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Show BEFORE DAYS OF PRINTING. First Newspapers Published In England Eng-land Were Written. The earliest Kngllsh newspapers were not printed, but simply written. For the benefit of those who wished to ((insult them they wero exhibited In a public plaee, each reader being called upon to pay a small coin called a R.i7etta, hence the word "gazette." The earliest Kngllsh newspaper was the "Weekly News," first published In lii22 In the seventeenth century several newnpapeis were established, nnd In tho eighteenth century we had the famous "Spectator," and allied publications or the sort Tho first dally appeared In 1792 It Is also Interesting Interest-ing In mile that the II Mt serial story was ' Hoblnson Crusoe," which began to run In the "London Post" on Oct. 7 1711) and concluded on Oct 19, 1720. |