[912] Hist. MSS. Commission, V. 146, 151, 156, 168, 174, 201. See also the Diaries of Pepys and Evelyn.
[913] Natural History of Oxfordshire. Oxford, 1677, p. 23.
[914] De contagione et contagiosis morbis, etc. Venet. 1546.
[915] Titles in Häser, III. 383.
[916] Opus de peste ... necnon de variolis, Neap. 1577.
[917] Les œuvres de M. Ambroise Paré. 5th ed., Paris, 1598, Books XIX. and XX. The chapters on Plague, Smallpox, etc., were originally published, according to Häser, in 1568.
[918] See Purchas, Pilgrimes, III. 996, where syphilis and smallpox are included together as “infectious or pestilentiall pocks,” Ramusio being given as the authority for the smallpox and Oviedo for the great pox.
[919] For details of the increase of London population, with the sources of evidence, I beg to refer to my essay, “The Population of Old London,” Blackwood’s Magazine, April, 1891.
[920] Broadside in the Guildhall Library, bound up in a volume labelled Political Tracts, 1680.
[921] “The time when it began in the City of Westminster and these places following: