[1056] The College of Physicians reported also in May, 1637, on the causes of plague—overcrowding, nuisances, &c.; among the causes assigned the following is noteworthy: Those who died of the plague were buried within the City, and some of the graveyards were so full that partially decomposed bodies were taken up to make room for fresh interments. (Cited by S. R. Gardiner, History, &c., VIII. 237-9, from the State Papers.)
[1057] Natural and Political Reflections on the Bills of Mortality. London, 1662.
[1058] Cal. State Papers.
[1059] Strype’s ed. of Stow’s Survey of London.
[1060] Rendle (Old Southwark, 1878, p. 96) quotes the following from a letter written in 1618 by Geoffrey Mynshall from the King’s Bench prison: “As to health, it hath more diseases predominant in it than the pest-house in the plague time ... stinks more than the Lord Mayor’s dog-house or Paris Garden in August ... three men in one bed.”
[1061] Cal. S. P. 1601-3, p. 209.
[1062] Middlesex County Records, II.
[1063] Cited by Gardiner, History, VIII. 289.
[1064] Calendar of State Papers.
[1065] Cal. S. P.