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

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Garencières, Dr. Theophilus, 61 , 62
Gatehouse prison, 227
Gauden, Denis, 4 , 39 , 102 , 125 , 163 , 199 ;
debts of, 159 , 173 , 247 , 268
Gauden, Elizabeth, 4 , 39 , 103 – 4 , 199 – 200 ,
211 – 13 , 247 – 49 , 270 .See alsoPatrick, Rev.
Symon
Goddard, Dr. Jonathan, 148 , 231
goldsmiths, 29 , 31 , 94 , 125 , 131 , 159 ; mortality
among, 159 , 163 , 174 , 175 .See alsoBack-
well, Edward; Colvill, John; Vyner
family
Graunt, John, 11 , 27 , 65 , 89 , 162
Great Fire, 252 , 259 , 264 – 65 , 285
Great Plague chronology: mortality after
previous epidemic, 60 – 61 ; European in-
vasion, 37 , 50 – 51 ; entry to Yarmouth, 51 ;
early London fatalities, 19 – 20 , 46 – 47 ;
increase in western suburbs, 52 – 54 , 58 ;
entering the city, 54 – 55 , 59 , 79 – 80 , 82 ;
wealthy and poor parishes infected, 81 –
82 ; massive flight triggered by, 88 – 89 ;all
suburban and half of city parishes in-
fected, 114 ; peak epidemic in Saint Giles
in the Fields, 142 ; only four metropoli-
tan parishes plague-free, 128 ; estimates
of 10 , 000 – 15 , 000 burials weekly, 131 ,
177 – 78 , 218 ; mortality diminishing un-
evenly, 174 , 176 , 194 – 95 ; sharp weekly de-
creases in mortality, 212 – 13 , 245 ; late ups
and downs in the bills, 245 – 48 ;mortality
increase in 1666 , 250 , 255 ; last fears of fa-
talities, 259 .See alsocountryside epi-
demic
Great Plagues of London, 6 , 9 , 10 – 11 , 23 ,
24 , 45 – 46 , 49
Greenwich, 90 , 130 , 173 , 202 .See alsoPepys,
Samuel; Royal Navy Board
Guildhall.SeeLondon, city of
guilds, merchant and craft, 24 , 28 , 45 , 114 ,
158 , 163 , 167 , 169 .See alsogoldsmiths

Hampton Court, 88 , 93 , 115 , 208

Harvey, Dr. Gideon, 63

Harvey, William, 36 , 152 , 156 , 266

Hastings, Henry.SeeLoughborough,

Henry Hastings, Lord

Hastings, Lucy.SeeHuntingdon, Lucy

Hastings, countess of

Hastings, Theophilus.SeeHuntingdon,

Theophilus, earl of

hearth tax, 39 – 40 , 81 – 82 , 316 n. 9 .See also

specific parishes

Helmont, Johannes Baptista van, 61 , 150

Hewer, Will, 86 , 94 , 106 , 164 , 174 , 268

Hippocrates, 5

Hodges, Dr. Nathaniel: career of, 139 , 266 ,

271 ; knowledge of plague, 55 , 59 , 67 – 68 ,

155 , 157 , 187 , 315 n. 30 ; and medical rivals,

140 – 41 , 149 ; plague service of, 20 , 141 ,

144 – 46 , 230 ; public policies and private

behavior criticized by, 181 , 187 , 218 , 249 ,

254

Hong Kong epidemic, 273 – 78

Hooke, Robert, 23 , 27 , 36 , 154 , 265

hospitals: Bethlehem (Bedlam), 77 , 132 ,

190 , 253 , 269 ; Christchurch, 267 ; Kirk-

leatham, 269 ; Saint Bartholomew, 37 ,

95 , 100 , 144 , 148 , 251 ; Saint Thomas, 37 ,

100 , 144 , 148 , 251 .See alsopesthouses

housing: failure to control, 27 , 254 ; Great

Fire and, 265 – 66 ; patterns of, 3 , 24 – 32 ,

34 – 36 , 39 , 47 – 48 , 75 – 76 , 78 , 119 – 22 , 310 n.

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humors.SeeGalenic medicine

Huntingdon, Lucy Hastings, countess of,

4 , 75 – 80 , 82 , 91 ;medical skills of, 77 – 78 ,

101

Huntingdon, Theophilus Hastings, earl

of, 21 , 77 , 78 – 79 , 82

Hyde, Anne, 34 , 35 , 44 , 208 ; philanthropy

of, 44

immigrants, 46 – 47 , 51 , 54 – 55 , 204 , 205

income: and cost of living, 19 , 39 , 41 ;

household annual average, 2 ; parish