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Mercurius Pragmaticus (for King Charles II)..

Other author/creatorNedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.
Other author/creatorCleveland, John, 1613-1658, attributed name.
Format Electronic, Book, and Newspaper
Publication Info[London : s.n., 1649.
Descriptionv. ; 4°.
Supplemental Content Gale, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
Subject(s)
Uniform titleMercurius pragmaticus, (for King Charles II.) (London, England : Apr 1649)
FrequencyWeekly
Series Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection UNAUTHORIZED
Local noteImages from the source library are selected or scattered issues as well as various editions of the cataloged title and related titles (where indicated in the MARC record) as representative of the general publishing history of the title during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Local noteImages from the source library are selected or scattered issues as well as various editions of the cataloged title and related titles (where indicated in the MARC record) as representative of the general publishing history of the title during the 17th and 18th centuries.
General noteReproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
General noteAttributed to Marchamont Nedham.
General noteThis record subsumes all editions (including counterfeits and rival editions, etc.) of individual issues of this title, as recorded by Nelson & Seccombe.
General noteCounterfeits attributed to John Cleveland. Cf. Nelson & Seccombe and Frank p. 194
General noteTitle from caption.
General notePlace of publication from Nelson & Seccombe.
General noteEach issue begins with a title page poem in rhymed quatrains, signed with Nedham and Cleveland's motto: "Nemo me impune lacessit," and ends with a rhymed couplet.
General noteSigned.
References NCBEL, I:2106
References Nelson & Seccombe. Brit. newspapers and periodicals, 1641-1700, 370.01-55
References Times handlist, p.24
Citation/References note Frank, J. Beginins of the English newspaper 1620-1660
Special numberingFrom no. 4-15 many issues have duplicate numbers with the same dates, one of which is a counterfeit with a different text.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Title history noteAnother version of: Mercurius pragmaticus, for King Charls II. appeared for two weeks in Sept. 1649.
Genre/formNewsbooks.

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