234 A Proposed Bibliography of Witishire. 
Next came the Salisbury Journal, the earliest copy of which I 
have seen is No. 58, for Monday, July 6th, 1730; Sarum: printed 
Jor Charles Hooton, at the Printing Office in Milford Street. In 
1746 the title of the paper was the Salishury Journal or Weekly 
Advertiser, and the printers Benjamin Collins and Comp., opposite 
the Poultry Cross. In 1751 the printing office was located in the 
New Canal, where it has remained ever since, through various changes 
of proprietorship, and the Salisbury and Winchester Journal—to 
which the title of the paper was changed—is one of the oldest, as 
well as one of the best specimens of provincial printing and journalism. 
It was Benjamin Collins who first made the press at Salisbury 
famous for its books and its weekly paper. An account of him and 
his connection with the publishing house of the Newberys, in 
London, will be found in Mr. Charles Welch’s ‘‘ 4 Bookseller of the 
last Century, being some account of the life of John Newbery,” dvo, 
London, 1885. 
The connection between Benjamin Collins and the Newberys 
began about the year 1743, and it was at Collins’ press in Salisbury, 
in the year 1766, that the first edition of Oliver Goldsmith’s Vicar 
of Wakefield, two vols., 12mo, was printed for Francis Newbery, in 
Paternoster Row. 
Some original account books of Collins’ are still in existence, in 
the possession—through many changes—of his successor in business, 
Mr. Henry Brown, to whom I have before referred, and to whom I 
am indebted, as also to Mr. Edmund Grove Bennett, the present 
proprietor of the Salisbury Journal, for kindly allowing me access 
to the materials incorporated in these notes, 
I have not yet been able to find anything in the nature of a book 
or pamphlet published in Salisbury earlier than the year 1745, but 
I possess a small brochure of twelve pages, printed at Salisbury in 
that year by Benjamin Collins:—A Protestant King and the Bible, 
or no Pretender or Popish Legends: a Poem, by John Price, B.D., 
which must, I think be one of Collins’ earliest publications.! 
1 Since writing this I have had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with Mr. 
W. H. Allnutt, assistant librarian at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Mr, Allnutt 
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