ABSTRACT
Additional MSS among the Liverpool Papers are invaluable for putting quarantine into a political context. The following have proved the most rewarding: 38213, fols 15-25 (Q in Holland and Germany); 38234, fols 29-35 (proposals by the Q Committee) and 36-43 (Q in Mediterranean); 38349, fol. 1 (bills of health), 167-75 (Q in Holland) and 176-82 (Q in Sicily); 38351, fols 243-57 (memorial to Pitt from Levant Company); 38352, fols 179-87 (first report of Turkey [Levant] Company re lazaret); 38353, fols 53-82 (second and third reports of Turkey Company etc.) and 176-8 (ideas for English lazaret); 38354, fols 102-6 (Hawkesbury’s views on lazaret and its rules, and admission of foul-bill ships); 38355, fols 113-17 (foul-bill ships); 38358, fols 232-7 (report to Privy Council from Royal College of Physicians).
