336 • Notes to Pages 227–241- BL, Addit. MSS 4182 , fols. 29 , 31 ; Pepys,Diary, 6 : 184.
- Albemarle to Evelyn, July 25 , Sept. 6 , Oct. 3 (I); Thomas Forster to Evelyn, Nov.
27 , 1665 (VII); Edward Mason to Evelyn, n.d. (IX), BL, Letters to John Evelyn. - Fifteen percent of St. Margaret’s widows receiving regular stipends are listed sep-
arately by name for nursing services paid. - St. Martin Orgar Register, GL, MS 959 / 1.
- The most dramatic example is Reverend Pearson’s signature on page after page of
St. Bride’s burial register during the epidemic. - St. Bride’s records are immense and detailed: GL, MS 6554 / 1 Vestry; MS 6552 / 1
Churchwardens Accounts; MS 6570 / 1 Parish Papers (burials and rough relief account);
and MS 6540 / 1 Register, 1653 – 72. - CLRO Ex GL MS 359 , Miscellaneous entries on entertainments, military affairs,
plague, fire of London, “Sicknes and Pesthouse.” - See GL Ex GL MS 270 : “Monies Rec’d for ye reliefe of the Poore Visited with ye
plague in London and liberties” and “Paid to parishes”; GL, MS 6552 / 1 , St. Bride’s
Churchwardens Accounts. - CLRO CA 70 , fol. 156 v; Ex GL MS 270 , “Moneys rec’d on Account of the Sec-
ond Years Rate for ye visited Poore.” - CLRO CC 46 , fol. 61.
Chapter 12. Not by Bread Alone
- There are glimpses of George Boddington Sr.’s character in his son’s commonplace
book writings; his offices at St. Margaret Lothbury are listed in the parish records at the
Guildhall Library. On Hannah Boddington, see GL, MS 10823 / 1 Boddington Com-
monplace Book, 36 , 42.
2 .George Boddington Jr.’s account of the Great Plague is on one packed page of his
commonplace book, ibid., 40. - John Bunyan,Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners,first published in 1666 .See
Owen C. Watkins,The Puritan Experience: Studies in Spiritual Autobiography(New
Yo r k , 1972 ), 101 – 20. - Deuteronomy 8 : 3 ; Matthew 4 : 4. We thank Judith Lee for locating these passages.
- William Caton to Friends and Brethren in England, Sept. 8 , ERO T/A 424 / 6 / 3 ,
“Collection of Letters.” - Vincent,God ’s Terrible Voice, 28 , 39 – 40.
- See “A Brief Account of My Life,” in Patrick,Works, 9 : 443 – 44 ; Pickering’s Christ-
mas Classics( 1847 ), cited by Cooper,Letters of John Allin, 10 ; Patrick,Works, 3 : 655 – 74. - Mary Evelyn to John Evelyn, Sept. 2 , 1665 , BL, Letters to Evelyn, VII; Evelyn,
Diary, 1 : 350 – 54.
9 .Evelyn,Diary, 1 : 394 , 406.
10 .John Evelyn to Mary Evelyn, Sept. 17 , 1665 , BL, Evelyn Papers, Mrs. Evelyn I. - Pepys,Diary, 6 : 189 – 90 ,Aug. 13 , 1665.
- Slack,The Impact of Plague, 356 n. 95.
- A sermon is printed verbatim in Patrick,Works, 3 : 65 – 74.