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 2i 8 HENRY CROSS-GROVE, JACOBITE, on, the more formidable ' Craftsman ' appeared (' that vile Republican paper/ Cross-Grove termed it), written by Nicholas Amhurst, with the support of Bolingbroke and Pulteney. When Francklin, the printer of this paper, was prose- cuted in 1731 (under Walpole's administration) and afterwards fined jCioo and bound over for seven years, Cross-Grove delightedly recorded the fa<5t ; but as a rule he recommended his readers to peruse the c Occasional Historian ' of the Rev. Matthias Earbery, junior, a Norfolk clergyman, rather than the Craftsman's professed newspaper opponent, ' The Hyp-Dodlor.' This latter paper was, perhaps, too abusive for him. On the 25th September, 1731, Cross-Grove told his readers, with much approval, that in the final number of his ' Occasional Historian,' Earbery, mentioning the case of a man who had lost his ears for libelling the consort of Charles I, said that c Mr. Craftsman deserves the same application of Tortures (if torture they must be called) for abusing the Queen Consort of James II,' and added, c I think his Nose and Ears bear little competition with the Heinousness of his Crime/ At last, Cross-Grove himself died, and though there was no one left to write his elegy, a well- deserved obituary notice appeared in his ' Norwich Gazette' for 8-15 September, 1744: On Wednesday last (November I2th) departed this life Mr. Henry Cross-Grove, aged 62. Printer of the 'Norwich Gazette and Magazine' upwards of 38 years. He was a man allowed by all Persons of Ingenuity and Learning to be a Man of Learning, Sense and Spirit.