English Civil War and Restoration

i) Serial Publications: Dvrnall Occurences: or the Heads of Seversll proceedings in both Houses of Parliament, from the 20. of December to the 27 of the same. 1641. Wherein was read divers letters sent from Ireland...also what English and Scottish Forces are speedily to be sent thither...For John Thomas, 1641--Mundayes Message to the Parliament, City, and Kingdome...from Munday the 8. of Ianuary, to Munday the 15...For W.W. n.d.; Mundayes Message to the Parliament...from 1. of Ianuary, to Munday the 7... For W.W., 1643--The Spie, communicating intelligence from Oxford. Number  5...[7, 13-15, 20,33,36], for I.F. [?1644] [see Nelson & Seccombe 609]--Certaine Informations from severall parts of the Kingdome...Numb. 9 [10,11,15,26, 30, 32,37] [Henry Overton, 1644] [see Nelson & Seccombe 36]; and many others, including Speciall passages and certain informations from severall places... (?Humphrey Blunden, 1642 and 1643, and apparently counterfeit versions of the same), The True Informer, Speciall Passages..., The True and Perfect Dutch-Diurnall, of several passages and proceedings..., The Faithful Post, communicating the proceedings of the Armies in England, Scotland, and Ireland..., The Weekly Intelligencer of the Common-Wealth, The Loyal Intelligencer, The Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer (many issues), The Compleate Intelligencer and Resolver, The Moderate Publisher of Every daies Inteligence, The Kingdoms Intelligencer (a long run, 1662--1663, nos.1-54), The Kingdomes Weekly Post,  The Scots Army advancing. The Weekly Account, The Perfect Weekly Account, The Moderate, The Moderate Intelligencer, A Diary, or an Exact Journal and The Diurnall;

ii) Individual works: Happy Newes from Sherborn, and Sherborne Castle... For F. Cowles, Septem.13 1642 [Wing W57, ONLY TWO COPIES RECORDED BY ESTC (British Library and Bodleian)]--An Extract of the Last and Truest Newes from divers part of this Kingdome, and other forraigne parts...from Holland, France, Westminster, Oxford, Lincolne, Salisbury, Leicester, Norhtampton. and Nottingham. For Francis Leach and Francis Coles, 1642 [NOT FOUND IN WING OR ESTC]--Newes out of the Low-Countries, sent in two letters. First printed at Oxford for William Web, and since reprinted in London, 1643 [NOT FOUND IN WING OR ESTC]--Intelligence from Yorke: relating the unlavvfull proceedings of the malignant party there: with some of their propositions. for H. Blunden, 1642 [Wing I263, 3 COPIES ONLY RECORDED BY ESTC]; both small 4to, some with contemporary or near contemporary annotations, later quarter calf, marbled boards (spines numbered 11, 16), bindings very worn and rubbed, some pamphlets slightly cropped, soiled, or with occasional stains (2)

The Forbes Baronetcy was created in 1626 for Sir William Forbes (d. circa 1650) by James VI in the Barontage of Nova Scotia. The majority of the works offered here were acquired by the sixth Baronet, also William (1739-1806), who added Pitsligo to his title in 1781. He was an eminent Scottish banker and benefactor, good friend of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson (see lots 45-46), and finally succeeded in recovering the Pitsligo estates forfeited after the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. His son William, the seventh baronet, beat Sir Walter Scott to the hand of the renowned beauty Williamina Belsches Stuart (1776-1810), and it was with their marriage that the family moved to her family seat, Fettercairn House in Kincardineshire, Aberdeenshire.

One of the sixth baronet’s acquisitions for his library at Pitsligo were numerous highly important miscellanies and tract volumes, many of which were purchased as a set from Edinburgh bookseller Elphinstone Balfour in October 1786. These were subsequently supplemented by further contemporary tracts and other works from the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century. Most of these miscellanies bear a nineteenth century Forbes family bookplate.

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A RICH AND SUBSTANTIAL COLLECTION OF CIVIL WAR AND RESTORATION NEWSBOOKS, which inaugurated the tradition of the weekly paper covering domestic news in Britain. The first British newsbooks appeared in November 1641 and the demand was so strong that over 300 differently-titled newsbooks were issued during the Civil War and Commonwealth period, although many did not last beyond a few issues.