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210 HENRY CROSS-GROVE, JACOBITE, ' The Norwich Gazette,' with, at first, the inside title of the ' Loyal Packet,' l and later of ' Cross- Grove's News.' When Cave started the ' Gentle- man's Magazine ' the inside title soon became c Cross-Grove's Magazine.' It was then a good- sized sheet of four pages. In the year 1715 Strype and Cross-Grove renewed their acquaintance and commenced an interesting correspondence. Cross-Grove adver- tised Strype's books for him gratuitously, telling him to give his uncle Gutteridge at Leyton the shilling stamp duties, with an injunction to drink his nephew's health with them. Cross-Grove's letters give an amusing account of the petty perse- cution he endured on account of his Jacobite principles. On 2nd December, 1714, he wrote to Strype: As to what you mention of c Bp. Whitgift's Life,' I will communicate it to all such as I think likely to sub- scribe, will be myself a subscriber and do what service I can in it, and will publish your proposals in my news- paper, which spreads all over Norfolk and Suffolk, part of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. The city of Norwich is at present distracted with party rage Whig and Tory, High Church and Low Church ; or, to give it in our own dialed:, Croakers and Tackers make the two con- tending parties. The Whigs are a strange compound body of false-churchmen, Presbyterians, Independents, Anabaptists, Antinomians and Quakers, each of which have separatists from them, and all conventicles to assemble in. These men think they have got the ascen- dant and threaten destruction to all who join not with their Republican notions of government^ and, as my 1 See * Bibliotheca Norfolciensis.'