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HISTORY OF PRINTING.

1669, Nov. 26. ParliamaUary Intelligeneer.

16S9, Dee. 26. Parliamentary Intelligencer, comprehending the sum of Foreign Intelligence, No. 1.

1669, Dec. 26. The Loyal Scout, No. 1.

1659, Dec. 26. Parliamentary Intelligence, No. J.

1659, Dee, 29. AJa-modei Pan(,hfdf a sheet in folio, or the Diurnal in vene.

1660. The society of London for propagating the gospel among the Indians, in New England, Norat America, sent a press, &c. and a printer, solely for the purpose of printing the bible and other books in the Indian language. On their arrival they were carried to Cambridge, and employed in the printing office established there.

In 1661 the New Testament, with the Psalms in metre, was printed at Cambridge, in 4to., by Gbeen and Johmson, and dedicated to Charles II. This was followed by the (ML Testament,* which was printed at the same place in 1664. 4to. Dr. Cotton Mather states, as two cnrious facts,. that this was \)\e first bible ever printed in America; and that the whole of the translation was written with one pen. The language in which the bible was printed was a dialect of the Mohegan. The translator was the rev. John Eliot, who was born in England, 1604, and educated at Cambridge. In 1631 he emigrated to America, and became pastor to the Independ- ents at Roxburg. His mde&tigable exertions as a minister of the gospel, and his unwearied labours in the conversion of the heathen, caused him to be esteemed and reverenced as Hit apostle of the Indians. He lived to a good old age, and died as he had lived, in the triumph of faith, in 1690, in his 86th year.

Notwithstanding printing continued to be per- formed in Cambridge, from a variety of causes it happened that many original works were sent from New England, Massadiusetts, in particular, to London to be printed. Among these causes the principal were, first, the press at Cambridge had generally full employment; secondly, the printing done there was executed in an inferior style; and thirdly, many works on controverted points of religion were not allowed to be printed m that country. Hence it happened, that for more than eighty years after pnnting was first practised in the colony, manuscripts were occa- sionally sent to England for publication.

The fathers of Massachusetts kept a watchful eye on the press; and, in neither a religious nor civil point of view, were they disposed to give it much libeitr. Both the civil and ecclesiastical mlers were fearful that if it was not under whole- some restraints, contentions and heresies would arise among the people. In 1662 the govern- ment of Massachusetts appointed licensers of the press; and afterwards, m 1664, passed a law that " no printing should be ajlowed in any

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town wilhin the jurisdiction, except in Caa- bridge" — nor should any thing be printed then but what the government permitted throof^ tk agency of those persons who were empow^cd f<* the purpose. Offenders against this regrulatka were to forfeit their presses to the country, aai to be disfamchised of the privilege of piintin); thereafter. In a short time, this law was so Ut repealed, as to permit the use of a press at Bos- ton, and a person was authorized to conduct it : subject, however, to the licensers who were ap- pointed for the purpose of inspecting it.

1660, May 29. Kino Charles II. enten London, on his restoration to the sovereignty of Great Britain. Charles was in his tbinjeth year, and possessed an excellent c(»>stitatioo, a manly figure, a graceful demeanour, many per- sonal accomplishments, a love of literature and the fine arts, and a great share of mental abilities Ten years spent in exile and adversity, it wit expected, would have taught him moderaiiM; but a determined desire to govern without coi- trol, and a wasteful prodigality of dispoatiao, aided by his convivial talents and his r^uiy wit, led him to a free indulgence in the levities <^ youth, and the intemperance of appetite. Hit example was contagious, and debaucheiy and ir- religion soon became the characteristics of Ui court. Nothing was more sudden and more con- spicuous than the change in public morals; firoo the moment that the state ceased to be Kuided by men who professed the forms of go&ness, vice walked forth without disguise; no longer concealed by the assumed garb of virtue, she appeared without restraint, and was received ts a welcome visitor; the affectation of decornm was exchanged for a round of gay pleasure and revelry, the court of king Charles II. vied in voluptuousness with that of his cotemponiy, Louis XIV., — which in the end lost him the affection of his subjects.

1660. CromweWs Conspiracy,a. tngj-comeij, relating to our latter times, beginning with tb« death of king Charles I. and ending with tbf happy restoration of king Charles II. LiRidoD. Pnnted for the author.

1660. The tragicall Actions of the Martyr- dome of the late king diaries, wherein Oliver^ late fsdsehood, with the rest of his gang, are described in their several actions and statioot. At the end of the piece, printed for S'. Aitbnt.

1660. A Phanatique Play, the first part, at it was presented before and by the Lord Fleetwood, S'. Arthur Hasilrig, S*. Henry Vane, the Loid Lambert, and others, last night, with Masta Jester and Master Pudding, ranted in London. This is the first edition.

The knave, the cfaiefest card, had won Qu day. Bad not the king came in whilst they did play.

1660, June 7. An order of cotucil, that the stationers' company do seize and delivei to the secretary of state, iul copies of Buchanan's Eii- tory of Scotland, and de Jure regni afud Scetu, " which are very pernicious to monarchy, tod injurious to his miyesty's blessed progenitors."

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