news-book

I know not how I stumbled upon a news-book this week, and, for want of something else to do read it; it mentions my Lord Lisle's embassage again.

The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Parry, Edward A 1901

She, that in April of this year is spoken of, in an old news-book, as having “lately acted her part in a trance so many days at Whitehall.”

The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Parry, Edward A 1901

She, that in April of this year is spoken of, in an old news-book, as having "lately acted her part in a trance so many days at Whitehall."

Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888

I know not how I stumbled upon a news-book this week, and, for want of something else to do read it; it mentions Lord Lisle's embassage again.

Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888

And how sad, how unaccountable a case is it, when it shall be more ordinary and familiar to have a news-book (not to say a play-book) in men's hands, and under their eye than this holy book.

The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822

Give me a ballad, a news-book, George on horseback, or Bevis of Southampton; give me some book that teaches curious arts, that tells of old fables; [40] but for the holy Scriptures I cared not.

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

I neither eat nor slept, but trembled at every motion I heard, expecting the fatal news, which at last came in their news-book, which mentioned your father a prisoner.

Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid. Anne Harrison Fanshawe 1652

This day in the news-book I find that my Lord Buckhurst and his fellows have printed their case as they did give it in upon examination to a justice of Peace, wherein they make themselves a very good tale that they were in pursuit of thieves, and that they took this man for one of them, and so killed him; and that he himself confessed it was the first time of his robbing; and that he did pay dearly for it, for he was a dead man.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

This day in the news-book I find that my Lord Buckhurst and his fellows have printed their case as they did give it in upon examination to a justice of Peace, wherein they make themselves a very good tale that they were in pursuit of thieves, and that they took this man for one of them, and so killed him; and that he himself confessed it was the first time of his robbing; and that he did pay dearly for it, for he was a dead man.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

This day in the news-book I find that my Lord Buckhurst and his fellows have printed their case as they did give it in upon examination to a justice of Peace, wherein they make themselves a very good tale that they were in pursuit of thieves, and that they took this man for one of them, and so killed him; and that he himself confessed it was the first time of his robbing; and that he did pay dearly for it, for he was a dead man.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jan/Feb 1661/62 Pepys, Samuel 1662