[607] Abstract, &c. in Brit. Mus. MSS., as above.
[608] The following is the case by which he supports the recommendation to kill dogs in plague-time: “Not many years since, I knew a glover in Oxford who with his family, to the number of ten or eleven persons, died of the plague, which was said to be brought into the house by a dogge skinne that his wife bought when the disease was in the Citie” (Poor Man’s Jewel, Chapter VIII. London, 1578).
[609] Transcripts from the MS. Archives, ed. Bayley, 1856.
[610] News-letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury, Hist. MSS. Commis. VI. 455.
[611] Machyn’s Diary, ed. J. Gough Nichols. Camden Soc., No. 42, p. 310.
[612] Ibid. p. 396 (note by Nichols); and Guildhall Records, in Furnivall, l. c.
[613] Abstract, &c. as above.
[614] Stow’s Memoranda (Lambeth MS.), Camden Soc., 1880, p. 123.
[615] Abstract, &c. as above.
[616] Stow, ibid.