The Great Plague. The Story of London\'s Most Deadly Year
36 • Beginnings gain with the king’s father. Bedford could employ the royal architect Inigo Jones to create breathtaking Covent ...
Winter, 1664–1665 • 37 plague, and prescribing quinine for malarial fever, which was proving ben- eficial. The microscope was re ...
The Other London [38] 2 It was a Received Notion amongst the Common People that the Plague visited England once in Twenty Years, ...
The Other London • 39 for a permanent post. Symon altered his career path and was secretly or- dained as an Anglican priest in t ...
40 • Beginnings Fig.2.Street peddlers in seventeenth-century London. These contemporary prints of the working poor are as close ...
The Other London • 41 lings, however, was what it cost the most frugal poor person to subsist for a week on bread and cheese and ...
42 • Beginnings put in a “house of correction” or Bridewell, while the “deserving poor” were taken care of in the parish of thei ...
The Other London • 43 avoid the onerous duties). The new churchwardens and overseers of the poor revised the previous year’s bud ...
44 • Beginnings The harsh winter had placed an exceptional burden on the year’s poor-tax income of £ 160. Symon’s patrons, the B ...
The Other London • 45 three halfpenny white loaves every week. As temperatures plunged in Janu- ary and February and the supply ...
46 • Beginnings den “pestered places” in the suburbs, whereas the epidemics of Henry VIII’s and Elizabeth’s times had centered i ...
The Other London • 47 housing, with Irish, French, and Dutch neighbors for easy conversation. The King’s Company staged plays ne ...
48 • Beginnings especially the “feavers.” Westminster’s justices, reflecting the royal court’s nervousness, took dead aim at Sai ...
The Other London • 49 and other units of the General Hospital in Paris that Charles I’s French phy- sician had wanted to replica ...
50 • Beginnings “fumes” to sober up drunkards. There now stands a Crowders Well Pub on the Cripplegate well site, dispensing dri ...
The Other London• 51 ded to the list. The civic officials of Rotterdam and London lobbied the privy council to let a perishable ...
52 • Beginnings The plague death counts in the Bills of Mortality for the next three weeks did not seem to have any pattern. The ...
The Other London • 53 the Royal Society’s experiments to the meaning of planetary movements. He consulted astrologers about deal ...
54 • Beginnings The king was following the Plague Orders of his father and grandfather to the letter. There was no time to rethi ...
The Other London • 55 who tended rich and poor patients in the city, traced the beginnings to “a parcel of skins brought out of ...
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