74 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



discernment and bibliographical skill and knowledge in connexion with this 

 very interesting find. Through his courtesy I am enabled to reproduce a 

 facsimile of one of the fragments so discovered by him. 



Mr. E. M. Young is another Belfast bibliographer who has contributed 

 materially to our knowledge of the first Belfast presses. I am indebted to 

 him for permission to reproduce the facsimile of a title-page of a book in his 

 possession. 



The splendid collection of books made by the late Mr. Lavens M. Ewart, 

 and now resting for a while in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast, contains very 

 rare and early items of Belfast printing. It would be a decided advantage 

 if its catalogue were published. In the Linen Hall Library itself are many 

 items of Belfast printing, and I am indebted to its Librarian, Mr. F. J. 

 P. Burgoyne, for much aid in completing this list. 



It may be mentioned that Archdeacon Cotton gives 1696 as the date of 

 Neill's printing press being set up in Belfast ; but this is, I think, a printer's 

 error for 1694, as his further statement, at p. 19, of his Typographical 

 Gazetteer, 2nd series, shows. 



Mr. Anderson has also very correctly pointed out in the preface to his 

 first supplement, that William III had an ambulatory press with his army in 

 Ireland, and it may have been used to print proclamations in Belfast at that 

 earlier date. 



All the items in this list are of a religious character, and appear to be 

 chiefly reprints of Puritan theological works. Several have advertisements 

 of " books printed and sold " by Neill, and copies of these are given in Mr. J . 

 Anderson's Catalogue and supplements. 



The library of the late Kev. T. W. Carson was sold after his decease about 

 twenty years ago, and it is not known what became of the rare items of 

 early Belfast printing which (as shown in this list) he at one time 

 owned. 



1. 1694. The Scottish Catechism, with the Solemn League and Covenant. 

 Stated by Archbishop King to have been printed in Belfast in this year avd 

 in nOO. 



[ Fide Cotton's Typographical Gazetteer, 1866, 2nd Series, p. 19. 

 John Anderson's Catalogue of Eaxly Belfast Printed Books, &c. 

 B. M. Young in "The Library," vol. vii (1895), p. 135.] 



2. 1697. An Answer to the Bishop of Berry's [William King] Second 

 Admonition to the Dissenting Inhabitants in his Diocess. Especially as to 



