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Essay by Julian Pooley; University of Leicester, John Nichols and His
'A Copious Collection of Newspapers' John Nichols and his Collection of Newspapers, Pamphlets and News Sheets, 1760–1865 Julian Pooley, University of Leicester Introduction John Nichols (1745–1826) was a leading London printer who inherited the business of his former master and partner, William Bowyer the Younger, in 1777, and rose to be Master of the Stationers’ Company in 1804.1 He was also a prominent literary biographer and antiquary whose publications, including biographies of Hogarth and Swift, and a county history of Leicestershire, continue to inform and inspire scholarship today.2 Much of his research drew upon his vast collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century newspapers. This essay, based on my ongoing work on the surviving papers of the Nichols family, will trace the history of John Nichols’ newspaper collection. It will show how he acquired his newspapers, explore their influence upon his research and discuss the changing fortunes of his collection prior to its acquisition by the Bodleian Library in 1865. 1 For useful biographical studies of John Nichols, see Albert H. Smith, ‘John Nichols, Printer and 2 The first edition of John Nichols’ Anecdotes of Mr Hogarth (London, 1780) grew, with the assistance Publisher’ The Library Fifth Series 18.3 (September 1963), pp. 169–190; James M. Kuist, The Works of Isaac Reed and George Steevens, into The Works of William Hogarth from the Original Plates of John Nichols. An Introduction (New York, 1968), Alan Broadfield, ‘John Nichols as Historian restored by James Heath RA to which is prefixed a biographical essay on the genius and productions of and Friend. -
Pdf\Preparatory\Charles Wesley Book Catalogue Pub.Wpd
Proceedings of the Charles Wesley Society 14 (2010): 73–103. (This .pdf version reproduces pagination of printed form) Charles Wesley’s Personal Library, ca. 1765 Randy L. Maddox John Wesley made a regular practice of recording in his diary the books that he was reading, which has been a significant resource for scholars in considering influences on his thought.1 If Charles Wesley kept such diary records, they have been lost to us. However, he provides another resource among his surviving manuscript materials that helps significantly in this regard. On at least four occasions Charles compiled manuscript catalogues of books that he owned, providing a fairly complete sense of his personal library around the year 1765. Indeed, these lists give us better records for Charles Wesley’s personal library than we have for the library of brother John.2 The earliest of Charles Wesley’s catalogues is found in MS Richmond Tracts.3 While this list is undated, several of the manuscript hymns that Wesley included in the volume focus on 1746, providing a likely time that he started compiling the list. Changes in the color of ink and size of pen make clear that this was a “growing” list, with additions being made into the early 1750s. The other three catalogues are grouped together in an untitled manuscript notebook containing an assortment of financial records and other materials related to Charles Wesley and his family.4 The first of these three lists is titled “Catalogue of Books, 1 Jan 1757.”5 Like the earlier list, this date indicates when the initial entries were made; both the publication date of some books on the list and Wesley’s inscriptions in surviving volumes make clear that he continued to add to the list over the next few years. -
John Dunton's Will PRO PROB LI/657 , P. BZ
\-r John Dunton'sWill PROPROB LI/657 , p. BZ In the Name of God Amen. I John Dunton Citizen and Stationer of London and late of St Giles Cripplegate parish in the County of Middlesex being through merry of health of Body and mind Do make this my last will and Testament concerning all my Earthly pittance. For my Soul I bequeath it into the hands of Almighty God, and so hope through the meritts of jesus Christ that my Body after its Sleeping awhile in ]esus shall be committed unto my Soul that they may both be for ever with the Lord. Of what I shall leave behind me I make this following Disposall A11 my just debts being first paid (and by *y debts I mean whatever shall be provd to be soo after my decease or whatever my Executrix hereafter named can by diligent searching find out that I owe) I give to my Dear and adopted Child Mrs Isabella Edwards Widdow late of l)ean Street in Holbourn Parish three hundred pounds Sterlin [sic] (for the tender and matchless ffreindship she shewed both to rny Soul and body from our first Acquaintance in Ireland to the day of my death) to be paid to her by *y Executrix hereafter named as soon as she possibly can after my decease or in case the said Isabella Edwards sould dy" before me I give flfty pounds of the said three hundred pounds to Mr William Lutwich of London Goldsmith... I also give to my Adopted Child Mrs Isabella Edwards her own Picture in a Gilded fframe and also my Silver Spoon that Mr William Ashhurst sent to me that year I liv'd with him when he was Lord Mayor of the City of London - I also give to William Reading Nathaniel Reading and Thomas Reading my Cozens the Summ of thirty pounds Viz. -
Paying for Poetry at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century, with Particular Reference to Dryden, Pope, and Defoe
Paying for Poetry at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century, with Particular Reference to Dryden, Pope, and Defoe J. A. DOWNIE IT IS SOMETIMES insinuated that author-publisher relations changed once and for all as a consequence of Dryden’s contract with Jacob Tonson to publish a subscription edition of his translation of Virgil, and Pope’s subsequent agreement with Bernard Lintot to publish a translation of the Iliad. Both poets unquestionably made a lot of money out of these publications. Dryden should have received the proceeds of the 101 five-guinea subscriptions in their entirety, in accordance with his contract with Tonson, as well as an additional sum from the cheaper second subscription. In addition to agreeing to pay Dryden £200 in four instalments for the copyright of his translation of Virgil to encourage him to complete the project as speedily as possible, Tonson also paid the capital costs of the plates and alterations and the costs of the 101 copies for the first subscribers. He even made a contribution towards the costs of the copies of the second subscribers. John Barnard calculates that “in all Dryden received between £910 and £1,075 from Tonson and the subscribers, and probably £400 or £500 for his [three] dedications” (“Patrons” 177). Yet Dryden fell out with Tonson, and William Congreve and one Mr Aston were called in to mediate. “You always intended I shou[l]d get nothing by the Second Subscriptions,” Dryden complained to Tonson, “as I found from first to last” (Letters 77). After shopping around among other booksellers, however, Dryden came to think rather differently. -
ABSTRACT the Prevenient Piety of Samuel Wesley, Sr. Arthur Alan
ABSTRACT The Prevenient Piety of Samuel Wesley, Sr. Arthur Alan Torpy Mentor: William H. Brackney, Ph.D. The life and times of Samuel Wesley, Sr. have been addressed since the time of John and Charles Wesley as an absentee father with little positive influence on the Wesley family. However, the literary contributions of Samuel have been overlooked. Having examined his writings, this dissertation offers a fuller portrait of Samuel Wesley. The thesis of this work is that Samuel Wesley was a complex person whose thoughts, actions, and positions were based on his understanding and practice of his traditions, experience, scripture, and reasoning. A key to understanding Wesley’s life and thought can be found in the Pietist strains evident in his writings, published and unpublished, which formed the basis of his decisions and actions. The chapters explore the dynamics of late seventeenth- century England’s cultural milieu where Wesley was raised and educated within post-Uniformity Dissent and provide his rationale for gradually conforming to the Established Church. The origins of Continental Pietism is summarized and its influence on the Established Church through Anthony Horneck. Also discussed is Samuel’s view of scripture within the context of the nascent critical apparatus introduced by Richard Simon and Baruch Spinoza. Samuel’s rejection of this critical approach is a key to understanding his scriptural hermeneutic which formed the basis of his actions. The overarching characteristic of Samuel Wesley’s life and thought was his understanding of Piety which he passed along to his sons, most notably John and Charles, but also Samuel, Jr. -
The Unprofitable Business of Michael Perry, a Seventeenth-Century Boston Bookseller
Under the Exchange: The Unprofitable Business of Michael Perry, a Seventeenth-Century Boston Bookseller HUGH AMORY EVENTEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON booksellers clustered around the Town House, where the Old State House now Sstands. Here, at street level, was the merchants' exchange; above them stood not only the Courts, but also the Armory and the Public Library; below them lay a once-New, preliterate World. In this symbolic situation, American goods, arriving from Roxbury Neck along Cornhill Street, met European credit, ascending along King Street from the harbor. The centrality of the Town House was not just geographical and commercial, however, but social and even intellectual. At either end of town lay traditionally rival areas, whose younger male inhabitants bonded in a ritual brawl once a year on Guy Fawkes Day.' In the North End, at Second Church, tvvdnkled the liberal wit of the Mathers; in the South End, at Third Church, glared the systematic learning of Samuel Willard. Bos- This is a revised version of a paper read at a conference on Volume i of ^ History of the Book in America at the American Antiquarian Society September 18—19, 1992. The author is most grateful for comment and criticism by David D. Hall, for the privilege of reading the typescript of James N. Green's Rosenbach lectures, which has gready influenced his treatment of publication, and to John Bidwell, who supplied particulars of Clark Library copies and proposed the identification of Hoole's accidence. 1. Walter Muir Whitehill, Boston: A Topographical History (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1959), p. 29. HUGH AMORY is Senior Rare Book Cataloguer at the Houghton Library, and, with David D. -
Jonathan Swift Contra John Dunton
Jonathan Swift Contra John Dunton In 1705, there appeared the very peculiar Life and Errors of John Dunton, “Written by Himself in Solitude.” This book traces the life of John Dunton, Bookseller and founding member of the Athenian Society, in whose honour Swift penned his first published work, “An Ode to the Athenian Society” (1691). This Dunton proudly recalls: “Mr. Swift, a Country Gentleman, sent an Ode to the Athenian Society, which being an Ingenius Poem, won prefixt to the Fifth Supplement of the Athenian Mercury.” The epithet, “a Country Gentleman”, is partly Dunton’s creation and partly Swift’s. Swift’s introductory letter mixes self-aggrandizement with self-effacement. Clearly, he took this step toward publication with trepidation, fearing on one hand rejection and on the other, public exposure. One of his later thoughts expresses what must be a universal ambivalence among authors towards publication: “A Copy of Verses kept in the Cabinet, and only shewn to a few friends, is like a Virgin much sought after and admired; but when printed and published, is like a common whore, whom anybody may purchase for half a crown.” In preparation for so momentous a step, Swift puffs himself up into a figure of the Country Gentleman (he conspicuously signs the letter “Moor Park”) who explains his acquaintance with the Mercury: “about two Months ago passing through Oxford, a very learned Gentleman there, first shew’d me two or three of your Volumes.” After viewing “all the four Volumes with their Supplements”, he composed the Ode and “sent it to a Person of very great Learning and Honour, and since to some others.” These naturally recommended immediate publication. -
Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Elizabeth Singer Rowe: Dissent, Influence, and Writing Religion, 1690-1740 Jessica Haldeman Clement PhD University of York English and Related Literature September 2017 Abstract This thesis addresses the religious poetry of Elizabeth Singer Rowe, arguing that her Dissenting identity provides an important foundation on which to which to critically consider her works. Although Rowe enjoyed a successful career, with the majority of her writing seeing multiple editions throughout her lifetime and following her death, her posthumous reputation persists as an overly pious and reclusive religious poet. Moving past these stereotypes, my thesis explores Rowe’s engagement with poetry as a means to convey various aspects of Dissent and her wider religious community. This thesis also contributes to the wider understanding of Dissenting creative writing and influence in the years following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, using Rowe’s work as a platform to demonstrate complexities and cultural shifts within the work of her contemporaries. My argument challenges the notion that Rowe’s religious poetry was a mere exercise in piety or a display of religious sentimentalism, demonstrating powerful evolutions in contemporary discussions of philosophy, religious tolerance, and the relationship between the church and state. A popular figure that appealed to a heterodox reading public, Rowe addresses many aspects of Dissent throughout her work. Combining close readings of Rowe’s poetry and religious writings with the popular works of her contemporaries, this study explores latitudinarian shifts and discussions of depravity within her religious poetry, the impact of the Clarendon Code and subsequent toleration on her conceptualisation of suffering and imprisonment, as well as her use of ecumenical language throughout her writings. -
Life of John Eliot: the Apostle to the Indians
Convers Francis, Life of John Eliot: The Apostle to the Indians LIFE OF JOHN ELIOT: THE APOSTLE TO THE INDIANS. BY CONVERS FRANCIS. BOSTON: BILLIARD, GRAY, A.ND CO. LONDON: RICHARD JAMES, 1836. Convers Francis, Life of John Eliot: The Apostle to the Indians Entered according to the act of Congress in the year 1886, by JARED SPARKS, in the Clerk's office of the District Cowt of the District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE: CHARLES FOLSOM, Convers Francis, Life of John Eliot: The Apostle to the Indians PREFACE. IN preparing the following account of the Apostle Eliot, it has been my object to con- fine the narrative as strictly as possible within the limits of his personal biography, and of the circumstances necessarily connected with it. The story obviously furnishes many points, at which a writer would desire to avail himself of the opportunities presented for discussion and general remarks. Among these topics, the condition and fate of the American Indians, and the character of mis- sionary enterprises among them since Eliot's time, would open a large field for inquiry and reflection, in connexion with the history of a man, who labored so strenuously for that interesting race. It would likewise be desir- able to take a somewhat ample notice of Mr. Eliot's fellow-laborers in the same benevo- lent work. But my limits have necessarily Convers Francis, Life of John Eliot: The Apostle to the Indians vi. PREFACE. precluded these and similar digressions. The object of a work like the present is to give a distinct and faithful picture of the life, doings, opinions, and habits of the individual; and the reader must be left to derive from the account such materials for speculation as may be suggested to his own mind. -
Abbreviations Used in Appendices and Notes
Abbreviations Used in Appendices and Notes AH&J: An Appeal to Honour and Justice (1715). A]: Applebee's Journal. AM&C: Atlas Maritimus & Commercia/is (1728). Arber's Gamer: Edward Arber (ed.), An English Gamer (12 vols, Westminster, 1903). Bastian (1): F. Bastian, 'Daniel Defoe and the Dorking District', Surrey Archaeological Collections, lv (1958) 41-64. Bastian (2): F. Bastian, 'James Foe Merchant, Father of Daniel Defoe', N&Q, ccix {March 1964) 82-6. Bastian (3): F. Bastian, 'Defoe and Guy Miege', N&Q, ccxiv (March 1969) 103-5. BL: British Library. Boulton: J. T. Boulton (ed.), Daniel Defoe (London, 1965). Cal.S.P. (Dom): Calendar of State Papers, Domestic. Cavalier: ]. T. Boulton (ed.), Memoirs of a Cavalier (Oxford, 1972). CEG: Karl D. Bulbring (ed.), The Compleat English Gentleman (London, 1890). GET: The Complete English Tradesman (1727). CLRO: Corporation of London Record Office. Col. Jack: Samuel Holt Monk (ed.), The History ... of ... Col. Jacque (Oxford, 1965). Collection: A Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True-Born English-Man (1703). Complete History: A Complete History of the Late Revolution from the First Rise of it to this present Time (1691). DNB: Dictionary of National Biography. Ellis: Frank H. Ellis (ed.}, Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1697-1704 (Yale University, 1970). EuP: An Essay upon Projects (1697). Abbreviations Used in Appendices and Notes 303 Evelyn, Diary: E. S. de Beer (ed.), The Diary of John Evelyn (Oxford, 1955). Grimblot: P. Grimblot (ed.), Letters of Wz"lliam III and Louis XIV and of their Min-isters . .. 1697 to 1709 (London, 1848). -
SALU'te to SUSANNA by Franlt Balter
SALU'TE TO SUSANNA By Franlt Balter Susanna Wesley was a daughter of the Puritans. She was born on January 20, 1669, according to tl1e Old Style calendar, or January 31, if we reck:on by our New Style calendar introduced ten years after her death in 1742. Her father was Samuel Annesley (c.1620- 1696), nicknamed "the St. Paul of the Nonconformists." With the restoration of King Charles II in 1660, the Church of England again became episcopalian following the Puritan Commonwealth under Oliver Crom,vell and his son Richard. Annesley's conscience would not allow him to accept the Boole of Common P'rayer as revised in 1662, whereupon with two thousand other Puritan clergy, mostly Presbyterians like himself, he suffered ejection from the Church of England. Financially he suffered far more than most, for tl1e Lord Protector himself had presented him to the extremely wealthy living1 of St. Giles, 1Cripplegate, Londo11, where lie buried Martin Frobisl1er the traveler, John Foxe the martyrologist, and John Milton the poet. Over the objections of some of his parishioners the presentation was confirmed by the new king; but conscience was ·•- more powerful still. Braving persecution, Annesley organized the largest Presbyterian congregation in London, numbering eight hundred members-an illegal '"conventicle" for the holding of which his remaining personal property was confiscated.2 Eventually the congregation was licensed under the terms of the Declaration of Indulgence in 1672, and was the center for the first public ordination of Nonconformist ministers (during an eight-hour service) in 1694. This was at Little St. -
Swift's Opinions of Contemporary English Literary Figures
Cl SWIFT’S OPINIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH LITERARY FIGUHBS Carl Ray Woodring l A Thesis 4 Presented to the Faculty of the Rice Institute, Houston, Texas, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts & V Houston, Texas 1942 V CONTENTS Foreword i Introduction ii I. Moor park 1 II. London 29 III. Londons The Scrlblerus Club 72 IV. Ireland 100 Conclusion 131 Bibliography The present belated trend toward recognizing the validity of Swift’s ideas as well as the power of his art influenced ny choice of Swift as a concentrating point* The immediate subjeot of this thosis was suggested by Professor Alan D* KcKillop, whose general and specific criticisms of the manuscript through all its stages have been of inestimable and elsewhere unacknowledged value* Although it will be evident presently that the debts are greater than the accomplishment, I should like to name here, besides Professor MoKillop, MM* George G* Williams, Joseph D* Thomas, Carroll Camden, Joseph V/* Hendren, and George W* Whiting, of the Faculty of English, and Floyd S* Lear, of the Faoulty of History, not so much for lectures, which provided general background and methods of approaoh, as for their courtesy in answering sporadic questions concerning details of the present paper* Acknowledgments of debt to printed sources have been rendered, except for general information, in the foot¬ notes* The Bibliography printed at the end of the text is not a complete bibliography of Swiftian and related volumes, or even of books examined, but a finding-list