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The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts — John Shaqi

The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, MassachusettsBrooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)

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The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

Name: The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
Author: Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)

Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)

Literary curiosa; New England -- Social life and customs

_December._

    The Weather now 'gins to be cold,
    Which makes to shrink both young and old.


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                  SATURDAY, DEC'R 24, 1853.

                    The Salem Observer.

    ANOTHER OLD ALMANACK. In our last we gave an account of an
    old Almanack for the year 1703. Since then we have seen
    another some sixteen years older, printed for the year 1687.
    It was bound in with an old account book that formerly
    belonged to the Rev. Thomas Barnard, a minister of Andover,
    from 1682 to 1718,--the great-grandfather of the Rev. Thomas
    Barnard, D.D., the first minister of the North Church in
    this city, who died Oct. 1, 1814, in the sixty-seventh year
    of his age, also an ancestor of Capt. Edward Barnard, of
    this city. We insert the title page and other extracts
    therefrom, which we trust will impart the same interest to
    our readers as we derived from its perusal.

    It is prefaced by the following:

    Novemb. 24th, 1686. I have Perused the Copy of an Almanack
    for the Ensuing Year, Composed by John Tulley, and find
    nothing in it contrary to His Majesties Laws, and therefore
    Allow it to be Printed, and Published by Benjamin Harris,
    Book-Seller in Boston.

                                         EDWARD RANDOLPH, Secr.

    The following is the title:

    Tully 1687. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord MDCLXXXVII.
    Being the third after Leap-year, and from the Creation 5636.
    The Vulgar Notes of which are Prime 16--Epact 26--Circle of
    the [Symbol: Sun] 16--Domin: Letter B. Unto which is annexed
    a Weather Glass, whereby the Change of the Weather may be
    foreseen. Calculated for and fitted to the Meridian of
    Boston in New-England, where the North Pole is elevated 42
    gr. 30 m. By John Tulley. Boston, Printed by S. Green for
    Benjamin Harris; and are to be Sold at his Shop, by the Town
    Pump near the Change. 1687.


    Then follows "A Table of Kings," from William the Conqueror,
    1066, to James 2d, 1685, closing with the lines--

        Now may we look on Monarchy and sing,
        In health and peace long live great JAMES our King.

    And concluding with the "Weather Glass," &c., &c., which
    follow:

    _Prognostica Georgica_: Or the Country-man's Weather-Glass.

    Prognosticks of Tempests. The obscuring of the smaller stars
    is a certain sign of Tempests approaching, the oft changing
    of the Winds is always a forerunner of a storm.

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The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

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