HISTORY OF THE PRINTING PRESS IN DERBYSHIRE, 155 
the Oaths and entered upon the Office.” He was also an alder- 
man of the Corporation of Chesterfield, and died in February, 
1798. 
The following tract, although not printed in Chesterfield, is too 
curious to be overlooked. 
«Strange and Terrible News from Chesterfield in Darbyshire: Being A 
full and true Relation of a horrible and terrible Ghost that was visibly seen on 
Sunday the 24th of Jan. 1674. First in the Shape of a Dog, then a Woman, 
and afterwards a Man. Together with the Discovery of some Money that was 
hidden by Him in his Life time. 
Richard Hobbs, Constable. 
James Knit, Constable. 
Joseph Wilson, Church-Warden, 
Mr. Down, Gentleman. 
Attested by 
London : Printed in the Year, 1675. 4to., 4 leaves.” 
I have records of the following extinct newspapers printed in 
Chesterfield :— Zhe Chesterfield Gazette and Scarsdale and High 
Peak Advertiser, a high-class journal which was first published 
on January 6th, 1828, by J. Roberts, of the Post Office. In the 
following year its title was altered to Zhe Derbyshire Courier. 
(2) The Derbyshire Patriot, or Repository of Politics, News, 
Literature, &c., the first number of which appeared on the 4th 
May, 1833, with the imprint of Thomas Ford, Irongate. It con- 
tained twenty pages, 4to, was unstamped, and sold for sixpence. 
Informations under the Stamp Act having been laid against the 
publisher, the paper was discontinued after two numbers only had 
been issued. 
The Belper press does not appear to have been established 
until the beginning of the present century, In 1811, S. Mason 
printed 4 Mew View of Derbyshire, 8vo., for David Peter Davies, 
a Unitarian Minister, living at Makeney. The typography is bad 
and the paper worse ; Lowndes says there were copies on “ fine 
paper.” I have seen copies divided into two volumes, with 
_ separate title-pages, but have never noticed any variation in the 
size or quality of the paper. On July 9th, 1813, appeared the 
first number of Zhe Derbyshire Chronicle, and Universal Weekly 
