Drury Lane Fire Relief Brief Notice (18 May 1699)

Artifact Summary
Artifact type	Gazette
Creator/author	The London Gazette
Date	18 May 1699
Period	Stuart
City and country of origin	Drury Lane, London, England
Abstract

Entry

• Imprint/call number: The London Gazette, issue 3498 (18 May 1699), page 1
• Keywords: Gazette; London Gazette; Gazette notice; Charitable Collection Notice; Poor Relief; Charity; Disaster; Urban Economy
• Latitude: 51.5136
• Longitude: -0.1227
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• Economic theme: Charity; Disaster; Poor Relief; Urban Economy
• Practice/technology: Print culture; Gazette notice
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• Religious context:
• Legal/political context: Printed notice in The London Gazette; commercial and official print culture
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[The London Gazette, issue 3498 (18 May 1699), page 1.] Source page: issue page.

Whereas on April 22, 1698, a dreadful fire happened in Drury-Lane in Middlesex, the loss amounting to 7320 l.; the poor sufferers having obtained the King's Letters Patents for one year, to be read in all parish-churches, and the church-wardens, &c. to go from house to house to collect their charity soon after the same are read; and the patent expiring at Midsummer next, all ministers, churchwardens, and others concerned therein, as well in London and Middlesex as in other counties, are desired to do their duty therein as that directs. And if any church-wardens have lost or mislaid their briefs, they may have one, sending to Tho. Stibbs at the Sign of St. Thomas in Drury-Lane aforesaid, who is ordered by the trustees to receive the monies from them when collected.

Editorial note: Normalized conservatively from the page-level OCR. Mapped to Drury Lane in central London. Retained because it documents urban loss, royal patent authority, and organized relief collection.