Mercurius Caledonius

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The Mercurius Caledonius - Comprising The Affairs now in Agitation in Scotland With A Survey of Forraign Intelligence was arguably Scotland's first newspaper. It was founded in Edinburgh in 1660 by the playwright Thomas Sydserf, the son of the Bishop of Galloway. [1] It contained domestic news such as reports of parliamentary debates, as well as reports from abroad and reprints of news from London newspapers. [2]

Only 12 editions were published between 1660 and 1661, the first having the date "From Monday Decemb. 21 to Tuesday, Jan. 8th, 1661". [3]

However, according to Francis Groome, Mercurius Caledonius was preceded by both the Scots Intelligencer (1643) [or The Kingdom's Intelligencer ] and by Mercurius Publicus (1652). [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "The previous incarnations of the Caledonian Mercury". Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Rare Books Collections - Newspapers". National Library of Scotland . Retrieved 25 January 2010.
  3. 1 2 Groome, Francis H. (1884). "Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland: a survey of Scottish typography, statistical, biographical and historical". Newspapers. Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing. p. 538. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
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