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might be inferred that the savages, instead of adding to their personal beauty (for they are, nearly all, well made,) were really trying to render themselves unnatural and hideous. This is true; and yet when they are in full dress, the fantastical arrangement of their ornaments not only has nothing in it that is offensive, but it really possesses a certain charm which is pleasing in itself and makes them appear to great advantage."

1"De tout ce que je vient de dire de la manière de s'orner, on conclura aisément, que les Sauvages, au lieu d'ajouter à leur beauté naturelle, (car ils sont presque tous bien fait,) travaillent à se rendre laids & à se défigurer. Cela est vrai aussi; cependant quand ils sont bien parez à leur mode, l'assemblage bizarre de tous leurs ornemens, non seulement n'a rien qui choque, mais il a un je ne sçai quoi qui plait, & leur donne de la bonne grace": Lafitau, Mœurs des Sauvages Amériquains, Tome III., p. 57: Paris, 1724.

EARLY AMERICAN BROADSIDES.

1680-1800.

PREPARED BY NATHANIEL PAINE.

SAMUEL F. HAVEN, LL.D., the late librarian of the American Antiquarian Society, in a report presented in April, 1872, called attention to Broadsides and their value as material for history and said, "they imply a great deal more than they literally express and disclose visions of the interior condition of society such as cannot be found in formal narratives." Dr. Haven, in company with the late Charles Deane, LL.D., had, a few years previously, examined with great interest the large and valuable collection of Broadsides in the library of the Society of Antiquaries of London and in the above mentioned report alludes to it with some particularity.

Mr. W. H. Overall, formerly librarian of the Corporation of London, presented a paper on Broadsides, at a meeting of the Library Association of the United Kingdom, held in February, 1881, in which he speaks of the valuable collection of the Society of Antiquaries, and of the historical information derived from this class of literature. He also suggests that an index of all collections of this kind would be of great value to historical students.'

The Boston Public Library has a valuable collection of this class of historical literature, and has from time to time published fac-similes of the more important ones.2

With the report of Dr. Haven in mind, the writer has

1 A catalogue of the Printed Broadsides in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries, compiled by Robert Lemon, was published in 1866.

2 Boston Public Library Bulletins, October, 1892, and January and October, 1893.

looked over the collection of Broadsides belonging to the American Antiquarian Society and, as supplementary to his

Early American Imprints" presented in October, 1895, has made a list of the American Broadsides in the Society's library, printed from 1650 to 1800 inclusive, in the hope that it may be of some use to students who have occasion to consult our library.

This list, which includes about two hundred titles, has several of historical interest, notably those printed during the Revolutionary period, there being over sixty issued between 1772 and 1779, most of which were printed at Boston.

The earliest printed broadside four in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society, is dated London, 1660; it is a Proclamation Against Vicious, Delauch'd and Prophane Persons," issued by authority of Charles II. at Whitehall, and printed by Christopher Baker and John Bell, Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.

The earliest American Broadside that has yet come to Fight is a Proclamation for Fast issued by the General Court of Massachusetts in 161. There is a large collection of this class of Broadsides, there being nearly one hundred annual Fast and Thanksgiving Proclamations printed before 180, Jesides several issued for special occashops, but as all these have been so fully described by our associate, Rev. W. DeLoss Love. Jr., in his The Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England," it was not deemed necessary to include them in the present list.

But few of the Broadsides mentioned have been given in full, as brief abstracts or shortened titles, it was thought. would furnish the needed information. The collection bas heen mounted and arranged in chronological order, so that it can be read y consulted.

The Society's collection of Breadsides printed since 1500 is very large and is being constantly added to; it includes, Test is three volumes of ballads and songs published from

1812 to 1816 and preserved by the founder of our Society, a large number of musical and dramatic posters, the Fast and Thanksgiving Proclamations to date, as also many political broadsides of more or less interest.

1680.

Fast Proclamation, April 21 1689 Cut of Colonial Arms at 8 x 11 inches.

the top.

[This is the Earliest American broadside in the Collection of the American Antiquarian Society. It is fully described in "Early American Imprints, 1640-1700," presented at the meeting of the Society in October, 1895.

There are many other Fast Proclamations in the collection, also a number of Thanksgiving Proclamations, but, as already stated, these have been treated of by Rev. W. DeLoss Love, Jr., in his "The Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England," and are not included in this list. It may be said in brief that from 1729 to 1800 there are forty-three Fast Proclamations and forty-four Thanksgiving Peoclamations belonging to the Society.]

1690.

By The Governour & Council. Whereas some have lately presumed to Print and Disperse a Pamphlet Entituled, Publick Occurrences, both Foreign and Domestick: Boston, Thursday, Septemb. 25th, 1690. Without the least Privity or Countenance of Authority.

The Governour and Council having had the perusal of the said Pamphlet, and finding that therein is contained Reflections of a very high nature: As also sundry doubtful and uncertain Reports, do hereby manifest and declare their high Resentment and Disallowance of said Pamphlet, and order that the same be Suppressed and called in; strictly forbidding any person or persons for the future to Set forth any thing in Print without Licence first obtained from those that are or shall be appointed by the Government to grant the

same.

By Order of the Governour & Council Boston, September 29th. 1690. ISAAC ADDINGTON, Secr. 6 x 7.

["Publick Occurrences." The first and only number of this publication was dated Boston, Thursday, Sept. 25, 1690. "Printed by R.

Pierce for Benjamin Harris, at the London Coffee House, 1690." Samuel A. Green, LL D., gives a copy of it in the Historical Magazine, for August, 1857, and also a full account of the sheet with a fac-simile reproduction in the Boston Daily Globe, March 4, 1897.]

1701.

Wednesday January 1, 1701. A little before the Break-a-day at Boston of . . . Massachusetts.

"Once more! Our God, vouchsafe to Shine

Tame Thou the Rigour of our Clime.
Make haste with thy Impartial Light,
And terminate this long dark Night.

Let the transplanted English Vine
Spread further still: still call it Thine:
Prune it with Skill: to yield it can

More Fruit to Thee the Husbandman.”

7 x 12.

[Four more verses. No place or date of printing given. For the poem in full (which was written by Chief Justice Samuel Sewall), with remarks by Samuel A. Green, LL.D., see Proceedings Mass. Historical Society, 20 Series I. (1884), 13-14.]

1703.

[English Coat of Arms.]

Province of the Massachusetts Bay. By His Excellency, Joseph Dudley, Esq. Captain General and Governour in Chief, in and over Her Majesties Province of the Massachusetts-Bay and Ner-Hampshire in New-England in America, and Vice Admiral of the same. A Declaration Against the Pennicooke and Eastern Indians. [Declares, “the said Indians of Pennicooke and of the Eastern Parts of this Province, with their Confederates to be Rebels and Enemies against Our Sovereign Lady Queen Anne, Her Crown and Dignity, and to be out of Her Majesties Protection," &c., &c. Boston: Printed by Bartholomew Green, and John Allen, Printers to His Excellency the Governour and Council. 1703. 11 x 141.

1704

[English Coat of Arms.]

Province of the Massachuset-Bay in New-England. By his Excellency, The Governour, Council and Assembly of the

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