Dix — Printing in Cork in First Quarter of Eighteenth Century. 11 



apparently the second newspaper, news-sheet, or newsletter printed in Cork. 

 To the next year, 1717, is attributed The Cork Intelligence, the third news- 

 letter in Cork ; but the authority for it is only the Council Book of the 

 Corporation, no copy being extant. Having the unquestionable fact, how- 

 ever, of a printer being in Cork, namely, George Bennett, since 1714, there 

 are no grounds to deny that he was most probably the printer of much other 

 matter there, and of anonymous work, or of pieces only known from titles 

 in old sale catalogues. When on perusing the following list we reach the 

 year 1721, we begin to see more solid and extended development of the 

 printing press in Cork. We find also another printer in that year at work 

 there, namely, Samuel Terry, in addition to George Bennett; and if an 

 opening existed for two printers, we must conclude that much of the output 

 of their presses was of a business or commercial character, and ha§ perished. 

 In 1722 a third printer appears, Andrew Welsh. It is possible he was 

 printing in Cork at an earlier date, as conjecturally given under 1715. I 

 might here add that Terry also printed in Limerick in the years 1722- 

 1725. 



If we consider the character of the output of the Cork presses from 1721 

 to 1725, inclusive, we find it comprised religious works (one in French), 

 sermons, almanacs, a play, and miscellaneous works, including some of a local 

 character. 



To Mr. James Buckley's laborious and minute study or examination of 

 Caulfield's " Council Books of Cork " I am particularly indebted in the 

 preparation of this list. If there exist similar Corporation records of other 

 of our cities and towns, I am sure they would prove sources of information 

 on the subject of local printing and printers. 



It is lamentable to think that not a copy of The Cork Neiv s letter is, exi&wt ; 

 and this is the more strange as it ran to at least 824 numbers, according to 

 Windele. Perhaps some copies or issues may still be discovered in some 

 private library or collection. 



Note. — I might here add, referring to my papers of printing in the cities 

 of Waterford and Kilkenny in the seventeenth century, that no record of the 

 revival of printing of any sort there during the first quarter of the eighteenth 

 century at present exists, so that the City of Cork has a superior record in 

 this respect ; but so has Belfast, as shown by the late Mr. M. Anderson's 

 work on early Belfast printing, which steadily developed also. 



