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1660, Sfay 17. A precept from the lord mayor, directed to the master and wardens of the company, was read ; requiring that if the king, at nis return to his kingrdom, shall please to pass through the city, ten of the most grare, tall, and comely personages of the company, well horsed, and in their best array or fumitiue of velvet, plush, or satin, with chains of gold, be in readiness to attend the lord mayor, aldermen, and other citizens, for his belter reception. They were accordingly nominated, and ordered to choose each of them a footman to attend him. The wardens are to deliver them coats, ribbons, and truncheons, for the occasion.
Mr. Hunscott (the beadle) being very ancient, and therefore incapable of the service, ordered that John Cleaver do carry the company's ban- ner on horseback on that day, with such fur- niture and allowance for his service as the wardens think lit; the wardens to pay Mr. Hunscott 20(. in lieu of the benefit that might accme to him had he carried the company's banner; and to give notice to some young free- men of the company, to serve as whifflers, who are with him to attend the livery at their stand on that day.
1660, Sept. 25. By the stationers' books, it appears, that a warrant under sign manual, was granted to George Wharton, esq., for " perusing and licensing almanacks."
1660, Oct. 16. Hugh Peters* was executed upon this day, at Charing cross, London, when a spectator penned the following lines, in which his character is accurately summed up.f
See here the last Rod be«t e<Ution Of Huf^h, the author of sedition ; So full of errora, *twm9 not fit Te read, tUl Dtmtx corrected It; Bat DOW 'tis perfect; Day, far more Tis better bound than 'twas before. And now I hope it is no lin To sajr. Rebellion toolc the swing ; For he that says, says much amiss. Tint Hugh an Independent is.
1660, Jan. 7. The Parliamentary Intelligence, comprising the sum of Forei^ Intelligence, with the affairs now in agitation in England, Scotland, and Ireland ; for information of the People; published by order, No. I.
Tnis was a continuation of an old paper under the former title. No. 14, March 26 to April 2,
- Hugh Peters was born at Fowey, In Cornwall, in
IS99, and educated at St. John's collet, Cambridg:e, from whence he was expelled for Irregular conduct. He afterwards tried the stmge ; bat left that, and was ordained by bishop Mountaine, when he became lecturer of ^t. Sepulchre's, London. He was forced to flee, and went to Rotterdam, where he Joined the Independents. From Holland he went to America, but on the breaJdnfc out of the ciril wars he returned to London.
f A conespondent in the Geniteman't Magaxine asks, " May this be regarded as the ori^nal of the celebrated Epitaptis on Jacob Tenson and Dr. Franklin."
t "The common hangman of that time. — See HudUtnu, and Dr. Orey's notes.
And while the work is carrying oo Be ready listed under Dun. — Hudibraa.
Bat stay, my frighted pen is fled ;
Myself through fear creep nnder^bcd ;
For Just as muse would scribble more
. Fierce city /Hiiuk did rap at the ioot.—D'Avenmt.
was said to be published by order of the council of state ; and No. 16 began with the following advertisement: "Whereas Marchmont Need- ham, the author of the weekly news-books called Mercuriiu Potiticui and the Publiaue Intel- ligencer, is, by order of the council of state, discharged from writing or publishing anyptti- lique intelligence ; the reader is desired to take notice, that, by order of the said council, Giles Dury and Henry Muddiman are authorized henceforth to write and publish the said intelli- gencer, the one upon the Thursday, and the other upon the Monday, which they do intend to set out under the titles of the Parliamentary Intel- ligencer and of Mercvriut Publicm." — These two weekly books of news, which in 1656 had been entered in the stationers' register as the property of Thomas Newcombe, with the license of secretary Thnrlow, were on the 9th of April, 1660, entered as the property of Dury and Muddiman, by licence of the council of state. — Chalmert,p. 422.
1660, Jan. An exact Account of the Daily Proceeding! in Parliament, No. 56. This ap- pears to have been revived upon the fiesh meet- ing of parliament.
1660, Feb, 21. A perfect Diurnal of every Day's Proceedingi in Parliament, No. 1. This paper contains various accounts of the rejoicings all over England, on perceiving the dawn of the restoration. — Chalmeri.
1660. The Phanatigve Intelligence, No. 1.
1660, March 19. A perfect Diurnal of Pro- ceedings in the Conventicle of Phanatiqves, No. 1.
1660, March 21 . Mercuriut Phanatictu, No. 1 .
1660, March 21. Mercurius Honettus, No. 1.
1660, March 28. Mercuriut FumigotuSfSo. \ .
1660. Merlinut Phanaticut, No. 1.
1660, May 1. Hit majesties gracious Letter and Declaration tent to the house of peert by sir John Grenmll, knt. from Breda ; and read in the house.
1660, May 31. Mercuriut Publicus; compris- ing the sum of Foreign Intelligence, with the Affairs now in agitation in England, Scotland, and Ireland. For Information of the People. Published by order of the council of state, No.22.
1660, June 12, Mercuriut Veredicus, No. 1.
1660, June 20. 7%e Votes of bot/t Houses.
1660. The Wandering Whore, No. 2.
1660, Nov. 26. The Kingdom's Intelligencer.
1660. News from Brussels. In a letter from a neer attendant on his majesties person to a person of honour here ; which casually become thus publique. Printed in the year 1660. 4to.
1661. About this time may be dated the origrin of the Royal Society of London, and according to D'lsraeli was as follows: — It was in the lodgings of Dr. Wilkins,* in Wadham college, Oxford, that a small philosophical club met to- gether, which proved to be, as Aubrey expresses it, the incunabula of the Royal Society. When
- John Wilkins, D. D. bishop of Chester, was a moat
ingeuions and learned theologian, critic, and mathemati- cian. He was born l6u, and died November ig, 1673.
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