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1644, March 12— 19. Britain's Bemembrtnttr.
1644, Ajtril 12. Mercurius Aulico-Maitix.
1644, April 14. A true andpetfeet Journal of the Warres in Englattd.
1644, May 1 . the Weekly Newet from Foreign Parts beyond the Seas.
1644, Mai/ 10. The Flying Post, No. 1.
1644, March 18 — May 13. Intelligence from the South Borders of Scotland, written from Edinburgh.
1644, 3fay 8— 15. Chitf Heads of each Day's Proceedings in Parliament.
1644, Slay 15. An exact Diurnal, No. 1.
1644, June 7. Mercurius Fumigosus, or the Smoking Nocturnal, No. 1.
1644. 3f<rcun«Mi/tiemteiu,printedatBristol.
1644, June 1 — 10. A particular Relation of the ntost remarkable Occurrences from the United Forces in the North, No. 3.
1644. The Cavalier's Diurnal.
1644, June 22 — Tuly 2. The Court Mercury.
1644, July 10. Le Mercure Anglois.'*
1644, July 30— Aug. 6. The London PoH.
1644, Aug. 2. Mercurius Somniosus.
1644, Sept. 13—20. The Country Messenger, or the Faiikfid Foot Post, No. I.
1644, Oct. 22. Perfect Passages of Proceed- ings in Parliament, No 2.
1644. The Monthly Account.
1644. Mercurius Problematicus.
1645, Jan. 10. William Ladd, archbidiop of Canterbury, was beheaded on thia day for high treason, not proved against him.t He pos- sened great influence in the coupcils of Charles I., and was supposed by his opponents to have advised many of the most intemperate and ob- noxious measures which led both himself and fais master to the scafibld ; his ruin therefore was earnestly sought by his enemies, and he feU a sacrifice to party violence, and high church sentiment He was born at Reading, in Berk- shire, October 7, 1573.
His great attachment to boolcs appeared even from the articles of impeachment exhibited against him by his enemies — for amongst them are the following: —
Art. 5. Receiving a Bible, with a crucifix embroidered on the cover of it by a lady4
Art. 6. A book of Popish pictures, two Mis-
- This French paper but been formerly published for
two or three weeks, bat discontinned. From this time It WW pablished at LoDdoo weekly, on Thonday morning, at Dine o'clock.
t Another victim to popular fnry was Thomaa Strafford, earl of Weatworth. The salnta of the day vindicated thli palpable morder by the phraae of Caiaphas, " that It waa expedient that one man should die for the people.** To what abanrd lengths the people were carried away In the arts of inrargency, even from the pulpit, &c. is evident from one of the aldermen and common council, who sold that the decay of trade, and dilBcnlty with which conntiy tradesmen paid their debts, were caused by delaying the decapitation of Strafford.— D'lsraeli's Commmtantx on the lA/e and Reign of Charlet I. He was born in Chancery- lane, London, April 13, isg3, and beheaded May 13, itH\.
t In the library of St. Jobn*s college, Oxford, there is still preserved a SalMtirp Primer, or JtfissaV, printed by PynsoD, upon veDum, and a beautiful copy of the AUine ^rWopAanes of 14}8 ; both of which belonged to the arch- bishop.
sals. Pontificals, and Breviaries, which he made use of as a scholar.
Art. 7. His [own] admirable Book of Devo- tion, digested according to the ancient way of canonical hours. Sec.
1645, Jan. 10. Died, Robert Barker, the king's printer, and who is noticed at page 433. ante, as having paid il3500 for amending or cor- recting the bible, had his reverses in fortune; for it appears from the following certificate, that he lay in prison for ten years : — " These are to certify whom it may concern, that Robert Barker, esq., was committed a prisoner to the custody of the marshal of the king's bench, the 27th (M November, 1635, and died in the prison of the king's bench, the 10th of January, 1645."
1645, Feb. 18. Died, Sir Richard Baker, well known as the author of the Chroniele of the Kings of England,'* which is rendered familiar to every reader, bv the circumstance of Addison having taken it tor the standard work always referred to by sir Roger de Coverley, in any question relating to ue history of our country.t It continued to be reprinted until 1730,^ when an edition appeared with a ccm- tinuation to the end of the reign of George I., but still with many errors, although, perhaps, not of much importance to the plain people wno delight in the book. This is called by Uie bookselleis the best edition. Sir Richard Baker was born at SiBSuaghirst, in Kent, about 1568, and educated at Oxford, from whence he removed to one of the inns of court, London, and after- wards travelled abroad. In 1620, he served the office of high sheriff of Oxford, and being cast into the Fleet prison for some of his wife's bmil v debts, died there, and was buried in St. Bride s church. Fleet-street
1643-5. A looking gUus for Malignants. London : 4to. A virulent attack on the king's followers, particularly Laud and the prelates.
1645. A committee appointed by the privy council to discover scandalous or seditious pam- phlets, that they might punish the auuors, printers, and publishers.
1645. Thomas Fuller, the celebrated historian and divine, is said to have written at Exeter his Good Thoughts in Bad Times, and where the book was published this year, which be states to be " the first-fruits of the Exeter press."
1645. A Book of Martyrs was given for the prisoners in Ludgate, at their request, inscribed " The Gift of the Company of Stationers, 1646."
1645. Lord Herbert, of Cherbiuy, printed a work entitled De Veritate, Causes Errorum et de Religione Laici, 4to. London. This book of Lord Herbert's had no sooner made its appear- ance, than it was. most eagerly sought after, and
- Sir R. Baker's CArometo o/ the Khtgt of England,
from the timeof the Romans Oovemment, tmio the Death of King James. London. 1641, folio. First edttlon. With a frontispiece by Marshall, containing portraits of Cbarlcs I. and Sir R. Baker, and a plate by Cor. V. Dolen, of Charles II. wben a boy, to whom it is dedicated.
t See Spectator.
t In ten editions, and it it sometimes found with the date of 1733, being the some as 1730, with a new title.
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