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HISTORY OF PRINTING.
Mr. Robert Kirk, who also superintended the printing of this edition, at London.
1690. In this year white paper first began to be made in England, before which time the manufacture had been confined to brown only.
1690, Feb. 13. Hit Majaty't Letter to the Lord Bithop of London, to be communicated to the two province! of Canterbury and York.
1690, March 17. At/tenian Mercury, No. 1. Printed for John Dunton, at the Retven, in Jewin-street.
1690. Mercurius Reformatus, or the New Ob- servator, printed for Dorman Newman.*
1690, April 4. Irish Courant, or the Weekly Packet of Advice from Ireland, by J. F. No. 1.
1690. Account of the Victory obtained by the King in Ireland, on the Ul day of this instant July, printed by Edward Jones.
1690, Sept. 30. Dublin Intelliffence,pahlishei by Authority, No. 1 ; printed by Joseph Ray,ton College Green; reprinted at Lonaon by W. Downing.
1690, Nov. 11. Mereuriut Britannieus; or, the London Intelligencer turned Solicitor, No. 1.
1699. Pacquets of Advice from Ireland, with the Irish Courant.
1690. Lampoons; or Reflections on Public News Letters. R. Taylor.
1690. Coffee-house Mercury ,- containing all the remarkable Events that have happened, from Nov. 4 to Nov. 11 ; with reflections thereupon. Printed by J. Astwood.
1690, Dec. 31. Abdicated King and Queen, under the disguised names of Mr. and Mrs. Red- ding.
1690. Plaine Scottish ; or, Newes from Scot- land, 4to.
1691, Dec 31. DM, The Hon. Robert Bovie, inventor of the air pump, and of whom it nas been said that he was designed by nature to suc- ceed lord Bacon, for by his experiments be filled up those plans that genius had sketched out. From his works may be deduced the whole sys- tem of natural knowledge. — Burnet, to whom flattery has never been imputed, sums up a bril- liant eulogium upon the character of Boyle in
- He publlihed Meremriut Rrformatut, or the New Ob-
ncrator. He was once a coDStdenble dealer, bat has been anfortunate. He Is a roao of excellent parts — a famous camist; and since his misf^tones, is tnined preacher. He served seven years to the same master) and to do him Justice he was always idnd and obliring to me. His osual appellation was, ** Dear Brother.'* i had many fine things to hold forth on this subject, but I know not how it comes to pass, on the sadden they are all lost again, like blends in a crowd. — DwUon.
t He is slender in body ; his head rather big than little i his face thin and of a moderate size ) a smooth tongue, and voice neither deep nor shrill. His countenance is ever intermixed with Joy and sweetness. He is a courteous man in his shop ; and being both printer and bookseller, has got a good estate in a few years : he Is the best situ- ated of any bookseller In Dublin. But I shall leave Mr. Ray to ramble to Castle-street, where Eliphal Dobson with his wooden leg startled me with the creaking of it ) for I took it for the CrepUum Oatium, which I have heard some of our physicians speak of. IMr. Dobson is a great dissen- ter i but liis pretence to religion does not make him a Jot precise. He values no man for his starched looks, or su- percilious gravity, or for being a Cbnrcbman, Presbyte- rian, Independent, ftc, provided he is sound in the medn points, wherein all good men are agreed.— Awifon.
the following stiun. " I will not amuse yoo with a list of his astonishing knowledge, or of his great performances in this way. They aie highly valued all the world over, and his name is every where mentioned with particular cha- racters of respect. I will conclude this ardcle with this, in which I appeal to all competent judges; that few men, if any, have been knows to have made so great a compass, and to have been so exact in all parts of it as Boyle." He was the seventh son, and the fourteenth child, of Robert earl of Cork, and born at Lismore in Ireland, January 25, 1627. He died at London, and was buried at St. Martin's, Westminster.
1691. 7^ Works of the Learned, 4to. by J. la Crose, a late editor of the Universal Billio. theque. It continued only for a few years. The Universal Bibliotheque was an English transla- tion, which was published for a short time, of Le Clere's Bibliotheque Universelle, begun at Amsterdam in 1686.
1691, Feb. 29. Compendio Mercttriale.
1691. MomusRidens; or. Comical Remarks on the Public Reports.
1691. Urbanicus and Rustictu; or, the City and Country Mercury.
1691. Pacquet of Advice from France.
1691, March 25. Weekly Remarks on lie Transactions Abroad. No. 1.
1691. Athenian Gazette. By an advertise- ment in the Athenian Gazette, dated Feb. 8, 1696, it appears that the coflfee-houses of Lon- don bad then, exclusive of the Votes of Ptrlie- ment every day, nine newspapers every week.
1691, Aug. 5. Mereurius Eruditomm; or, News from Uie Learned World. No. 1 .
1691, Feb. 1. History of Learning; or, as Abstract of several - Books lately published, as well Abroad as at Home.
1691, Dec. 10. Mereurius Reformatus; or the true Observer, No, 1.
1691. City Mercury ; or, advertisements con- cerning trade ; by R. Everingham, B. Harris, Mercury and Intelligence offices, E. Hawkins, &c. for divers years.
1691. Infemus ; or. News from the otber World. Printed by Thomas Marlow.
1692, May 18. Died. Elias Ashmole, an eminent antiquary, and founder of the Ashmo- lean museum at Oxford, which was the fiist in- stitution in England for the reception of rarities in nature and drt; and in the mfancy of tii« study of natural history in this country, it pos- sessed what was then considered a vei7 valuable collection. He ofiered to bestow on the univer- sity all the collections in natural history wbicb had been bequeathed to him by tlie Tradescants, the eminent botanists and gardeners at Lambetb, and to add to these his own coins, manuscripts, and books, provided the university would defray the expense of erecting a proper building for their reception. The oner was accepted, and the present edifice raised, under the direction of sir Christopher Wren. Twelve cart loads of lari- ties were deposited within its walls, by the hands of Dr. Plot, on the 20th of March, 1682.
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