The Great Plague. The Story of London\'s Most Deadly Year
116 • Confusion sort or kind soever before Thursday next at ye furthest.” The deadline passed and negligent pet owners faced pro ...
Plague’s Progress• 117 when a proprietor died or finally gave up and headed to the clear country air. To his delight, Pepys foun ...
118 • Confusion Parish Responses The prayers of the church are continued and ye persons attending as yor worship was informed... ...
Plague’s Progress • 119 diggers, new bell ropes and shovels, axes and burial shrouds—the closest that many of the departed had t ...
120 • Confusion ...
Plague’s Progress • 121 the parish register. During the week of the twenty-ninth, Marie Gale, pre- sumably of the same family, w ...
122 • Confusion By the end of June, the pesthouse was painfully overcrowded, as whole families joined solitary souls. Some peopl ...
Plague’s Progress • 123 wardens’ pen strokes, neat and precise deep into the plague year, betokened a life-affirming respect in ...
124 • Confusion corded the burial of Mary Ramsey, daughter of a poor man living in one of the draper guild’s almshouses, the fir ...
Plague’s Progress • 125 ble. Taking a coach back to Seething Lane, he couldn’t help seeing the dra- matic change, “not meeting w ...
126 • Confusion well’s shipwright husband for the fool by dangling hopes of lucrative carpen- try work with the navy before him ...
Plague’s Progress • 127 more to come if all his negotiations were successful. He had been received by the king several times at ...
128 • Confusion August’s Bitter Harvest Now in some places where the people did generally stay [on], not one house in a hundred ...
Plague’s Progress• 129 preacher’s text was from Leviticus, calling his parishioners to submit “humbly” to God’s punishment. Samu ...
130 • Confusion in the weekly Bills of Mortality. In mid-August, the city parishes started burying their dead at day as well as ...
Plague’s Progress• 131 them 6102 of plague, but it is feared that the true number of the dead this week is near 10 , 000 , partl ...
132 • Confusion of town, and White Cross parallel to it, ran northward. Fore Street stretched eastward, and Barbican ran to the ...
Map 2 .Plague Outbreak at Saint Giles Cripplegate in June 1665. Parish Register and Hearth Tax for Lady Day (March 25, 1664) for ...
134 • Confusion tinely added to the deceased’s name the cause of death, noting frequently his or her occupation and place of res ...
Plague’s Progress • 135 number for that time of year. Fever and spotted fever, commonly confused with plague, were claimed for 2 ...
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