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Local Records

1579

This year, the mayor, aldermen, and sheriff of Newcastle, wrote to the bailiffs of Yarmouth, on account of a grievous plague which had caried off, between May and Michaelmas, about 2,000 persons, to forbid their ships to come to that place as usual for coals. [LRS]

 

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  • LRS — Local Records or Historical Register of Remarkable Events by John Sykes, Published in 1833 in two volumes

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