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REED THIS! The latest instalment of our blog is now live. Read about plague measures in early modern Southampton here: https://reedproject.blog/2022/06/16/to-know-the-sick-from-the-whole-sixteenth-century-plague-records-from-the-southampton-book-of-fines/ [https://reedprojectblog.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/default-2.jpg?w=1200]<https://reedproject.blog/2022/06/16/to-know-the-sick-from-the-whole-sixteenth-century-plague-records-from-the-southampton-book-of-fines/> ‘To Know the Sick from the Whole’: Sixteenth-century Plague Records from the Southampton Book of Fines<https://reedproject.blog/2022/06/16/to-know-the-sick-from-the-whole-sixteenth-century-plague-records-from-the-southampton-book-of-fines/> A painter’s wife makes crosses on doors to mark the houses of those suffering from the plague. A man called John Lorde puts white rods in the hands of the infected ‘to know the syke from the … reedproject.blog