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Books in the News in Cromwellian England
This article offers detailed analysis of the patterns of book advertising in Marchamont Nedham’s government-sponsored newsbook, Mercurius Politicus. It contends that, for a brief period, Politicus was the nearest thing that the mid-seventeenth century had to a literary periodical and contests standard accounts that Politicus was only successful because government monopoly made it so. Instead I show that Politicus was instrumental in creating an image of the Commonwealth and Protectorate as a Republic of Letters; the cheap print of its small advertisements insisted that the publication of a book was an event, that London was a city of the book, and that its inhabitants might respond to the uncertainty of political revolution by eagerly imagining a future comprised of new books as yet unread
Αλήθειαι δια τον λαόν : ή ζητήματα τινά Θεολογικά σαφώς εκτεθειμένα / Υπό Ουιλλιέλμου Σ. Πλωμέρ (Θ.Δ.).Εκ του Aγγλικού υπό Μ. Δ. Καλoποθάκη.(Ι.Δ.).
Colonel Hammond's letter sent to the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons, wherein he desires, that Mr. Osborns charge against Major Rolph, may be brought to a speedy examination. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this letter be forthwith printed and published. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. With a letter sent to the Honorable Committee at Derby-house, concerning the taking of the Earl of Holland, and many officers of quality, two hundred horse, much gold and silver, with other good booty. Ordered by the said Committee, that this letter be forthwith printed and published. Gualther Frost Secr'
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