Contents

pp v-v

List of Illustrations

pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-vii

List of Abbreviations

pp viii-x

Introduction

pp 1-14

Part One - The Press and the Trade

pp 15-16

1 - An Appetite for News? Media and the London News Market before the Battle of White Mountain

pp 17-32

2 - The Developing European News Trade: Methods and Content

pp 33-62

3 - English Corantos and Periodical Newsbooks 1620–2: A Publishing Initiative

pp 63-91

4 - Commercial Production and the Implications of Periodicity

pp 92-120

Part Two - News Editors and Readers

pp 121-122

5 - Editing and the Work of Thomas Gainsford 1622–4 and William Watts 1631–2

pp 123-149

6 - Readers and Press Reactions 1622–48: A Developing Dialogue

pp 150-180

Part Three - News and its Political Implications

pp 181-182

7 - James I and Sir Francis Cottington

pp 183-209

8 - Charles I and Georg Weckherlin

pp 210-246

9 - War in Britain and Peace at Westphalia

pp 247-268

Conclusions

pp 269-276

Appendix 1 - Typographical and imprint analysis of earliest English corantos

pp 277-283

Appendix 2 - Transcripts in Harl. MS 389 for 1621

pp 284-287

Appendix 3 - Licensing and registration from August to November 1627

pp 288-288

Select Bibliography

pp 289-314

Index

pp 315-336

Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History

pp 337-338