The Great Plague. The Story of London\'s Most Deadly Year
176 • The Abyss were still trying to carry on their businesses. Pepys endeavored to satisfy his own creditors “about bills of ex ...
There was such a general calm and serenity of weather, as if both wind and rain had been expelled from the Kingdom... The birds ...
178 • The Abyss from the doomed metropolis. The experiment lasted almost three days, until a chance downpour extinguished the fl ...
Requiem for London• 179 For the next six months, an uncertain hand recorded (or rather misspelled) the few christenings and marr ...
Map 4. Metropolitan London: Great Plague Peak, September 12 –^19 ,^1665 St StephenColeman St. St Katherineby the Tower St Saviou ...
Requiem for London • 181 How did Saint Margaret’s only clerk feel as he registered those twenty- three nameless fatalities on th ...
182 • The Abyss talities than were the figures for these other diseases; many young children succumbed either from the plague or ...
Requiem for London • 183 Knells and Bells Ye bells never cease to putt us in mind of our own mortality. —John Tillisonto Dean Sa ...
184 • The Abyss Even in moments of silence, an unmistakable scent of death hung in the air. Down at Woolwich, Elizabeth Pepys co ...
Requiem for London • 185 message thirty times in seven days, all but one for plague victims. He had just come back from burying ...
186 • The Abyss Funeral fees formed a large part of the year’s poor relief budget at Saint Giles Cripplegate. Families that coul ...
Requiem for London • 187 Nor were the poor alone in this wholesale destruction of life. Saint Olave’s well-to-do churchwardens a ...
188 • The Abyss air and exercise. Pepys began to suspect strangers he passed on the street of having plague sores on them. The m ...
Requiem for London• 189 were used when the churchyards could hold no more, causing people to re- name the land “Deadman’s Place. ...
190 • The Abyss September 19 , the daily death count dropped to nineteen as the plague passed on to new territory; the pits had ...
Requiem for London • 191 infected parishes to build their own plague facilities with a special levy on their householders. Saint ...
192 • The Abyss from the two original facilities were far too low to be credible. For the entire year, the bills listed 156 plag ...
Requiem for London• 193 For Whom the Bells Didn’t Toll I had not the freedom, satisfaction or peace to leave the city or Friends ...
194 • The Abyss ing August, 254 of their dead were taken from homes and prisons across town for burial. September witnessed 478 ...
Requiem for London• 195 little comfort to persecuted dissenters and beleaguered churchwardens in the following weeks. As vaults ...
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