Three series of Civil War newsbooks: the Parliamentary Diurnalls; Some Speciall and Considerable Passages from London; The kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer

Item date: 1641 - 49
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 16,000
Item date acquired: 1993
Item institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

These newsbooks were in effect the earliest English newspapers. This collection is of extreme value to historians since it contains Rushworths manuscript annotations commenting on the accuracy, or lack of it, in his contemporaries versions of events

Item Provenance
John Rushworths copies used in the preparation of his Historical Collections. Bought at the Fairfax sale Sothebys December 1993, Lots 70, 147, 149