The Great Plague. The Story of London\'s Most Deadly Year
16 • The Great Plague occurrence of plague attracts attention which is out of proportion to its im- portance.”^43 What of the fi ...
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This is the terrible enemy of mankind, that sends its arrows abroad by day, and walks all stained with slaughter by night; that ...
20 • Beginnings Frightened whispers in a few other run-down parts of the suburbs spread the word of a neighbor suddenly turning ...
Winter, 1664–1665 • 21 Astrology was a respectable practice despite the skepticism of some literate people, and medical astrolog ...
22 • Beginnings The winter of 1664 – 65 passed quietly enough. Europe was in the throes of a little ice age, and sharp frosts an ...
Winter, 1664–1665 • 23 Merchants in the commercial center of the capital inside its ancient walls were enjoying a brisk trade wi ...
24 • Beginnings Most Londoners would have been content with attaining Samuel Pepys’ comfortable place within the middling ranks ...
Winter, 1664–1665 • 25 brick and metal work, tanning and brewing and glass making. Youths worked side by side with their uncles ...
26 • Beginnings metal, and leather trades, with an ever-expanding victualing trade.^25 Trade and manufacturing went hand in hand ...
Winter, 1664–1665 • 27 In the 1630 s, the energetic young Charles I and his advisors had tried to limit new building within the ...
28 • Beginnings who divided their time between the court and the country.^34 There were scriveners (notaries) and goldsmiths (th ...
Winter, 1664–1665 • 29 as did Roger L’Estrange, who made a comfortable living publishing the In- telligencerevery Monday and the ...
30 • Beginnings fashion-conscious shoppers found women’s apparel, fine fabrics, apothecary powders, and dozens of incidental ite ...
Winter, 1664–1665• 31 sage 910 feet long and 20 feet wide, crowded with structures on both sides. Visitors gaped at 20 -foot hou ...
32 • Beginnings Cheapside, like other parts of the walled city, blended merchants, artisans, and laborers; travelers, lodgers, a ...
Winter, 1664–1665 • 33 statistics could not hide London’s political dysfunction, for the front side of the weekly sheet counted ...
34 • Beginnings crisis. They also expected to benefit commercially by wounding Dutch ship- ping—the archrival of London’s mariti ...
Winter, 1664–1665 • 35 The nation’s nobility flocked in for the coronation and stayed on with their families and servants, atten ...
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