Meeting book

Thursday Meeting Booke of the Mayor and Aldermen of the Towne of Kingston upon Hull, from 7th May 1668 untill the 27th January 1669 [1670]. Original MS., written by several hands, containing references to Plague, Quarantine, etc. In the 'Meeting Booke' the entries relating to Plague and Quarantine of Ships from Northern French ports are under the dates, 3 September, 8 September (with a copy of a Royal Proclamation, dated 28 August, 1668), 9 September, 5, 10, October, 7 November, 1668: also 10 June and 1 July 1669 (with a copy of a Royal Proclamation, dated 16 June, 1669). Under the date 30 July, 1668 is an entry concerning one Mary Kerman, widow, described as 'a woman of lewd and disorderly life, a common scold, and supposed to be a common whore'. She was ordered by the Board to 'be sett on the ducking stoole at the high water and there to be ducked three severall times in the water'. Produced in Kingston-upon-Hull.

1668-1670

1 volume 100 ll. folio. 31 × 191/2 cm. Original vellum covers from part of an Indenture concerning a Lease of Property from the Brethren and Sisters of the house or hospital nigh Kingston upon Hull, called Godshouse, to Samuel Forcett of the same city.

Purchased 1920.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).