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35. John Allin to Philip Fryth at Rye, Aug. 24 , Sept. 14 , 1665 , ESRO FRE 5462 , 5466.
    Cf. Bell,The Great Plague, 159 – 60 , which dismisses Allin as delusional and wrong-
    headed in his quest.


36. The great popularizer of academic herbal recipes during the Puritan era, Nicholas
    Culpeper, had tried his hand with this potable gold. And Lilly’s mentor in astrology
    had offered patients a month’s free supply of the magical liquid—bringing down on his
    head the wrath of the archbishop of Canterbury and the College of Physicians for this
    affront to true religion and medicine. See Capp,English Almanacs, 204 – 8.
    37 .Newes,July 13 ;Intelligencer,Nov. 7.


37. Allin to Fryth, Aug. 24 , ESRO FRE 5462.


38. The herbalist was Nicholas Culpeper ( 1616 – 54 ). His Complete Herbal,Wo rd -
    sworth Reference ed. (Ware, Hertfordshire, 1995 ) is still in print in paperback editions,
    touting his remedies “for all ills known to Seventeenth century society.”


39. See The Pest Anatomized, 8 – 10.


40. Bell,The Great Plague, 156.


41. Thomas Cocke,Hygiene, or a Plain and Practical Discourse upon the First of the Six
    Non-Naturals, viz: Air(London, 1665 ), 14 ; John Allin to Fryth, Aug. 1665 , ESRO FRE


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Chapter 6. Plague’s Progress

1. Pepys,Diary, 6 : 160 , July 16 ; Josselin,Diary, 519 , July 9 , 28 ,Aug. 6.
   2 .Perhaps the best study of normal urban dynamics in London is Beier and Finlay,
   The Making ofthe Metropolis.


2. A. L. Beier, “Engine of Manufacture: The Trades of London,” in ibid., 145 , 147.


3. We thank John Burkhalter for information on the king’s musicians traveling with
   the king during the Great Plague. Pepys,Diary, 6 : 154 , July 10.


4. See Richard Deering’s Fancy of London Cries,BL, Addit. MSS 29372 – 7.


5. CLRO, CA 70 : fol. 136 v; CLRO, CC 46 : fol. 60 r.


6. BL, Addit. MSS 4182 , fol. 21 v, June 23 newsletter.


7. The city regulations can be traced in CLRO CA 70 ; BL, Guildhall Proclamations
   21 .h. 5 ; and London Museum’s Walter George Bell broadside collection. On Bartholo-
   mew’s fair, see Bell,The Great Plague, 195.


8. Sir William Turner to Pocquelin of Paris, June 29 , GL MS 5106 / 1.


9. The fullest records are from St. Bride’s parish at the London Guildhall Library.
   11 .London’s Dreadful Visitation.


10. See St. Margaret Poor Law Assessments and Payments, Westminster City Li-
    brary (WL), E 47 ; Slack,The Impact of Plague, 278 ; Champion,London’s Dreaded Visit-
    ation, 106.


11. The long-lost thick black volume was recovered after surviving bombs and fire-
    hose watering in World War II.


12. “The Account of Richard Arnold and Nicholas Upham Churchwardens of ye Par-
    ish of St. Margaret Westminster of all their Receipts and Disbursements in Relation to ye
    Poore Visited of ye Plague within the sayd Parish in the Years 1665 and 1666 ” (WL E 47 ).