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containing ficdtiotn Utles of books aad acta of parliament, reflecting on the mad reformerg of those times. One of his poems is entitled Tke Jolt, being written on the protector having fallen off his own coach-box: Cromwell had received a present from the German count Oldenburefa, of six German horses, aad attempted to dnve them himself in Hyde Park, when this great
yolitical phaeton met the accident, of which sir ohn Birkenhead was not dow to comprehend the benefit, and hints how unfortunately for the country it turned out! Sir John was during the dominion of Cromwell an author by pro- fession. AAer rarious imprisonments for his majes^'s cause, £ays Wooo, "he lived by his wits, in helping young gendemen out of dead liAs in maldng poems, songs, and epistles on and to their mistresses; as also in translating, and other petite employments." He lived, how- ever, after the Restoration to become one of the masters of requests, with a salary of £3000 a- year. But he showed the baseness of his spirit, says Anthony, by slighting those who had been his benefoctors in his necessities,
1679, Dec. 4. Died, Thomas Hobbes, who is celebrated as the first English writer on political philosophy. He was born at Malraesbury, in Wiltshire, July 5, 1588, and in 1028, he began to publish a series of works, designed to warn the people as to the consequences of their efforts for the reduction of the royal power. The most remarkable of these, was the Leviathan,
n'llished in 1651, which is full of sophistry and maxims in philosophy and morals. At the restoration he received a pennon, but in 1665 the
Sirliament passed a censure on his writings, e died at Chatsworth, in Derbyshire, having been mostly employed as tutor in the familv of the duke of Devonshire. It is very curious that, while Hobbes maintained the necessity of an established church under the supremacy of a temporal monarch, he expressed doubts of the existence of that deity, whose worship it is the business of a church to encourage. He asserts that Ezra wrote the Pentaleuck, and that the New Testament was not received as canonical till the council of Laodicea, in the year 363.
1679, Feb. 14. The Courant IntMigenee ,- or, an impartial account of transactions, both Foreign and Domestick. Printed for John Smith, bookseller, in Great Queen Street.
1679. The Loyal InUlligencer.
1079. The Protettant Domettic Intdligencer.
1679, May 1 — ^24. A Litt of one unaiwmoui Club of Voten in hi* Majettifi Long Parlia- ment, Muolved in 1678; viiih votes of the house of commons concerning the pensioners.
1079, June 1 1 . An impartial Aeeount of divert remarkable Proceeding! in the last Seuion of Parliament, relating to the Popish Plot, ire.
1679, June 7. A Proclamation for cMing out Heretors and Freeholders to attend the King's Host. Printed at Edinburgh by the heirs of Andrew Anderson. It waa reprinted at London, June 17.
1679, June 26. The Declaration of the Betels
now m Arms in the West tfSeodmtd; with an- address against the duke of Lauderdale.
lOT9,July 9. Domestick Intdliaence, or news both from city and country, published to pre- vent false reports. Printed for Benjamin Hat- ris. No. 1.
1679, Juh/ 10. Some further Matters of Fact, relating to toe Administration of Affairs tn Scot- land, under the Duke of Lauderdale.
1679 July 10. The Impeachment of the Duke and Duteheu of Lauderdale, with their Brother my Lord Hatton, presented to his Majesty by the Oty of Ediaburgk.
1679. Artieles of High Treason and other Misdemeanors against the Duteheu of PortsmoutA.
1079. Articles of High Treason against Sir Wm. Scroggs, Knt. Lard Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
1079. Plain Truth, or a private Diseomrte betwixt Plepys"] and H\arbord], [about the Navy."}
1679, July 14. 7%e Confession and Execu- tion of Richard Langhome,lttte Counsellor tn the Temple, who was executed for treasonable Prac- tices.
1079, /Mb 21. The English InteUigeneer.
1079, /h^ 22. ThePaitkfulMeTeury,JHo.\.
1079, Aug. 14. A true arid perfect Collection of all Messages, Addresses, tfc.from tke House of Commons to the King's most excMent Majesty, with his Majesty's gracious Answers, from 1660 till the Dissolution^ the Parliament.
1079, Sept. 3. The Weekly Packet of Advice from Crermanu; or the History of the Reforma- tion of Religion there. No. 1.
1679, Sept. 4. Poor Robin's Intelligence newly revived; published for the Accommodation of all ingenious persons. No. I.
1679. Relationes Extraordinaria.
1679. Mercurius Civicus; or, an Account of Affairs domestick and foreign, printed by R4 Everingham.
1079. Tlu Weekly Intettigenee! or, News from City and ConntrTfprinted by Sainnel Crouch.
1679, Sevt. 7. The Friendly Intelligence, mb- lished for the Accommodation of all sober Per- sons, No. 1 .
1679, Sept. 8. The English Currant; or. Ad- vice domestick and foreign, for general satisfac- tion. Printed for Thomas Bnn'eJ],at the Golden Ball, Fleet-street.
1679. Dinnettici/MKat^enee, published gratis, for the promoting of Trade: printed by N. Thompson, for Benjamin Harris.
1079. Domestick Intelligence; or. News f^om City and Country, published to prevent false Reports. London : printed by Nathaniel Thomp- son, next the Cross Keys, m Fetter Lane, lor Benjamin Harris, at the Stationers' Arms, in the Piazza, under the Royal Exchange, ComhiU.
1679, i4iM. 26. The true Domestick Intelli- gence; or. News both from City and Country, published to prevent false Reports : printed by N. Thompson, No. 16. Against this paper a. Harris cautions the publick, as being a Popish impostor. Though called No. 16, it was the first by that puUisher.— No. 25, Sept. 30, an-
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