Document Four – Inmates of Fuse Hill

Catalogue Ref: MH 12/1599, 21632/1867

Document Three (a) – George Webb’s Letter

Poor Law Poster

The New Poor Law poster, 1837 (EXT 6/1)

Document Four – Dietary

Document Three – Bertrand Bouverie’s letter

Document One – W Miles’ Letter

Document Three – Southwell Union Quote

Document Two – Sarah Hemming’s Letter

Document One – Barnsley Times

Tobacco – Source 5

‘A letter from Jerard Gore to Anthony Williams. Send a spaniel, sugar, pipes, tobacco, 5 September 1623. Catalogue Ref: SP 46/66 f.24.

 

The muskmelon mentioned in this letter was a sweet fleshy melon, grown in the Mediterranean area in the ‘Middle Ages’. In the fifteenth century, the explorer Christopher Columbus carried seeds from the fruit on one of his voyages to the Americas and planted them. By the time this letter was written, muskmelon was being grown in English colonies in North America.

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