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and Effects in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England(Matlock, Derbyshire, 1977 ),
115 – 21.
44. Daniel Defoe,Journal of the Plague Year,ed. Louis Landa (London, 1969 ), xvi. We
thank George Rousseau for discussing the work of Landa with us.
45. Charles Mullett,The Bubonic Plague and England(Lexington, Ky., 1956 ), 215.
46. Josselin,Diary, 524.

Chapter 1. Winter,1664‒1665

1. Holborn Local History Library (London), St. Giles in the Fields Churchwardens’
   Accounts, 1640 – 1723 : P/GF/C/ 1 – 2.


2. There is a helpful price list for items of food and clothes in Liza Picard,Restora-
   tion London(New York, 1997 ), 146 – 47.


3. Hodges,Loimologia, 5.


4. The weekly bills for 1665 , from December 27 , 1664 , to December 19 , 1665 , were
   printed as London’s Dreadful Visitation: Or, A Collection of the Bills of Mortality for this
   present year(London, 1665 ). We are using a facsimile reprint, ca. 1800 , in our possession.


5. John Gadbury,De Cometis: or a Discourse of the Natures and Effects of Comets(Lon-
   don, 1665 ), 47.


6. Pepys,Diary, 5 : 348.


7. Gadbury,De Cometis, 47.


8. William Andrews,News from the Stars or an Ephemeris for 1665 (London, 1665 ), 34.
   Curiously, very few of these “ephemerides” for 1665 have turned up at the British Li-
   brary. There are several at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, some of them in the original
   manuscript versions by the authors. Editions for 1664 and 1666 are plentiful. For a typ-
   ical astrological reading on 1665 , see The Prophecies and Predictions for London’s Deliver-
   ance, with Conjunctions, Effects and Influences of the Superior Planets(London, 1665 ).


9. Thomas Rugge,“Mercurius Politicus Redivivus” or “Diurnal,”BL, Addit. MSS
   10 , 117 , fols. 125 , 130 v.


10. Charles II personally leaned toward Catholicism, the religion of his mother, but
    he did not declare himself a Catholic until on his deathbed. His brother, the duke of
    York and future James II, was an avowed Catholic.


11. Thomas Salisbury to the earl of Huntingdon, Jan. 9 , 1665 , HL, Hastings Corre-
    spondence (HA), 10663.


12. Josselin,Diary, 516 – 17.


13. John Allin to Philip Fryth, Jan. 13 and Mar. 31 , 1665 , ESRO FRE 5429 , 5444.


14. Pepys,Diary, 6 : 20 , 32 (Feb. 6 – 7 , 1665 ).


15. Early modern English carnivalesque celebrations have not been studied as deeply
    as have continental European Catholic practices. See Peter Burke, “The World of Car-
    nival,” in Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe(New York, 1978 ), 178 – 204 , and Mi-
    chael D. Bristol, “Carnival and Plebeian Culture,” in Carnival and Theater: Plebeian
    Culture and the Structure of Authority in Renaissance England(New York, 1989 ), 40 – 53.
    16 .Intelligencer,Jan. 1 , 1665.


16. We are using the modern reckoning of the beginning of the year at January 1. The