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 JOURNALIST AND PRINTER. 217 Haec medicis dat opes et mercatoribus herba Haec vobis, o vos, gens muliebris Amor Haec eadem dolor est, vestra et quaerimonia sexu Nee tamen e toto parcius una bibit. Samuel Palmer, of London, the printer of the Grub-Street Journal, and author of the ' General History of Printing/ completed by the literary imposter, ' George Psalmanazar,' was one of Cross- Grove's friends. Perhaps Cross-Grove may even have known Palmer's more famous apprentice, Benjamin Franklin. Palmer's death, of course, was greeted with an elegy, and the publication of his history of printing, not only with gratuitous advertisements, but also by a long poem on the ' Noble Art.' Cross-Grove's first wife died on the 7th February, 1742, at the age of sixty, and he told his readers that she was buried at eleven o'clock at night in St. Giles' Church, Norwich. At this time his paper was accustomed to appear with a rather good engraving of the City of Norwich, by way of frontispiece, but a special illustration was devised to celebrate the sad event, and depicted Death, Time, two skeletons, a coffin lid and a shroud, with ' Memento mori ' and c Ah Vita amisa' (sic). Towards the end of his life Cross-Grove gave great prominence to the quarrels between the Whig and Tory papers in London. 'Fog's Journal ' was the successor (appropriately named) of ' Mist's Journal,' two Tory papers for which Defoe wrote. From Cross-Grove, however, John Fog met with much sarcastic comment. Later