304 • Notes to Pages 2–7the London Guildhall Library (hereafter GL), and his role in the city’s government is
recorded in the Court of Aldermen’s Journal at the Corporation of London Record Of-
fice (hereafter CLRO). Patrick’s correspondence, printed sermons, and short life history
are in The Works of Symon Patrick DD, including his Autobiography,ed. Alexander Taylor,
9 vols. (London, 1858 ). The best guide to Pepys is his diary: Samuel Pepys,Diary,ed. R.
C. Latham and W. Matthews, 11 vols. (London, 1970 – 83 ; reprint, 1995 ), esp. vol. 6 on the
year 1665 and vol. 10 ,Companion,which contains scholarly entries on Pepys’ personal,
governmental, and financial doings. Claire Tomalin,Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
(London, 2002 ), brilliantly analyzes the complexities of Pepys’ character.
2. On Pepys diary, see the introduction to Pepys,Diary.John Evelyn’s voluminous
correspondence, along with his wife’s letters, now at the British Library (hereafter BL),
are a better guide to his life during the Great Plague than is his well-known diary, cited
by us in the edition by William Bray: John Evelyn,Diary, 2 vols. (London, 1952 ). We
thank Frances Harris for her kind assistance in the use of the Evelyn papers and Joseph
Levine for telling us of their acquisition by the library.
3. See Henry Roseveare, “Finances,” in Pepys,Diary, 10 : 130 – 37 , and Vincent Brome,
The Other Pepys(London, 1992 ), using the index headings for Pepys’ residences and em-
ployment.
4. The prime source for Josselin is The Diary of Ralph Josselin, 1616 – 1683 ,ed. Alan
MacFarlane (London, 1976 ).
5. Gervase Jacques’ correspondence with the countess of Huntingdon is in the Hast-
ings papers at the Huntington Library (hereafter HL), San Marino, Calif.
6. John Allin’s extensive correspondence with his country friends is in the Frewin
Archive at the East Sussex Record Office (hereafter ESRO FRE). Extracts from some
of his letters were published by William Durrant Cooper,Notices of the Last Great
Plague 1665 – 6 from the Letters of John Allin, formerly vicar of Rye, Sussex, to Philip Fryth
and Samuel Jeake(London, 1856 ), and drawn on by Walter George Bell, “John Allin’s
Letters,” in The Great Plague of London(London, 1924 ; revised 1951 ; reprint, 1994 ), ch. 11.
We thank Justin Champion for telling us where the original letters are kept and the ar-
chivists for photocopying all those relevant to the Great Plague.
7 .The most comprehensive work on the history of plague is Jean-Noël Biraben,Les
hommes et la peste en France et dans les pays européens et méditeranéens,vol. 1 ,La peste dans
l’histoire;vol. 2 ,Les hommes face à la peste(Paris, 1975 , 1976 ).
8. The term pandemichas also been used to describe a single epidemic that affects a
wide geographic area.
9. We thank Dennis Twichett for information on the Chinese epidemics, whose
sources note repeated episodes of great mortality without detailed description.
10. The most helpful version for general readers interested in the broader setting is
the Norton Critical Edition: Daniel Defoe,A Journal of the Plague Year: Authoritative
Text, Backgrounds, Contexts, Criticisms,ed. Paula R. Backscheider (New York, 1992 ).
11. On the Black Death’s enormous literature, see Rosemary Horrox, trans. and ed.,
The Black Death(Manchester, 1994 ), an excellent, recent critical analysis with doc-
uments.