f 107 (5 October)
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A lettre to the Lord mayor to forbidd Stage plaies & to take order that the infectede bee kept in their howses. &c.
Like lettres to the Iustices of the peace of middlesex & Surrey./
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Record title: Privy Council Letters to the Lord Mayor and the JPs of Middlesex and Surrey
Repository:
BL
Shelfmark: Additional MS 11,402
Repository location: London
The original Privy Council Registers for 1601/2–13 were
destroyed by fire in 1618. These abstract entries, among many others
from 1550 to 1610, were copied into a volume owned by Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715), bishop of
Salisbury, 1689–1702.
John Chamberlain's letters in the fall
of 1605 corroborate the return of significant plague deaths in the city;
see Leeds Barroll, Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's
Theater (Ithaca and London, 1991), 131–2.
For an
abstract of the document and details of its transcription history, see
the related EMLoT event record.
early 17th-c.; English; paper; iv (modern) + 163 + iv (modern); 356mm x 220mm; modern pencil foliation 1–163; good condition; bound in maroon cloth with red leather corners and spine, gold-stamped title on spine: 'ABSTRACT OF | THE REGISTERS | OF THE | PRIVY COUNCIL | 1550–1610 | [2 rules] | BRITISH | LIBRARY | [2 rules] | ADDITIONAL | MS. | 11,402.'