Notes and Queries, 1887, Vol. 3: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Thomas, William John

9780364697054: Notes and Queries, 1887, Vol. 3: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Notes and Queries, 1887, Vol. 3: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc

In 1573 the plague was raging in the town of Southampton, and recourse was had to the ex pedient of painting a cross on the house doors of infected persons; such persons were obliged to carry white rods in their hands to knows the syke from the whole; and the town emplo'yed six men and women as keepers and bearers' of the sick people, at one shilling per week each. See Davies's History of Southampton,' 1883, p. 480.

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