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

5. To appoynt two honest and discreete matrons within euery parish who

shall bee sworne truely to search the body of euery such person as shall happen to dye within the same parish, to the ende that they make true reporte to the clerke of the parish church of all such as shall dye of the plague, that the same clerke may make the like reporte and certificate to the wardens of the parish clerkes thereof according to the order in that behalfe heretofore provided. If the viewers through favour or corruption shall giue wrong certificate, or shall refuse to serue being thereto appointed, then to punish them by imprisonment in such sorte as may serue for the terror of others.

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