Written according to my usual way political communication and the rise of the agent in seventeenth-century England
‘Enclosed are the gazettes’. This is the ubiquitous phrase in the well-known but poorly understood letters – hundreds of them – sent by Richard Lapthorne of Hatton Garden in London to Richard Coffin of Portledge in Devon in the 1680s and 1690s. In itself, such a phrase seems unremarkable, similar as...
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| Published in | Connecting Centre and Locality p. 94 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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United Kingdom
Manchester University Press
26.03.2020
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| Edition | 1 |
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| Summary: | ‘Enclosed are the gazettes’. This is the ubiquitous phrase in the well-known but poorly understood letters – hundreds of them – sent by Richard Lapthorne of Hatton Garden in London to Richard Coffin of Portledge in Devon in the 1680s and 1690s. In itself, such a phrase seems unremarkable, similar as it is to how so many other contemporaries referred to the circulation of printed news from London, a process that can be traced back to the early seventeenth century. The aim of this chapter, however, is to suggest that in the case of Lapthorne this phrase meant something very |
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| ISBN: | 9781526147158 1526147157 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctvzgb6k7.10 |