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In 1638 he settled in London as an attorney ; but on the breaking out of the re1>eUion,he went to Oxford, and entered of Brasenose college. He was for some time in the royal army, but when the king's affairs were ruined, he settled in Lon- don, and became a member of the society of astrologers. In 1649 he married lady Manwar- ing, with whom he had a good fortune. In l^^, we find him at Oxford, employed in drawing up a description of the coins given to the public library by archbishop Laud. On the restoration of Charles U. he was appointed Windsor herald, and became one of the first members of the Royal Society. In 1669, the uuirersity of Oxford conferred on him the degree of M. D. In 1672, he presented his " HUtory of the Order of the Garter " to the king, who re- warded him with jS400. He was born at Lich- field, May 23, 1617. Wood, in his account of Ashmole, tells us, " In his libQiry I saw a large thick paper book, near a yard long, containing on erery side of die leaf two, three, or more pic- tures or faces of eminent persons of England, and elsewhere, printed from copper cuts, pasted on them, which Mr. Ashmole had with great curiosity collected; and I remember he has told me, that his mind was so eager to obtain all faces, that when he could not get a face by it- self, he would buy the book, tear it out, paste it in his blank book, and write under it from whence he had taken it" An admirable portrait this of our modern portrait collectors, who have sent back many a volume to the bookseller's shop stript of its graven honours. A most noted col- lector told a person at Cambridge, "That his own collection must needs be large and good, as it rested on six points. 1. I buy ; 2. I borrow ; 3. 1 beg; 4. 1 exchange; 5.-I steal; 6. J sell." This book was consumed by fire, with the rest of his library, which took place at his chambers in the Middle Temple, London, together with his collection of about nine thousand coins, besides seals, charters, and other curious antiquities.
1692. John M acock gave to the stationers' company a silver cup and foot, 45 oz. 4 dwts. the legacy of John Macock, who was master in 1680 ; to pair with that of Mr. Sawbridge.
1692, Nov. 21. Died, Thomas Shadwell, poet laureat and historiographer royal. He was succeeded in his offices by Nabum Tate, a dra- matist and miscellaneous writer, who is now only known for his joint labours with Nicolas Brady in a metrical version of the psalms. Tate re- tained the laurel till the reign of George I. and even wrote the first birth-^y ode for that mo- narch, but is said to have died Nov. 21, 1715, in the Mint, where he was forced to seek an asylum for debt. Lord Rochester said, if Shad- well had burnt all he wrote, and printed all he spoke, be would have haul more wit and humour than any other poet. Dorset was also his friend.
1692, Feb. 1. London Mercury, No. 1. The sixth and seventh numbers of this paper were ornamented with a curious wood-cut representing an owl perched on a raven, with the words " Par pari, or Birds of a Feather."
1692. Lacedemonian Mercury, being a con- tinuation of the London Mercury.
1692, March 30. Collection for Improvement of Huibatidry and Trade. By John Knighton, F.R.S. Published by Randal Taylor. No.l.
1692. The Gentleman's Journal, for March.
1692. Monthly Miscellany; consisting of News, History, Philosophy, Poetry, Music, &c.
1692. The complete Mercury, or News for the Ingenious.
1692, May 8. TAe Scotch Mercury ; giving a true Account of the daily Proceedings and most remarkable publick Occurrences in Scotland, No. 1. Printed for R. Baldwin.
1692, May 9. Proclamation for calling out Heretort and Fencible Men to attend the King's Host. Edinburgh : printed for R. Baldwin.
1692, June 9. The Moderator, No.l.
1692, Sept. 13. Proclamation for the better Discovery of seditious Libellers.
1692, Dee. 13. Athenian Mercury, No. 1.
1693. Printing was introduced into the city of New York, the capital of the province of fljat name, in North America. William Bradford, who had previously been the first to exercise the art of printing in Philadelphia. In that city he continued, we are told, " until some lime in the year 1693, when he set up a press at New York, and was appointed printer to the government. The first book from his press was a small folio volume of the laws of the colony, bearing the date of that year." In the imprint he styles himself " printer to their majesties," and directs to his printing-house " at the sign of the Bible." Bradford possessed a paper-mill (perhaps the first built in British America) so early as the year 1728. He was a man of good character and affable manners ; and, after holding his situation as printer to the government upwards of fifty years, closed his useful life in the year 1752, at the advanced age of ninety-four.
1693. An order was issued by the company of stationers, for prosecuting all printers, book- sellers, and others, who neglect to send in their three books for the three libraries.
1693. Charles Blount, a deistical writer, published a pamphlet,in which he grounded king William's (III.) claim on the right of con<iuesi; it was bumt by the hands of the hangman ; and another, on the Life of AppolUtnius Tyaneus, gave great ofience, as an attack on Christianity.
He was the youngest son of sir Henry Blount, an ingenious writer of Hertfordshire, and born in 1654 ; on the death of his wife, he fell in love with her sister, and because he could not marry shot himself in 1693. His miscellaneous works were published by Gildon.
1693, June 1—3. The trial of William An- DERTON, printer, at the Old Bailey, before the lord chief justice Treby, Mr. Justice Powell, sir John Fleet, knt, lord mayor, and sir Sala- thiel Lovel, knt., recorder of London, for high treason. The trial began on Thursday June I , but respited till the Saturday following, June 3, that this scene might be acted with die greater 1 solemnity. Mr. Anderton being brought to the
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