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December 03, 1666

THE LONDON GAZETTE, England, Dec. 3, 1666 (price includes shipping to the Netherlands).

* Earliest of newspapers to be had
* Reporting on the great plague (rare)


Near the top of the front page is a report from the city of Norwich on deaths from the Plague, reading: "We have this week (God be praised) a great decrease of the Sickness. Our bill running this; Buried of all diseases 19, whereof of the Plague 15." (see). The back page has a reference to the Plague with a report: "All persons concerned are to take notice. that the School of the College near Winchester was opened on the first of December instant, it having pleased God to extinguish, in all humane appearance, the Sickness in that city, and the suburbs thereof."
The back page also has a rather lengthy report from the Caribbean, beginning: "Yesterday by letters from the Barbadoes we received advice, that his Excellency the Lord Willoughby, his Majesties Governor of the Caribbee Islands, having equipped at the Barbadoes a considerable fleet of ships...set sail thence...last towards the Leeward Islands in order to some particular design, that in his way, on the 23rd to the Leeward of Martineca he met with two good prizes..." and more (see).
Complete as as single sheet newspaper, 7 by 11 inches, very nice, clean condition.

Category: The 1600's and 1700's