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[Footnote 6:]

Dyer was a Jacobite printer, whose News-letter was twice in trouble for 'misrepresenting the proceedings of the House,' and who, in 1703, had given occasion for a proclamation against 'printing and spreading false 'news.'

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[Footnote 7:]

'

The British Princes

, an Heroick Poem,' by the Hon. Edward Howard, was published in 1669. The author produced also five plays, and a volume of Poems and Essays, with a Paraphrase on Cicero's

Lælius

in Heroic Verse. The Earls of Rochester and Dorset devoted some verses to jest both on