The Great Plague. The Story of London\'s Most Deadly Year

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The Great Plague A. Lloyd Mooteand Dorothy C. Moote THE STORY OF LONDON’S MOST DEADLY YEAR the johns hopkins university press Ba ...

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In memory ofMary Frances and for Nancy, Karen, Salley, Katherine, Peter, Daphne, and Bob ...

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What eye would not weep to see soe many habitacions uninhabited, ye poor sick not visited, ye hungry not fed, ye grave not satis ...

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CONTENTS List of Illustrations xi List of Tables xiii ...

Prologue Preface xv PART IBeginnings 1 Winter, 1664 – 2 The Other London 3 Signs and Sources PART IIConfusion 4 Fleeing or St ...

Figures 1. The Royal Exchange of London | 30 2. Street Peddlers in Seventeenth-Century London | 40 3. Frontispiece of The Christ ...

xii • Illustrations Plague Pits and a Funeral Procession outside London’s Wall in 1665 | 236 14.Greater London Bills of Mortal ...

1. Major Plague Epidemics in London, 1563 – 1665 | 10 2. Parishes Infected and Number Buried of Plague, April 18 –May 16 , 1665 ...

xiv • Tables C. 1. Saint Giles Cripplegate Parish Records: Total Burials and Plague Burials in 1665 | 298 C. 2. Saint Giles Crip ...

In 1994 we attended a conference on contagious diseases at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London (now the ...

xvi • Preface ognition as a twin disaster with the Great Fire of London the following year, and much about the Great Plague rema ...

Preface • xvii works of art. When any new plague struck, the cache of responses lodged in that collective memory provided tools ...

xviii • Preface vantage point except individual experiences.^5 The sources for the individual approach do exist, as James Amelan ...

Preface • xix The anonymous accounts Dorothy had requested began with phrases like this: “As Told by a Citizen who continued all ...