Farley family

==Background==

==Background==

{{main|Farley (name)|History of British newspapers}}

{{main|Farley (name)|History of British newspapers}}

The [[Farley (name)|Farley]] name is listed in the [[Domesday Book|Domesday Book of 1086]], and Adam Farlegh is the first of the name to be listed as a land owner in [[Somerset]] in the 13th century [[Hundred Rolls]].<ref>[https://www.surnamedb.com/surname/Farley Surname Database: Farley]</ref><ref>[https://www.houseofnames.com/farley-family-crest House of Names: Farley]</ref> Newspapers appeared in [[Regions of England|provincial]] [[England]] at the turn of the 18th century, with the ''Bristol Post Boy'' being the first in print from 1702, albeit a basic two-pager. The patriarch of the Farley family of Somerset was Samuel Farley, who developed the concept with his ''Exeter Post Man'', a many-paged newspaper in print from 1704. The governing [[British Whigs|Whigs]] came to see provincial newspapers as auxiliaries of the [[Tory]] opposition in [[London]], and in 1726, the [[Comptroller|Comptroller of the Post Office]] was mandated to institute [[surveillance]], and so to purchase all English, [[Ireland|Irish]] and [[Scotland|Scottish]] newspapers for examination by the [[Treasury Solicitor's Department|Treasury Solicitor]]. Thus began the 'print wars' in which Edward Farley II was an early casualty.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igGsAgAAQBAJ&dq=samuel+farley+the+hague+letter+the+craftsman&pg=PT195 | title=The English Press in the Eighteenth Century (Routledge Revivals)| isbn=9781136836299| last1=Black| first1=Jeremy| date=18 October 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite ODNB | url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-64308 |doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/64308|year = 2004|last1 = Maxted|first1 = Ian|title = Farley family (Per. 1698–1775), printers and publishers &#124; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | author1=Sack, James J | title=From Jacobite to Conservative: Reaction and Orthodoxy in Britain | date=1993 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=9780521432665}}</ref>

The [[Farley (name)|Farley]] name is listed in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, and Adam Farlegh is the first of the name to be listed as a land owner in [[Somerset]] in the 13th century [[Hundred Rolls]].<ref>[https://www.surnamedb.com/surname/Farley Surname Database: Farley]</ref><ref>[https://www.houseofnames.com/farley-family-crest House of Names: Farley]</ref> Newspapers appeared in [[Regions of England|provincial]] [[England]] at the turn of the 18th century, with the ''Bristol Post Boy'' being the first in print from 1702, albeit a basic two-pager. The patriarch of the Farley family of Somerset was Samuel Farley, who developed the concept with his ''Exeter Post Man'', a many-paged newspaper in print from 1704. The governing [[British Whigs|Whigs]] came to see provincial newspapers as auxiliaries of the [[Tory]] opposition in [[London]], and in 1726, the [[Comptroller|Comptroller of the Post Office]] was mandated to institute [[surveillance]], and so to purchase all English, [[Ireland|Irish]] and [[Scotland|Scottish]] newspapers for examination by the [[Treasury Solicitor's Department|Treasury Solicitor]]. Thus began the 'print wars' in which Edward Farley II was an early casualty.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igGsAgAAQBAJ&dq=samuel+farley+the+hague+letter+the+craftsman&pg=PT195 | title=The English Press in the Eighteenth Century (Routledge Revivals)| isbn=9781136836299| last1=Black| first1=Jeremy| date=18 October 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite ODNB | url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-64308 |doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/64308|year = 2004|last1 = Maxted|first1 = Ian|title = Farley family (Per. 1698–1775), printers and publishers &#124; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | author1=Sack, James J | title=From Jacobite to Conservative: Reaction and Orthodoxy in Britain | date=1993 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=9780521432665}}</ref>

==Samuel Farley==

==Samuel Farley==