Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Newspaper

Contributor:

Collings, Richard, ed.

Series:

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660--Newspapers.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Newsbooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v. )

Weekly

[Numb. 1.] (From Tuesday the 27. of December [1642], to Tuesday the 3. of January. [1643])-Numb. 332. (From Tuesday, October 2 to Tuesday, October the 9. 1649.).

Notes:

Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).

Editor: Richard Collings; some issues have "Collected by R.C." on the title page.

Title from caption.

Title varies slightly; the edition of [no. 23] may be a piracy, bearing the title: A fine designe discovered. And Irish rebels landed', with the imprint: London : printed for Peter Cole, at the Glove in Cornehill, neer the Royall Exchange, 1643. Cf. Nelson & Seccombe 214.023B.

With continuous pagination and register.

Most issues from no. 24 have colophons, which subsequently vary.One issue in June 1643 was printed for Peter Cole; from July 1643 to the end of Feb. 1644, issues were printed by George Bishop and Robert White; from then until mid-June 1646 the printer was Robert White alone; other names that appear in imprints include: Robert Austin, Andrew Coe, G. L., and Humphrey Blunden, whose initials appear on colophons from mid-1646 to mid-1648. Cf. Nelson and Seccombe.

Some issues dated according to Lady Day dating.

Some issues with repeated numbering and dating may be counterfeits of this newsbook as the texts differ.

Publication ceased with Numb. 332 as a result of the Licensing Act of 1649, which suppressed the entire licensed press from 12 Oct. 1649 until mid-1650. Cf. Williams.

This record subsumes all editions (including counterfeits and rival editions, etc.) of individual issues of this title, as recorded by Nelson & Seccombe.

Numbering begins with the second issue (10 Jan., 1643).

Numbering irregular: nos. 22, 23, 24 repeated in numbering with the same dates, signatures and pagination; nos. 189-197 omitted; nos. 266, 269 repeated.

Slight irregularities in dating.

Gaps in publishing between 21 Mar.-10 Apr. 1644 and 28 Jan.-11 Mar. 1645.

Cited in:

Nelson & Seccombe. Brit. newspapers and periodicals, 1641-1700, 214.001-332

Williams, J.B. History of English journalism, pp. 43, 122

OCLC:

643152131