[1051] Cal. Coke MSS. (Hist. MSS. Commis.) II. 429.
[1052] Rutty, Chronological History of the Weather and Seasons, and prevailing Diseases in Dublin during forty years. London, 1770, under the dates.
[1053] Short (Comparative History of the Increase and Decrease of Mankind in England, &c. Lond. 1767) has found somewhere a statement that in 1717 there was “a most fatal continual fever in the West of Scotland, in January and February, and not less fatal confluent smallpox in March and April.”
[1054] Lond. Med. Journ. VII. 163.
[1055] W. Watson, in Medical Observations and Inquiries by a Society of Physicians in London, IV. (1771), p. 153. Whether the epidemic that preceded the smallpox was measles or scarlatina is a question that was raised by Willan, and is referred to in the chapter on “Scarlatina and Diphtheria.”
[1056] Annals of the Lords of Warrington and Bewsey from 1587. By W. Beamont. Manchester, 1873, p. xix.
[1057] John Aikin, M.D., Descriptions of the Country from thirty to forty Miles around Manchester. London, 1795, p. 302.
[1058] Taken out of the register by Aikin at the request of Dr Richard Price, and published by the latter in the 4th ed. of his Obs. on Reversionary Payments. Lond. 1783, II. 5, 100.
[1059] Arthur Young, Six Months Tour through the North of England. 4 vols. London, 1770-71, III. 163.
[1060] Percival, Phil. Trans. LXV. 328.