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A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2) by Charles Creighton

29. Stow puts the mortality under the year 1513.

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[559] Letter from the Fleet prison, assigned to 1517. _Hist. MSS. Com._ X. pt. 4. p. 447. [560] Phillips, _History of Shrewsbury_, p. 17. [561] _Privy Purse of Henry VIII._, p. 79. [562] The reference on p. 290 (note 2) to “no parish in London free,” under the date of 25 October, 1517, may imply that bills of mortality had been kept in that epidemic, which was certainly an occasion when Henry VIII. interposed in other ways to check the progress of plague. [563] Lately purchased for the Egerton Collection. No. 2603, fol. 4. [564] There was, however, an English translation of a small foreign essay on the plague, of unacknowledged authorship, published at London in 1534 by Thomas Paynel, canon of Merton, a literary hack of the time. [565] In the Record Office. State Papers, Henry VIII., No. 4633. It has been erroneously calendared by Brewer as a bill of mortality of the sweating sickness in 1528. [566] _The Maire of Bristowe, his Kalendar._ Camden Society, 1872, p. 53. [567] The plague is said to have been in Exeter in 1535 (Freeman, _Exeter_, in English Towns Series). [568] There is a copy in the Lambeth Library, No. 432. [569] Owen and Blakeway, I. 311. [570] Continuator of Fabyan. [571] Cussan’s _History of Hertfordshire_. [572] _A London Chronicle of Hen. VII. and Hen. VIII._ Camden Miscellany, 1859. [573] _Acts of the Privy Council._ New series, 1542-1547, p. 136. [574] Stow’s _Annales_. [575] _Cal. Cecil MSS._, I. 15. [576] Guildhall Records (Extracts by Furnivall in Appendix to Vicary’s _Anatomy_. Early English Text Society). [577] Brand’s _History of Newcastle_. [578] Hasted’s _History of Canterbury_, p. 130 (from parish registers). [579] Anthony Wood, _op. cit._ II. 74. At Banbury probably about the same year. Beesley’s _History of Banbury_ (from Brasbridge). [580] _Register of the Privy Council of Scotland_, I. 5. [581] _Acts of the Privy Council._ New series, 1542-1547, 28 April, 1546, p. 397. [582] _Ibid._, Nov. 13, 1546, p. 552. [583] Camden’s _Britannia_, ed. Gough, I. 262. [584] _Ibid._ II. 265. [585] _Calendar of State Papers._ Domestic series, Vol. X. [586] _Notes and Queries_, 6th series, III. 477. [587] Nichols, _Leicestershire_, III. 891 (295 deaths from plague &c. 1555-59.) [588] Ormerod’s _Cheshire_, I. under 1558, with a reference to “Harl. MSS.” The Harleian MSS. relating to Chester fill many pages of the catalogue. [589] _Calendar of State Papers_, Eliz. I. p. 122. [590] _Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles._ Camden Society, ed. Gairdner, 1880, pp. 123, 144. [591] Letter from London to the Earl of Shrewsbury, _Hist. MSS. Com._ VI. 455, a. [592] Without date, but probably 1564. Watt conjectures 1556, but the book contains references to the fever-epidemic of 1558, and, as above, to the plague of 1563. [593] Munk, _Roll of the College of Physicians_, I. pp. 32, 63. [594] This and other information immediately following are from _Cal. State Papers_. Foreign series. [595] _Calendar of Cecil MSS._, under the dates. [596] Glover’s _Hist. of Derbyshire_ (21 plague deaths in St Michael’s register, May-Aug. 1563). [597] Nichols; Kelly, in _Trans. Hist. Soc._ VI. 395. [598] Harwood’s _Hist. of Lichfield_, p. 304. [599] Hasted’s _Hist. of Canterbury_, p. 130 (parish registers). [600] _Notes and Queries_, 2nd series, XI. 69. [601] ‘How and whether a Christen man ought to flye the horrible plage of the Pestilence. A sermon out of the Psalme “Qui habitat in adjutorio altissimi,” by Andrewe Osiander. Translated out of Hye Almayn into Englishe, 1537.’ Copy in the British Museum. The initials M.C. are taken to be those of Miles Coverdale. [602] Soranzo to the Senate of Venice. _Calendar of State Papers_, Venetian, V. 541 (18 Aug. 1554). [603] _Cal. State Papers_, Henry VIII. Domestic. [604] From _Abstract of several orders relating to the Plague_. MS. Addit. (Brit. Museum), No. 4376. Probably the originals of these abstracts are among the Guildhall records. I quote from the most accessible source. [605] Extracts from the Guildhall Records, by Furnivall, in Appendix to Vicary’s _Anatomy of the Body of Man_. Early English Text Society. [606] _Cal. State Papers_, Venetian, VII. 649. [607] _Abstract_, &c. in Brit. Mus. MSS., as above. [608] The following is the case by which he supports the recommendation to kill dogs in plague-time: “Not many years since, I knew a glover in Oxford who with his family, to the number of ten or eleven persons, died of the plague, which was said to be brought into the house by a dogge skinne that his wife bought when the disease was in the Citie” (_Poor Man’s Jewel_,
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1. Chapter 1 2. CHAPTER I. 3. CHAPTER II. 4. CHAPTER III. 5. CHAPTER IV. 6. CHAPTER V. 7. CHAPTER VI. 8. CHAPTER VII. 9. CHAPTER VIII. 10. CHAPTER IX. 11. CHAPTER X. 12. CHAPTER XI. 13. CHAPTER XII. 14. CHAPTER I. 15. introduction of a miracle, and is otherwise more circumstantial. While the 16. episode of the seventh century, to which he devotes thirty-eight lines of 17. CHAPTER II. 18. 1307. Future research may perhaps discover where Gilbert taught or was 19. introduction of maize into Lombardy at an interval of two or three 20. CHAPTER III. 21. 3939. The population of the same three parishes in 1558, or shortly after 22. 3639. It may be assumed to have lost more than half its people; but it 23. 1741. The Institution Book of the diocese of Norwich, he says (with a 24. CHAPTER IV. 25. 1349. The pestilence had lasted some fourteen months, from its first 26. CHAPTER V. 27. 1528. If there were any better regimen in the later epidemics than in the 28. 1551. Sweating sickness of the original sort was never again the _signum 29. CHAPTER VI. 30. 1563. 12 June 17 31. 1564. 7 January 45 32. 1518. In April of that year, the Court being in Berkshire or Oxfordshire, 33. 1. First a ’tre from the Mayor of London to every alderman of each 34. 2. To cause all infected houses to bee shutt up and noe person to come 35. 3. That some honest discreete person be appoynted to attend each such 36. 4. For the poorer houses infected that the Alderman or his deputy doe 37. 5. That such as shall refuse to pay what they are assest shall be 38. 6. That all bedding and cloathes and other thinges apt to take 39. 7. Lastly that a bill with ‘Lord have mercy upon us’ in greate ’tres 40. 1. That they should follow the good example of the orders devised and 41. 2. That the officers aforesayde with the curate of euery parish and 42. 3. To discharge all inmates out of all houses that there be noe more 43. 4. To cause the streetes lanes and passages and all the shewers sinkes 44. 1. That speciall noatis be taken of such houses infected as sell 45. 2. That euery counstable within his precinct haue at all tymes in 46. 3. That noe person dwelling in a house infected bee suffered to goe 47. 4. That they suffer not any deade corps dying of the plague to be 48. 5. To appoynt two honest and discreete matrons within euery parish who 49. 6. That order be taken for killing of dogs that run from house to 50. 2. The restraining of the building of small tenements and turning 51. 4. The increase of buildings about the Charterhouse, Mile End Fields; 52. 5. The pestering of exempt places with strangers and foreign 53. 8. The killing of cattle within or near the city. 54. 1588. In 1585 houses were shut up[685]; in 1586 a case at Southwell was 55. 1. First to command that no stinking doonghills be suffered neere the 56. 2. Every evening and morning in the hot weather to cause colde water 57. 3. And whereas the infection is entred, there to cause fires to be 58. 4. Suffer not any dogs, cattes, or pigs to run about the streets, for 59. 5. Command that the excrements and filthy things which are voided from 60. 6. That no Chirurgions, or barbers, which use to let blood, do cast 61. 7. That no vautes or previes be then emptied, for it is a most 62. 8. That all Inholders do every day make clean their stables, and cause 63. 9. To command that no hemp or flax be kept in water neere the Cittie 64. 10. To have a speciall care that good and wholesome victuals and corne 65. 11. To command that all those which do visit and attend the sick, as 66. 1597. In August there were 23 deaths, and in September 42 deaths. The 67. 1588. It was said to have been brought to Wester Wemyss, in Fife, by a 68. CHAPTER VII. 69. 1494. Typhus-fever, or war-fever with famine-fever, now begins to be a 70. CHAPTER VIII. 71. CHAPTER IX. 72. introduction of a third term, _punctilli_, which Gruner, however, takes to 73. 1538. They may be farther helped to a conclusion by the following curious 74. CHAPTER X. 75. 10. In the second place, no deaths are included from the out-parishes 76. 1624. The letters of the time enable us to see what it was that disturbed 77. CHAPTER XI. 78. 12. On December 7, Mr Yorke, captain of the ‘Hope,’ died of sickness, on 79. 1614. In 1617 he published his ‘Surgion’s Mate,’ “chiefly for the benefit 80. 4. The comforting and corroborating the parts late diseased. 81. CHAPTER XII. 82. 1625. His account of the burials by the cart-load in plague-pits is also 83. 1636. An importation from abroad had been alleged as early as the great 84. 1665. Its two great predecessors (not reckoning the smaller plague of 85. 1662. These fractions have been added in the table, so as to make 1603 86. 1666. There was also a sharp epidemic in Cambridge and in the country 87. introduction of inferior bread, 224 _note_ 88. Introduction, p. lxxvi. 89. 110. Aelred, the chief collector of the miraculous cures by Edward the 90. 220. The late Rev. S. S. Lewis, fellow and librarian of the College, who 91. 449. He says also: “The school doors were shut, colleges and halls 92. Introduction, p. 11. 93. 4585. (_Hist. MSS. Commission_, V. 444.) 94. 1878. _Med. Times and Gaz._ I. 1878, p. 597. 95. 1873. (Transact. Camb. Antiq. Soc. 8vo. series, vol. XIV.) 96. 1589. New ed. 1596, p. 272. 97. 1580. Brassavolus, writing _de morbo Gallico_, and illustrating the fact 98. 29. Stow puts the mortality under the year 1513. 99. Chapter VIII. London, 1578). 100. 198. Mr Rendle, in one place, seems to imply disapproval of this mode of 101. 1525. The same kind of misdating occurs among the printed letters of 102. 260. Brusselle, 1712. 103. 171. Buried in the parish of Stepney from the 25th of March to the 20th of 104. Book II. p. 36.

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