Brice's Weekly Journal

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Newspaper

Series:

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exeter (England)--Newspapers.

Exeter (England).

Genre:

Newspapers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v. )

Weekly

Numb. I (Friday, April the 30th, 1725)-

Ceased in 1736? Cf. Bibl. of Brit. newspapers. Cornwall & Devon

Continues:

Post-master; or, The loyal mercury

Continued By:

Brice's weekly collection of intelligence

Notes:

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

Place of publication from date line.

Issues before no. 14 have no colophon; later issues have colophon: Exon: printed by Andrew Brice, at the Sign of the Printing-Press, in the High-street.

Some dates given according to Lady Day dating.

George I died June 11 1727; announccements and condolences bound with paper for June 16 and June 23; George II speeches to Parliament on June 27th bound with June 30th issue no. 55, which includes editorial on George I.

Description based on: Numb. 1 (Friday, April the 30th, 1725); title from caption.

Latest issue consulted: Numb. 324 (May 28, 1731).

Numbering began again from no. 1 sometime in June 1726.

No. 17 repeated in numbering and dating Septemeber 3. No gap in publishing.

No. 49 illegible and No. 16 failed to print.

Gap between No. 53 May 13 1726 and no. 1 June 17 1726 apparently over some legal dispute with the Farleys which he addresses in his paper on June 17th.

August to October 1729 numbering irregular.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1358

Bibl. of Brit. newspapers. Cornwall & Devon, p. 99

Cranfield, G.A. Provincial newspapers, 37

Wiles, R.M. Freshest advices, 46

Wiles, R.M. Serial publication before 1750, p. 29

Times handlist, p. 218

OCLC:

643152608