Aarhus, bishop of, his book on plague, 209,
his identity, 210 note

Abbotsley, scene in church, 39

Aberdeen, leper-spital, 99,
plague at, 361, 362,
long free from plague, 370,
plague at, in 1647, 564,
syphilis arrives at, 417, 419, 361

Aelred, his story of queen Matilda and the lepers, 82-3

Agriculture, state of in Domesday, 22,
neglect of under heavy taxation by Wm, Rufus, 30,
effects of Black Death on, 191-2,
thriving in the 15th cent., 222,
gives place to sheep-farming in Tudor period, 387-392

Agues, original meaning of 409;
pestilential ague, 214,
“hot ague”, 291, 400, 401, 404, 406,
Irish ague, 410;
Jones on, 410,
specialists for, 411, 426,
ambiguous meaning of, 505, 536, 540

Allington, Richard, case of smallpox, 459

Amwell, Great, plague, 493

André, Bernard, on sweat of 1508, 244,
on French pox, 420

Anglo-Saxon Leechdoms, 24, 452

Annan, story of a plague at, 11

Appleby, plague, 360

Arabia, burials in, 165,
plague, 166,
origin of smallpox in 441

Armada, Spanish, sickness in, 350, 591

Arsenic, plague-cakes, 487

Ashburton, plague, 524

Ashwell, inscription at, 139, 217

Assir, plague, 166

Assizes, Black, at Cambridge, 375,
at Oxford, 376,
at Exeter, 383

Astruc, on origin of syphilis, 430

Aubrey, Dr, on sickness in slave-ships, 627-8

Avignon, Black Death at, 133,
pestis secunda, 203

Axholme, the sweat at, 252

Ayr, plague, 503


Baber, Consul, plague in Yun-nan, 168

Bacon, Francis, “remedy” of the sweat, 242,
gaol-fever, 382,
sweet odours in plague, 685 note

Bamford, James, plague of 1603 in St Olave’s parish, 478,
on contagion of plague, 490

Banbury, plague, 303 note, 501,
war-fever and plague, 556-7

Banister, John, on syphilis, 427,
his plague-medicines, 516

Bankside stews, 420

Barbados, occupied by English, 619,
yellow fever in, 620, 630-633

Barcelona, syphilis at, 434

Barking, plague in monastery, 6,
plague, 492, 520, 680

Bartholomew fair, in plague-time, 300, 481

Bartholomew’s, St, Hospital, filled with cases of pox, 424

Basingstoke, hospital at, 95

Batavia, epidemic in 1625, 608

Baxter, Richard, on the weather before the Great Plague, 653,
on Dissenters in the plague-time, 655

Becon, on rural depopulation, 391

Beda, on pestilence in, 664-685, 5-7

Beggars, pretending leprosy, 103,
beadle of, 104,
after Black Death, 183,
statutes for, 392

Bellay, Du, letters on the sweat, 250-252

Belper, plague, 500

Benghazi, plague and typhus in Arab tents, 170

Beri-beri, supposed in 1593, 593

Beverley, the sweat at, 252

Birch, Dr T., errors of, on Oxford Black Assizes, 381 note,
collects letters of the Stuart period, 504 note

Black Death, the, chroniclers of in England, 114,
arrival and progress, 116-118,
in Ireland, 119,
in Scotland, 119, 233,
symptoms of, 120,
mortality from, 123-139,
direct effects of, 139, 180,
antecedents of, 142-156, 173-4,
favouring conditions for diffusion of, 175.
Its effects on Edward III.’s wars, 178,
on removal of men and treasure, 180,
on price of labour, 181,
on capitalists, 186,
on morals, 186-190,
on area of cultivation, 191,
on system of farming, 192,
on trade and industry, 193,
on town industries, 197,
on village manufactures, 198,
on governing class in towns, 199,
on population, 199.
Infection of, remains in England, 204, 233

Bodmin, Black Death at, 116, 125

Boghurst, W., spotted fever in Somerset, 543,
his MS. on the Great Plague, 647 et seq.

Boleyn, Anne, in the sweat of 1528, 251, 252, 255

Borde, Andrew, 286

Borgia, Alexander, pope, 416 note

Boston, plague at, 349

Bosworth, battle of, 265

Botch, boche or boiche, early name of plague, 206, 208, 362

Bradwardine, archbp, dies of Black Death, 129

Bradwell, Stephen, his plague-book, 516

Brant, Sebastian, on origin of French pox, 431

Brasbridge, on plague in dog’s skin, 316

Brewer, T., his poem on plague of 1625, 512, 517

Bridewell made a hospital, 394, 395

Bridgetown, yellow fever at in 1647, 620, 630-33

Bridport, Black Death at, 116,
plague at in 1626, 524

Brimington, plague, 498

Bristol, leper-house, 98,
Black Death, 116, 121, 123,
effects of ditto on trade at, 182 note,
plague in 1535, 300,
in 1575, 340,
in 1645, 557

Bucklersbury, drug-shops in, 484

Bugden, deaths from sweat at, 261

Bullein, on plague of 1563, 306,
on London graveyards, 334,
on the French pox, 422

Burdwan, number of lepers in, 107

Burial, interdict of, 11;
neglect of, 12, 13 note,
in Chinese famines, 154,
in Islam, 163.
Christian burial in Egypt, 159.
Chinese mode of, 161.
In Arabia, 165,
in Kumaon 167,
neglect of in Yun-nan, 168,
at Merdje, 171;
by the friars, 332,
in St Paul’s churchyard, 334,
without coffins, 335,
Latimer on intramural, 336,
relation to plague, 336,
in the great London plagues, 126, 337, 482, 515, 668-9,
hours of in plague-time 303, 482

Burton Lazars, 89

Bury St Edmunds, burials at in 1257, 44,
hospitals, 92, 96,
plague in 1578, 347

Butts, Dr, in the sweat of 1528, 254


Caffa, Black Death at siege of, 144, 147

Caius, Dr, on the sweat of 1551, 259, 261, 263,
edits Galen, 439

Calais, sweat at 248, 253, 255,
plague in 1509, 288,
“new sickness” in 1558, 403,
plague brought to, 546

Calendar, the English and the Continental, 256 note

Calenture, 387, 610

Cambridge, epidemic of “frenzy” at, 62,
effects of Black Death, 196,
prophecy of pestilence, 229,
sweat of 1517, 248,
of 1528, 252,
of 1551, 262,
plague, 285, 289, 338, 340, 347, 497, 527, 682,
gaol fever, 375,
agues, 505

Canterbury, death of monks in 870, 9,
leper-hospitals, 87, 91,
style of living in 14th cent., 50,
Black Death at, 132,
causes of death of monks, 226,
plague in 1544, 303,
in 1564, 309,
in 1593, 357,
in 1603-4, 498,
in 1614-15, 501,
in 1625, 524,
in 1636, 528,
in 1665, 681,
in 1666, 688

Cape de Verde islands (St Jago), infection taken from, 586, 589

Carlisle, plague, 359, 562

Carshalton, mortality in 1626, 520

Cartier, Jacques, scurvy in his expedition, 581

Castle Combe, records of its manor court, 135, 136, 139,
priests poaching, 189,
village industries, 198,
nuisances removed, 198 note, 328

Catharine of Arragon, arrives in England in plague-time, 288,
anxious for Henry VIII. on account of plague in 1518, 290

Cats in plague-time, 316

Cavendish, Thomas, sickness in his voyages, 592-3

Cemeteries, see Burial

Champneys, Sir John, mayor, procures plague-bill in 1535, 298

Chancery, inquisition on a leper, 105,
business of after Black Death, 188

Charles VIII., his invasion of Italy, 430, 433, 435,
his sickness at Asti, 436-7

Charnel-house of St Paul’s, 334, 659

Charterhouse, inscription of burials in Black Death, 127,
death of monks in 1528, 252

Chatham, leper-hospital, 95,
plague in 1665, 681

Chauliac, Guy de, symptoms of pestis secunda, 203,
on Gaddesden’s Rosa Anglica, 446

Chester, the sweat, 245, 249,
plague, 304, 339, 498, 500, 501, 564,
smallpox, 465 note,
fever in villages near, 567

Chesterfield, plague, 349, 500

Chesterton depopulated, 199 note

China, Black Death said to have come from, 143, 145-147,
overland trade to Europe, 148-9,
no record of Black Death in, 149;
great series of floods, famines, &c., 150-152,
followed by a period of plagues, 153;
unburied dead after famines and floods, 154,
Odoric’s valley of corpses, 155,
careful mode of burial in, 161.
Plague in modern times, 168-9

Churchyards, see Burial

Clapham, Henoch, 490

Clarendon, Council of, 374

Clot, Dr, Bey, on plague in Egypt, 160

Clowes, William, on the pox in London, 423-5,
on quacks, 426,
his translation of variola, 459

Clun, plague, 545

Clyn, Friar, the Black Death in Ireland, 115, 119,
symptoms of ditto, 121

Cogan, Th., on prophesied return of the sweat, 264,
on fever at Oxford Assizes, 378,
on lasks, 412

Colchester, wills proved after Black Death, 186,
plague, 348, 498, 525,
plague in 1665-6, 688,
directions to bearers and watchers at, 688 note

Comines, Philip de, commons of England untouched by Wars of Roses, 38, 224, 387,
on Charles VIII.’s sickness, 435

Congleton, plague, 498, 545

Constantinus Africanus applies “variola” to smallpox, 453

Cork, leper-hospitals, 100,
alleged sweating sickness, 252,
plague, 371, 502

Cornard Parva, Black Death in, 137

Coventry, leper-hospital at, 92,
growth of after the Black Death, 194, 195,
plague, 501, 526 note

Crail, plague, 370

Cranborne, plague, 499

Cranbrooke, plague, 348

Crimea, outbreak of Black Death in, 142, 144

Cromwell, O., his death from fever, 574,
colonizes Jamaica, 634, 639

Cromwell, T., orders bill of mortality, 297-8

Cross, the blue, or red, 306, 313, 314, 514

Croxton, abbey, Black Death in, 131,
ditto in the manor, 138

Croydon, plague, 492, 520, 679

Croyland abbey, sudden mortality in, 9,
the sweat in, 239, 266

Cumanus, Marcellus, the French pox at siege of Novara, 431

Cumberland, plague in 1420, 221,
state of in the Civil Wars, 562


Dalry, “grantgore” at, 418

Danes, camp sickness among, 13

Darlington, plague, 359, 557

Dartmouth, plague, 351, 524

Davison, F., ‘Poetical Rapsodie’, 463

Deal, plague in 1666, 688

Defoe, sources of his Journal of the Plague-Year, 649,
illustrations of the Great Plague from, 657 et seq.

Dekker, T., on London at accession of James I., 471, 480,
on plague of 1603, 481-4,
theatres closed in plague-time, 494

Deptford, plague in 1666, 680, 687

Derby, plague at, 309, 349, 357, 559,
plague in 1665, 682

Derry, the, plague at in 1566-7, 372

Dogs in plague-time, 314, 316, 515;
alleged death of in the Leeds plague, 558,
at Batavia from licking pestilent blood, 608

Domesday Survey, size of towns in, 23,
state of agriculture inferred from, 22

Doncaster, plague in 1536, 301

Donne, Rev. Dr, his dread of smallpox, 463,
on flight of citizens in 1625, 519

Doughty, C., on burials in Arabia, 165

Drake, Sir Bernard, at the Exeter Black Assizes, 384, 385

Drake, Sir Francis, sickness in his voyage round the world, 585,
great epidemic in his fleet in 1585-6, 585-589,
his death from flux, 591

Drogheda, monastery of, Black Death in, 119, 132

Dublin, leper-hospitals, 100,
Black Death in, 119, 131, 132,
plague in 1520, 371,
in 1575, 372,
in 1650, 566

Dumfries, plague, 235, 369

Dunbar, W., “spanyie pockis”, 418

Dundee, plague, 234, 368, 503

Duns, plague, 369

Durham, a medieval siege of, 28,
leper-hospital near, 94, 113,
plague, 350, 359, 499, 501, 681,
famine, 358

Dysart, plague, 366, 368

Dysentery, or flux, summary of epidemics, 411-13,
in 1624, 505,
in voyages, 589, 591, 600, 602, 603,
in Virginia, 611,
in slave-ships, 628,
among black troops, 629,
in St Domingo and Jamaica, 635-640


East Indies, Portuguese voyages to, 584,
English voyages to, 599-609

East India Company, provides against scurvy,