Boghurst, William (continued)
348 • Index254 ; medical practice of, 1 , 60 , 98 , 143 ;on
plague and other diseases, 54 , 59 – 64 , 70 –
71 , 151 , 154 – 155 , 157 ; and his wife, 162
Boyle, Robert, 68 – 69 , 153 – 56
Braintree, 200 , 208 , 256
Brentwood, 200 , 211 .See alsoGauden, Eliz-
abeth
Bridewell prison, 23 , 41 – 42 , 269
Bridgewater, earl of, 132 , 163 , 201
Brouncker, Lord, 39 , 43 , 52 , 90 , 249 – 50 , 257
buboes.Seeplague terminology; signs and
symptoms; Yersin, Alexandre;Yersinia
pestis
burial practices: bell ringing, 126 , 128 , 131 ,
183 – 85 ; coffins and shrouds, 19 , 44 , 52 ,
119 , 130 , 190 , 218 ; daytime interments,
130 ; funerals banned, 52 , 182 , 195 , 332 n.
40 ; plague pit and open field graves, 124 ,
178 , 185 , 188 – 90 , 192
Burnet, Dr. Alexander, 59 , 62 , 130 , 151 , 164
Busby, Dr., 90 , 122Cambridge, 201 , 256 , 267
Carteret family, 90 , 91
Castlemaine, Lady, 52 , 130 , 209
cat killing, 115 – 16 , 119 , 253 .See alsocauses
and carriers associated with plague
causes and carriers associated with plague:
cloth and clothing, 51 , 55 , 166 , 281 , 312 n.
37 ; comets, 20 – 21 ; contagion and mias-
mas, 48 – 49 , 70 – 71 , 265 , 271 , 277 ; divine
and natural, 67 – 71 , 315 nn. 28 , 30 ; dogs
and cats, 58 , 281 ; effluvia, 48 – 49 ; food
and drink, 166 ; letters, 162 ; portents and
precursors, 70 ; “seedlets,” 71 , 155 – 57 ;
warm weather, 57 ; writings of Margaret
Cavendish on, 328 n. 56
Charles I, 9 , 26 , 27 , 44 , 227 , 254
Charles II: character of, 44 , 52 ; and Great
Fire, 264 ; plague orders of, 86 – 88 , 218 ;
Restoration and marriage of, 9 , 26 ,
33 – 34 , 88 ; scientific interests of, 20 , 53 ,149 ; travels of, 88 , 115 , 127 , 208 – 11 , 250 .See
alsoroyal government
chemical physicians, 97 – 98 , 140 , 150 – 52 .See
alsoThomson, Dr. George
childbed and infant mortality, 60 , 66 – 67 ,
81 , 181 – 82
cholera, 271 – 73
Christchurch hospital, 267
churchwardens, 43 , 118 , 187 , 228 – 29 .See also
specific parishes
Clapham.SeeGauden, Elizabeth; Gauden,
Denis; Patrick, Rev. Symon
clerks, parish: functions of, 44 , 64 – 65 , 118 ,
229 ; records of, 132 – 34 , 163 , 165 ; salary of,
44 .See also specific parishes
Clifton, Sir Gervas and Lady Alice, family
of, 76 , 77 – 78 , 80 , 82
Cocke, Dr. Thomas, 54 – 55 , 101 – 2 , 107 , 108 ,
112 , 244
Colchester, 11 , 12 , 111 , 198 , 202 – 8 , 256 , 259 ,
334 n. 19
collectors for the poor, 43 , 118
College of Physicians, 52 , 95 , 97 , 100 , 140 ;
assistance and recommendations against
plague, 96 – 97 , 104 , 141 ; flight of memb-
ers, 95 , 98 , 140 , 143 , 147 , 250 – 51 , 325 n. 23 ;
potable gold opposed by, 322 n. 36 .See
alsoBarwick, Dr. Peter; doctors (med-
ical); Galenic medicine; Hodges, Dr.
Nathaniel
Colvill, John, 87 , 125 , 159
comets, 20 – 21 , 53
comptors (secondary jails), 116
constables, 115 – 16 , 221 , 253
cost of living (the poor), 19 , 39 , 41
countryside epidemic, 128 , 195 , 198 – 214 , 256 ,
323 n. 30 , 333 n. 14 ; beginning at Yarmouth
(assumed), 51 , 102 ; mortality of, 11
Covent Garden Piazza, 1 , 35 , 39 , 82 , 89 .See
alsoSaint Paul Covent Garden
Craven, earl of, 45 , 47 , 88 , 127 , 225 – 26 ,
254 – 55
Cromwell, Oliver, 9 , 21 , 26 , 27 , 38 , 227