The Great Plague. The Story of London\'s Most Deadly Year
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Every six houses on each side of the way are to joyn together to provide one great fire before the dore of the middlemost inhabi ...
218 • Surviving newsletter account said, reflecting on the death toll along with the darkened sky.^1 John Evelyn saw the fires o ...
The Web of Authority • 219 not the officials of church and state insisted that the citizens purge their sins rather than the air ...
220 • Surviving Evelyn saw all along the north and south banks of the Thames were de- signed to fumigate refuse that was constan ...
The Web of Authority • 221 their homes, sending servants out for necessaries. Others defied Charles II’s orders to stay at their ...
222 • Surviving sent to the justices of the peace for summary judgment and, if necessary, con- finement to a jail or workhouse. ...
The Web of Authority • 223 center were unable to identify all the houses that were becoming infected. People were coming in and ...
224 • Surviving mediately installed at Newgate jail after the keeper died. No one wanted that position to go unfilled; Cowdery w ...
The Web of Authority • 225 returning to the city.” Between the lines the message was clear: the city’s fi- nancial health and hi ...
226 • Surviving poor of Covent Garden and Saint Martin in the Fields by exposing bodies to the public and offering them as firew ...
The Web of Authority • 227 most prominent plaguetime acts in the capital, however, centered on main- taining public order. The p ...
228 • Surviving benevolent dictator, a somewhat awesome mysterious figure, wielding un- limited powers.” Pepys was less flatteri ...
The Web of Authority• 229 of longtime widows on parish relief.^25 Searchers kept on searching and re- porting to their parish cl ...
230 • Surviving Part of their success was creative financing. Wealthy parishioners helped by loaning one hundred pounds without ...
The Web of Authority• 231 outside gift money almost gone. Six members of the court of aldermen showed up on the twenty-fourth of ...
232 • Surviving religious convictions as deep as the wisdom he had acquired in the market- place. Whatever he may have called it ...
In 1665 the yeare of the Great Plague my two brothers were sent to Board within a little way of Eppin and my two sisters to Sudb ...
234 • Surviving Looking back in prosperous old age on that early testing time, George re- called his experiences as vividly as i ...
Not by Bread Alone • 235 from visiting their daughter at the boarding home she shared with George’s sisters. George pressed on a ...
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