101 records matched your query       

Author:

Wrightson, Keith.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiv, 208 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Tailor, Ralph.
Plague--History--Newcastle upon Tyne--Newcastle upon Tyne--History--17th century.
Scriveners (Law)--Newcastle upon Tyne--Newcastle upon Tyne--Biography.
Notaries--Newcastle upon Tyne--Newcastle upon Tyne--Biography.
City and town life--Newcastle upon Tyne--Newcastle upon Tyne--History--17th century.
Material culture--Newcastle upon Tyne--Newcastle upon Tyne--History--17th century.
Newcastle upon Tyne (England)--Biography.
Newcastle upon Tyne (England)--Social conditions--17th century.
Newcastle upon Tyne (England)--Social life and customs--17th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0300174470 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300174472 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2011008251

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

VCPD034 -- Robey Memorial Library-Waukon (Waukon)