338 • Notes to Pages 248–255- Turner to the Pocquelins, Dec. 14 , GL, MS 5106 / 1.
- Symon Patrick to Elizabeth Gauden, Dec. 14 , 16 , 19 , 21 , in Patrick,Works, 9 : 599 ,
601 – 4. - Elizabeth Gauden to Symon Patrick, Dec. 27 , 1665 , ibid., 607.
- Symon Patrick to Elizabeth Gauden, Dec. 26 , 28 , 1665 ; Jan. 6 , 11 , 1666 , ibid., 605 ,
607 – 9. - Symon Patrick to Elizabeth Gauden, Jan. 18 , 1666 , ibid., 612 – 13 ; Hodges,Loimol-
ogia, 27 ; Boghurst,Loimographia, 70 ; Bell,The Great Plague, 285 – 86 , citing a letter by the
teller of the Exchequer, Sir George Downing, to Undersecretary of State Joseph Willi-
amson, Dec. 14. - After Dec. 19 , 1665 , the weekly bills, which for 1665 are printed in London’s Dread-
ful Visitation,are available in GL, MS 3604 / 1 / 1 , “The Parish Clerks Company Weekly
Bills of Mortality, December 1664 –October 1669 .”
16 .Pepys,Diary, 7 : 35. See also Bell,The Great Plague, 292 – 93. - Guildhall payments to infected parishes during the last half of the year came to
£ 7 , 663. Another city account, largely for medical services, came to £ 2 , 784. A third ac-
count, which included expenses for the city pesthouse and burial grounds, as well as the
medical team and the dog killer, totaled £ 2 , 025. CLRO Ex GL MSS 270 , 295 , 359. - See Bell,The Great Plague, 286 – 89.
- For some typical costs for rebuilding after the Great Fire, see CLRO Ex GL MS
359 : “Paid for the Great Fire,” £ 2 , 673 ; “paid more,” £ 3 , 462 ; “common sewer cleansing,
etc.,” £ 2 , 210 ; “conduit and pipes,” £ 4 , 564. The cost of maintaining 37 , 000 navy men,
20 , 000 Dutch prisoners, and the royal fleet from April 1 to September 30 , 1665 , totaled
£ 1 , 006 , 075 .Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, 1662 – 1679 ,ed. J. R. Tanner (London,
1929 ), 58. - In 1665 , Londoners also paid thousands of pounds for their new navy ship, and
the Crown had not repaid a £ 200 , 000 city loan. - On Pepys, see his Diary, 6 : 340 – 42. Turner’s assets in 1665 must have been consid-
erably more than the two thousand pounds he had been worth in 1660. J. R. Wood-
ward,The Rulers of London, 1660 – 1689 (London, 1955 ), 166. - Steven Pincus has told us of later crises when London found money despite in-
solvency. - Mayoral Proclamation, Dec. 7 , 1665 , as cited in Bell,The Great Plague, 285.
- Ibid., 313 – 16.
25 .The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty,ed. Charles Henry Hull, 2 vols. (Cam-
bridge, 1899 ), 1 : 108 – 10 ; Porter,The Great Plague, 126. - Hodges,Loimologia, 7 – 11 ; Boghurst,Loimographia, 25 – 27 , 57 , 99 , 123 ; CLRO Lord
Mayor’s Waiting Book, 2 , Sept. 22 , 1665 , cited by Porter,The Great Plague, 123. Cf. Slack,
The Impact of Plague, 251.
27 .Middlesex Sessions Rolls, 3 : 373 – 75 ;Bell,The Great Plague, 315 – 16. - PRO SP 149 / 88 ,Feb. 19 , 1665 / 6 ; Bell,The Great Plague, 315 – 16.
- Bell,The Great Plague, 317 – 18 ; PRO PC 2 / 59 , fols. 44 – 45.
- The Plague Orders are reprinted in Bell,The Great Plague, 333 – 35.