[47] Ibid., ii. 439.
[48] Cal. Coke MSS. (Hist. MSS. Com.) i. 158.
[49] C. and T. James I., ii. 469.
[50] Mayerne, Opera Medica, Lond. 1700.
[51] Ibid., ii. 473.
[52] Janus Chunradus Rhumelius, Historia morbi, qui etc. Norimb. 1625.
[53] W. D. Cooper, Archæologia, XXXVII. (1857) p. 1. I had overlooked this important paper on English plagues in my former volume. The chief additional facts that it contains are the very severe plague at Cambridge in the summer of 1666, the deaths of 417 by plague at Peterborough in 1666, and of 8 more in the first quarter of 1667, and the slightness of the Nottingham outbreak, which was in August, 1666 (p. 22).
[54] London Gazette, 17-21 June, 1675, repeated in the number for 28 June-1 July.
[55] Brand, Hist. of Newcastle, II. 509. Report contradicted on 18 Dec.
[56] “The habitations of the poor within or adjoining to the City,” says Willan, “have suffered greatly; and some, I am informed, have been almost depopulated, the infection having extended to every inmate. The rumour of a plague was totally devoid of foundation.”