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

2 by Charles Creighton, Creighton, Charles, 1847-1927

Chapter 64: 10. To have a speciall care that good and wholesome victuals and corne

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.

Chapter 64: 10. To have a speciall care that good and wholesome victuals and corne

be solde in the markets, and so to provide that no want thereof be in the Cittie, and for such as have not wherewithall to buy necessary food, that there to extend their charitable and goodly devotion; for there is nothing that will more encrease the plague than want and scarcity of necessary food.

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