertiser 762, 858-Chroni-
cle 711-Courant 600, 906-Freeman's
Magazine 747-Intelligencer 696-
Journal 664, 927-Northern Libera-
tor 952-North Courant Journal 754
Northumberland Advertiser 920-
Press 927, 930-Protestant Packet
747-Standard 946-Tyne Mercury
813, 824

New Dialogue between somebody and
nobody 562

744-New England Courant 626-Journal
638-Magazine 724

Miscellany 600 612-(by bishop Horne) New Heraclitus Ridens 575

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News of the present week 571
News, origin and meaning of 471, 472

desire of the Roman people for 400
News out of Germany 472-out of divers
countries 472-out of Hell 472-from
the pope to the devil 747
Newspapers, early history of 398-
stamp duty commenced 601-duty
advanced 709, 736, 764, 795, 859...
duty reduced 945-list of in various
years 806-number sent through the
general post office 806, 915, 954-ob-
servations on 726-first in the Hun-
garian language 741-at Constanti-
nople 795-state of in France 801-
carrying one to the enemy 779-Dr.
Johnson's opinion of 679-amount of
circulation and duty 946-readers of
how divided 947-progress in Ame-
rica 875-act to regulate the frank-
ing and postage 812-act to repeal
the size of 896-editors of fined 833
-returnsof 1836 and 1837 957-list of
959-sent and received free by
members of parliament 711-agency
of, commenced 753-number of in
1691 574-firstSunday 744-first daily
evening 763-postage act 593, 688
New Spectator 753

New State of Europe 586
News writers, sums paid to 636
New Testament, first edition of, in the
Basque tongue 423-English 235-
Finnish 230-Danish 310 Greek
223, 234-French 259-Slavonic 338
-Polish 363-Vandalic 364-Romish
English version 370-Talmulic 728-
Bengalee 804-Cingalee 660-Arabic
714-Alexandrian Greek 774-Tin-
dall's, pirated by the Dutch 236-re-
printed by Bagster 237 946-declara-
tion of the Scotch clergy against 237
-proclamation against 252, 253-
list of person persecuted for selling
253-second edition 257-belonging
to Anne Boleyn 257-first concord-
ance to 259-English and Latin
printed at Paris 267-Latin and Eng.
lish 268-printed by William Tilly
304-printed at Geneva 327-numeri-
cal figures first appeared in 327-in
Greek 349-on silk 70-Wiclif's 76-
first separate edition in Latin 158-
for the use of the Indians 528-in the
Turkish languague 543-in the Irish
character 560-printed in gold 916-
printed at Edinburgh prohibited 546
translated by Miles Coverdale 269

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