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- Title
Reporting Trials and Impeachments in the Reign of George I: The Evidence of the Wigtown and Wye Newsletters<sup>*</sup>.
- Abstract
This article will examine how two newsletter collections reported the impeachments of the former ministers of Queen Anne in 1715, the trial of the earl of Oxford in 1717 and that of Francis Atterbury, bishop of Rochester in 1723. It will also consider how the two collections relate to one another and touch on the way the newsletters' reporting of proceedings across parliamentary business during the reign of George I compares with that presented in the printed press. It will thus attempt to offer insights into why people continued to subscribe to manuscript news services in a period where print had traditionally been seen to be rapidly overtaking the older, more intensive news form.
- Subjects
CRIME &; the press; IMPEACHMENTS; NEWS agencies; ANNE, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714; BISHOPS; NEWSLETTERS
- Publication
Parliamentary History, 2022, Vol 41, Issue 1, p167
- ISSN
0264-2824
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1750-0206.12613