The pictorial press : its origin and progress / by Mason Jackson.

  • Mason Jackson
Date:
1885
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Credit: The pictorial press : its origin and progress / by Mason Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER II. Illustrated Broadsides — Sir Francis Drake's Operations against the Spaniards —Papers of News in the Keign of James I. —The first Periodical Newspaper published in England — Illustrated Tracts re- lating to Storms and Floods—Remarkable Murders favourite subjects with the early Newswriters—Murder of the Rev. Mr. Storre— Murder in Cornwall—Apparition of Three Skeletons—Visions in the Air—Attempt on the Life of the Duke of Buckingham —Fall of Meteors at Bawlkin Green, Berkshire—The Sicedish Intelligencer— Passage of the River Leek by Gustavus Adolphus —The Sallee Povers—The Weeldy Nexos of 1638, an Illustrated Paper —The Irish RebelUon of 1641 —The Plague in London—Murder on board an English Ship—The Earl of Strafford-His Execution on Tower Hill —Archbishop Laud—A Burlesque Play about him —Attack by the Mob on Lambeth Palace—Caricature of the Devil offering Laud a Cardinal's Hat. Before, and for a long time after, the general use of news- papers, illustrated broadsides were published relating to par- ticular events, or satirising the vices and follies of the period. In a broadside adorned with a woodcut representing Death and Time, and entitled, The Doleful Dance, and 8oncj of Death, allusion is made to the 'Fatal Assizes' of Oxford, when three hundred persons, including the High Sheriff, died of a dis- temper, which was supposed to have originated among the prisoners. A sheet of a later date refers to the Spanish Armada and the Gunpowder Plot; while a third, entitled, Tittle - Tattle, &c., satirises the gossiping habits of the fair sex, and contains many illustrations of manners, costume, and character. Such were the publications that did duty for newspapers in the days of Queen Elizabeth, whose subjects, however, were not left wholly without information as to passing events. In 1587 there was published an illustrated tract giving an account of the doings of Sir Francis Drake,
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