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

Notes to Pages 255–271 • 339

31 .Evelyn,Diary, 2 : 2 , Jan. 29 ,Feb. 6 , 1666 ; Mary Evelyn to Sir Richard Browne, Dec.
6 , 1665 ; Browne to Mary Evelyn, Dec. 17 , 1665 , Jan. 8 , 1666 , BL, Mrs. Evelyn Papers 2.
32 .Evelyn,Diary, 2 : 4 – 6 , 9 ,Apr. 15 , June 6 ,Aug. 26 , 1666.
33. Josselin,Diary, 527 ,May 20 , 1666 ; Earls Colne burial register,Records of an Eng-
lish Village,microfilm, ed. Alan MacFarlane, Apr. 28 ,May 15 , 24 , June 3 , 1666 ;PRO
PC 2 / 59 , fol. 5 ,May 9 , 1666.
34. BL, Stowe MS 840 , fols. 44 – 45 ; cf. ERO D/P 200 / 1 / 6.
35 .VHC Essex, Colchester, 9 : 68.
36. Pepys,Diary, 6 : 340 – 42.
37. See Patrick’s “Brief Account of My Life” and letter of Jan. 18 , 1666 , in Works,
3 : 445 – 47 , 9 : 612 – 13.
38. ERO Colchester, D/B 5 Gb 4 , Colchester Assembly Book, fol. 360.
39. London Parish Clerks Company Weekly Bills of Mortality, GL, MS 3604 / 1 / 1.
40. See Slack,The Impact of Plague, 154.
41. Letter by Dr. Grumble in Leonard W. Cowie,Plague and Fire: London, 1665 – 66
(New York, 1970 ), 56.

EpilogueOf Once and Future Plagues

1. Sir William Petty,Verbum Sapienti,published in 1691 , and Political Arithmetick,
   which appeared in 1690. See Hull,Writings of Sir William Petty, 1 : 108 – 10 , 243 , 2 : 475 – 76 ;
   Porter,The Great Plague, 154.


2. See Porter,London, 90 – 91.


3. Whittet,Apothecaries in the Great Plague, 22.
   4 .Bell,The Great Plague, 161 – 62 , and the article on Hodges in the Dictionary of Na-
   tional Biography, 9 : 953 – 54.


4. Roseveare, “Finances,” in Pepys,Diary, 10 : 136 – 37.


5. Pepys,Diary, 10 : 64 – 65 , on “Christ’s Hospital.”


6. Frances Harris, curator of the Evelyn papers at the British Library, provided us
   with this information during our visit with her in March 2000.


7. See Stein, “Health,” in Pepys,Diary, 10 : 177 – 78.


8. The history of the diary is recounted in Pepys,Diary, 1 :xli and 10 : 89 , “The Diary
   and Related Manuscripts.”


9. Baldwin, “History of the Turner Family,” 8 , 42.
   11 .A Sermon Preached on the Fast Day,Apr. 11 , 1679 , in Patrick,Works, 8 : 71 – 79.


10. See Porter,The Great Plague, 158 - 59.


11. Joseph Browne,A Practical Treatise of the Plague(London, 1720 ), 6 – 8 , 12 ; Richard
    Bradley,The Plague of Marseilles(London, 1721 ), 48 – 49.
    14 .There are several of these bogus works in the British Library and Wellcome In-
    stitute Library, masquerading as true accounts of 1665 for the unwary modern re-
    searcher eager to find a new source!


12. For example, J. Lyons,A preventive of the Plague, being a discovery of a method to
    hinder its propagation by destroying the pestiferous atoms(London, 1743 ); T. Lobb,Letters
    Related to the Plague(London, 1745 ).