332 • Notes to Pages 194–200- George Whitehead,The Christian Progress,quoted in the Select Series of Biograph-
ical Narratives ...ofEarly Members of the Society of Friends,ed. John Barclay (London,
1841 ), 118 – 19 ; Society of Friends London Burials, PRO RG 449. - There is a helpful discussion by Porter,The Great Plague, 73 – 74.
- Morgan Watkins to Mary Pennington, Sept. 18 , 1665 , in Barclay,Select Series of Bi-
ographical Narratives, 148 – 49. - Oleg Peter Grell, “Plague in Elizabethan and Stuart London: The Dutch Re-
sponse,”Medical History 38 ( 1990 ): 424 – 39. - Wilfred S. Samuel, “The Jews of London and the Great Plague ( 1665 ),” in Jewish
Historical Society Miscellanies 3 ( 1937 ): 11 – 12. Cf. Bell,The Great Plague, 180 – 82. - John Tillison to Dean Sancroft, Sept. 14 , BL, Harleian MS 3785 , fol. 35.
- Lambeth Palace Library, Archbishop Sheldon Papers, 1664 – 67. We thank Rich-
ard Palmer and his staff for locating for our use these and other papers relevant to the
Great Plague. - St. Giles Cripplegate Vestry Book, GL, MS 6048 / 1 , fol. 20 v, Sept. 28. Similar
burials in churches were recorded at St. Christopher le Stocks and St. Margaret Loth-
bury inside the wall. The latter’s minister was buried in a vault under the communion
table. Pepys,Diary, 6 : 21 , Sept. 3.
41 .Bell,The Great Plague, 134 – 35 ; J. J. Cartwright, ed.,The Memoirs of Sir John Reresby
(London, 1875 ). Photos of the piper are on the cover of the Norton edition of Defoe’s
Journal of the Plague Year,as well as in Bell. - Albert Camus,The Plague( 1947 ), quoted in Defoe,Journal of the Plague Year,Nor-
ton ed., 242.
Chapter 10. Contagion in the Countryside
- F. J. Fisher’s essays on the London economy are still of importance, especially
“London as an ‘Engine of Economic Growth,’ ” reprinted in London and the English
Economy, 1500 – 1700 : F. J. Fisher,ed. P. J. Corfield and N. B. Harte (London, 1990 ),
185 – 98. Also useful is a trenchant review by James Alexander, “The Economic Structure
of the City of London at the End of the Seventeenth Century,” in Richard Roger, ed.,
Urban History Yearbook 16 (Leicester, 1989 ), 47 – 62. - William Lilly,Merlini Angelici Ephemeris(London, 1666 ), dated Oct. 5 , 1665 ;John
Tanner,Angelicus Britannicus(London, 1666 ); Thomas Trigge,Calendrium Astrologicum
(London, 1666 ). - Colchester’s Port Books for 1665 and 1666 are an exceptional source for tracking
provincial trade with London. They list each ship, its captain, cargo, date of arrival
and/or departure, and destination. PRO E 190 / 607 : 1 (coastal), 3 (overseas). - Defoe,Journal of the Plague Year,Norton ed., 113 – 15.
- Symon Patrick to Elizabeth Gauden, Sept. 30 , 1665 ,in Patrick,Works, 9 : 582.
- Patrick to Gauden, Aug. 9 , Sept. 2 , 19 , 23 , ibid., 571 , 575 , 577 , 580 – 81.
- Essex Record Office (ERO), D/P 268 / 1 / 2 (Bocking), QS Ba 2 / 105 – 6 (Braintree);
H. J. Cunnington,An Account of the Charities and Charitable Benefactions of Braintree