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the beginning of the year 1707, the manage- ment of the journal was undertaken by his wn John BuTchard Mencke; on whose death, in 1732, the charge devolved on his son Frederic Otto. The property of the work seems to have remained to the last in the hands of the Mencke family, or their heirs; but the latter editors were not men of distinguished name. The last was Charles Andrew Bel, professor of philosoph;f in the university, who, after managing the publica- tion from 1754, died on the 4th of April, 1782. Xhe volume for 1776 was only published in that same month. It was the Jast which ap- peared; although the publisher intimates ms hope that the work will regain its ancient repu- tation, having thus got rid of the editor who had allowed it to fall so sadly into arrear, a matter, he remarks, concerning which the less that is said the better. In the hands of its early edi- tors, it wasconsidered to be admirably conducted; and Mortiof congratulates his countrymen on having, in this publication, produced something which even commanded the approbation of foreigners, " who rarelv," he is pleased to add, " find anything done by us (the Germans) to their taste." He mentions a translation of the A.cta into French, which had been undertaken; but this undertaking does not appear to have proceeded beyond the first volume, which was published in l2mo. at the Hague, in 1686, under the title of Oavraget det Savant, fmbliiz i Leip- zig. After the first fifty volumes, coming down to the end of the year 1731, the journal took the name of the Nova Acta, or the New Acts. The .first series, besides the fifly regular volumes, consists of ten supplementary volumes, one having been published every five yean. Occa- sional supplements also appeared in the course of the new series; which, together with several volumes of indices, make £e complete work amount to 117 volumes.
1682. Died, EviN Tyxer, stationer, of Lon- don. He was master of the company in 1672, and by will, dated Dec. 6, 1681, he gave £500, and the interest of £120, to be applied to a yearly collation for the masters, wardens, and assistants, and such other members as they shall choose for their trouble. In 1688, the small sum which the company received towards a dinner from the legacy of. Mr. Lamb, (amount- ing to £1 2s. 8d!) was consolidated with the interest of £120 (£7 4s.) given by Mr. Evan Tvler, to be expended in a dinner on May 29. The following epitaph is copied from Mr. Park's HiitDry of Uamp$Ued : — •
Jfort m<AI luenm.
Bere mteth ye body of Mr. Evan Tyler,
Ute Citiztu ftDd Stmtloner of London,
wbo departed this life ye fifth day of December,
anno Dom. 1081.
Thla tombe waa erected for, and at the spedall appoint- ment and direction of, Mr. Eran Tyler, by na Henry Teoofce, elerlce, Nleholaa Haidince, and William MUler, U< execntora, ye 13th day of February, anno Dom. iSsa.
1682. Friendly Advice to the eorrectour of the Enjliih Pret$ at Oxford, eoneeminf the EngKth Ortkographie. London, folio.
1682. A magnificent missal, in the public library at Rouen, nearly three feet in height, which occupied the labour of a monk of St. Audeon for thirty years, was completed at this time. It is supposed to be the latest specimen of illuminated manuscripts.
10S2, Jan. 1. Monthly Recorder of all true Occurrences both Foreign and Domestic, No. I. This seems to be the first publication of a monthly miscellany; and it complains of the haste in which the weekly gazettes, intelligences, mercu- ries, currants, and other news books, were put together, "to make their news sell." Published by Langley Curtis.
1682, Jan. 17. Conq>lete Mercury, or Haerletn Courant, truly render»l into English, No. 1.
1682, Feb. 16. London GaxetU, No. 1695.
1682, Feb. 25. Loyal Protettant and Tm* Domettick Intelligence, or News both from Ci^ and Country; published to prevent false, scanda- lous, and seditious Reports, No. 121.
1682, March 30. Fngland't Monitor, or the History of Separation, No. 1.
1682, Anr%l 6. London Mercury or. Newt Foreign and Lhmatiek; No. 1. by f. Virfet
1682, May 1. Protettant Cowrant, imparting News Foreign and Domestick, No. 3. printed for Richard Baldwin, near the Black Bull, in the Old Bailey.
1682, May 12. iVeio from Ireland, Umching the Dengn of the Papittt to forge a Sham Plot upon the Pretbyteriant.
1682, Jxme 9. Loyal Impartial Mercury; or, Newt Foreign and bomestick : by E. Brooks.
1682, June 14. Logal London nfercury, or the Moderate Intelligencer, No. I. jprinted by O. Croom, in Thames-street, over against Baynaid's castle.
1682, July li. Conventicle Courant; setting forth the daily Troubles, Dangers, and Abuses, that Loyal GenUemen meet with, W putting the Laws in execution, against unlawful and sedi- tious Meetings, by Captain John Hilton, No, 1.
1682, Aug. 1. London Mercury, No. 34.
1682, Aug. 23. Loyal Mercury, or Currant In- telligence, No. 1.
1682, Aug. 28. Epitome of the Weekly Newt, published by Langley Curtis.
1682, Sept. 25. LEtat present de VEuropt: tuivant let Gazettes et autret Avit (PAngleterre, France, Hollande, Src. Imprime a Londres pour Mr. Guy Miege, Auteur, No. 1.
1682. New NewsBookt; or, Oecwrreneet hotk Foreign and Domettick : by R. Janeway.
1682. ModeraU Intelligencer. R.Robinson.
1682. Current Domettick, and Foreign Intel- ligencer. Printed by George Croom.
1683. Flela Minor; or, the Laws of Art and Nature in knowing the bodies of Metals, &c. by sir John Pettus, who gave it this title from the circumstance of his confinement in the Fleet
Srison, London. Fleta, a well-known lawpro- uction, was also written by a preson in the Fleet. 1683. Peter Walperoen, or Walpergeii, was a type-founder at Oxford in this year,_ but of whom no further information can be obtained.
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