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1649, April 17. The Mm in the Moon, No. 1.
1649, April 30. Coutinwd Heads of perfect Ptutage$ in Parliament.
1649, April 24. Mercuriut Pragmatieut, for Kirig Charles II.
1649, April 24. Menmriiu Militarit, No. 1.
1649, April 30. EnglantPe moderate Meuen- ger. No. 1.
1649, May 4. Merew/tHt Britaamicut, No. 1.
1649, May 9. The perfect Weeklv AccmaU.
1649,May21. MerewiutMeUm4:hilitm,^o.\.
1649, May 21 . Mercurivt Philo Monarchietu.
1649, May 25. Merevriui Paeifieue.
1649, 3fay 29. Mercuriut Republicut, No. 1.
1649, Jlfn-curttM Verfx.
1649, June 13. Metropolitan Nuncio, No. 3.
1649, June 21. The moderate Mercury, No. 1.
1649, July 23. A TWniatet Joumay of perfect Paaagu in Parliament, No-1.*
1649, July 26. Mercuriut Carolinut, No. 1.
1649, Aug. 2. The armiet painful Mettenger.
1649, Aug. 2. Gnat SntotnV painful Met- tenger. No. 1.
1649, Sep. 6. JMinvuntu Hibemicus, No. I.
1649, Oct. 1. The Weekly Intelligencer.
1649, Ort. 1. A brief Relation of tome Affairt civil and military, No. 1.
1649, Oct. 9. Several Proceedingt tn Parlia- nMn^, No. I.
1649, Oct. 23. A brief Relation of tome Affairt and Transactiant, civiland military, both foraign and domettique. Licensed by Gualter Frost, Eaauiie, secretary to the councell of state, ac- cordiDg to the direction of the late act. No. 4.
1649, Dec. 27. A perfect Diurnal of tome Patiaget of the armiet in England and Ireland. Licensed by the secretary of the army. No. 1.
1649. Barbosa, a bisnop of Ugentti, printed among his works a treatise obtained by one of his domestics bringing in a fish rolled in a leaf of written paper, which his curiosity led him to examine. He was sufficiently interested to mn out and search the fish market, till he found the manuscript out of which it had been torn. He published it under the title Zte OffieiaEpitcopia. Machiavelli acted more adroitly in a similar case ; a manuscript of the Apophthegms of the ancients by Plutarch having fallen into his bands, he selected those which pleased him, and put them into the mouth of his hero Castrucio Caitricani.
1650, July. Amonoos Nicolai Gbefwe, a printer, from Nykoping, introduced the art of lypogpraphy intoGrotnenburg, a commercial town of Sweden, in the province of West Gothland. One of the earliest specimens of his printing, is a rolurae containing the Ptalmt, in Swedish verse, Luther's Catechism, and other pieces, dated 1650. In the year 1669 Grefwe sustained very serious damage, as well by the shipwreck of a vessel which was conveying to him a large quantity of types and paper from Hamburgh, as by a fire, which on the 10th day of May consumed his
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whole establishment, together with a great part of the town.
1650. A precept occurs from the lord major of the city of London, ordering the company of stationers to substitute the arms of the common- wealth for those of the late king ; and to remove the king's picture and all monarchical arms out of their hall.
1650. Anthony Uphill left £6 to the poor of the stationers' company.
1650. Died, Rooeb Damiell, printer to the university of Cambridge. He had been joined in the patent with Thomas Buck, and was suc- ceeded in the office bv John Field. Daniell used for his mark, a naked figure of Truth — a sun in her right hand, a cnp in her left, with milk stieammg from each breast, liaving for a motto Hinc Lueem et Pocula Sacra.
1650. In this year, that now highly reroected body of Christians, termed Quakert, had their origin ; which was as follows : — George Fox,* a shoemaker, being at a lecture delivered at Derby, on the 30th of October, by a colonel of the par- liament army, after the service was over addressed the congregation, till there came an officer who took him by the hand, and said, that he and the other two that were with him, must go before the magistrates. They were examined for a long time, and then George Fox, and one John Fretwell, of Stoviensby, a husbandman, were committed to the house of correction for six months, upon pretence of blasphemous expres- sions. Gervas Bennet, one of the two justices who signed their mittimus, hearing that Fox bad him, and those about him, " Tremble at the word of the Lord," regarded Uiis admonition so lightmindedly, that from that time, he called Fox and his friends, Quaken. This new and unusual denomination was taken up so eageriy, that it soon ran all over England, and from thence to foreign countries. — Sewel.
It has since remained their distinctive name, insomuch, that to the present time they are so termed in acts of parliament ; and in their own declarations on certain public occasions, and in addresses to the king, they designate themselves " the people called Quakert." The community, in their rules and minutes, for government and discipline, denominates itself " the Society of Friends."
The Quakers at their first setting forward, committed various kinds of extravagancies and other disorders ; which probably, if they had not been opposed, would more readily have subsided. But the ministers, justices of the peace, con- stables, and others, disputed with tnem, bound
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Quaken, waa born at Dxmyton, in Leicestershire, in 1684. He waa at flrat placed with a shepherd, and alterwarda was bound apprentice to a ahocmajcer. He auflered fre- quent imprisonment and mach ill aaoage fl-om tlwse In power, during hia public preaching. In 1(S6S, be nuiiried the widow of a Welch Judfce, but still cDntinned hia comae of itinerant preaclmig. and viaited Holland, Germany, and America. He died at London, January 13, ifigo. Hia Jonmal waa printed at I.ondon in IIKH, bis Epistles in ISM, and hia Tracts in 1700, all in folio.
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