- BUBONIC PLAGUE 1603 a constable was appointed a day and night watch to turn away strangers who might be carrying the disease. Keeping watch was understandably unpopular. Prosecution of negligent Watchmen included New Malton (1607) the North Riding underwent a second outbreak of Plague by April 1627 it was at New Malton, but the Corn & Cattle Market revived as English & Scots drovers arrived, and by 1664 there was the greatest Horse Fair held in England.
- In the reign of JAMES 1st, RALPH LORD EURE built a new house to replace it in circa 1604. On the spouting in the north/west corner of the older portion is the date 1604.
In the Lodge there is a quantity of oak panelling, and in the upper room a remarkable piece of carving illustrating the history of JONAH over the fireplace. - (Taken from the Malton Messenger 7th October 1854 - Inscription at the Lodge.) The following is a copy, with a translation, of inscriptions under four antique carvings in oak, over the mantelpiece in the drawing-room, representing scenes in the life of Jonah.
- Mittitur ad Ninives celeberrima meania Jones; Imperium Domini sed tamen illefugit (Jonah is sent to the celebrated city of Nineveh; but, nevertheless, he flees from the command of the Lord).
- A Domino fugiens, jactatur in aequora Jonas: Excipit hunc caeco bellua ventre ferox. (Jonah, fleeing from the Lord, is thrown into the waters: a wild monster received him into its dark belly.)
- Evomit adsorptum eaeco de gutture cetus; Redditure terrae qui modo praeda fuit. (The whale, from its dark throat, vomits him who had been swallowed up; and he is returned to the land where he had lately been a prey.)
- Digna Deo turbat rigidum clementia Joanam: Germine carpit eum dispereunte Deus. (The clemency worth of God vexes the unmerciful Jonah: God reproves him by means of the perishing plant.)
- A few errors in the quantity of the Latin verses have been corrected.)
- Taken from A History of Bubonic Plague in the British Isles by J. F. D. Shrewsbury -1970.
- At New Malton, also in that district, a man was fined £40 and set in the stock for 3 hours 'with a scrowle of paper on his head written in Romaine capital letters – For bringing down (from London) receiving into his house, and utteringe goods infected with the plague; and from contempte of the authorities seekinge to suppresse his insolencies; and from thence to be taken to York Castle, there to remaine until the fine be paid. He threatened to shoot the Justices and such persons as sought to keep him and his goods in his house. New Malton was visited by plague this year, but it was probably infected by rat contact spread from Scarborough, where the disease was epidemic in1626.
- KING CHARLES (1625-49) came to Malton in 1641.
- Extra Labour at harvest time. They weare wont, in former times, to hire at Malton good and able mowers out of the Moores for 2s.2d. And 2s.4d. A weeke and finde them Meate, Drinke, and Lodginge, they used likewise to hire there, able young followers, for Bindinge and Stockinge, for 20d a weeke and theire meate, and boyes, for lying out and traylinge of the Sweathrake, for 15d a weeke and theire meate, but nowe of late wee give to our mowers 3s, and finde them meate and drinke, and to the binders wee hire these 2s.4d. And for outliggers 20d a weeke, and meate, drinke, and lodginge.
- QUEEN HENRIETTA slept here in 1643; she brought 500 carts, 1,000 Horses, 3 Coaches, 8 Troops of Horse and 15 Companies of Foot and passed through on her way from Bridlington to York.
- Jan 1643 Ferdinando Lord Fairfax wrote to the speaker of the House of Commons: Amongst the Prisoners take by Sir Hugh Cholmley at Malton, and here at Gisbrough, it is found that a great number are papists.
Go To The Next Article: 1648 to 1697 (Hunting Lodge built, (now Talbot Hotel)
