The Pictorial Taste Universal—The Early ‘News-books’—Developmentof the Newspaper Press—General use of Newspapers—Establishmentof Illustrated Journals—WanderingBallad-Singers the First Newsvendors—The English Mercurieof 1588—The Abolition of the Star Chamber and its Effecton the Press.

Illustrated Broadsides—Sir Francis Drake’s Operationsagainst the Spaniards—Papers of News in the Reign ofJames I.—The first Periodical Newspaper published inEngland—Illustrated Tracts relating to Storms and Floods—RemarkableMurders favourite subjects with the early Newswriters—Murderof the Rev. Mr. Storre—Murder inCornwall—Apparition of Three Skeletons—Visions in theAir—Attempt on the Life of the Duke of Buckingham—Fallof Meteors at Bawlkin Green, Berkshire—The SwedishIntelligencer—Passage of the River Leck by GustavusAdolphus—The Sallee Rovers—The Weekly News of 1638,an Illustrated Paper—The Irish Rebellion of 1641—ThePlague in London—Murder on board an English Ship—TheEarl of Strafford—His Execution on Tower Hill—ArchbishopLaud—A Burlesque Play about him—Attack by theMob on Lambeth Palace—Caricature of the Devil offeringLaud a Cardinal’s Hat.