A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2) by Charles Creighton

[898] _Cal. State Papers._ [899] _Cal. State Papers._ [900] Edited by Gairdner for the Camden Society, 1880. [901] Bannatyne Club’s reprint, 1840, pp. 9-10. [902] _The Loseley Manuscripts._ Edited by Kempe. London, 1836, p. 315. [903] _A Defensative against the Plague ... whereunto is annexed a short treatise of the small Poxe, how to govern and help those that are infected therewith._ London, 1593. [904] Francis Davison’s _Poetical Rapsodie_. The poem of Spilman occurs at p. 189 of the edition of 1611. In the piratical edition of 1621, after Davison’s death, “small” is left out before “Pocks,” and Spilman’s name omitted at the foot of the verses. The printer’s error has had the singular effect of leading Dr Farmer, the writer on Shakespeare, to conclude that the word “pox” in the Elizabethan period meant smallpox even in imprecations such as “a pox on it.” [905] Sir Tobie Matthews’ _Letters (1577-1655)_, London, 1660. (1) Donne to Mrs Cockaine, p. 342; (2) Donne to Sir R. D----, both without date. [906] _Court and Times of James I._ [907] _Court and Times of Charles I._ (Chamberlain to Carleton), I. 28. [908] Anthony Wood. [909] For Chester also, in the parish register of Trinity Church (Harl. MS. 2177) there is a note opposite 1636: “for this two or three years divers children died of smallpox in Chester.” [910] _Cal. State Papers._ [911] _Ibid._ [912] _Hist. MSS. Commission_, V. 146, 151, 156, 168, 174, 201. See also the Diaries of Pepys and Evelyn. [913] _Natural History of Oxfordshire._ Oxford, 1677, p. 23. [914] _De contagione et contagiosis morbis_, etc. Venet. 1546. [915] Titles in Häser, III. 383. [916] _Opus de peste ... necnon de variolis_, Neap. 1577. [917] _Les œuvres de M. Ambroise Paré._ 5th ed., Paris, 1598, Books XIX. and XX. The chapters on Plague, Smallpox, etc., were originally published, according to Häser, in 1568. [918] See Purchas, _Pilgrimes_, III. 996, where syphilis and smallpox are included together as “infectious or pestilentiall pocks,” Ramusio being given as the authority for the smallpox and Oviedo for the great pox. [919] For details of the increase of London population, with the sources of evidence, I beg to refer to my essay, “The Population of Old London,” _Blackwood’s Magazine_, April, 1891. [920] Broadside in the Guildhall Library, bound up in a volume labelled _Political Tracts_, 1680. [921] “The time when it began in the City of Westminster and these places following: “Buried in Westminster from 14 July to 20 October, in the whole number 832, whereof of the plague 723. Buried in the Savoy from the 1st of June to the 20th of October, in the whole number 182, whereof of the plague,