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Andrew Brice and the early Exeter newspaper press

Trans. Devon Assoc., vol 20, 1888, pp. 163-214.

by

T.N. Brushfield

Prepared by Michael Steer

Andrew Brice was Exeter's first newspaper man of real significance; the son of a shoemaker, possibly born in Butchers Row about 1690-2. In 1717, he established his own newspaper, The Exeter Postmaster or the Loyal Mercury in Southgate-street. This was the first of a long series of titles published in Exeter including Brice's Weekly journal, from 1725. Brice was outspoken, often getting into trouble for something he had published. With other newspaper editors, he was required to appear before Parliament for publishing their proceedings in 1718. He went into partnership with Barnabas Thorn in 1769 allowing him to go into semi-retirement before his death on 7th November 1773 at the age of 83. Google with the Archive Organization has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. These are books on which copyright has expired, and are available free for educational and research use. This rare book was produced from a copy held by the Princeton University Library, and is available from the Internet Archive.