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Mercurius Rusticus
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Available from 1643 until 1643. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Newspaper
- Series:
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649--Newspapers--Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Newsbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (21 v. )
- Irregular
- The first weeke (May 20. 1643)-
- Ceased with: XXI. week (16 Mar. 1644). Cf. Nelson & Seccombe.
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
- Title spelling and punctuation vary slightly.
- Titles after the first issue are from captions.
- One of the four Royalist Mercuries published at Oxford.
- Author and editor: Bruno Ryves, the King's chaplain; cf. Frank; Williams.
- With continuous pagination and register.
- Some issues announce themselves as re-prints of London news.
- 'Mercurius rusticus: or, A countrey messenger', by George Wither (1643) and 'Mercurius rusticus containing news from the severall counties of England', which is sometimes attributed to Bruno Ryves (1647) have no connection with this newsbook.
- Latest issue consulted: XVIII. Week. (Decemb. 16. 1743.).
- Frequency is irregular.
- Cited in:
- Nelson & Seccombe. Brit. newspapers and periodicals, 1641-1700, 384.1-21
- NCBEL, I:2098
- Frank, J. Beginnings of the English newspaper 1620-1660, p. 309
- Williams, J.B. History of English journalism to the foundation of the Gazette, pp. 45, 235
- English Revolution III. Newsbooks, I:1-3
- Madan, II, 2058
- Stewart, P. Brit. newspapers, 154a
- Bodleian newspapers, p. 98
- OCLC:
- 643152192
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