GAZETTE, a newspaper, or printed account of
the transactions of all the countries in the known world, in a loose sheet or half-sheet. This name is with us confined to that paper of news published by authority. The word is derived from gazetta, a Venetian coin, which was the usual price of the first news-paper printed there, and which was afterwards given to the paper itself.
The first gazette in England was published at Oxford, the court being there, in a folio half-sheet, Nov. 7, 1665. On the removal of the court to London, the title was changed to the London Gazette. The Oxford gazette was published on Tuesdays, the London on Saturdays; and these have continued to be the days of publication ever since.