The Great Plague. The Story of London\'s Most Deadly Year

160 • The Abyss

Fig. 10 .Frontispiece of The Prophecies, and Predictions, for London’s Deliverance.This
tract, published sometime after the beginning of the Great Plague of 1665 , purported
to foretell the ending of the epidemic and listed five prominent astrologers whose al-
manacs for the year could be interpreted as predicting the calamity.Courtesy of the Mu-
seum of London