NOTES ON NEWSPAPERS

I send you the following, as a help to "Materials for a satisfactory History of Newspapers," alluded to in the last volume of "Notes and Queries," p. 375. I have in my possession some old newspapers, ranging from 1691 to 1694, entitled *A Collection for Improvement of Husbandry and Trade*, edited by John Houghton, F.R.S., St. Bartholomew Lane, behind the Royal Exchange, London. The size is a small folio, published weekly, generally every Friday. It was carried on for some time merely as a single leaf, with no advertisements. In this form, the editor says— "These papers are 2*d.* each here, and…