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

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clerk and rector, 44 ; servants’ annual
range of, 75 ; workers’ per diem, 90 .See
alsoPepys, Samuel; Turner, Sir William
infants, mortality of, 60 , 66 – 67 , 81 , 181 – 82
Intelligencer. SeeL’Estrange, Roger


Jacques, Gervase, 4 , 75 – 80 , 82
James I, 26 , 140
Jews, 13 , 194
Johnson, William, 148 – 49
Josselin, Rev. Ralph: diary of, 4 , 214 ; faith
and worship of, 102 , 201 – 2 , 204 , 207 ;
family of, 80 , 102 , and farming, 67 , 202 ;
and medical care, 102 ; on plague, 16 , 80 ,
202 , 214 , 219 , 241
Joyce, Kate and Anthony, 31 , 82 , 93
justices of the peace, 32 – 33 , 48 , 49 , 54 , 55 ,
222 , 253
Justinian’s Plague, 5 , 6


Kephale, Richard, 70
Kircher, Athanasius, 61 , 156
Kirkleatham hospital, 269
Kitasato, Shibasaburo, 273 – 78
Koch, Robert, 272 – 73 , 274 , 277 , 278


Langham, Sir James, 77 , 80 , 82 , 91
law courts, 116 , 221 – 22 , 253 .See alsojustices
of the peace
Lawrence, Sir John: appraisals of, 223 ;in-
fected family not quarantined, 223 , 254 ;
plague acts and authority of, 55 – 56 , 88 ,
221 – 24 , 230 , 245 , 251 ; and poor relief, 45 ;
residence of, 219
Leeuwenhoek, Anton van, 156 – 57
L’Estrange, Roger, 17 , 28 – 29 , 66 , 81 , 186 ,
223 ; and ads for plague cure, 105 , 142
Lilly, William, 108 – 9 , 198
literacy, 321 n. 24
London, city of: dependence on merchant
guilds, 28 , 114 ; described, 24 , 27 – 32 ;
gates of, 29 , 31 ; Guildhall government
of, 24 – 25 , 28 , 33 ; healthiest metropolitan


area, 23 ; liberties of, 24 – 25 ; and royal
government, 25 , 33 – 34 .See alsoAlder-
men, Court of; Bludworth, Sir Thomas;
Lawrence, Sir John; parishes
London, metropolitan: economic vari-
ations in, 39 – 41 , 81 – 82 , 114 , 316 n. 9 (see
also specific parishes); European capitals
compared with, 25 – 26 ; governing body
lacking, 32 , 225 ; high mortality rate in,
27 ; immigration and population of, 1 ,
10 – 11 , 26 – 27
London Bridge, 29 – 30 , 89 , 126
lord mayor.Seemayor
Loughborough, Henry Hastings, Lord,
76 , 77 , 80 , 82 , 94
Luckyn, Lady Mary, 101 , 320 n. 20
Ludgate prison, 116

magic, 109 – 10
malaria, 36 – 37 , 60 , 64 , 273 , 288 – 89 .See also
fever
Marseilles, 6 , 55 , 271
mayor, chosen by aldermen, 28 .See also
Bludworth, Sir Thomas; Lawrence, Sir
John; Turner, Sir William
measles, 64 , 289
medical practitioners: flight of, 95 , 98 , 148 ;
mortality of, 119 , 144 ; numbers in Lon-
don, 100 , 143 – 44 , 146 – 47 , 325 n. 11 ;in
public service, 144 – 47 ; rivalries of, 95 ,
97 – 101 , 110 – 112 , 140 – 41 , 148 – 49 .See also
apothecaries; Barwick, Dr. Peter; Bog-
hurst, William; chemical physicians;
College of Physicians; doctors; Hodges,
Dr. Nathaniel; midwives; nurses; sur-
geons
microbial revolution, 6 , 272 – 73
microscope, 23 , 27 , 37 , 154 , 156 – 57 , 272 – 74
midwives, 100 , 192 , 228
Milan, 13 , 14 , 148
Milton, John, 36 , 92 , 132
money, denominations of, 19 , 44
Moore, John, 93
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