This book tells the story of the public notice, a precursor to the modern day billboard.
Summoned by drum or trumpet to the market-place, the people saw the actual document unrolled – directly, presumably, from the actual hand of majesty – and heard its oracular pronouncement. With the reading done, and the text duly posted, they gathered round to see the document. It was almost as though the monarch himself had come among them.
Page 8 The Public Notice – an illustrated history / by Maurice Rickards
