L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616–1704), journalist and pamphleteer, and an active Royalist. He issued the News and the Intelligencer (1663–6), which were ousted by the London Gazette of Muddiman, and many political pamphlets. In his periodical the Observator (1681–7) he attacked the Whigs, Oates, and Dissenters. His prose is colloquial, forceful, and controversial. He was knighted by James II in 1685, but after the revolution was regarded by the Whigs as a grave threat to liberty, and was several times imprisoned.

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