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HISTORY OF PRINTING.
1660, Feb. 6. Iriih Monthly Mercury, No. 1.
1660, March 19. The Boyal Diurnal, No. I.
1650, April 12. Mercuritu Elencticiu, No. 1.
16S0,Junel3. Mercurius PoliticutfiompTising the summ ^f all intelligence, with the affiurs and desiens now on foot, in the three nations of England, Ireland, and Scotland. In defence of the oommonwealUi, and for the information of the people. No. 1.
1660, July 23. True Intelligence from Head Quarteri, No. 1.
1660, Aug. 8. 7%« belt and most perfect In- telligencer, No. 1.
1660, Oct. I. Mercuriui Anglieut, 4to. No. 1.
1660. Mercurius Belonicus, No. 1.
1660. Mercurius Pacificus.
1660. Several Proceedings.
1680. T%e character of Mercurius Politicui.
1650. The second character of Mercurius Politievs.
1650. News from the New Exchange.
1660. Oazettes or newspapers were prohibited bota being published in Scotland, until they had been revised by the bishop of Edinburgh.
1661. Nympha Libethris ; or, the CotMoold Muse, presenttng some extempore verses for the Imitation of Young Scholars. In two parts. London, printed for F. A. at Worcester. i2mo.
The author was Clement Barksdale. The following verses are contained in this curious and scarce book :
TO THE PBINTKR.
Did I dlAue • IltUe more of brine On m' Efigramt, onnichuid soch ■ line i Or ooold I write u well u yoa can print,* Cnlea there be • fatal dliaster int. (Althongfa my rAiuiiit were not of qnick nle,) The mnse will roundly off like Cotwaldt ale. Pray tdl the BookteUerit he wiu aeet Tik* Epignm, though not very salt is sweet. No obacme Jest, no jeers fill from my pen, But it delights in praise of iooki and fflm.
From the following rerse it is evident, that at this early period, they beat their books somewhat in the same manner as at the present day.
TO THK BOOKBINDER.
Hat my Muse made a finilt ) Friend, I entreat, Before yoa bind her ap, yon would her beat Though she's not loose and wanton, 1 can tell. Unless yon beat her, yon'U not Mntf her well.
1681. Died, John Winoet, a good printer, who succeeded John Wolfe as printer to the honorable city of London, and dwelt at the sign of the White Bear, in Adling-street, near Ber- nard's castle. He commenced business in 1888, and was succeeded in the office of city printer by
• Which is badly and ineonectly enough : e^eeially the Latin.— INMin.
t Qu. An edition of THneairs. ^ For Ootswold ale.
Mr. Bcnly, bookseller, of Chdtenham, had a copy of this work marked lis. Mr, Krans, of London, sold a copy by auction for jf 4 ids. In the Anglo-Pottica of Longman and Co. ISlS, a copy was marked at if SO.
Sir Egerton Brydges put forth in the most elegant manner possible, fh>m the Lee priory press, a reprint of the Ootswold muse, in IBIO^ in llmo, of which only sixty copies were printed.
Richard Cotes. Windet used an elegant device of Time cutting down a sheaf of com, with a book clasped; on the cover this, Verbum Die manet in attemum. The compartment had the oueen's (Elizabeth'«) arms at top, tKe ci^s on me right, and the stationers' on the left, with his sign of the Bear beneath, and I W over it, and the motto, Homo non solop<ene vivit, round it.
1661, Dec. 16. Humphret Cheetham,* by his will, bearing this date, besides foand- ing the college and other chsuiiies to the town of Manchester, bequeathed the sum of £1000 for the purchase of books, and £100 for a building, as tiie foundation of a public lihiuv; for the augmentation of which he devised the residue of his personal estate. "He ftuther left JS200," says his biographer, "to purchase godly English books to be chained upon desks in the churches of Manchester, Bolton," &c.
This library is the only one in the kingdom in which every person has the libertv of un&cenced reading. It is open daily, (Sunoays excepted^ from nme in the morning till one, and from two till five in the afternoon, except in the interval from October to Easter, when it k closed at four o'clock. Any person that chooses, whether resi- dent or not, on going to Chetham's library, and requiring to rrad, is requested by the sub- librarian to write his name and address in a book kept for that purpose, and, having dune this, he is at liberty to read on that and every other day, in a room provided with requisites for writing. In 1701, a catalogue of the books and manu- scripts, was printed in two octavo volumes, with the title of Bibliotheca Chethamensis : siveBiblio- thecte publiae Mancuniensis ab Humfrede Chetham amdgero fwidatx catalogue, exhibens libros tn varias classes pro varietate argumenti dislribuios. Edidit Joanne* Radcliffe, bibiio- thecte supradicttt etutos. In 1826, a third
- Humplirey Chetliam, whom Fnller briefly mentioas
among bis Worthies of Englmnd^ was born July 10, lASS. He was descended of an ancient fhmlly, and oMaloed Us wealth chiefly by sapplying the London markets with (hstians, a material at dress then In almost general nse throughout the nation. By tills commerce, which was probably conducted on an extensive scale, Mr. Chetham acquired opulence; wiiUe bis strict integrity, his piety, and worlts of charity, secured tiim the respect and esteem of those around him. His dilef residence was Clayton Hall, near Mandiester, at that time surrounded by a moat, the traces of which are now to be dlstlnguiahed. " He was," says Fuller, " a diligent reader of the Scriptures, and of the works of sound divines ; a respecter of such ministers as he accounted truly godly, upright, sober, discreet, and sincere. He was high sheriff of the county of Lancaster, A.n. 1(135, discharging that office with great honour, insomuch that very good gentlemen of birth and estate did wear his doth at the assize, to testify thdr un- feigned aflbction to him." He died October 13, iSts, and was buried in the chapel of the Chethams, at the east red, and bebliid the altar of tiie Collegtate ctrarch. when a tomb is erected to his memory.
The charity of Mr. Chetham was not to appear only after his death. During liis life he had "taken up sad maintained fourteen boys of the town of Mandtester, liz of the town of Salford, and two of the town of Dnyls. den i in all twcnty.two. By his will he directed that the number of boys should be increased to forty ; bequeathing the sum of j^ooO for the purchase of an estate, the pmdta at which are to be applied to the support of this establiih- ment. The operations of tills benevolent institnUatt have been since greatly extended by Jndidous management, and due attention to the views of the founder.
