CATALOGUE

OF

EARLY NEWSPAPERS AND ESSAYISTS.

Newspapers were, at the date of the time of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, in great request. He complains, "If any read now-a-days, it is a play-book, or a pamphlet of Newes."

1. THE NEWS FOR THIS WEEK, No. XX, April 23, 1640.
The Scotish Dove sent out and returning, Feb. 21, 1644.
The Weekly Account, Oct. 2, 1644.

Perfect Occurrences of Parliament, Jan. 30, 1646.
Perfect Weekly Account, June 21, 1647.

Mercurius Militaris; or the People's Scout, No. I, April 24, 1649.

Weekly Intelligencer of the Common Wealth, Nov. 18, 1651. Mercurius Democritus, communicating Wonderfull News, June 9, 1652.

Mercurius Phreneticus, No. IV, April 1652.

Certain Passages of Every dayes Intelligence, May 19 and July 20, 1654.

Faithful Scout, No. CLXXIX, Friday, May 19, 1654; in I vol. 4to.

2. DIURNALL OCCURRENCES; or Proceedings of both Houses of Parliament, from Nov. 3, 1640, to Nov. 8, 1641; 4to.

In the same volume are Viscount Say and Seale's speech touching the Liturgie and Separation. Heads of a Conference delivered by Mr. Pym, 1641. Dean Warmstrey's Convocation Speech against Images, Altars, Crosses, the New Canons, the Oath, &c., 1641.

3. MERCURIUS RUSTICUS; The Country's Complaint recounting the sad effects of this unparallelled Warr. 1646; 8vo.

These Mercuries were printed as separate papers till March 25, 1646; collectively reprinted 1646, 8vo.; more completely in 1647; and again in 1685, 8vo.

The author, BRUNO RYVES, D.D., Dean of Chichester, was appointed Dean of Windsor Sept. 3, 1660; and sworn as Re

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gistrar of the Order of the Garter on Jan. 14 following. He died July 13, 1677.

4. MERCURIUS MORBICUS; Nos. I, II, III printed as one paper. 1647; 4to.

5. MERCURIUS MELANCHOLIUS; or Newes from Westminster, and other Parts; No. I, Saturday, Sept. 4, 1647; continued weekly; No. LIV dated Sept. 4, 1648; sheet 4to.

Originally published on Saturdays, but altered to Monday. No. XXVI was the first of that arrangement. With this series is also the surreptitious No. III of Sept. 17, 1647.

This, with most of the Mercuries which follow, were party publications in reference to the political movements, reverses, or successes of the Parliamentarians and the Royalists, but frequently embodying material of the highest value to the chronologist or the historian.

6. MERCURIUS PRAGMATICUS; No. I, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1647, to No. XXVIII, March 28, 1648; 4to.

A Royalist newspaper. Of No. II two papers were published, similar in appearance, but wholly different in the matter.

7. MERCURIUS ANTI-MELANCHOLIUS; No. I, Friday, Sept. 24, 1647; sheet 4to.

8. MERCURIUS MEDICUS; or Soveraign Salve for the curing Madmen and Fooles, the one of Phrenzie, the other of Follie; No. II, Oct. 22, 1647; sheet 4to.

9. MERCURIUS ANTI-PRAGMATICUS, communicating some Remarkable Intelligence; No. I, Oct. 19, 1647; continued weekly on Thursdays, to No. VI, Nov. 25; sheet 4to.

10. MERCURIUS ELENTICUS, communicating the unparallelled Proceedings at Westminster, and elsewhere; No. I, Oct. 29, 1647; a Cavalier paper, continued weekly, to No. LIX inclusive, Jan. 9, 1648; sheet 4to.

The author of Mercurius Anti-Mercurius describes Mercurius Elenticus as 66 the silliest fellow of the whole red-nosed tribe of Mercury-mongers; the veriest asse that ever -through a trumpet; the fritter of fraud; the seething-pot of iniquity; the costly, I mean costive, wittiest blockhead that ever was guilty of spoiling ink and paper. He squeezes out his nonsense with so much labour and pain, and makes so many vinegar faces to the wringing of a lame line out, it would grieve one to see it, and hath special need of rhubarb to loosen his wit."

II. MERCURIUS POPULI; or Newes declaring Plain Truth to the People; No. I, Nov. 11, 1647; sheet 4to.

12. MERCURIUS VAPULANS, survaying and recording the Choicest Actions and Results of the Parliament, Synode, Army, City and Countrey; sheet 4to. Two numbers, undated, 1647.

13. MERCURIUS AULICUS againe communicating Intelligence from all parts, touching all Affaires, Designes, Humours, and Conditions throughout the Kingdom; No. I, Feb. 3, 1648; continued weekly, on Thursdays; No. 15 dated May 18, 1648; sheet 4to. 14. MERCURIUS ACADEMICUS communicating the Intelligence and affairs of Oxford to the rest of the Passive Party throughout the Kingdom; No. I, Saturday, April 1, 1648; sheet 4to.

15. MERCURIUS PRAGMATICUS; No. I, Tuesday, April 4, 1648; continued weekly to No. L, April 17, 1649; No. XLIV wanting; sheet 4to.

MARCHMONT NEDHAM, author of the Mercurius Britannicus, a paper that teemed with scurrilous abuse of the King's party, after the battle of Naseby changed his principles, and wrote the Mercurius Pragmaticus, as fully professing his devotion and loyalty to Charles the First. He was equally satirical against the Presbyterians, for which he was apprehended and committed to Newgate. Corrected by this chastisement, he again veered, and wrote the Mercurius Politicus, containing many passages in behalf of a free state and against monarchy.

16. MERCURIUS VERIDICUS, communicating Intelligence touching all Affairs, Humours and Conditions of Men; No. I, April 21, 1648; sheet 4to.

17. MERCURIUS MILITARIS, communicating Intelligence from the Saints Militant dissembled at Westminster, the Head-Quarters, &c.; No. I, April 28, 1648; sheet 4to.

18. MERCURIUS URBANICUS; or Newes from London, Westminster, and other parts; No. I, May 9, 1648; sheet 4to.

19. MERCURIUS BRITANNICUS: a perfect accompt of the Designes of the Royal Party through the Kingdom; No. II, Thursday, May 25, 1648, to No. XIII, Aug. 16; sheet 4to.

20. THE MODERATE; impartially communicating Martial Affaires to the Kingdom of England; No. I, July 18, 1648; continued weekly; No. LXIII dated Sept. 25, 1649; sheet and a-half 4to. Written in the interest of the Parliament.

21. MERCURIO VOLPONE; or the Fox, prying into every Junto, proclaiming their designes, and refining all Intelligence; No. I, Thursday, Oct. 5, 1648; No. II dated Oct. 12; sheet 4to.

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22. MERCURIUS MILITARIS communicating from all parts of England, Scotland, and Ireland, all Martial Enterprises, Designs and Successes; No. I, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 1648; continued weekly; No. V dated Nov. 21; sheet 4to.

23. MERCURIUS ANTI-MERCURIUS, communicating all Humours, Conditions, Forgeries and Lyes of Midas-Ear'd Newsmongers; sheet 4to.

24. LINX BRITTANICUS; or Contemplations upon the present condition of the Kingdome; a sheet undated. The second number is entitled, Linx Brittanicus, the Spotted Beast, or Contemplations upon the present condition of the degenerating Kingdom. 1648; 4to.

25. MERCURIUS MILITARIS; or the People's Scout, discovering the Designes, Interests and Humours of the Civil and Martial Conventicles of Westminster, Darby-House, White-Hall, &c.; No. I, Tuesday, April 24, 1649; 4to. 16 pp.

26. MERCURIUS CAROLINUS, communicating Intelligence from all parts touching all Affaires, Designes and Humours, through the three Kingdoms; No. I, Thursday, July 26, 1649; sheet 4to. 27. MERCURIUS POLITICUS, in defence of the Common-wealth, and for Information of the People; No. XXX, Thursday, Jan. 2, 1651*, to No. LXXXII, Thursday, Jan. 1, 1651-2; No. LII defective; and Nos. LXI, LXIII wanting.

The same, Nos. CCLXXXIV, Nov. 22, 1655, to No. DCXV, April 12, 166c; 4to.

28. MERCURIUS PUBLICUS: the sum of all Affairs in agitation in England, Scotland and Ireland; Nos. I-XXXIII, from Thursday, Jan. 1, to Thursday, Aug. 20, 1663. KINGDOM'S INTELLIGENCER, No. XIII, March 23-30, 1663; 4to.

29. THE INTELLIGENCER, published for the satisfaction and Information of the People; No. I, Monday, Aug. 31, 1663; continued weekly; No. XVIII, Dec. 28.

30. THE NEWES; No. I, Thursday, Sept. 3, 1663; No. XVIII, Dec. 31; continued alternately with the Intelligencer, Nos. I to CII inclusive, 1664, and Nos. I to XCV, Nov. 18, 1665; 4to.

The Intelligencer and the Newes were printed by Sir Roger L'Estrange, in defence of the government, against the Mercurius Publicus. They were continued to Nov. 1665, on the 7th of which month the Oxford Gazette began to be published, twice each week, Tuesday and Saturday; but on the removal of the Court to London, it assumed the appellation of the London Gazette, Saturday, Feb. 4, 1666.

The second volume, obtained on the dispersion of the Duke of Sussex's Library, is defective of pp., 885-892, and also pp. 1083-1106.

31. PACQUET OF ADVICE FROM ROME; or the History of Popery; No. I, Dec. 3, 1678; continued under the title of THE WEEKLY PACQUET, &c. THE POPISH COURANT annexed to the Weekly Pacquet Dec. 3, 1678. THE POPE'S HARBINGER, by way of Diversion, 1680. NEW ANTI-ROMAN PACQUET; or, Memoirs of *The Mercurius Politicus first appeared, No. I, Thursday, June 13, 1650.

Popes and Popery since the Tenth Century, July 9, 1680; continued weekly from the preceding dates, to April 1683; 4to., 5 vols. in 3.

Controversial papers against the Papists by HENRY CARE, and
These are not Essays.

others.

32. WEEKLY PACQUET OF ADVICE FROM GERMANY; or the History of the Reformation of Religion there, 1516-8; six numbers; Wednesday, Sept. 3, Oct. 8, 1679.

33. WEEKLY PACQUET OF ADVICE FROM GENEVA; or the History of Presbytery, 1520-1683; a weekly sheet; six numbers. Printed by John Harefinch, 1683; 4to.

34. COMPLEAT COURTIER; or the Morals of Tacitus, concerning Flattery, &c., in above One Hundred Essays, paraphrased with useful observations by M. Amelot de la Houssaic and M. D'Ablancourt. 1700; 12mo.

35. THE COURTYER: in Foure Bookes, entreating of the Perfect qualities of a Courtyer, and of the use of them.—Of Merry Jestes and Pranckes-the condicions and qualities of a wayting Gentlewoman; and of the ende of a Courtier; written by Counte Baldesser Castilio; title wanting; black letter; 4to.

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36. THE COURTIER of the Form and Manner of a Courtt Life, &c., in Foure Bookes, by BALTHASER COUNT CASTIGLIONE; translated and dedicated to John, Duke of Montagu, by Thomas Samber. 1724; 8vo.

The Count was, in King Henry the Seventh's time, ambassader to England, from Francis Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua.

37. ESSAYS, Moral, Economical and Political, by FRANCIS BACON, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. Albans, 1597-1612. A new edition, with the Latin quotations translated, 1813; 12m0. 38. MICROCOSMOGRAPHY: Essays and Characters by JOHN Earle, D.D., of Christ Church and Merton Colleges, Oxford; and Bishop of Salisbury.

First printed 1628. Mr. Hope's copies are the edition of 1732, reprinted from the sixth of 1633; 12m0.

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A new edition, with Notes, and an Appendix, by Philip Bliss, 1811; 8vo. To Dr. Bliss's edition is appended, pp. 246-314 inclusive, "A Chronological List of Books of Characters from 1567 to 1700." Bp. Earle died at Oxford, Nov. 17, 1665. 39. ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, translated by Charles Cotton, with notes, and Characters of the Author and Translator, by the Marquis of Halifax. No date, but after 1738. 12mo., 3 vols. 40. HERACLITUS RIDENS; No. I, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 1681; continued weekly to No. LXXXII, Aug. 22, 1682; folio, half-sheet. Written as "A Discourse between Jest and Earnest, in oppo