[173] Creighton, vol. i. pp. 313, 314.
[174] Anatomie of the Bodie of Man, ed. Furnivall, App. 161.
[175] Ibid., pp. 163, 164.
[176] Calendar of State Papers, Venetian, vii. 749.
[177] Creighton, vol. i. p. 316.
[178] Vicary, App. iii. p. 166.
[179] Mr. Power refers me to the fact that isolated cases of plague and local epidemics occurred long after the Great Fire.
[180] In a broadside referring to ‘The Plague of London, printed by Peter Cole, at the printing office in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange, 1665,’ the number of deaths from plague in 1603, 1625 and 1636 are given as follows:—1603, 30,561 persons; 1625, 35,403; and 1636, 10,400. The numbers in 1593 are given as above.
[181] Mr Pearce gives some interesting facts in his Annals of Christ’s Hospital (p. 207) respecting the effects of the plague in 1603 and 1665 on the condition of the Blue Coat School. During 1665 no more than 32 children of the total number of 260 in the house died of all diseases, although the neighbourhood was severely visited.
[182] Creighton, vol. i. p. 265.