312 • Notes to Pages 47–55- Ibid., 76 – 77.
- Brett-James,Growth of Stuart London, 116 , 160 – 65.
- Pepys,Diary, 6 : 93 , 92.
- John Allin, London, to Philip Fryth, Rye, Sussex, Apr. 27 , 1665 , ESRO FRE 5447.
- Brett-James,Growth of Stuart London, 143 – 44 ; Pepys,Diary, 10 : 416 – 28 , on “Tav-
erns, Inns and Eating Houses.” - On plague facilities at Milan and elsewhere, including a print of the Amsterdam
pesthouse, see Porter,The Great Plague, 10 – 12. - John Evelyn,Fumifugium, or the Inconveniences of the Aer and Smoak of London
Dissipated(London, 1661 ); Pepys,Diary, 10 : 122 – 24. - Bell,The Great Plague, 47 ; St. Andrew Holborn Vestry Minutes, 1624 – 1714 ,GL
MS 4251 / 1 , 83 – 84. - Caroline Gordon and Wilfrid Dewhirst,The Ward of Cripplegate in the City of
London(London, 1985 ), 110 , 114 ; Bell,The Great Plague, 9 , 146.
26 .Bell,The Great Plague, 250 – 52 , provides an overview of the situation. For specific
regulations, see CLRO CC 46 and CLRO Court of Aldermen Repertory (CA) 70. - On external quarantining, see Public Record Office (PRO), Privy Council Rec-
ords (PC) 2 / 56 , 592 ; 2 / 57 , 23. - PRO State Papers (SP) 29 / 105.
- St. Paul Covent Garden Register, 32.
- On Charles II’s interest in astrology, see Keith Thomas,Religion and the Decline
of Magic(New York, 1971 ), 291 , 312 – 13 , 329. - PRO PC 2 / 58 , 114.
- Knowledge of the pre- 1665 pesthouses is sketchy. There are scattered references in
Slack,The Impact of Plague,and Bell,The Great Plague. - On the royal government’s actions, see PRO PC 2 / 58 , 114 , 118.
- Bell,The Great Plague,citing the Quaker George Whitehead’s Christian Progress.
- Boghurst,Loimographia, 26 , 90 ; Thomas Cocke,A Plain and Practical Discourse
... for the Preservation of People in this Time of Sickness(London, 1665 ), 10 ; Hodges,Loi-
mologia, 2 , 30.
36 .Defoe,Journal of the Plague Year,Norton ed., 5 , 9. Cf. Boghurst,Loimographia,xi.
37. See An Historical Narrative of the Great Plague... and... other Remarkable Plagues
(London, 1769 ) and History of the Plague in London in 1665 with Suitable Reflections(Lon-
don, 1795 ), 297 – 98. Peter Kennedy,Discourse on Pestilence(London, 1721 ), cites a Captain
Floyd as having lived through the ordeal and attributing its beginning to sick Dutch
prisoners of war and cotton from Holland. Cf. Thomas Hancock,Research into the Law
and Phenomena of the Pestilence... and Remarks on Quarantine(London, 1821 ), 200.
38. Today’s vicar of St. Giles in the Fields has written more specifically about the first
half of this story, speculating that Flemish weavers contracted the plague from goods
imported from Holland, which were opened “in a house in an alley off the west side of
the upper end of Drury Lane.” Gordon Taylor,St. Giles in the Field: Its Part in History
(London, 1988 ). We thank Reverend Taylor for sharing this pamphlet and opening the
parish archival records for our use.