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Ralph Tailor's summer : a scrivener, his city, and the plague / Keith Wrightson.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wrightson, Keith.
Contributor:
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Tailor, Ralph.
Plague--Social aspects--England--Newcastle upon Tyne--History--17th century.
Scriveners (Law)--England--Newcastle upon Tyne--Biography.
Notaries--England--Newcastle upon Tyne--Biography.
City and town life--England--Newcastle upon Tyne--History--17th century.
Material culture--England--Newcastle upon Tyne--History--17th century.
Material culture.
History.
City and town life.
Notaries.
Scriveners (Law).
Plague--Social aspects.
Plague.
Newcastle upon Tyne (England)--Biography.
Newcastle upon Tyne (England)--Social conditions--17th century.
Newcastle upon Tyne (England)--Social life and customs--17th century.
Plague--history.
England.
History, 17th Century.
Records.
England--Newcastle upon Tyne.
Medical Subjects:
Plague--history.
England.
History, 17th Century.
Records.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
xiv, 208 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011]
Contents:
Prologue
Stories of the Plague
The "destroying Angell" and "the eye of the North"
Wildfire
Diligence and care of magistrates
Sent for to write
Liveing a scrivener in the same towne
The dialect of heaven
Bequests and legacies
The attentive presence of others
Houshold stuffe
Discords, variances, and suites
Ralf Taylor notarie publicke
Epilogue.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
ISBN:
9780300174472
0300174470
OCLC:
706803938

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