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HISTORY OF PRINTING.

the pi«s8 was moved to Malmoe. Fortia, in his TraveU in Sweden, menlionsa rare work printed at Lund in the year 1682, entitled Lisera voly- gamia triumphatrix, which was publicly burnt at Stockholm : a copy however was preserved in the royal library of that city.

1668, April 7. Died, Sir William Davenant, poet laureat, and author of Gondibert, a heroic poem, which he finished while a prisoner in Carisbrooke castle, Isle of Wight, having been taken prisoner while fighting in the royal army, and narrowly escaped with his life. During the interregnum, Davenant was still considered as the laureat by his own party. After his death, the o£Sce uf poet laureat, with that of royal his- toriographer, was conferred upon Dryden, a salary of £200 being appointed, in addttion to the butt of wine, for the united offices. The patent bore a retrospect of the term after Daven- ant's demise, and is declared to be to " John Dryden, master of arts, in consideration of his many acceptable services theretofore done to his present majesty [Charles II.], and from an ob- servation of his learning and eminent abilities, and his great skill and elegant style, both in reise and prose." He was born at Oxford, March 3, 1606, and is supposed, (though erro- neously,) to have been a son of Shakspeare; his father was a vintner, and sir William was knighted for his loyalty and attachment to the house of Stuart

1668, Mof 18. In the GazetU of this day Mr. Ogilby's lotte^ of books is announced, which was the first of'^the kind in England ; the shares were five shillings each, the value of the books was £13,700, and the number of lots was 3368. The highest prize was books to the amount of £61, the second £49, &c. &c.

1668. 7%e Mercury ; or, AdvertiiemenU con- cerning trade.

1669. London Mercury, City and Cotmtry Mercury.

1669, July 22. The Faithful Mercury, tm- parting News foreign and domettick.

1669. The Englith Intelligence, by Thomas Bumell.

1670. Thomas Cowlev gave a legacy of £100 to the poor of the stationers' company.

1671. Andrew Anderson, who had served his apprenticeship in the city of Glasgow, went to Edinburgh, and prevailed on the printers of that city to apply for a patent, to be taken out in his name, by which they were to be jointly vested with the office of king's printer. Having succeeded in their application, they, in this year, obtained a patent so extensive that no one in the kingdom was at liberty to print any book, from a bible to a ballad, without a licence from An- drew Anderson. He printed a New Tettament so full of errors, that the privy council prohibited the sale of it. His patent was afterwards re- stricted to Bibles and Acts of Parliament, and to be in force for forty-one years.

1671. Humphry Robinson. Young Mr. Robinson gave £10 to the company of stationers to be bestowed on a piece of plate m memory of

his father. A silver tankard was purchased, weight 34 ounces 10 pennyweights.

1671. The Protestant Oxfotd Inielligeuet ; a Occurrences foreign and aomettick, by Thomai Benskin.

1672, Jan. 15. Died, John Cdsin, bishop oi Durham, a lover of literature, who lavisheii great sums of money on the bindings of hi: books, consisting of the choicest works, whid the following document attests: —

To the Right Ffather in God, John Ld. Bp of Durham.

ForonebookeofActesbd-inwhitelether 2 ( For binding the Bible and Comon Prayer and double gilding and other trouble

in fitting them 3 0(

Pd. for ruleing the Comon Prayer 8 (

The TotaU £3 ID (

This, taking into consideration the value o money at the time, appears to have been thi very height of luxury and extravagance ; but ii notningwhen compared with the other omamenti lavished on the above bible and prayer.

" Receivd the 31 of January, 1662, of ihi Right Reverend Father in God, John, Lon Bishop of Durham, by the hands of Myla Stapylton, the summe of one hundred pounds being in part of payment for the plate and wod[ manship of the covers of a Bible and Conunoi Praier Booke. I say received by me, M. S Houser, Goldsmith, £100."

This munificent patron of the art does no appear to have confined his endeavours to th< embellishment of his own library, and the book of the church over which he presided, but U have influenced by his example the patronage o others. In a letter bearing the date of Dec 8 1662, from Mr. Arden to the bishop's secretary Myles Stapylton, is this passage: — "My Lore desires you to bespeake black wither cases, linec with green, for the silver and gilt booke*, fo the countess of Clarendon to carrie and kee] them in."

On the 18th of October, 1670, the bishop ex pressly enjoined that " the bookes should be al rubbed once a fortnight before the fire to prereoi moulding." in another letter, in the year I67I to his secretary, Stapylton, he says, " You spemi a greale deale of tune and many letters aooui Hugh Hutchinson, and the armes he is to se\ upon my bookes. Where the backs are all gildet over, there must bee of necessity a piece ol crimson leather set on to receive the stamp, aai upon all paper and parchment bookes besides Tne like course must be taken with such bool»! as are rude and greasy, and not apt to i<eeeiv< the stamp. The impression will be taken bette if Hutchinson shaves the leather tJtumer."

1672, May 28. A true relation of the engage- ment of his majesty's fleet under the cowiuwrf o/ his roya/ higknest, with the Dutch fleet. Pab- lished by authority.

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