The Great Plague. The Story of London\'s Most Deadly Year
156 • The Abyss He suggested that Oldenburg have it reprinted in London to help doc- tors treating plague. To the end of his da ...
The Doctors Stumble• 157 tuosi were unable to follow up on his work with their microscopic range of 20 xto 50 x.^53 In the real ...
Everyone hastes out of town, which causes that there is no sale for goods, and merchants pay ill. —Sir William Turner,London, to ...
Business Not as Usual • 159 I cann I shall advise you.” By the end of August, his situation was no better. Customers in the coun ...
160 • The Abyss Fig. 10 .Frontispiece of The Prophecies, and Predictions, for London’s Deliverance.This tract, published sometim ...
Business Not as Usual • 161 With this windfall, Pepys continued on his merry way through the city and the better suburbs to pay ...
162 • The Abyss The family might pause over their sparse supper to offer a prayer of thanks- giving to God, their version of Sir ...
Business Not as Usual • 163 and services produced by the nation’s three million workers, he concluded “that 100 , 000 persons dy ...
164 • The Abyss instructions. “I pray you use all possible care to preserve yourself and my house,” a departing auditor of the E ...
Business Not as Usual • 165 nailers, plumbers, and plasterers all fell to the common sickness in Cripple- gate. Fatalities follo ...
166 • The Abyss penned a somber note: “I will content myself with hanging one room, where I lye, and let the rest alone.”^14 Her ...
Business Not as Usual • 167 A major brewmaster like Alderman Bucknell employed many workers while living away from the infection ...
168 • The Abyss through the heavily infected suburbs to Pepys and Turner or even to the mass of the surviving laboring populatio ...
Business Not as Usual • 169 the story was twisted in its constant retelling and embellishment over several generations.^22 At th ...
170 • The Abyss his financial assets. Like Pepys, he was as good as his word, and Turner had far greater credit resources to bac ...
Business Not as Usual • 171 you have occasion to draw on me, it will be best if you do it at 8 or 15 days [af- ter] sight,” Sir ...
172 • The Abyss firewood for the dean’s use during the coming winter. On the upper banks of the Thames, woodcutters demanded pri ...
Business Not as Usual • 173 The navy’s need for plank and masts and rope and sailcloth was unending. Warships sailed into port f ...
174 • The Abyss swelled to £ 1 , 900. At August’s end he estimated his grand total in cash and money promised at £ 2 , 180 , not ...
Business Not as Usual • 175 of sadness as much as I can,” Pepys wrote. The sharing of working people’s grief by a growing number ...
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