The Pictorial Press: Its Origin and ProgressJackson, Mason
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The Pictorial Press: Its Origin and Progress
Jackson, Mason
Illustration of books; Newspapers -- Illustrations
A tract of the same date refers to a reported conspiracy of the same
Colonel Lundsford:--'_A terrible plot against London and Westminster
discovered, showing how Colonell Lunsford the Papist, that should have
bin Lieutenant in the Tower, should in a Conspiracy among the Jesuits
and other Papists have blowne up the City of London, placing the pieces
of Ordinance against it. Also how the papists with their forces should
have risen against Westminster, and burnt downe the parliament house.
Likewise how by this Conspiracy the Arch-bishop of_ Canterbury _should
have been transported into France, and how Bishop Wren with many other
Bishops and popish Doctors should have bin conducted with him thither,
where Canterbury should have bin Sainted, and Wren made Cardinall. With
an exact Relation of the chiefe Cause of the Apprentices rising in Armes
to defend the City of London from their treachery, Describing most
succinctly the singular mercy of God towards us in defending this
Kingdome from the manifold Plots of the Papists and their Treacherous
Conspiracies._' On the last page is a woodcut of a Cavalier in a hat and
feathers, entitled 'Captaine Vaul that cruell Tyrant.' As there is no
mention of this person in the pamphlet it was perhaps a well-known
nickname of Colonel Lundsford. I annex a copy of this cut. The same cut
appears in a tract entitled '_Terrible Newes from York_,' detailing
certain riotous proceedings in that city, where it is given as 'Mr.
Holk, chief Agent in the uproar.' Its first appearance, however, is in
an account of a '_Bloody Conspiracy at Edinburgh_;' and, from its
frequent use, this rough woodcut must have been regarded as a good, bold
representation of a truculent soldier, suitable for the times.
While the King and the House of Commons were contending for the upper
hand there was published '_A Perfect Diurnall of the Passages in
Parliament_,' illustrated with a woodcut of the House of Commons, with
Mr. Speaker in the chair. This is used as a heading to several numbers
of the same _Diurnall_, and sundry varieties of it are printed as
headings to other reports of Parliament. This old woodcut has been often
copied, but my examples of illustrated journalism would not be complete
unless I introduced it here.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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