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 newspaper 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.