| Frequency | Weekly |
| Series | Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection, Part II
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection, Part II. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Abstract |
Political essays in support of Walpole, and hostile to the point of view expressed by the Craftsman and Occasional writer among others. The Free Briton extraordinary, no. 172, 12 Mar. 1732, appeared in answer to commentary in the Craftsman (24 Feb. 1732) on the recent parliamentary by-election in Chester. |
| Local note | Reproduced from source library: no. 126, Thursday, April 27, 1732 ; no. 168, Thursday, February 15, 1733 ; no. 169, Thursday, February 22, 1733 ; no. 172, Monday, March 12, 1733 ; no. 211, Thursday, November 15, 1733 ; no. 244, Thursday, July 4, 1734 ; no. 248, Thursday, August 1, 1734 ; no. 253, Thursday, September 5, 1734 ; no. 255, Thursday, September 19, 1734 - no. 258, Thursday, October 10. 1734 ; no. 264, Thursday, November 28. 1734 ; no. 265, Thursday, December 5. 1734 ; no. 272, Thursday, January 23. 1735 ; no. 275, Thursday, February 13. 1735 - no. 281, Thursday, March 27. 1735 ; no. 286, Thursday, May 1. 1735 ; no. 288, Thursday, May 15. 1735 ; no. 290, Thursday, May 29. 1735 - no. 292, Thursday, June 12. 1735. |
| Local note | Images from the source library are selected or scattered issues as well as various editions of the cataloged title and related titles (where indicated in the MARC record) as representative of the general publishing history of the title during the 17th and 18th centuries. |
| Local note | Library has: issue 23 (Mar. 7, 1730) ; issue 45 (Oct. 8, 1730) ; issue 52 (Nov. 26, 1730) ; issue 58 (Jan. 7, 1731)-issue 69 (Mar. 25, 1731) ; issue 122 (Mar. 30, 1731) ; issue 70 (Apr. 1, 1731)-issue 73 (Apr. 22, 1731) ; issue 75 (May 6, 1731)-issue 110 (Jan. 6, 1732) ; issue 112 (Jan. 20, 1732) ; issue 144 (Feb. 3, 1732)-issue 121 (Mar. 23, 1732) ; issue 123 (Apr. 6, 1732) ; issue 125 (Apr. 20, 1732)-issue 128 (May 11, 1732) ; issue 131 (May 18, 1732) ; issue 131 (May 25, 1732)-issue 138 (July 20, 1732) ; issue 149 (July 27, 1732) ; issue 140 (Aug. 3, 1732)-issue 160 (Dec. 21, 1732) ; issue 162 (Jan. 4, 1733)-issue 171 (Mar. 8, 1733) ; issue 173 (Mar. 15, 1733)-issue 175 (Mar. 29, 1733) ; issue 177 (Apr. 12, 1733)-issue 197 (Aug. 30, 1733) ; issue 199 (Sept. 13, 1733)-issue 210 (Nov. 8, 1733) ; issue 212 (Nov. 22, 1733)-issue 216 (Dec. 20, 1733) ; issue 218 (Jan. 3, 1734)-issue 224 (Feb. 14, 1734) ; issue 226 (Feb. 28, 1734)-issue 237 (May 16, 1734) ; issue 239 (May 30, 1734)-issue 250 (Aug. 15, 1734) ; issue 202 (Aug. 22, 1734) ; issue 252 (Aug. 29, 1734)-issue 255 (Sept. 19, 1734) (Sept. 19, 1734) ; issue 257 (Oct. 3, 1734)-issue 262 (Nov. 7, 1734) ; issue 262 (Nov. 14, 1734)-issue 263 (Nov. 21, 1734) ; issue 265 (Dec. 5, 1734)-issue 269 (Jan. 2, 1735) ; issue 271 (Jan. 16, 1735)-issue 294 (June 26, 1735). |
| General note | 'Francis Walsingham' = William Arnall. |
| General note | Below imprint in brackets: Price two pence. |
| General note | Description based on: Numb.I (Thursday, December 4, 1729); title from caption. |
| General note | Format varies, most issues printed on one leaf only. |
| General note | Imprint from colophon. |
| General note | Latest issue consulted: Numb. CCXCIV (Thursday, June 26. 1735). |
| General note | Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London). |
| General note | Some issues dated according to Lady Day dating. |
| General note | Special issues reprinted as pamphlets, including: The Free Briton extraordinary, reprinted in London and Dublin; and numbered 50, which was expanded into a 36p. pamphlet and published separately in 1730. |
| References |
Goldsmith's Lib. cat., 37429 |
| References |
NCBEL, II:1278 |
| References |
Notes & queries, 1935:Sept.7, p. 166-168 |
| References |
Times handlist, p. 40 |
| Special numbering | No. 129-130 both incorrectly numbered "131"; no. 262 repeated in numbering. |
| Title history note | According to ODNB the Free Briton was one of three main pro-government papers (the others being the London Journal and the Daily Courant) which were combined to form the Daily Gazetteer in 1735 - Cf. ODNB (Richardson, Samuel); the London Journal, however, appears to continue after 1735. |
| Succeeding title |
Daily gazetteer (London, England : London ed.) |
| Genre/form | Newspapers. |
