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1716, Sfarch 3. Evening Weekly Paequet.
1716, March 6. Chit-Chat, No. 1. By si» Richard Steele. This paper reached only three numbers. Most of these periodical publicatioDs had but a short duration, ending with the exi- gence which called them forth.
1 716, March 21 . The Orvhan; with reflections political and moral upon all material occurrences foreign and domestic. No. 1.
1716,aror. 16. Gni«r«/P(»«t,No.l. At No. 13, it was altered to the Evening CfenenU Pott, to distinguish it from the Weekly General Pott.
1716, March 3). London Pott, No. 1.
1716, April 18. Weekly Obtervator.
1716, May 2. Whitehall Courant, No. 1.
1716, May 26. Weekly Journal, No. 1.
1716, June 22. Citizen, No. 1.
1716. Sattirdaft Pott, No. 1.
1716, Oct. 29. Jonet'i Evening Newt-Letter; erery Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, No. 1 .
1716. Occational Paper. Collected into three vols. 8to. The authors were Grosvenor, Wright, Erans, and other Dissenters.
1717, March 3. Richard Bubridoe, a jour- neyman printer, and reader of Mitft Weekly Journal, conricted of utterinp^ blasphemous words, and sentenced to be whipped from the church in the Strand to Charing Cfross, to be fined twenty shillings, and to be imprisoned one month.
1717, May 8. Mm. Clarke, widow of Henry Clarke,* was taken into custody for printing a pamphlet entitled, To-Day it Ouri, To-Morrow u Youn, 1*0.
1717, June. A patent was granted to William Churchill and Edward CasUe for the sole fur- nishing several offices of his majesty's revenue with stationery.
1717, Sept.i4. William Redmavne, printer, in Jewin-street, having been indicted for printing Mr. HowePt]- Case cf Schim in the Cnurch of England truly itated, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to pay a fine of £500; to be imprisoned for five years, and to find sureties for his good behaviour during life. Mr. Redmayne died in Newgate, April 11,1719.
- Heniy Clarke wu chief printer to Mr. Maltlias. and
thraagfa hi* pemuslons I engi^^ blm upon bnslneM. He ms extremdr cMl to the bookaeUen, and very diligent ami dispatchlblinwhat hedld: hewaaamanof great openneas in hi« temper, and mu very seldom afraid to apeak the very •eqtimenta of his mind. After Mr. Clarke's decease, hJs widow manafced the trade by Mr. Sedgwick Ont, and aiterwaids to better purpose by Mr. Barber.— iTwi^on.
There wasaFrands Clark, prlnter.of whom Dunton says, " After he had buried his first wife, he tiaU rained him- self in a second cooitship. He printed for me DwUon's Jlemoifu, with several other pieces, and I must say his prices were reasonable enough.
t Lawrence Howel, M.A., was a nonjuring clergyman, and aathor of the Hittorf of the Bible, in 3 vols. Svo. and other valuable works. He resided in Bullhead -court, Jewio^treet, where he wrote the Cote of Schitm, at which lOOO copies were printed, and found in his house, aspera- in^ George I. in denying his right to the crown of Eng- land. For this oflbnce he was tried at the Old Bailey, and being convicted, was sentenced to pay a fine of .^500, to be imprisoned three years, to find four sureties Is ^MO each, and to be bound hinuelf in ^I0«0 for Wb good be- haviaar during life, to be twice whipped, and to be de- graded and stripped of his gown by the hands of the com- mon hangman. Mr. Howel had the most aflicting part of his sentence remitted, and died in Newgate, July 19, 1710.
1717. Bibliutheea Bibliea; being a commen- tary upon all the books of the old and new testa- ment, gathered out of the genuine writinp of the fathers, and ecclesiastical historians and acts of councils, down to the year of our Lord 461, being that of the fourth great council, and lower, as occasion may require. To which are added introductory discourses upon the authors and authentickness of the books, the time of their being written, &c. extracted for the most part out of the beet authors that have written upon those subjects. Part I. (To be continued monthly.) Printed by William Bowyer, for W. Taylor and H. Clements. Of this learned work five numbers were issued monthly, and the sale seems to have been considerable, as one thousand copies were printed, and some of them on large paper. But the compiler changed both his publisher and his plan of publication; for the title-pages of two volumes 4to. state th«m to have been " printed at the theatre at Oxford, for W. and John Innys, 1720," and in which he returns thanks for the annual encouragement he had been favoured with.
1717. The Holy Bible, imperial folio, orna- mented with head and tail pieces. Printed by John Basket, London.
The same on royal paper, printed at the Clarendon printing-office, at Oxford, for which Mr. Basket paid a yearly sum for a room to cany on his business. In this edition the following error occurs in the 20th chapter of St. Luke, the Parable of the Vineyard, which is printed the Parable of the Vinegar, and irom which erratum it is always called Uie Vinegar Bible.
1717. Joseph Coming, a celebrated printer at Padua, whose great ability in the typographic art prx>cured him the direction of the famous Comine printing office, established at Padua by the learned brouiers Gaetano and Giov. Antonio Volpi. These distinguished brothers defrayed the expenses of the Comine printing office, and by their learned labours raised its character to a high rank among the litemti of Europe. The Comine editions are admired for the correctness of the text, the excellence of the notes with which most of them are illustrated, the neatness of the tjrpe, beauty of the paper, and neatness of the press work. They are consequenUy in great request, and very dear. They are printed in 4to. and Svo. — Home's Intro, to Bib.
1717, /an. 29. Freeholder Extraordinary,'So.2.
1717, Feb. 4. Scourge, No. 1.
1717, March 13. Penny Pott, or Tradesman's select Paequet, No. 1.
1717, Fib. 9. Wanderer, No. 1.
1717, MayOZ. Plain Dealer, No. 1.
1717, Ju(y 19. London Pott, or Tradesman's Intelligencer, No. 48.
1717, Aug. 14. Weekly Beview, or the Wed- nesday's Post, No. 1.
1717, Aug. 17. Protettant Medley, or Weekly Courant, No. 1.
1717. Sept. 1. St.Jamet't Weekly Journal.
1717, Sept. 26. Wednetday't Journal; being an auxiliary paequet to the ^turday's Post.
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