Newspaper
Collection object
2002.0052
H. 18.5 W. 14.2
Newspaper, The present State of Europe or the Historical and Political Mercury, February 1691, with report on the Siege of Limerick. 40pp, extracted from a bound volume. Title page, within double line border, The / Present State / of / Europe / or, the / Historical and Political Mercury: / Giving and Accoount of all the Publick and Private / Occurrences / That are most considerable in every Court, / For the Month of February, 1691. / (line) / With Curious Reflections upon every State / (line) / Vol II / (line) / To be continued Monthly from the Original published / at the Hague, by the Authority of the States of / Holland, and West Friesland, in the same size and fineness / of Paper, for incouragement of any who shall desire to bind / any quantity of them by way of Book. / (line) / Edinburgh, / Re-printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to / Their most Excellent Majesties, Anno Dom 1690. And are to be sold / at Mistress Andersons Shop, on the North side of the Cross; and / at Mistress Ogstons Shop in the Parliament Close. Paginated 39-75, reports in the form of Advice from .. followed by Reflections on the news from ..., ps69-71 of Irish interest, under Advice from England: Tyrconnell landed at Galway with supplies, including twenty thousand suits; skirmishes bewteen Williamites and Irish at Lamborough on the Shannon; raparees beaten by Kirk in several encounters; Jacobite letters with details of Williamite forces seized; Lord Preston & Ashton tried and sentences for same, Ashton hanged at Tyburn; Preston reprieved on promise of further discoveries.
Other stories: Rome & Italy; Switzerland; Germany & Turkey; France; Spain; Poland and the North; Holland. Inside front cover: Licensed March 3, 1691, J. Fraser. Back page blank. Bound with thread.
Watermark: part of a crown on front sheet; on p.69-70, part of crown with initials CR (for Carolus Rex?). Sheet ps71-74 loose. Ps51-74 holed by insect near spine towards bottom.
Other stories: Rome & Italy; Switzerland; Germany & Turkey; France; Spain; Poland and the North; Holland. Inside front cover: Licensed March 3, 1691, J. Fraser. Back page blank. Bound with thread.
Watermark: part of a crown on front sheet; on p.69-70, part of crown with initials CR (for Carolus Rex?). Sheet ps71-74 loose. Ps51-74 holed by insect near spine towards bottom.
Andrew Anderson (printer)