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

[559] Letter from the Fleet prison, assigned to 1517. _Hist. MSS. Com._ X. pt. 4. p. 447. [560] Phillips, _History of Shrewsbury_, p. 17. [561] _Privy Purse of Henry VIII._, p. 79. [562] The reference on p. 290 (note 2) to “no parish in London free,” under the date of 25 October, 1517, may imply that bills of mortality had been kept in that epidemic, which was certainly an occasion when Henry VIII. interposed in other ways to check the progress of plague. [563] Lately purchased for the Egerton Collection. No. 2603, fol. 4. [564] There was, however, an English translation of a small foreign essay on the plague, of unacknowledged authorship, published at London in 1534 by Thomas Paynel, canon of Merton, a literary hack of the time. [565] In the Record Office. State Papers, Henry VIII., No. 4633. It has been erroneously calendared by Brewer as a bill of mortality of the sweating sickness in 1528. [566] _The Maire of Bristowe, his Kalendar._ Camden Society, 1872, p. 53. [567] The plague is said to have been in Exeter in 1535 (Freeman, _Exeter_, in English Towns Series). [568] There is a copy in the Lambeth Library, No. 432. [569] Owen and Blakeway, I. 311. [570] Continuator of Fabyan. [571] Cussan’s _History of Hertfordshire_. [572] _A London Chronicle of Hen. VII. and Hen. VIII._ Camden Miscellany, 1859. [573] _Acts of the Privy Council._ New series, 1542-1547, p. 136. [574] Stow’s _Annales_. [575] _Cal. Cecil MSS._, I. 15. [576] Guildhall Records (Extracts by Furnivall in Appendix to Vicary’s _Anatomy_. Early English Text Society). [577] Brand’s _History of Newcastle_. [578] Hasted’s _History of Canterbury_, p. 130 (from parish registers). [579] Anthony Wood, _op. cit._ II. 74. At Banbury probably about the same year. Beesley’s _History of Banbury_ (from Brasbridge). [580] _Register of the Privy Council of Scotland_, I. 5. [581] _Acts of the Privy Council._ New series, 1542-1547, 28 April, 1546, p. 397. [582] _Ibid._, Nov. 13, 1546, p. 552. [583] Camden’s _Britannia_, ed. Gough, I. 262. [584] _Ibid._ II. 265. [585] _Calendar of State Papers._ Domestic series, Vol. X. [586] _Notes and Queries_, 6th series, III. 477. [587] Nichols, _Leicestershire_, III. 891 (295 deaths from plague &c. 1555-59.) [588] Ormerod’s _Cheshire_, I. under 1558, with a reference to “Harl. MSS.” The Harleian MSS. relating to Chester fill many pages of the catalogue. [589] _Calendar of State Papers_, Eliz. I. p. 122. [590] _Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles._ Camden Society, ed. Gairdner, 1880, pp. 123, 144. [591] Letter from London to the Earl of Shrewsbury, _Hist. MSS. Com._ VI. 455, a. [592] Without date, but probably 1564. Watt conjectures 1556, but the book contains references to the fever-epidemic of 1558, and, as above, to the plague of 1563. [593] Munk, _Roll of the College of Physicians_, I. pp. 32, 63. [594] This and other information immediately following are from _Cal. State Papers_. Foreign series. [595] _Calendar of Cecil MSS._, under the dates. [596] Glover’s _Hist. of Derbyshire_ (21 plague deaths in St Michael’s register, May-Aug. 1563). [597] Nichols; Kelly, in _Trans. Hist. Soc._ VI. 395. [598] Harwood’s _Hist. of Lichfield_, p. 304. [599] Hasted’s _Hist. of Canterbury_, p. 130 (parish registers). [600] _Notes and Queries_, 2nd series, XI. 69. [601] ‘How and whether a Christen man ought to flye the horrible plage of the Pestilence. A sermon out of the Psalme “Qui habitat in adjutorio altissimi,” by Andrewe Osiander. Translated out of Hye Almayn into Englishe, 1537.’ Copy in the British Museum. The initials M.C. are taken to be those of Miles Coverdale. [602] Soranzo to the Senate of Venice. _Calendar of State Papers_, Venetian, V. 541 (18 Aug. 1554). [603] _Cal. State Papers_, Henry VIII. Domestic. [604] From _Abstract of several orders relating to the Plague_. MS. Addit. (Brit. Museum), No. 4376. Probably the originals of these abstracts are among the Guildhall records. I quote from the most accessible source. [605] Extracts from the Guildhall Records, by Furnivall, in Appendix to Vicary’s _Anatomy of the Body of Man_. Early English Text Society. [606] _Cal. State Papers_, Venetian, VII. 649. [607] _Abstract_, &c. in Brit. Mus. MSS., as above. [608] The following is the case by which he supports the recommendation to kill dogs in plague-time: “Not many years since, I knew a glover in Oxford who with his family, to the number of ten or eleven persons, died of the plague, which was said to be brought into the house by a dogge skinne that his wife bought when the disease was in the Citie” (_Poor Man’s Jewel_,