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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 620 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BROADSIDE , sometimes termed, BROADSHEET, a single See also:

sheet of See also:paper containing printed See also:matter on one See also:side only. The broad-side seems to have been employed from the very beginning of See also:printing for royal proclamations, papal indulgences and similar documents. See also:England appears to have been its See also:chief See also:home, where it was used chiefly for See also:ballads, particularly in the 16th See also:century, but also as a means of See also:political agitation and for See also:personal statements of all kinds, especially for the dissemination of the dying speeches and confessions of criminals. It is prominent in the See also:history of literature because, particularly during the later See also:part of the 17th century, several important poems, by See also:Dryden, See also:Butler and others, originally appeared printed on the " broad side " of a sheet. The See also:term is also used of the simultaneous See also:discharge of the guns on one side of a See also:ship of See also:war.

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