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A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland
Charles-street;| by whom all Persons may be supplied with this Gazette, at 12 s. 6 d. per
Year. Advertise-| ments of a moderate Length are taken in and inserted for Five Shillings
the first Week, and One Shilling | each Week after the First.)
14 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches; 2 leaves each number, except Nos. 505-506, 508, 510, 550-551, 553 and 555 which have one
each; three columns.
Note change in price this year from 143. to 12s. 6d. per annum.
MdHS. has two copies, one lacks No. 555, and has Nos. 545 and 554 imperfect; the other lacks 553, 554 and
555. MDSL. (complete.) LC. (incomplete.) For location of scattered issues, see Brigham, American Newspapers.
186. STERLING, JAMES. A | Sermon,| preached before | his Excellency the Govenor [sic] |
of | Maryland, | and | both Houses of Assembly, | at | Annapolis,| December 13, 1754. | By
James Sterling, A. M.| Rector of St. Paul's Parish, in Kent County.| Annapolis:| Printed
by Jonas Green, Printer to the Province.| MDCCLV.|
Sm. 4to. [A]-F4; 24 leaves; pages [i-v], vi-vii, [viii], 9-48; p. [i]: half-title, Mr. Sterling's | Sermon,) Preached
before the Governor, and | both Houses of Assembly, De-| cember 13, 1754. |, head and tail pieces; p. [iii]: title,
as above,-verso: "By the Lower House of Assembly, December 13, 1754. P. M. Ordered, That Col. William
Fitzhugh, Mr. Lloyd Buchanan, Col. John Henry, Mr. William Hicks, Mr. Henry Casson, and Capt. Alexander
Williamson, do wait upon the Reverend Mr. James Sterling, and return him the Thanks of the House, for his
Sermon preached this Day before his Excellency the Governor, and both Houses of Assembly, and request a
copy thereof that it may be Printed. M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho."; head and tail pieces; pp. [v]-vii: text of "The
Prayer", head and tail pieces; pp. 9-48: text, with head-piece and heading, consisting of quotation from Gala-
tians, iv, 18; p. 48: "Finis".
Leaf measures: 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches. Type page, p. 13: 151 x 104 mm.
British Museum has also reprint of this same year, with the title "Zeal against the enemies of our country
pathetically recommended ....." London. 1755. (Pressmark, 225. h. 22. (18.)) (Evans, No. 7574). For order to
print the Annapolis edition, see Votes and Proceedings Dec. 14, 1754, by which 300 copies were to be printed, 5
for the Governor, 4 to each member of the two houses, the remainder to Mr. Sterling. Advertised for sale by
Jonas Green in Maryland Gazette of July 3,1755.
The Rev. Mr. Sterling received the King's Bounty on Sept. 16, 1737, (Fothergill), was inducted rector of St.
Anne's Parish, Anne Arundel County on Aug. 5, 1739, and soon after May 7, 1740 became rector of St. Paul's,
Kent County, a charge which he retained until his death in 1763. (Allen, St. Ann s Parish.) His obituary notice
and poetical epitaph were published in the Maryland Gazette for Nov. 17, 1763. He died Nov. 10, 1763. In addition
to his parish, Mr. Sterling held office in Maryland as "Collector of his Majesty's Customs at Chester," a fact
which the Rev. Bennet Allen used in extenuation of his own desire a few years later to employ himself in tem-
poral occupations. (See B. Allen to Sharpe, Nov. 25,1767. Gilmor Papers, MdHS.)
British Museum (press mark, 694. e. 3. (11.))
187. TUESDAY CLUB OF ANNAPOLIS. By Permission of his Honour the President,| of the
Tuesday Club | Sir,| ..... [Notice from Jonas Green that there would be no meeting of the
Tuesday Club for that week. Signed, "Jonas Green, M.C.P.L. & H.S.", and dated, "An-
napolis, July 15, 1755."] [Annapolis: Printed by Jonas Green. 1755.]
Broadside. 6| x 51/3 inches.
Printed on green paper. In the heading, the words "of the Tuesday Club" are interspaced with printers
"flowers." A brief account of this celebrated club is given in the foregoing narrative, Chapter Seven; fuller ac-
counts appear in Riley, E. S., The Ancient City, Annapolis. 1887, and in an article entitled "Old Maryland Man-
ners" in Scribner's Monthly, 17: 315 (Jan. 1879).
LC. (Ms. Div.)
188. —Sir,| I Hope I shall have the Honour of your Company,] at the Tuesday Club, to be
held this | Evening in Charles-Street, at the Dwelling of,| Sir, Your very humble Servant,
Jonas Green, H S.| Annapolis,| December 2, 1755.| [Annapolis: Printed by Jonas Green
1755-1
Broadside. 41 x 69 mm.
See note to No. 187.
LC. (Ms. Div.)
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