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[609] _Transcripts from the MS. Archives_, ed. Bayley, 1856.
[610] News-letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury, _Hist. MSS. Commis._ VI. 455.
[611] _Machyn’s Diary_, ed. J. Gough Nichols. Camden Soc., No. 42, p. 310.
[612] _Ibid._ p. 396 (note by Nichols); and Guildhall Records, in
Furnivall, _l. c._
[613] _Abstract_, &c. as above.
[614] Stow’s _Memoranda_ (Lambeth MS.), Camden Soc., 1880, p. 123.
[615] _Abstract_, &c. as above.
[616] Stow, _ibid._
[617] Record Office. _State Papers_, Elizabeth, vol. XLVIII., No. 70.
[618] Endorsed “An abstract of such orders as have been heretofore for the
preventing and decreasing of the plague in and about London.”
[619] The searchers are mentioned at Shrewsbury as early as 1539
(Phillips).
[620] _Survey of London_, _ed. cit._ p. 119.
[621] Holinshed, III. p. 1260.
[622] John Bell, _London’s Remembrancer_. Lond. 1665.
[623] _Liber Albus Londinensis._ Rolls series, ed. Riley. The following
instances occur in the report of the commissioners of 1343: P. 446: A
water-gate “obturatur ratione unius gutturi exeuntis de una latrina,” etc.
P. 449: the Ebbegate obstructed by certain persons named, “qui fecerunt in
eadem venella latrinas supra dentes, quarum putredo cadit supra capita
hominum transeuntium.” Same page: Wendegoslane “obturatur per fimos et
garderobas.” Same page: Rethersgate obstructed “per fimos et alia
hujusmodi foetida.” Same page: Dowgate. Two householders named “in eisdem
aedificiis diversas latrinas fecerunt, pendentes ultra vicum ejusdem
venellae; quarum putredines cadunt supra homines per eandem venellam
transeuntes.” P. 450: at Queenhithe a “communis latrina.” P. 451: at
Saltwharf the way to the river obstructed “pulvere et aliis putredinibus
in eadem projiciendis.” P. 452: Lekynggeslane has two latrinae and is
impassable owing to want of paving. Same page: Another venel obstructed by
the Earl Marshall; three latrinae in it. In a perambulation of the ground
outside the walls, 26 Ed. III. (1552), the following encroachments are
noted among others: Outside Ludgate, one has erected a shed (_camera_) 16
ft. × 12¾ ft., and made there “unum profundum puteum et quadratum pro
latrina”--a deep well and a latrine-pit together. Also outside Ludgate,
William of Wircestre has a house there and two shelters for beasts, and a
latrine, and part of the said house is 14 ft. × 7½ ft.
[624] _Statutes of the Realm_, 17 Ric. II.
[625] Riley, _op. cit._, p. 614.
[626] Stow’s _Survey_.
[627] Art. “Shakespeare,” _Encycl. Britan._
[628] Wodderspoon’s _Memorials of Ipswich_, p. 285, p. 259.
[629] “Now first printed.” Exeter, 1765, p. 181.
[630] Poulett Scrope, _op. cit._ p. 333.
[631] _D. Erasmi Epistolar. lib. XXX._ London, 1642, Lib. xxii. Epist. 12
(without date).
[632] Richard of Devizes. Eng. Hist. Soc. p. 60: “Apud Bristolliam nemo
est qui non sit vel fuerit saponarius; et omnis Francus saponarios amat ut
stercorarios.”
[633] William Harrison’s _Description of England_ (in Holinshed) gives
proof enough that the filthy floors described by Erasmus had no existence
two generations later, even among the poorer classes.
[634] The correspondence is in _Remembrancia_, under the head of “Plague.”
[635] From a memorandum of Lord Burghley’s, dated Hertford Castle, 21 Nov.
1582, it appears that a survey had shown 577 beds available for strangers
in one parish of Hertford, and 451 in another, “so that there are lying
two a bed above 2000 people.” _Cal. State Papers._ Domestic series,
Elizabeth 1581-90, p. 75.
[636] Stow’s _Survey_.
[637] _Remembrancia_, p. 332.
[638] _Remembrancia._
[639] Baddeley, _Parish of St Giles, Cripplegate_. Lond. 1888.
[640] _Ibid._, under date August, 1672, p. 193.
[641] Broadsheets in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries. Cited
by W. Rendle, F.R.C.S., _Old Southwark and its People_. London, 1878, p.
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