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now-a-days has created its peculiar style of sensational journalism. 
Later on pamphlets of a better type recorded news of importance. 
To show how this was done I may quote the title of one relating 
to Bath, which is preserved in the British Museum. It runs :— 
_“A Fuller Relation of the taking of Bath by Sir Thomas Fairfax 
“his Forces; with the condition of the surrender, Sir Thomas 
“ Bridges, the Governour and officers gone to Bristoll 
“Taken therein 
“ 200 prisoners 
* 200 armes 
“6 pieces of ordnance 
“10 barrels of powder 
“10 barrels of match and much duionidetion 
“ Divers heaps of bullets 
“ Great store of beefs, corns and other provisions 
“The standard colours upon the Fort Royall and all other colours in 
“the Town 
“ Published by Authority 
“Printed for Thomas Bates at the signe of the Maiden Head on 
“Snow Hill neere Holborn Conduite 1645.” 
It will be seen that the system, universal among American 
newspapers, of giving the cream of the news in a series of boldly 
displayed headings to a telegram, is no novelty. ‘The Relation” 
consists of a letter from a gentleman dated “Combe neere Bath,” 
giving a very vivid and spirited description of the easy capture 
of the city, very much in the style of a modern special corres- 
pondent. The latter is indeed only a revival, for after the 
Restoration the gossip of the Court and the coffee houses used to 
be retailed to the country parson and squire by the writer of 
news letters, just as the London correspondent writes to the 
provincial papers of the day. This practice is ridiculed in the 
old play “ The Stranger.” 
The provinces however were not long without their newspapers. 
London had its “ Gazette” in 1665, Edinburgh followed in 1690, 
and “‘ Berrow’s Worcester Journal” was started in the same year, 
the “Stamford Mercury” five years later. ‘Ten other still existing 
