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                                  THE
                       _Gentleman_’s _Magazine_:
                             OR, TRADER’s
                        Monthly Intelligencer.
                       NUMBER I. _for_ JANUARY.

                              CONTAINING,

  I. A view of the Weekly _Essays_ and _Controversies_, viz. Of
  Q. _Elizabeth_; Ministers; Treaties; Liberty of the Press; Riot
  act; Armies; Traytors; Patriots; Reason; Criticism; Versifying;
  Ridicule; Humours; Love; Prostitutes; Music; Pawn-Brokers;
  Surgery; Law.

  II. POETRY, _viz._ The _Ode_ for the new Year, by _Colly Cibber_,
  Esq; Remarks upon it; Imitiations of it, by way of _Burlesque_;
  Verses on the same Subject; ingenious Epitaphs and Epigrams.

  III. _Domestick_ Occurrences, _viz._ Births, Deaths, Marriages,
  Preferments, Casualties, Burials and Christenings in _London_.

  IV. Melancholy Effects of Credulity in _Witchcraft_.

  V. Prices of Goods and Stocks, and a List of Bankrupts.

  VI. A correct List of the Sheriffs for the current Year.

  VII. Remarkable _Advertisements_.

  VIII. _Foreign_ Affairs, with an Introduction to this Year’s
  History.

  IX. Books and Pamphlets publish’d.

  X. Observations in _Gardening_, and the Fairs in _Feb_.

  XI. A Table