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John Houghton’s (1645-1705) second series of weekly newsletters, originally issued as 583 single folio sheets between 30 March 1692 and 24 September 1703. For the first series (September 1681 to 1683), it was his, “practice was to send the letters free of charge to those who agreed to supply him in return with local prices and news. His correspondents included many small farmers, countrywomen, rural merchants, and husbandmen such as John Worlidge, besides his fellow members of the Royal Society, among them John Evelyn, John Flamsteed, Edmond Halley, and Robert Plot.” ( ODNB ). A fourth volume, containing a reprint the first series of newsletters, was added in 1728 and copies of Vols. 1-3 were reissued with new title-pages as the “Second Edition”, “In Four Volumes.” It is not included here. In the final number Houghton gave “An epitome of the 19 volumes” in which the newsletters were roughly arranged by subject: “In my first volume is the nature of earth, water, air, and fire, with their effects, and reason of many of their operations. In my second, natural history, with the taxes, acres, houses, c. in each county of England and Wales, with notes, particularly of Yorkshire and Derbyshire: In my third, the doctrine of fermentation, history of cyder and clay: In my fourth, a continuation of clay, and all its uses I could learn, with the history of wheat: In my fifth, the history of joint-stocks and kine: In my sixth, I went on about kine, shewing the use and manufacture of most

• Year: 1727
• Printing: later

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