“From you, my Lord, professions are but words – they are so much bait for fools to catch at”

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse in Early Modern Britain 1
5. Newspapers
6. Crime and punishment 13
7. Reading late eighteenth-century want ads 31
8. “Alwayes in te Orbe of honest Mirth, and next to Truth” 57
9. Religious language in early English newspapers? 73
10. “As silly as an Irish Teague” 91
11. “Place yer bets” and “Let us hope” 115
12. Pamphlets
13. Comparing seventeenth-century news broadsides and occasional news pamphlets 137
14. “From you, my Lord, professions are but words – they are so much bait for fools to catch at” 159
15. Scientific news discourse
16. “Joyful News out of the Newfound World” 189
17. News filtering processes in the Philosophical Transactions 205
18. Index 223