As only the _Intelligencer_ is named in the orders, one infers that Needham retained the editorship of the _Mercurius_ during his three months of suspension.

He may have had more of a proprietary hold on that paper.] [Footnote 2: Thomason Catalogue: large quartos.] [Footnote 3: _Didapper_: a duck that dives and reappears.] [Footnote 4: Wood's Ath.III.

1180-1190; Whitlocke as cited; Pepys, under date Jan.

9, 1659-60; Evelyn's Diary, Feb.

17, 1659-60 _et seq._; Baker's Chronicle continued by Edward Phillips (ed.