[465] Dom. Charles II., 1665, August 15.
[466] Ibid., July 22.
[467] Dom. Charles II., August 19.
[468] "It is said, my Lord of London hath sent to those pastors that have quitted their flocks, by reason of these times, that if they return not speedily, others will be put into their places."—Ellis' Letters, vol. iv.
[469] Neal, iv. 403. The returns dated 1665 from Exeter, St. David's, and Bristol, are among the Tenison MSS. (Lambeth); also the Bishop of Exeter's (Seth Ward's) certificate of the hospitals, and almshouses, pluralists, lecturers, schoolmasters, physicians, and Nonconformists in his diocese.
[470] Wilkins' Concilia, iv. 583.
[471] Autobiography of Patrick, Bishop of Ely, 52.
[472] His book, entitled God's Terrible Voice in the City, presents some most graphic accounts of the effects of the pestilence.
[473] Feb. 4, 1666. Many affecting particulars relative to the Plague may be found in the notes of this prince of diarists.
[474] Blomefield's Hist. of Norwich, i. 410.