318 • Notes to Pages 84–90pamphleteers of the Great Plague. Apart from sectarians, readers were probably most
interested in the arguments per se (though reader opinion is virtually impossible to ver-
ify from the extant sources). The work of Ole Peter Grell on Protestant views on caring
is relevant, e.g.: “The Protestant Imperative of Christian Care and Neighborly Love,”
inHealth Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe, 1500 – 1700 ,ed. Ole Peter Grell and
Andrew Cunningham (London, 1997 ), 43 – 65 , and “Conflicting Duties: Plague and the
Obligations of Early Modern Physicians towards Patients and Commonwealth in
England and the Netherlands,” in Doctors and Ethics: The Earlier Historical Setting of
Professional Ethics,ed. Andrew Wear, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, and Roger French
(Amsterdam, 1993 ), 131 – 52. For a thorough discussion of religious, magisterial, and med-
ical views in Catholic France, see Colin Jones, “Plague and Its Metaphors in Early
Modern France,”Representations 53 ( 1996 ): 97 – 127. We are grateful to the author for
showing us his essay before it was published.
16. Tracts relating to London (e.g.,Londons Lord Have Mercy Upon Us. A True Rela-
tion of Seven Modern Plagues[London, 1665 ]) are located by BL pressmark 816 ,m.
24 – 26.
17 .The Shepherd ’s Lash Lash’d Or a Confutation of the Fugitives Vindication(London,
1665 ).
18 .The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Antiquary, of Oxford, 1632 – 1695 ,ed. Andrew
Clark (Oxford, 1892 ), 2 : 39 – 40 , 40 n. 6 , 43 n. 3.
19. See Pepys,Diary, 10 : 192 – 97 , “[Pepys] Household: Domestic Servants.”
20. Josselin,Diary, 518 – 19.
21. Pepys,Diary, 6 : 116 , 122 – 23 , 123 n. 1 ;Evelyn,Diary, 1 : 398 – 401.
22. PRO PC 2 / 57 , 178 ; Pepys,Diary, 6 : 128.
23. Pepys,Diary, 6 : 130 – 31.
24. Ibid., 141 – 42.
25. Hodges,Loimologia, 12.
26. Graunt,Observations, 44.
27. Porter,London, 69.
28. Patrick,Works, 9 : 446.
29. Sir William Petty,Verbum Sapienti(published 1691 , written 1665 ); Hull,Writings
of Sir William Petty, 1 : 108.
30. Bridget Croft to Lady Mary Hastings, Mar. 27 [ 1664 ?], HL HA 1754.
31. Pepys,Diary, 10 : 452 ; Petty, “Of Lessening ye Plagues.”
32. Benjamin Rush,Thomas Sydenham,MD, on Acute and Chronic Diseases(Philadel-
phia, 1809 ), 52 ; Wear,Knowledge and Practice, 334.
33. On Busby’s character and action, see Bell,The Great Plague, 49 , and James An-
derson Winn,John Dryden and His World(New Haven, 1987 ), 36 – 42. The effect of the
Great Plague on the upstream area is chronicled in an unpaginated manuscript by
Charles Hailstone, “If on a Sudden: The Great Plague in Richmond and Neighbor-
hood,” Barnes and Mortlake Local Historical Society Library, Greater London. We
greatly appreciate the kindness of Mr. Iain Radford of Barnes for bringing this much-
overlooked work to our attention and making it available for our personal use.