The Great Plague. The Story of London\'s Most Deadly Year
196 • The Abyss Three centuries later, Albert Camus tried to make sense of plague’s chal- lenge to the human spirit in a novel s ...
Requiem for London• 197 city of Oran, Dr. Rieux hearkens back to the Athenians who had brought their dead to the water’s edge af ...
I leave to your consideration whether it will be safe to stay a night in your house [in Clapham] till the plague be more abated. ...
Contagion in the Countryside• 199 provincial port to unload some of their prized wine, brandy, oil, and raisins before going on ...
200 • The Abyss now. “What is the matter,” he objected, “that you make such a long apology in your last letter about my not comi ...
Contagion in the Countryside• 201 cool October air to banish the miasmas that hung over Greater London and make it possible to g ...
202 • The Abyss residents refused to put them up. The navy office’s temporary home in Greenwich was unsafe because of infection ...
Map 5 .Plague in the Countryside, 1665 – 1666 0 mi 50 100 Major epidemics Roman Road france North Sea marches of wales leicester ...
204 • The Abyss from all causes. The next four weeks saw 334 burials, of which 276 were iden- tified as due to plague. Confoundi ...
Contagion in the Countryside• 205 way Saint Paul’s cathedral did that of Middlesex and Surrey. England’s coun- try towns were al ...
206 • The Abyss The present mayor hath noe authority to rule this numerous people.” Like Albemarle at the Cockpit, Doyly at Colc ...
Contagion in the Countryside• 207 Reformation Lollards, and the summary execution of two arch-royalists at the castle wall by an ...
208 • The Abyss The continuous visitation with no interruption and far greater mortality in the second year than the first put a ...
Contagion in the Countryside • 209 surely pace, bringing along the king’s two nieces. The plague was not quite as far away as Ch ...
210 • The Abyss to the Treasury. “As things look at present, the whole state must come to Ru- ine,” he wrote in his secret diary ...
Contagion in the Countryside• 211 sions. Now the greatest fear among the king’s advisors was that dissenters might attempt some ...
212 • The Abyss out: “Are you ill that you dare not tell me how ill you are?” Symon’s anxiety about Elizabeth’s danger was heigh ...
Contagion in the Countryside• 213 metropolitan bill had dropped for four weeks running: from 4 , 929 to 4 , 327 , then to 2 , 66 ...
214 • The Abyss and the king’s service once again. Weeks went by without a chance to take a break from work and see his wife and ...
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