File PQN2/1. - Newsletters and broadsides,

Printed newsletters and broadsides, several of which are satirical, covering the political and military events of the Stuart and Hanoverian periods in Britain and Europe between 1666 and [c. 1800]. They include Publick Occurrences Truly Stated, 1687-1688, A Continuation of the Proceedings in Scotland, 1689, A Hue-and-Cry after an Old Cock Robin [1680s?], Gazette de Londres, 1697, Dawks 's Newsletter, 1697, Whitehall, 1702, and The Last Expressions and Dying Words of James II, 1702. The Stuart material, 1666-1702, concerns post-Restoration intrigues involving Titus Oates, the Duke of Monmouth and others; the accession and early reign of William and Mary; Jacobite rebellions in Scotland and Ireland; protestants, dissenters and legislation affecting the Scottish Church; and the contest for the electorship of Saxony (in French), 1697. The remaining papers provide news of Whig/Tory opposition, 1714, the weavers' riots, 1719, the imprisonment of the Bishop of Rochester, 1722, the Shrewsbury elections, 1734, and accusations of libel against John Wilkes, 1768-[1769]; together with lampoons of public figures, 1746-[c. 1800], and the disposition of the army camp at Coxheath, 1778.