The Historic Library & Rare Book Collection at Sherborne School includes a section of newspapers, news sheets and journals (pre-1900).
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ANON
The Newest and Truest and most unpartiall Relation of all the late occurrence which hath happened at Sherbourne-Castle, and thereabouts. Being the extract of divers severall letters, sent from worthy persons of good credit and qualitie, to a speciall friend in London. Printed 14 September 1642. Contains: The Latest Relation from Sherburn-Castle by A.W; Another Letter from Sherborn-Castle.
ANON
Propositions propounded by the Marquesse of Hartford, to the Earle of Bedford, concerning the delivering up of Sherbourne-Castle. Also declaring how the Earle of Bedford, after his arrival at Yeavel, within three miles of Sherbourne, surprised Squire Rogers, as he was going to relieve the Marquesse of Hartford, with 7 other Cavaliers, which are known to be notorious Papists, who had under their command neere three hundred men well horsed. Likewise how the Lord Marquesse of Hartford sallied out of the Castle, and made up to their rescue, but was repulst by the troops of the E. of Bedford. Also a true information how the Earle of Bedford tooke eight hundred pounds, which Squire Rogers did intend for the relief of the said Marquesse. Printed in London for Henry Fowler, 17 September 1642.
ANON
Happy Newes from Sherborn, and Sherborne Castle: relating the death of Colonel Lunsford, the Lord Paulet, and divers other persons of quality, the taking of divers prisoners, and great store of armes from the Cavaliers. Written in a letter from [J.W.] Dorchester to Master Nicholas Skinner a merchant of London, declaring the happy successe of the Parliaments Forces, against the Cavaliers betwixt Sherborne and Yeavell. Also a true copy of the last petition sent by both Houses of Parliament to His Majestie. Originally printed in London for F. Cowles, 1642.Reprinted Sherborne by J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1891.
THE ABBOT OF SHERBORNE
Printed at the County Printing Works, Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset.
Vol.1, no.1 (24 June 1886) – Vol.2, no.31 (13 January 1887)
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
Memoirs illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Bristol, and the Western Counties of Great Britain, with some other communications, made to the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, held at Bristol, July 29 to August 5, 1851. (London, 1853). Includes articles by Thomas Garrard, Samuel Lucas, William Tyson, George Ormerod, John Gough Nichols, Joseph Burtt, James Yates, J.H. Markland, John Bindon, E.W. Godwin, Charles Winston, J.A. Clark, E.W. Godwin, Rev John Louis Petit FSA (Sherborne, Dorset, read by Rev. J.L. Petit at Oxford in 1850, with illustrations by J.L. Petit), Rev. H.T. Ellacombe, Lewis Way, James Lee Warner.
The Archaeological Journal, vol. XIV (1857). Includes articles by Rev. John Collingwood Bruce, William Burges, Hon., Lord Neaves, John Hill Burton, Weston S. Walford & Albert Way, Edwin Guest, John Mitchell Kemble, Rev. Edward Trollope, Weston S. Walford, Alexander Nesbitt, Charles Winston, Mark Napier, Rev. J.G. Cumming, John Hobson Hinde, John Robson, W. Hylton-Dyer Longstaff. Also includes the Proceedings at the meetings of the Archaeological Institute, December 1856-June 1857 (inc. account by J.H. Le Keux of recent discoveries in Sherborne, illustrated by Rev John Louis Petit FSA).
THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE
Smith, Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill, London.
Vol. IV (July-December 1861)
THE DAILY GRAPHIC
4 January 1890.
THE DAILY MAIL
4 May 1896.
THE DORCHESTER AND SHERBORNE JOURNAL AND TAUNTON & SOMERSETSHIRE HERALD
Printed by Cruttwell & Son, Sherborne, Dorset, and published in Dorchester, and by T. Norris, in Taunton, Somerset.
Vol.37, no.1973 (2 January 1801) – Vol.40, no.2173 (28 December 1804).
The New Year’s Address of the men who carry the Sherborne Journal, for the year 1830.
THE DORSET NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUARIAN FIELD CLUB
Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club.
Vol. 1 (1877)-Vol. 28 (1907).
Vol. 30 (1909)-Vol. 59 (1937).
Vol. 61 (1939)-Vol. 92 (1970).
Vol. 94 (1972)-Vol. 119 (1997).
Vol. 121 (1999)-Vol. 126 (2004).
Vol. 129 (2007/8).
THE GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE
The Gentleman’s Magazine: or, Monthly Intelligencer.
Edited by Sylvanus Urban (pseud. of Edward Cave (1691-1754).
Vols. 1 (1731)-Vol.73, part 2 (1803)
A general index to first 20 volumes of The Gentleman’s Magazine. Printed for E. Cave at St John’s Gate, London, 1753.
A general index to the first 56 volumes of The Gentleman’s Magazine 1731-1786, compiled by Samuel Ayscough, clerk, assistant librarian of the British Museum. (2 vols.) Printed by John Nichols, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Stret, for D. Henry, late of St John’s Gate, 1789.
James M. Kuist (ed.), The Nichols File of The Gentleman’s Magazine (University of Wisconsin Press, 1982)
THE GRAPHIC
Published at no. 190, Strand, London.
20 June 1887. Jubilee Number marking the 50th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s accession to the throne.
THE GUARDIAN
London Stereotype Edition. Printed by A. Hancock, Middle Row Place, Holborn.
Vol.1 (1822). Includes article by Berkeley, Birch, Budgell, Gay, Hughes, Parnell, Pope, Steele.
Vol.2 (1822). Includes articles by Addison, Bartlette, Berkeley, Eusden, Gay, Pearce, Pope, Steele, Tickell.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
‘A Jubilee Genealogical Tree, showing the Descendants of Her Majesty Queen Victoria’, presented with The Illustrated London News, 12 March 1887, to celebrate the Jubilee Year of Queen Victoria.
THE PALL MALL GAZETTE
19 June 1897. Diamond Jubilee edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s accession to the throne.
RACING ILLUSTRATED
Vol. 2, no.29 (15 January 1896)
THE SHERBORNIAN
Published by William Simon Penny, Library, Half Moon Street, Sherborne, Dorset, printed by W.W. Penny, Mercury Office, Sherborne, Dorset. Intended to ‘excite a taste for literature in the town and neighbourhood of Sherborne’.
No.1 (8 September 1836). Includes: ‘The Sherborne Clubs. No.1 The Literary Society’; ‘Modern Poetry’; ‘Reminiscences of a Literary Life’ by the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin, D.D.; poem ‘The Ordeal: A Fragment’ by John Fuller Russell, St Peter’s College, Cambridge; ‘Thoughts on Men and Things’; poem ‘Lines from a Lady’s Album’.
No.3 (1 November 1836). Includes: ‘Wordsworth’; letter ‘from James Crow of the Lantern of the Old Castle’; poem ‘A Midnight thought at Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight’; ‘Palmam Qui Meruit, Ferat’; ‘Thoughts on Men and Things’; ‘The Portrait: Portrait of a Lady by A. Morton’; ‘poem ‘The Dying Girl’; poem ‘To…’; ‘Note to Article on the Old Book Club’.
THE SHIRBURNIAN
The official magazine of Sherborne School.
THE SPECTATOR
Printed for J. & R. Tonson and S. Draper, London.
Vol.7, no.474 (3 September 1712) – No.555 (6 December 1712)
THE SPECTATOR
Printed by John Campbell at 18 Exeter Street, Strand, and published by him at Spectator Office, no.1 Wellington Street, Strand.
17 January 1885-26 December 1885.
THE TATLER
London Stereotype Edition. Printed by A. Hancock, Middle Row Place, Holborn.
Vol.1 (1822). Includes articles by Addison, Congreve, Dryden, Harrison, Hughes, Phillips, Steele, Swift, Twisden.
Vol.3 (1822). Includes articles by Addison, Fuller, Greenwood, Rowe, Steele, Swift, Greenwood, Rowe.
THE TIMES
26 January 1793.
3 July 1797.
3 October 1798.
16 April 1801.
7 November 1805.
10 January 1806.
22 June 1815.
15 August 1821.
16 December 1870.
20 May 1898.
THE WEEKLY MISCELLANY
The Weekly Miscellany; or Agreeable and Instructive Entertainer. Printed for Rachel Goadby and Co., Sherborne, Dorset. ‘A work formed for the entertainment of the purchasers of the Sherborne Mercury.’
Vol. XIX, no. 482 (23 December 1782)
THE WESTERN FLYING POST, OR SHERBORNE AND YEOVIL MERCURY
Printed by Robert Goadby (1720-1778) at Long Street, Sherborne, Dorset. Robert Goadby became proprietor of the Western Flying Post, or Yeovil Mercury (est. 1737) in 1744, and in January 1749 merged the paper with Hannah Bettinson’s Sherborne Mercury, when it was renamed the Western Flying Post, or Sherborne and Yeovil Mercury. Following Robert Goady’s death in August 1778 his wife Rachel Goadby took over as proprietor until her death in March 1790.
Vol. 7, no.307 (13 January 1755)
Vol.7, no.311 (10 February 1755)
Vol. 7, no.340 (1 September 1755)
THE WESTERN GAZETTE
?4 July 1879.
WITH THE FLAG TO PRETORIA: A HISTORY OF THE BOER WAR OF 1899-1900
Herbert Wrigley Wilson (1866-1940). Published by Harmsworth Brothers Ltd., London.
Parts 2-13, 14-28, 30 (1899-1901)
Miscellaneous publications
‘The Star of Bethlehem, or, Good News for Poor Sinners’, printed by Carrall, near Foss Bridge, York, n.d. [c.1830]
Lithograph portraits published by Druck und Verlag v. Wilhelm Hermes, Berlin:
No.339.1, Wilhelm I, Konig von Preussen.
No.339.3, Friedrich Wilhelm, Kronprinz von Preussen.
No.339.5, Friedrich Carl, Prinz von Preussen.
No.340.1, Graf von Bismark.
No.340.2, Freiherr von Moltke.
No. 340.3, Herwath von Bittenfeld.
No. 340. 4, von Roon, K.P. Kriegs Minister.
No. 340.5, von Steinmetz.
No. 340.6, Vogel von Falkenstein.
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