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HISTORY OF THE PRINTING PRESS IN DERBYSHIRE. I4!I 
This little quarto sheet represents unquestionably, the first 
newspaper published in Derbyshire. ‘The specimen in my own 
collection is the earliest I have been able to meet with; it 
contains neither local news nor advertisements ; but the imprint 
conveys hints of some importance. It is clear that, whatever 
might have been the case in 1715, there was a Derby printer, 
four years later, who, in his own estimation at least, was capable 
of printing “ All manner of Books,” and who subsequently 
did produce some very creditable specimens, such as an edition 
of Houghton’s “ Rava Avis in Terris, The Compleat Miner,” 
in £729. 
At this time, 1719, there were at least two booksellers in 
Derby besides John Hodges, aforesaid. Their names occur 
in the imprint of Zhe Nottingham Mercury, of Thursday, Sept. 
27, 1720 (a small 4to sheet, much like the Derby Post-Man), 
as follows :— 
NOTTINGHAM : 
Printed by J. COLLYER at the Sheep Pens, & Sold 
By Abr. Swain Salter in Bradford; Jofh. Hoyland in Sheffield ; 
Hen. Alleftree and W. Cantrel in Derby; Peter Davie in 
Leicefter ; D, Watfon in Afhbydelazouch; B. Earnworth in 
Newark ; T. Dixon in Mansfield; Mrs. Singleton in Redford ; 
S. Gunter in Chefterfield, and Wid. Carver in Melton: Where 
Advertifements are taken in at Two Shillings each. 
Henry Allestree, whose place of business was at the Market 
Head, was one of a distinguished Derby family of that name ; 
he was probably a son of William Allestree, formerly Recorder 
of the borough. We find ‘“ William Cantrell, Book-seller in 
Derby” publishing the first edition of Anthony Blackwall’s 
Introduction to the Classics, printed at London, 1717; his name 
appears again upon the title page of the fourth edition of 
that work in 1728, and of the same author’s Mew Latin 
Grammar. It is not unlikely that he was brother of the Rev. 
Thomas Cantrell, Head Master of Derby School, Lecturer at All 
Hallows, and Vicar of Elvaston, who, dying in 1699,was succeeded 
by the Rey. Anthony Blackwall in all those offices, and in even 
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