Newspaper
Collection object
2002.0058
H. 18.5 W. 14.2
Newspaper, The present State of Europe or the Historical and Political Mercury, January 1692, 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: / The Interests of Princes, their Pretensions and / Intrigues &c. / For the Month of January, 1692. / (line) / With Political Reflections upon every State / (line) / Vol III / (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) Licensed February 1, 1692 J Frazer / (line) / Edinburgh, / Re-printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to / Their most Excellent Majesties, Anno Dom 1692. 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 3-39 (p.32 written 30), reports in the form of Advice from .. followed by Reflections on the news from ..., ps27, 32-34, of Irish interest, under Advice from France and Advice from England: King James met Irish at Brest, his letter to them; Sir David Collier made governor of Limerick and Lord O'Brien governor of the whole country; (Williamite?) French regiments to remain in Ireland; Rapparees coming in; Dublin gave entertainment to Ginkel on 21 Nov; trophy erected with lines in Latin denoting the year 1691.
Other stories: Rome & Italy; Germany & Turkey; France; Spain; Poland and the North; Cologne, Low Countries and Holland. Back page blank. Inside front cover, advertisement: The Mercury for Twelve Months past, are boynd together; and to be sold by the Heir of Andrew Anderson at their Shop, on the North side of the Cross, and at Mistress Ogston's Shop, Book-seller in the Parliament Closs.
A small triangle of paper with contemporary handwriting between ps26-27
Other stories: Rome & Italy; Germany & Turkey; France; Spain; Poland and the North; Cologne, Low Countries and Holland. Back page blank. Inside front cover, advertisement: The Mercury for Twelve Months past, are boynd together; and to be sold by the Heir of Andrew Anderson at their Shop, on the North side of the Cross, and at Mistress Ogston's Shop, Book-seller in the Parliament Closs.
A small triangle of paper with contemporary handwriting between ps26-27
Andrew Anderson (printer)