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A History of the County of Gloucester
… for tax in the parish. 47 In spite of a visitation of plague in the 1540s which caused c. 200 deaths in two years, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… century 72 were accentuated in Westbury by an outbreak of plague in 1603-4. The justices were obliged to order a relief …
Old and New London
… twenty-six of the monks of this abbey fell victims to a plague which was then raging, and they are reported by old …
Old and New London
… Goodman, took one useful measure of precaution against the plague on behalf of the school and scholars. Happening to … June till Michaelmas, no doubt on account of some fever or plague breaking out. In 1569 the school was dispersed on account of the plague, from September 23 till the eve of All Saints' Day. …
Old and New London
… on one account at all events; for in the year of the great plague his lordship brought hither from Holland the first …
Old and New London
… among the first parts of Westminster to suffer from the plague in the year 1665. On its appearance so close to the … myself that there died four or five at Westminster of the plague, in several houses, upon Sunday last, in Bell Alley, … several plaguehouses" (that is, houses smitten with the plague) "in King Street and the Palace. To Whitehall, where …
Old and New London
… or "Seven Chimneys," as pest-houses for victims to the plague, and in 1665 many of those who had fallen victims to … churchyard was walled in at the publick charge in the last plague-time, merely for want of room, and now none but such … a lazaretto for the reception of the victims of the Great Plague which preceded the Fire of London. We have already …
A History of the County of Hertford
… with them personally. 16 This parish was visited by the plague in 1667. 17 From information supplied by the Bd. of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… which commences in 1575, contains many allusions to the plague, and some also to the incursion of the Scottish army, …
Old and New London
… (ensign). "I lived," says Defoe, in his "Memoirs of the Plague," "without Aldgate, about midway between Aldgate …