LEST RANGE, SIR ROGER

1704), an English pamphleteer, Hunstanton. In 1639 he accompanied Charles I. on his expedition the Scots and during the Civil War captured by the Parliamentarians attack on Lynn and condemned death as a spy. He was reprieved, imprisoned in New gate, but escaped 1648, and fled to the Continent, turning to England in 1653, and terms with Cromwell. He was Licenser of the Pre at the tion. In 1663 he established the paper The Public Intelligencer, and The News, which in 1665 became London Gazette. In 1679 he founded Observator. He lost his office as at the revolution of 1688. He was a of letters of considerable ability, made some good translations of ‘Cicero, Aisop, Erasmus, and one of the founders of the Fr. of “Painting; executed many and mythological pictures, of which Louvre po e es 47 specimens.