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The Early History of English Poor Relief

Note 481 — Chapter X

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Reading: 1639. More than £190 is spent in building eight pest houses. Records of Reading, Vol. III. p. 454.

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.

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