Dobson and taylor wrote,'more generally the robin of the Broadsides is a much less tragic,
less heroic and in the last resort less mature figure than his medieval predecessor'.
To wit, one of the earliest examples I found is on the Declaration of Independence, with its large“July 4, 1776” inscribed at the top- a format that was copied by John Dunlap,
the printer who made the 200 Broadsides that were later distributed in the colonies.