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Mercurius Cambro-Britannus the Brittish Mercury or The Welch Diurnall
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Available from 1643 until 1645. 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 (6 v. )
- Weekly
- Numb. 4 (Friday November 11, till Munday the 20. 1643.)-
- Ceased with: Numb. [9] (30 Jan. 1644). Cf. Nelson & Seccombe.
- Continues:
- VVelch mercury
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
- Title page includes list of contents.
- Above the imprint: Published according to order.
- Each issue has added caption title: The Brittish mercury.
- Written in a pseudo-Welsh dialect of English.
- Description based on: Numb. 4 (Friday November 11, till Munday the 20. 1643.).
- Latest issue consulted: Num. 8. (from Ian. 17. to the 24. of the same, 1644).
- Numbering continues from previous title.
- Gap in publication between Numb. 6. (5 Dec. 1643) and Numb. 7. (13 Jan. 1644), although there are discrepancies in the caption title designations of no. 7 (Monday, 13 Jan.) and 8 (Tuesday, 14 Jan.) which suggest these two issues were published in 1645 rather than 1644, thereby making the gap over a year.
- Cited in:
- NCBEL, I:2099
- Times handlist, p. 21
- Nelson & Seccombe. Brit. newspapers and periodicals, 1641-1700 708.4-9
- Stewart, P. Brit. newspapers, 145
- OCLC:
- 643151748
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