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trade, to work for him on a continental trip by coming up with an advance of £ 9 , 000 .In
September he added two-thirds of a joint credit line of £ 2 , 026 , secured by a compli-
cated four-party involvement. Ibid., July 10 , 12 , Sept. 7.
30. Ibid., Aug. 8.
31. Ibid., Aug. 10 , 28 , Sept. 28.
32. Holborn Local History Library, St. Giles in the Fields Churchwarden Account
for 1665.
33. John Tillison to William Sancroft, Aug. 10 , 23 , Sept. 14 , Oct. 13 , 1665 , BL, Har-
leian MS 3785 , fols. 30 , 34 – 35 , 38.
34. On Sandwich, see “Edward Mountagu, Earl of Sandwich,” in Pepys,Diary,
10 : 252 – 55. On Pepys’ finances, in addition to the superb essay by Henry Roseveare on
“Finances” in ibid., 130 – 37 , see Vincent Brome,The Other Pepys(London, 1992 ), using
the index headings for Pepys’ residences and employment.
35. See Brome,The Other Pepys, 100 ; Pepys,Diary, 6 : 341.
36. Roy Porter places Pepys in the mainstream of contemporary practice; Vincent
Brome believes he skirted the line and could be called corrupt. Personal conversations
with the authors. A quick guide to Pepys’ financial practices is Tomalin,Samuel Pepys,
under the index subcategory “Pepys, Samuel: finances” (twenty entries).
37. Pepys,Diary, 5 : 267 ; 6 : 88 – 89.
38 .Ibid., 6 : 224.
39. Ibid., 224 – 26 , Sept. 14 and 15 , 1665.
40. Ibid., 225.
41 .Obituary of Richard Smyth, 67 – 70.
42. Bell,The Great Plague, 214. Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, a specialist on manic de-
pression and suicide, has made a similar suggestion in conversations with us.
43. Pepys,Diary, 6 : 266.
44. Ibid., 251.

Chapter 9. Requiem for London

1. Pepys,Diary, 6 : 233 – 34.


2. The total fatalities in St. Botolph Bishopsgate for 1655 – 64 , tabulated by Graham
   Twigg from the parish register, were 4 , 324 , with an average of 432. 4 per year. Using the
   demographers’ method, called the Crisis Mortality Ratio, but dividing the 3 , 464 total
   for 1665 in the Bills of Mortality (their figure) by the average of 432. 4 during the pre-
   vious decade in the parish register (our substitution for the average from the bills, used
   by the demographers), we calculate an increase of 8. 0. For the demographers’ calcula-
   tion of a 6. 7 increase, see Champion,London’s Dreaded Visitation,app. 1 , 106 ,using M. J.
   Power’s data.


3. St. Botolph Bishopsgate Register,ed. A. W. C. Hallen ( 1889 – 95 ), vol. 1 (marriages);
   vol. 2 (burials, baptisms).


4. Hodges,Loimologia, 8.


5. See Millard Meiss,Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death(Princeton,