Two issues: 3 November 1763, 24 November 1763].

Bookseller Notes

In continuous publication since the late sixteenth-century, this Worcester weekly is the longest-running newspaper publication still in print (the tally of weeks-to-date appears in the header). These two issues, from November 1763, contain news from home and abroad, with American news taken from the Boston and Massachusets' Gazettes reporting on conflicts between colonists and Native American people. Much of the domestic news is aggregated from metropolitan publications; the front page of 24 November features a long account of the infamous duel fought between John Wilkes and Samuel Martin on November 16th, and there are multiple other stories of parliamentary, mercantile and whimsical interest (epitaph on the death of General Wolf; a letter from a gentleman in town to his friend in Oxfordshire...).The feet of the second sheets here are annotated in receipt of duty paid for advertising. The advertisements range from the pharmacological - female elixirs and worm cakes - to advertisements for lodgers. There are the usual notices from landlords that poachers will be treated harshly, as well as the odd estate for sale. In all, an excellent examples of 1760s provincial journalism.