The abolition of the great bugbear and tyrant of printers--that infamous mockery of a legal tribunal, the Star Chamber--was another gigantic obstacle cleared away from the path of journalism. The _Newes Bookes_, which, in spite of all difficulties, had already become abundant, now issued forth in swarms. They treated _de rebus omnibus et quibusdam aliis_. Most of them were political or polemical pamphlets, and boasted extraordinary titles. There is a splendid collection of these in the British Museum, collected by the Rev. W. Thomason, and presented to the nation by King George III. We will mention a few of them. A controversial religious tract rejoices in the title of _A fresh bit of Mutton for those fleshy-minded Cannibals that cannot endure Pottage._ A political skit upon Prince Rupert is styled _An exact Description of Prince Rupert's malignant She-Monkey, a great Delinquent_, and has a comical woodcut upon the title page of the animal, in a cap and petticoat and with a sword by its side. This pamphlet is printed partly in ordinary modern type and partly in black letter. Another pamphlet in the form of dialogue is directed against the abuses of the laws, especially at one of the infamous 'comptoirs' of the time. It is called _Wonderfull Strange Newes from Wood Street Countor--yet not so Strange as True, being proved by lamentable Experience, the relation of which_ 'Will make you laugh, 'twill make you cry; 'Twill make you mad, 'twill make you try.' Another is _Newes, true Newes, laudable Newes, Citie Newes, Countrie Newes, the World is Mad or it is a Mad World, my Masters, especially in the Antipodes, these Things are come to passe_. This is a satirical description of manners and customs on 'the other side of the world,' the writer asserting that in those regions everything is the exact opposite of what takes place among us, so that there beggars ride in carriages and are highly esteemed, men of title are of no account, lawyers take no fees, and bailiffs decline to arrest debtors, etc., etc. There is also a very quaint woodcut of the world and the heavens, the four winds, etc., with an astrologer and other persons looking at them. Very many of these pamphlets are actual relations of occurrences in different parts of the kingdom and in foreign countries. Thus we find, _Victorious Newes from Waterford_; _The joyfullest Newes from Hull that ever came to London of the Proceedings of the Earl of Warwick's Shipps_; _The best and happiest Newes from Ireland, from the Army before Kildare_; _Newes from Blackheath concerning the Meeting of the Kentish Men_; _Exceedingly joyfull Newes from Holland_; _The best Newes that ever was Printed_, consists of, 1. _Prince Rupert's Resolution to bee gone to his Mother, who hath sent for him_; 2. _His Majestie's royall Intentions declared to joyne with the Parliament in a treaty of Peace_; 3. _The Particulars of the High Court of Parliament drawn up to be sent to his Majesty for Peace_; 4.