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Title: The Hothams : being the chronicles of the Hothams of Scorborough and South Dalton from their hitherto unpublished family papers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Stirling, Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina Pickering
Subjects: Hotham family
Publisher: London : H. Jenkins Limited
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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vacillation of purpose which was to prove hisundoing. At first, however. Sir Johns governorship of the seaportappears to have been comparatively uneventful till, in July,1635, the plague suddenly made its appearance. Three timespreviously it had visited Hull, owing, it was believed, to thefact that the town was specially exposed to infection from theforeign shipping with which it was constantly brought incontact. On one of these former occasions, in 1596, theepidemic had not spread beyond the locality more particularlyreminiscent of the ancestor of the Governor, Sir Geoffry deHotham ; Blackfriar Gate had then been so deeply infectedthat it had been judged necessary to wall up that portion ofthe town, leaving only two carefully guarded doors throughwhich provisions and medicines could be passed to the wretchedprisoners beyond. But the fourth visitation of the scourgeto the unhappy seaport could not be tlius confined within anyprescribed area. The disorder spread with frightful rapidity
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SIR JOHN HOTHAM, THE FIRST BARONET GOVERNOR OF HULL BEHEADED ON TOWER HILL, JANUARY 2ND, 1644—5 Po>-trait hv Cornelis Janssen THE GOVERNOR OF HULL 31 and a general panic ensued. The markets and all publicassemblies were suppressed by Royal proclamation, and thegates of the town itself were closed save for the entrance ofprovisions. Numbers of the inhabitants fled to the country ;commerce became extinct ; 2500 of the most opulent citizenswere reduced to penury, and the place became a scene ofdesolation and horror. The neighbouring justices of the peacewere ordered to impose taxes and provide food for the reliefof the stricken people, and Hotham in his capacity of Governormust have had his time fully occupied in enforcing and super-vising such regulations. Meantime it is to be presumed thathe refrained from entering the infected area while, for threeyears, the pestilence continued to rage, during which 2730persons died within the town, and the total number of victimswho had fled fr. Hotham arms: Barry of nine argent and azure, on a canton or a Cornish chough proper

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