...This chapter discusses the career of Benjamin Collins of the Salisbury Journal. It details Collins' many enterprises, which included other newspapers with London titles and a competing Wessex newspaper, the Hampshire Chronicle. It notes that the accounts for this paper, identified...

...This section concludes that this discussion of the eighteenth-century English newspaper trade, which starts from a close study of the Salisbury Journal and the Hampshire Chronicle, is intended as a contribution to the studies made by James E. Tierney, Jeremy Black...

...This section provides a brief historical account of the eighteenth-century English newspaper publishing of James Linden, who was in his mid-40s when the first paper of the Hampshire Chronicleappeared in 1772. It notes that Linden's other enterprises were stable, and included...