T. F.
[The Edinburgh Gazette, or Scotch Postman, printed by Robert Brown on Tuesdays and Thursdays, appears to have been the earliest gazette. The first Number was published in March, 1715. This was followed by The Edinburgh Evening Courant, published on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. No. 1. appeared on the 15th December, 1718, and has existed to the present time. There was another paper issued on May 8, 1692, called The Scotch Mercury, giving a true account of the daily proceedings and most remarkable public occurrences in Scotland; but this seems to have been printed in London for R. Baldwin. The earliest Almanack published in Scotland was in 1677, by Mr. Forbes of Aberdeen, under the title of A New Prognostication, calculated for North Britain, and which was continued until the year 1700.]
Dictum de Kenilworth.—Said to have passed anno 1266. What was the nature of it?
Abredonensis.
[It is a declaration of the parliament of Henry III., containing the terms on which the king was to grant a general pardon to the malcontents of Ely, namely, that all who took arms against the king should pay him the value of their lands, some for five years, others for three and for one. A copy of it is in the Cottonian Library, Claudius, D. ii., 119. b., and in Tyrrel's Hist. of England, p. 1064.]
Dr. Harwood.—Can you tell me in what year the Rev. Dr. Harwood of Lichfield, author of a History of that city, and other works, died? I
believe it was about 1849; but I have not been able to ascertain the exact date.
A. Z.
[Dr. Harwood died 23rd December, 1842, aged 75. For a biographical notice of him, see Gent. Mag. for February, 1843, p. 202.]