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entitled, Explication de quelque$ endrmt* de$ mncieH] Slatutet dt Pordre det Chartreux, atee da eeclaireiuemeHt domuz *ur le SHJet <f tin libelle qui a M compo$i eontre Pordre, et qvi t'eit di- vulgvi lecrettement. It was written by the gpeneral of the order, in answer to some remarks of the abbe la Trappe. The distribution of this volume was so guarded, that even of the Car- thusians themselves few ever saw it, a copv being sent to the superior of each house, whicn he was directed not to communicate.

1696, Feb. S. The Athenian Merewry. No. 30. With this number, which concluded the nine- teenth volume, John Dunton thought it right to discontinue his weekly publication, " as the cof- fee-houses had the Votee every day, and nine Newspapers eveiT week;" and proposed to pub- lish his Mercuries in quarterly volumes, " de- signing again to continue it as a weekly paper, as soon as the glut of newt is a little over."

1696, March 9. The Protatant Mercury; Oc- currences Foreign and Domestick. No. 1.

1696, April 10. A Declaration of the Sense of the Archbishops and Bishops now in and about London, upon the Occasion of their Attendance in Parliament, concerning the irregular and scandalous Proceedings of certain Clergymen at the Execution of Sir John Friend and Sir Wil- liam Parkins.

1696, June 3. London Mercury ; or, Mercure de Londres ; printed in opposite columns, Eng- lish and French. No. 1.

1696, Aug. 4. Dawkt't* New$ Letter, [on a type to imitate Writing]. No. 1. This letter will be done upon gi)od writing-paper, and blank space left, that any gentleman may write his own private business. It does undoubtedly exceed the best of the written nev>s, contains double the quantity, is read with abundance more ease and pleasure, and will be useful to improve the younger sort in writing a curious hand.

1696, Sept. 8. Account of a bloody Battle in Hungary, ^c. in a Postscript to the Flying Post.

1696, Sept. 17. Lloyd'i Newti printed for Edward Lloyd (Coffee-man) in Lommtrd-street

1696, for Sept. The Night Walker, or Even- ing Rambler, jrc. ; to be published Monthly.

1696, Oct. 29. The Weekly Survey of the World, 01 the Gentleman's solid Recreation.

1697. Lord Molesworth, who had been the English ambassador at the court of Copenhagen, published, about this period, a valuable work, under the title of An Account of the Hittory of Denmark, in which he expressed himself with all the freedom of a Briton respecting the arbi- trary conduct of the Danish government. His Danish Majesty, highly incensed at some of the observations of the noble author, commanded his ambassador to complain on the subject to William III. " What would you have me do?"

with it as often as I could. He is very obliging and dlH- gent, and reasonable in his prices, ke has a very rich invention : witness his new letter, with which he printed his newspaper. He printed several piece* of Salmon, and doe* excellent work, — DmtoK.
 * Re very often solicited me for worlc. I obliged him

replied the king. " Sire," answered the Dane, " if you had caused such a complunt to be pre- ferred to the king, my master, he would have sent you the head of Uie writer." " That," re- joined his majesty, " is what I neither will nor can do ; but if it will give you satisfaction, he shall introduce what you have just said into the second edition of his work."

1697, liUy 17. The London Pott; with the newest InteUigence,both Foreign and Domestic.

1697, May 31. The Foreign Pott, with Do- mestick News, See. French and English. No. 3.

1697, July 6. The Amtterdam Slip.

1697, Sept. 14. The Account of the tigning the General Peace, ^c. in a Postscript to the Fly- ing Post.

1697. Oct. 23. The Pottman and the Hittori- eal Account, 4-c. No. 386.

1698. John Dunton mentions a Mr. Lownds in the Strand. He was Dr. Homeck's bookseller for many years, he printed his Great Law of Consideration, his Sermons of Judgment, and Discourse on the Sacrament, entiUed The Cru- cified Jena, ^r. Mr. Lownds was a sincere ho- nest dealer, and had this peculiar to himself; that be was never much concerned, (except for the death of his pious and learned author) for the things that he could not help, for he did all he could to prevent a grievance, and then he ac- quiesced in the divine pleasure.

1698 (about), Tlie Second and lait Adventure of the Wheel of Fortune; Thomas Comwallis, Esq. Undertaker.

1699. In this year Fenelon's celebrated Tele- machui, was first printed in four volumes, under the following extraordinary circumstances: — It appears to have been composed bv Fenelon, wnile he was preceptor to the ro^al auke. Not long after the affair of Quietism broke out, Fenelon g^ve the manuscript of it to a valet de chambre, to be copied by him, and the valet sold it to the widow of Claude Barbou, at Paris. At that time the police narrowly watehed the motions of Fenelon.* They had notice of the publication, and when the bookseller was at the 208th page of the impression, seized, in the king's name, all the copies which were in the possession of the booksellers; and every precaution was used to annihilate the work. But it was too late; the manuscript was pre- served ; it was sold to Adrian Moetjens, a book- seller at the Hague, and by him was immediately printed. This edition was very incorrect, but he afterwards gave a more perfect edition of it in 1701 ; and that edition was generally followed, in all subsequent editions, till the edition of 1717. In that year, the marquis of Fenelon, great nephew to the archbishop, published a new edition of Telemachut, from a copy cor- rected by Fenelon himself. This edition became

of Cambray, one of the most illostrioas of French prelate*, was born of an ancient family, at the castle of Fenelon, in Perigord, August 6, IS&I, and died January 7, 1715, with- out money and witiiont a debt. Besides Ttttmachtu, he was the author of many other works of great OMrit.
 * Francis de Sallgnae de la Motte Fenelon, archbishop

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