Scribal News in Politics and Parliament, 1660 - 1760

An exploration of scribal news, which played a major part in the topical reporting of political developments in Britain during the 17th and 18th centuries Evaluates its significance, which has long been overshadowed by the seemingly inevitable rise of print media Builds on recent research that critiqued assumptions about the superiority of print Seeks to explore the relationship between manuscript news and politics in Britain from c. 1660-1760 in more detail and on a broad scale

Notes on Contributors Abbreviations (Robin Eagles and Michael Schaich) Preface (Robin Eagles and Michael Schaich) Introduction (Jason Peacey) ‘A Knowing but a Discrete Man’: Scribal News and Information Management in Restoration England (Edward Taylor) ‘Our Masters the Commons Begin Now to Roar’: Parliament in Scribal Verse, 1621–81 (Brendan Dooley and Davide Boerio) Hot News: The Florence Resident Reports on the Great Fire of London (Michael Schaich) (Extra)ordinary News: Foreign Reporting on English Politics under William III (Charles Littleton) Diplomatic Residents in England and Approaches to Reporting Parliament in the First Years of George I (Rachael Scarborough King) ‘Sir Madam’:Female Consumers of Parliamentary News in Manuscript Newsletters (Alasdair Raffe) Wodrow’s News: Correspondence and Politics in Early 18th-Century Scotland (Leith Davis) Inscripting Rebellion: The Newdigate Manuscript Newsletters, Printed Newspapers and the Cultural Memory of the 1715 Rising (Robin Eagles) Reporting Trials and Impeachments in the Reign of George I: The Evidence of the Wigtown and Wye Newsletters (Ugo Bruschi) The Formidable Machine: Parliament as Seen by Italian Diplomats at the Court of St James’s in the First Half of the 18th Century (Markman Ellis) Philip Yorke and Thomas Birch: Scribal News in the Mid 18th Century (Kate Loveman) Afterword Index