Stamford mercury

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Newspaper

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Anne, 1702-1714--Newspapers.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--18th century--Newspapers.

Stamford (England)--Newspapers.

Stamford (England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Weekly

February 3, 1714-December 28, 1906

Contained In:

19th Century British Library Newspapers

Other Title:

Howgrave's Stamford mercury

Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford mercury

Place of Publication:

Stamford, England [publisher not identified]

Notes:

Before 1700, there were no provincial newspapers in England. News reached the English countryside through manuscript newsletters, printed newsbooks and newspapers produced in London. When the Printing Act lapsed in 1695, a few printers took the opportunity to move their presses to provincial towns and some started local papers. The very first English provincial newspapers have been identified as the Norwich Post, begun in 1701 by Francis Burges (1675/6-1706), closely followed by the Bristol Post Boy, started in 1702 by William Bonny (1657-1719). By 1712 there were at least fifteen provincial newspapers, but the Stamp Act of that year affected them financially and reduced the number of titles to four. Like their London counterparts, provincial printers soon took advantage of loopholes in the Act and by 1715 the number of local newspapers had risen again to at least fourteen. By 1740, there were thirty-one provincial newspapers and by 1746 there were forty-two. Local papers faced competition from the London titles, and were commercially vulnerable. By 1760, the number of titles had dropped back to thirty-five, but the provincial newspaper was fully established. The Burney Collection includes more than forty-five English provincial newspapers, although many of them are represented by less than a handful of issues. The earliest newspaper to appear in Stamford, Northamptonshire was the Stamford Post, a half-folio sheet published weekly from 1710. The town acquired a second newspaper in 1713, when the Stamford Mercury began publication. This title was in a smaller quarto format. The Burney Collection has a complete run of issues for 1728, when the newspaper routinely had eight pages and a large decorative woodcut on its title page. Howgrave's Stamford Mercury , also a weekly but in a larger folio format, began in 1732. It quickly put the Stamford Mercury out of business and then took over its title, under which it was published until 1784.

Editors and publishers vary extensively throughout the publishing run

Reproduction of the original from the British Library

Online resource; title from main title screen (viewed Jan. 3, 2015)

Local Notes:

Available issues: 8255

Reproduced from source library: Feb. 3, 1714; May 13, 1714; Sept. 9, 1714; Oct. 21, 1714-Oct. 28, 1714; Jan. 5, 1715-Mar. 22, 1715; Apr. 21, 1715; May 19, 1715; June 16, 1715-July 7, 1715; Oct. 6, 1715-Oct. 13, 1715; Nov. 10, 1715; Jan. 3, 1716-Dec. 26, 1717; May 8, 1718-July 24, 1718; Aug. 7, 1718; Sept. 10, 1718-Sept. 25, 1718; Nov. 13, 1718; Dec. 24, 1719-Dec. 31, 1719; Jan. 21, 1720-Jan. 28, 1720; Feb. 11, 1720; Apr. 14, 1720-Apr. 28, 1720; June 23, 1720; Sept. 8, 1720-Apr. 20, 1721; June 8, 1721; July 20, 1721-Dec. 28, 1721; Mar. 29, 1722-Dec. 16, 1725; Jan. 4, 1728-May 8, 1729; June 12, 1729, Aug. 21, 1729; Jan. 7, 1731; July 1, 1731-Dec. 30, 1731; Feb. 24, 1732; Mar. 2, 1732; June 15, 1732-Apr. 23, 1741; May 21, 1741; June 11, 1741-May 28, 1747; June 4, 1747; Dec. 28, 1749; Oct. 10, 1754, Jan. 3, 1765-Jan. 17, 1765; Feb. 21, 1765, Apr. 4, 1765-Sept. 19, 1765; Jan. 16, 1766-Dec. 29, 1768; June 29, 1769-Sept. 7, 1769; Jan. 18, 1770-Feb. 8, 1770; Mar. 8, 1770; Oct. 18, 1770-Nov. 15, 1770; Jan. 3, 1771-Dec. 25, 1783; Mar. 19, 1784; June 25, 1784; Jan. 7, 1785- Aug. 21, 1795; Nov. 6, 1795-Nov. 13, 1795; Jan. 22, 1796; Mar. 4, 1796-Apr. 15, 1796; June 17, 1796-June 24, 1796;Aug. 5, 1796; Sept. 9, 1796-Sept. 16, 1796; Oct. 21, 1796; Dec. 9, 1796; Mar. 31, 1797; June 2, 1797-June 30, 1797; Aug. 18, 1797; Oct. 27, 1797-Mar. 31, 1798; Aug. 24, 1798-Sept. 28, 1798; Nov. 2, 1798; Jan. 4, 1799-Dec. 27, 1816; Jan. 1, 1819-Dec. 28, 1906

OCLC:

900309503

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