Before closing the account of Lancashire in the eighteenth century, some reference must be made to its press, and this must always afford some clue to the character of the people. In the time of Elizabeth there was in Lancashire a secret press from which were issued a few Roman Catholic books; this was probably located at Lostock Hall, near Bolton. There was also the wandering press from which came the Martin Marprelate tracts; this press was seized by the Earl of Derby at Newton Lane, near Manchester.[234] In 1719 Roger Adams was established in Manchester as a printer; from his press came "Mathematical Lectures: being the first and second that were read to the Mathematical Society at Manchester." Adams also, in that same year, printed and published the _Manchester Weekly Journal_, which in 1737 became _Whitworth's Magazine_; this periodical enjoyed a run of twenty years. Whitworth published a considerable number of books, some of which were of more than local interest. In 1738 a second Manchester periodical was published entitled _The Lancashire Journal_, of which only about sixty numbers were printed. After this date, Manchester-printed books were pretty numerous. A newspaper called _Orion Adams' Weekly Journal_ was started here in 1752; it was followed by Harrop's _Manchester Mercury_ and Whitworth's _Manchester Advertiser_. Liverpool probably began to print a year or two before Manchester; the first book known to have been issued there is a volume of "Hymns sacred to the Lord's Table," by Charles Owen--"Leverpoole, printed by S. Terry, for Daniel Birchall, 1712." After this very few books can with certainty be placed to the credit of the Liverpool press, but in 1736 appeared Seacome's "Memoirs of the House of Stanley," and subsequently many other works bearing the imprint of Liverpool. Terry in 1712 published the _Leverpoole Courant_, and in 1756 appeared _Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser_. Its price was originally 2d., the stamp being one halfpenny. It appears to have had a considerable circulation; on the first page of the issue for October 17, 1760, is the following announcement: "The publisher of this paper begs leave to return his grateful thanks to his friends and readers in the northern parts of Lancashire for their kind indulgence in promoting and encouraging this paper; and, as he has been at the continued expense of expresses to meet the London post, in order to be as early with the news as possible, and messengers to distribute the paper, which have entirely taken away all profits arising from the sale, he presumes that his customers in Ormskirk, Preston, Lancaster and adjacent neighbourhoods, will further indulge him by advancing the price of the paper to 2½d., as no other newspaper in England of the same size and make is sold under that price." Its size was small folio, and it consisted of four pages; it contained no leading article, and did not report the meetings of Parliament.