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City-Scout
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Available from 1645 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. 11. (From Tuesday, Septemb. 30. to Tuesday Octob. 7. 1645)-Numb. 16. (From Tuesday the 4. of Novemb. 1645, to Tuesday the 11)
- Continues:
- Heads of some notes of the citie scout from the armie
- Continued By:
- Kingdomes scout
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
- The "city-scout" is reputed to be Hugh Peters, who reported regularly to Parliament on Army activities.
- Imprint from colophon.
- Descripiton based on: Numb. 11. (From Tuesday, Septemb. 30. to Tuesday Octob. 7. 1645); title from caption.
- Latest issue consulted: Numb. 16. (From Tuesday the 4. of Novemb. 1645, to Tuesday the 11)
- Numbering continues from previous title.
- Numb. 15 has misprinted year of publication in colophon: i.e. 2645; a variant of no. 14 (not in Thomason) has the same error. Cf. Nelson and Seccombe.
- Cited in:
- Nelson and Seccombe, 411.11-16
- Frank, J. Beginnings of the English newspaper 1620-1660, p. 114
- OCLC:
- 643152123
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