A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2) / From A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague

by Charles Creighton

[587] Nichols, Leicestershire, III. 891 (295 deaths from plague &c. 1555-59.)

[588] Ormerod’s Cheshire, I. under 1558, with a reference to “Harl. MSS.” The Harleian MSS. relating to Chester fill many pages of the catalogue.

[589] Calendar of State Papers, Eliz. I. p. 122.

[590] Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles. Camden Society, ed. Gairdner, 1880, pp. 123, 144.

[591] Letter from London to the Earl of Shrewsbury, Hist. MSS. Com. VI. 455, a.

[592] Without date, but probably 1564. Watt conjectures 1556, but the book contains references to the fever-epidemic of 1558, and, as above, to the plague of 1563.

[593] Munk, Roll of the College of Physicians, I. pp. 32, 63.

[594] This and other information immediately following are from Cal. State Papers. Foreign series.

[595] Calendar of Cecil MSS., under the dates.

[596] Glover’s Hist. of Derbyshire (21 plague deaths in St Michael’s register, May-Aug. 1563).