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A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2) by Charles Creighton
9. To command that no hemp or flax be kept in water neere the Cittie
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2) by Charles Creighton
9. To command that no hemp or flax be kept in water neere the Cittie
Chapter 63
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Chapters
Chapter 1: Chapter 1
Chapter 2: CHAPTER I.
Chapter 3: CHAPTER II.
Chapter 4: CHAPTER III.
Chapter 5: CHAPTER IV.
Chapter 6: CHAPTER V.
Chapter 7: CHAPTER VI.
Chapter 8: CHAPTER VII.
Chapter 9: CHAPTER VIII.
Chapter 10: CHAPTER IX.
Chapter 11: CHAPTER X.
Chapter 12: CHAPTER XI.
Chapter 13: CHAPTER XII.
Chapter 14: CHAPTER I.
Chapter 15: introduction of a miracle, and is otherwise more circumstantial. While the
Chapter 16: episode of the seventh century, to which he devotes thirty-eight lines of
Chapter 17: CHAPTER II.
Chapter 18: 1307. Future research may perhaps discover where Gilbert taught or was
Chapter 19: introduction of maize into Lombardy at an interval of two or three
Chapter 20: CHAPTER III.
Chapter 21: 3939. The population of the same three parishes in 1558, or shortly after
Chapter 22: 3639. It may be assumed to have lost more than half its people; but it
Chapter 23: 1741. The Institution Book of the diocese of Norwich, he says (with a
Chapter 24: CHAPTER IV.
Chapter 25: 1349. The pestilence had lasted some fourteen months, from its first
Chapter 26: CHAPTER V.
Chapter 27: 1528. If there were any better regimen in the later epidemics than in the
Chapter 28: 1551. Sweating sickness of the original sort was never again the _signum
Chapter 29: CHAPTER VI.
Chapter 30: 1563. 12 June 17
Chapter 31: 1564. 7 January 45
Chapter 32: 1518. In April of that year, the Court being in Berkshire or Oxfordshire,
Chapter 33: 1. First a ’tre from the Mayor of London to every alderman of each
Chapter 34: 2. To cause all infected houses to bee shutt up and noe person to come
Chapter 35: 3. That some honest discreete person be appoynted to attend each such
Chapter 36: 4. For the poorer houses infected that the Alderman or his deputy doe
Chapter 37: 5. That such as shall refuse to pay what they are assest shall be
Chapter 38: 6. That all bedding and cloathes and other thinges apt to take
Chapter 39: 7. Lastly that a bill with ‘Lord have mercy upon us’ in greate ’tres
Chapter 40: 1. That they should follow the good example of the orders devised and
Chapter 41: 2. That the officers aforesayde with the curate of euery parish and
Chapter 42: 3. To discharge all inmates out of all houses that there be noe more
Chapter 43: 4. To cause the streetes lanes and passages and all the shewers sinkes
Chapter 44: 1. That speciall noatis be taken of such houses infected as sell
Chapter 45: 2. That euery counstable within his precinct haue at all tymes in
Chapter 46: 3. That noe person dwelling in a house infected bee suffered to goe
Chapter 47: 4. That they suffer not any deade corps dying of the plague to be
Chapter 48: 5. To appoynt two honest and discreete matrons within euery parish who
Chapter 49: 6. That order be taken for killing of dogs that run from house to
Chapter 50: 2. The restraining of the building of small tenements and turning
Chapter 51: 4. The increase of buildings about the Charterhouse, Mile End Fields;
Chapter 52: 5. The pestering of exempt places with strangers and foreign
Chapter 53: 8. The killing of cattle within or near the city.
Chapter 54: 1588. In 1585 houses were shut up[685]; in 1586 a case at Southwell was
Chapter 55: 1. First to command that no stinking doonghills be suffered neere the
Chapter 56: 2. Every evening and morning in the hot weather to cause colde water
Chapter 57: 3. And whereas the infection is entred, there to cause fires to be
Chapter 58: 4. Suffer not any dogs, cattes, or pigs to run about the streets, for
Chapter 59: 5. Command that the excrements and filthy things which are voided from
Chapter 60: 6. That no Chirurgions, or barbers, which use to let blood, do cast
Chapter 61: 7. That no vautes or previes be then emptied, for it is a most
Chapter 62: 8. That all Inholders do every day make clean their stables, and cause
Chapter 63: 9. To command that no hemp or flax be kept in water neere the Cittie
Chapter 64: 10. To have a speciall care that good and wholesome victuals and corne
Chapter 65: 11. To command that all those which do visit and attend the sick, as
Chapter 66: 1597. In August there were 23 deaths, and in September 42 deaths. The
Chapter 67: 1588. It was said to have been brought to Wester Wemyss, in Fife, by a
Chapter 68: CHAPTER VII.
Chapter 69: 1494. Typhus-fever, or war-fever with famine-fever, now begins to be a
Chapter 70: CHAPTER VIII.
Chapter 71: CHAPTER IX.
Chapter 72: introduction of a third term, _punctilli_, which Gruner, however, takes to
Chapter 73: 1538. They may be farther helped to a conclusion by the following curious
Chapter 74: CHAPTER X.
Chapter 75: 10. In the second place, no deaths are included from the out-parishes
Chapter 76: 1624. The letters of the time enable us to see what it was that disturbed
Chapter 77: CHAPTER XI.
Chapter 78: 12. On December 7, Mr Yorke, captain of the ‘Hope,’ died of sickness, on
Chapter 79: 1614. In 1617 he published his ‘Surgion’s Mate,’ “chiefly for the benefit
Chapter 80: 4. The comforting and corroborating the parts late diseased.
Chapter 81: CHAPTER XII.
Chapter 82: 1625. His account of the burials by the cart-load in plague-pits is also
Chapter 83: 1636. An importation from abroad had been alleged as early as the great
Chapter 84: 1665. Its two great predecessors (not reckoning the smaller plague of
Chapter 85: 1662. These fractions have been added in the table, so as to make 1603
Chapter 86: 1666. There was also a sharp epidemic in Cambridge and in the country
Chapter 87: introduction of inferior bread, 224 _note_
Chapter 88: Introduction, p. lxxvi.
Chapter 89: 110. Aelred, the chief collector of the miraculous cures by Edward the
Chapter 90: 220. The late Rev. S. S. Lewis, fellow and librarian of the College, who
Chapter 91: 449. He says also: “The school doors were shut, colleges and halls
Chapter 92: Introduction, p. 11.
Chapter 93: 4585. (_Hist. MSS. Commission_, V. 444.)
Chapter 94: 1878. _Med. Times and Gaz._ I. 1878, p. 597.
Chapter 95: 1873. (Transact. Camb. Antiq. Soc. 8vo. series, vol. XIV.)
Chapter 96: 1589. New ed. 1596, p. 272.
Chapter 97: 1580. Brassavolus, writing _de morbo Gallico_, and illustrating the fact
Chapter 98: 29. Stow puts the mortality under the year 1513.
Chapter 99: Chapter VIII. London, 1578).
Chapter 100: 198. Mr Rendle, in one place, seems to imply disapproval of this mode of
Chapter 101: 1525. The same kind of misdating occurs among the printed letters of
Chapter 102: 260. Brusselle, 1712.
Chapter 103: 171. Buried in the parish of Stepney from the 25th of March to the 20th of
Chapter 104: Book II. p. 36.
or towne, for that will cause a very dangerous and infectious savour.
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