I have been thus diffuse in the description of this little volume
because I consider it a curious representative of time, place, and
person, not likely to be often met with. Spelling-books have
ever been notoriously evanescent, from the days of the very first
Donatus; and even Horn-booh have scarcely survived to our
time, though they were protected by a double armour, of oak
board behind and a plate of transparent horn in front. I have
never seen a copy of this Preceptor except my own, and I suspect
that the promised second volume was never " served on the
Subscribers."

In the year 1812 a Newspaper, called The Leinster Chronicle,
was printed here by the same Joseph Bull. Some years later a
second Newspaper was started by a printer named Thomas
Legge, and after his death was continued by Richard White.
A third Newspaper, called The King's County Chronicle, was
commenced by Messrs. Shields and Son, in September, 1845,
and is continued to this day. The second Parsonstown book
which I have heard of, is A Volume of Poems, by W. Wilkinson,
printed by Eichard White in 1831; and the next, Pastoral
and other Poems, by Thomas Abbott, the Ormond Ploughman,
printed by Shields in 1839. Since that period several more



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considerable works have proceeded from the Parsonstown
press.
Parthenopa, quaere if Naples be meant ? Brunet- adduces a
book, dated 1628, bearing this imprint.
Pasawalk, or Pesewalk, a small ancient town of Prussia, in the
Government of Stettin. It was formerly one of the towns com-
posing the Hanseatic League. — 1833.
Patakinum, see Saros-Patakon in Series I.
