'DR. BAGFORD,--When you were at Cambridge, I thought you would have come to Norwich. I send this to put among your other collections of printers. It is the first thing that was ever printed here.'[16] In this statement, however, Tanner was wrong, unless we suppose this broadside to have been printed nearly five weeks in advance, as there had appeared, on September 27th, 1701, _Some Observations on the Use and Original of the Noble Art and Mystery of Printing_, by Francis Burges, which is also claimed as the first book printed at Norwich since the sixteenth century. There is also evidence that Burges began to issue a newspaper called _The Norwich Post_ early in September. Among his other work of that year were sermons by John Jeffery and John Graile, and Humphrey Prideaux's _Directions to Churchwardens for the Faithfull Discharge of their Offices. For the Use of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk_. (Norwich 1701, quarto.) Francis Burges died in January 1706, leaving the business to his widow, who in the following year printed and published a little tract of eight quarto pages, with the title, _A true description of the City of Norwich both in its ancient and modern state_. Meanwhile, in November of the preceding year, a second press was started in the town by Henry Crossgrove, who began to issue a paper called the _Norwich Gazette_. Burges's business seems to have been taken by Freeman Collins, who printed from the same address, in 1713, Robert Pate's _Complete Syntax_. He in his turn was succeeded by Benjamin Lyon, who in 1718 reprinted the _True Description_, as _The History of the City of Norwich ... To which is added Norfolk's Furies: or a view of Kett's Camp_. (Norwich. Printed by Benj. Lyon near the Red-well, for Robert Allen and Nich. Lemon. 1718. 8vo. pp. 40.) He added to this some useful lists of bishops, etc., and a 'Chronological Account of Remarkable Accidents and Occurrences, to date,' in which the following entries occur:-- '1701. The first printing office was set up in Norwich, near the Red-well, by Francis Surges. '1706. Sam. Hashart a distiller, set up a Printing Office, in Magdalen St., and sent for Henry Cross-grove from London to be his journeyman.' Crossgrove appears to have continued work till 1739, being succeeded by William Chase, who had been printing since 1711, and who established the _Norwich Mercury_ in 1727. At Bristol the press that William Bonny had established in 1695 continued to flourish until 1713. About November 1702 he began to issue a weekly paper called the _Bristol Post-Boy_, which ran until 1712, when it was either replaced or supplanted by Samuel Farley's _Bristol Postman_.[17] The Parleys were noted printers in the West of England at this time, and the above-named Samuel must not be confounded with Samuel Farley the Exeter printer.