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Ralph Tailor's summer : a scrivener, his city, and the plague / Keith Wrightson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) RC178.G72 N49 2011
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Van Pelt Library RC178.G72 N49 2011
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wrightson, Keith.
- 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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