Norwich: Court Books. 12th May, 1630: a pest house was built. 24th June, 1630: a separate pest house was built by the Dutchmen. 14th May, 1632: two more pest houses ordered to be made.
London: Remembrancia, 7, 19.
Cambridge: Cooper's Annals, III. p. 226.
[482] Windsor: Tighe and Davis, Annals of Windsor, Vol. II., p. 52, 1604. The site of the building was given by Thos. Aldem an Alderman. Also "There was collected within the Towne for ye reliefe of infected people by way of taxation £25. 11s. 1d. Given by divers gentlemen and other neighbours £29. 6s. 6d. and paid them over and above these two somes £17. 5s. 2d."
[483] The justices of Hitchen thus report their expenses in time of plague. "By the ouerseers of the poore in this tyme of ye visitation 128li. Besides the charges of six watchmen and one officer with them euerie night, And besides dailye reliefe from the houses of the able and welldisposed. And xxli taxed by us upon the halfe hundred the greatest parte wherof is not yet payd in. And besides the charges in setting of poore on worke etc." D. S. P., Chas. I., Vol. 349, No. 70.
[484] Privy Council Reg. 22nd April, 1636.
[485] Ib., 6th and 27th Nov. 1638.
[486] 1599: the Town's physician was appointed at Newcastle. Welford, Newcastle and Gateshead, III. p. 132. Seven years earlier a surgeon obtained by grant of the mayor 40s. as his accustomed fee for helping to cure the maimed poor folk. In 1599, a physician was paid his quarter's fee and in later years was known as the town physician.
[487] Pamphlet of 1598 reprinted in Harding's Tiverton, Appendix, p. 7.
[488] Circular letters or briefs were often issued by the Council authorising collections for the sufferers. W. A. Bewes, Church Briefs, p. 97.