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taverns, inns, and alehouses, 31 , 48 , 116 ;
town criers, 32 , 115 ; weight of bread,
43 – 45 , 167 – 68
Puritan era, 4 , 9 .See alsoCromwell, Oliver

quacks, 95 – 96 , 101 , 110 , 112 , 319 n. 46 , 325 n. 6
Quakers: burial practices of, 131 , 178 , 193 –
94 , 331 n. 32 ; care of each other and out-
siders, 193 , 223 , 235 – 36 ; at Colchester,
333 n. 18 ; first city fatality and, 54 – 55 ;
imprisonment of, 115 , 193 , 222 ; Milton
aided by, 92
quarantine (shipping), 14 , 50 – 51 , 198 – 99 ,
271 – 72 ; uncertain effectiveness of, 225 ,
285 , 342 n. 46 .See alsoshutting up in-
fected houses

raker,parish, 49
Ranelagh, Lady Katherine, 68 – 69
rat catcher, 115 , 281
rats, 164 , 220 , 265 , 276 , 278 – 82 , 285
reading and writing, 321 n. 24
religious responses to plague, 233 – 43 ;in
art, 11 – 12 ; on divine and natural causes,
67 – 71 , 315 nn. 28 , 30 ; on flight, 83 , 317 n.
15 ; as punishment for sin, 58 , 62 – 63 , 67 ,
83 – 84 , 182 .See alsoAllin, John; Anglican
church; dissenters; Evelyn, John; Josse-
lin, Rev. Ralph; Patrick, Rev. Symon;
Quakers
returning to London, 244 – 45 , 247 – 51
Robinson, Sir John, 193 , 222 , 224 , 246
Royal Exchequer and Treasury, 23 , 25 – 126 ,
159 , 172
royal government: emergency public health
subcommittee of, 96 , 211 , 255 ; new pest-
houses ordered by, 190 – 91 ; public fires
ordered by, 218 ; quarantines of incoming
shipping, 14 , 50 – 51 ; relations with the
city of London, 25 – 26 , 32 – 34 ; seacoal
price controlled by, 45 ; shutting up of
infected households by, 53 – 55 ; urban
housing controlled by, 27 , 254

Royal Navy Board, 1 , 23 , 39 , 126 , 130 , 171

Royal Society, 20 , 36 , 53 , 65 , 152 – 57 , 250 ,

259 – 61 , 268

Rugge, Thomas, 21 , 52 , 185 , 188 , 259

Rye, plague in, 213 .See alsoAllin, John

Saint Andrew Holborn, 49 , 52 , 58 , 316 n. 9

Saint Bartholomew hospital, 37 , 95 , 100 ,

144 , 148 , 251

Saint Botolph Bishopsgate, 178 – 79 , 243 ,

316 n. 9 , 330 n. 2

Saint Bride: burial procedures in, 178 ,

189 – 90 ; churchwardens’ emergency fi-

nancing in, 228 – 31 ; churchyard shared

with parishes adjacent to, 189 ; Samuel

Pepys’ childhood in, 23 ; previous epi-

demics in, 49 ;rector of, 336 n. 27

Saint Clement Danes, 52 , 316 n. 9

Saint Dunstan in the West, 189 , 316 n. 9

Saint Giles Cripplegate: churchyard

neighborhood regulations in, 189 ; clerk’s

records of, 132 – 34 , 163 , 165 ; described,

131 – 32 ; economic ranking by hearth

taxes in, 316 n. 9 ; Guildhall financial aid

to, 230 ; mortality by status and occupa-

tions in, 163 – 65 , 166 ; mortality in plague

epidemic and other years in, 49 , 132 ,

147 , 185 ; peak of mortality in, 134 , 314 n.

25 ; plague pits in, 178 , 188 ; plague un-

dercounted as cause of death in, 134 – 35 ,

164 ; poor relief budget of, 186 ; popu-

lation and trades of, 25 , 114 , 132 ;un-

counted fatalities in, 165 .See alsopest-

houses

Saint Giles in the Fields: bell ringing

ceases in, 128 ; chronic sickness prevalent

in, 60 ; early plague deaths in, 19 , 46 , 47 ,

52 , 58 ;Great Plague blamed on, 55 , 202 ;

peak of epidemic in, 142 ; riot at shut up

tavern in, 54 ; watches to contain the

epidemic in, 54 .See alsoBoghurst, Wil-

liam; pesthouses

Saint Gregory, 92 , 123 , 141 – 43 , 247

Saint Katherine Creechurch, 169