602-3

Edenhall, plague, 360

Edinburgh, leper-hospital, 99,
pestilentia volatilis, 234,
plague, 235, 303, 362, 365-6, 367, 368, 369, 370, 502, 503, 504, 563,
French pox, 417,
mortality of children in 1600, 370 note

Edward the Confessor and the leper, 81

Edward III., his activity after the Black Death, 178-9

Edward IV., his illness from “pockys” in 1463, 455

Edward VI., on the sweat of 1551, 260

Egypt, theory of plague in, 156, 659,
sanitary wisdom of ancient, 158,
embalming in, 159, 160-1,
compared with China, 161-2

Elizabeth, Queen, at Windsor in the plague of 1563, 317,
rebukes the uncleanly state of Ipswich, 327,
attempts to stamp out plague in London, 330-331,
her proclamation in 1580 on growth of London, 346,
her trains at Norwich in 1578 carry plague, 348,
her hardness to the sick seamen in the Armada-year, 350,
her precaution against smallpox in 1591, 461

Elizabeth of York, in 1502, pays for cure of John Pertriche, 419

Elphege, St, stops pestilence in 1011, 13

Ely, bishop of, alienates Stourbridge leper-hospital, 93

Ely monastery, Black Death in, 132

Elyot, Sir Thomas, lay writer on medicine, 402,
mentions smallpox, 457

Emigrants, mortality of English to Virginia, 610,
to New England &c., 612-13,
to Barbados, 619,
of French to St Christopher, 618,
to Guadeloupe, 621

Ensham, manor of, after Black Death, 139, 141

Erasmus, still ill from “sweat” in 1511, 245, 399,
ref. to influenza (?) in 1518, 249,
ref. to plague in letters, 288-9,
on English houses, 328,
on the French pox, 420-21

Ergotism, causes and signs of, 53-55,
two forms, 55,
cases of in England, 57,
possible instances of, 59-63,
reasons of English immunity from, 64, 68

Essex, Lord General, typhus in his army, 548-9,
occupies Tiverton, 552-3

Ethredge, Dr G., the sweat of 1551 at Oxford, 260, 380,
the gaol-fever at Oxford, 381

Eton, plague, 348, 520,
boys compelled to smoke in plague-time, 674

Evesham, monastery, fugitives at after wasting of Yorkshire, 27 note,
drives out its leprous prior, 101

Evesham, town, plague and bad scavenging, 501

Exeter, the scavengers of, 327,
plague, 288,
famine and plague, 300,
plague, 498, 523,
Black Assizes, 383-6

Eyam, plague at in 1665-6, 682-7

Eydon, plague, 498


Fabyan, on the first sweat, 239,
on plague in London, 1478-9, 234,
and 1500, 287,
uses the name “pockys”, 420

Famines, chronology of, to 1322, 15,
in 1370, 215,
about 1383, 219,
in 1391, 220,
in 1438-9, 223, 228, 235,
in 1528, 251, 277,
in 1535, 300,
in 1551, 278,
in 1557, 401,
in 1596-7, 358

Fever, epidemics of from famine, 15-17 (table),
in 1086-7, 29,
in 1196, 36,
in 1258, 44-45,
in 1315, 48,
in 1438-9, 223, 228, 234-5,
in 1596-7 358, 411;
epidemics of in war, 547, 552;
spotted, 504, 540, 542, 543, 551;
“strange,” see Influenza,
Yellow, see Yellow Fever,
in gaols, see Gaol-fever;
in ships, 350, 538

Finchley, dysentery at, 1596-7, 411

Findhorn, plague, 370

Finsbury, laystalls at, 334

Fish, Simon, ‘Supplication of Beggars’, 421

Fleet Ditch, unwholesome, 352

Forrestier, Dr Thomas, his MS. on the sweat of 1485, 238,
fixes time and place of first outbreak, 238,
his account of the symptoms and treatment, 241,
on extent of first sweat, 243,
on causes of ditto, 266-7

Foul Death, name used by Scots for plague in 1349, 78,
and in 1379, 218

Fracastori, on smallpox, 467,
on typhus, 585

Francis, St, of Assisi, and the lepers, 85

Freind, Dr J., on a strange chorea, 61,
on diffusion of smallpox, 445,
on Gaddesden, 448

Friars, their original mission, 41,
their care of lepers, 85, 107,
side with the rich after the Black Death, 188,
bury rather than christen, 332

Froude, Mr, on plague at the Derry, 372 note,
on “yellow fever” in Drake’s fleet, 589 note

“Fruit of Times,” records “pokkes” for 1366, 453

Fryer, Dr John, 307


Gaddesden, John of, fails to describe fever of, 1315 51,
on leprosy, 76,
on smallpox, 446-8,
on morbilli and “mesles”, 449-51

Gale, Thomas, on “the morbus”, 422

Galway, “sweating sickness” at, 400 note

Gaols, first built, 374

Gaol Fever, in Newgate, 374, 395 note,
at Cambridge, 375,
at Oxford, 376-382,
at Exeter, 383-386,
referred to in Act, 388,
in the Queen’s Bench, Southwark, 395, 539,
Bacon on, 332

Garter, Order of the, 178

Gascoigne T., cases of syphilis, 74,
Henry IV.’s “leprosy”, 77 note,
“legists” after Black Death, 189

Gaubil, abbé, on the Chinese annals, 154

Geynes, Dr, 307

Gibbon, on the Justinian plague, 2,
on a remark by Procopius, 675 note

Gibbons, Orlando, 465, 524

Gilbertus Anglicus, on leprosy, 70-72,
morphaea, 76,
diet to keep off leprosy, 113,
on smallpox, 446, 447

Glasgow, leper-house, 99,
keeps out plague, 366, 369,
plague, 370, 563,
syphilis, 418

Gloucester, Black Death, 116, 117,
plague in 1580, 348,
in 1638, 545,
a quack at, 426,
relief of siege, 549

Goddard, Dr, his excuse for leaving London in the plague, 667

Gordonio, Bernard, on leprosy, 70,
case at Montpellier, 72,
on morphaea, 76,
on smallpox, 447

Grandgore, in Scotland, 417-18,
derivation of, 418

Grantham, plague near, 500,
sickness at, 502

Graunt, John, syphilis in London, 428,
London mortality, 532

Gravesend, plague, 287, 293, 531

Greaves, Sir E., fever at Oxford, 547, 551

Greenwich, sweat at, 244, 251,
plague at, 293,
plague in 1666, 687

Gregory, W. ref. to “pokkes,” 454

Gruner, on the sweat, 258,
collections on medieval smallpox, 446 note

Grünbeck, Jos. on syphilis, 432

Guignes, Des, on origin of Black Death, 143, 152

Guinea, voyages to in 16th cent., 581-3,
slave trade from, 583, 625-9

Guy, Dr W., on “parish infection”, 396 note


Hackney, leper-hospital, 97, 98 note,
plague in 1535, 301,
in 1603, 492,
in 1625, 511

Haddington, pestilentia volatilis, 234,
plague during siege, 303

Hall, his Chronicle on the sweat of 1517, 250,
on the mercenaries of Henry VII., 274,
on the Cambridge Black Assizes, 375

Hampshire, parish in, statistics of, 411, 541

Harrison, W. English houses, 330 note,
fever of 1557-8, 401

Hartlepool, plague, 349

Harwich, plague at in 1665-6

Havre de Grace (or “Newhaven”), plague during siege, 307

Hawkins, Sir John, in the slave trade, 583

Hawkins, Sir Richard, on health of Cape de Verde islands, 589 note,
scurvy in his voyage of 1593, 594-6

Hecker, antecedents of Black Death, 143-4,
on fecundity after Black Death, 200,
sweating sickness, 240, 244 note, 258, 263, 265, 271 note, 277 note

Hendon, sends help in 1625 plague, 518

Henry I., taxation under, 31

Henry II., charities of, 33-34

Henry III., famine under, 43

Henry IV., “leprosy” of, 77

Henry V., vigorous sanitation under, 325

Henry VII., his expedition of 1485, 237, 240, 265, 270, 275,
in the sweat of 1508, 244,
reception of Catharine of Arragon, 288,
sanitation under, 325-6

Henry VIII., in the sweat of 1517, 247-8,
in plague of 1517-18, 290,
in sweat of 1528, 250-53,
in plague of 1535, 297, 300,
measures to check plague, 291, 312, 313-14,
repression of vagrancy &c., 390,
his illness in 1514, 456

Henry of Huntingdon, poem by, 18

Hensler, his history of syphilis, 416 note

Hensley, plague, 309

Hereford, plague, 348

Hereford, bishop of, case of morphaea, 76

Herefordshire, plague, 500

Hertford, sweat at, 254,
law courts at, 331,
plague, 339, 347, 356

Hertfordshire, after the Black Death, 191,
plague in, 493

Hirsch, Dr August, on endemics of syphilis, 438

Hispaniola, great pox and smallpox, 430, 469,
flux among English troops, 635-6

Hoddesdon, plague, 347

Hodges, Dr, his Loimologia, 648, 654, 675

Holinshed, erroneous entry of “small pocks”, 454

Holland, Abraham, poem on plague of 1625, 512

Holme Pierrepont, plague, 499

Höniger, effects of Black Death, 141 note

Howard, John, Oxford gaol, 377,
gaol-fever, 382 note

Hugh, St, bp. of Lincoln, his care for burials, 13 note,
for lepers, 84

Hull, plague at, in 1472-8, 231,
in 1576, 340,
in 1635-38, 527

Hunstanton, Black Death, 137

Hütten, Ulrich von, cure of syphilis, 416


Ibn Batuta, his report that Black Death came from China, 146

Ibn-ul-Khatib, origin of Black Death, 146

Ilchester, decayed, 195, 221

Ilford, leper-hospital, 95

Inchcolm, quarantine island, 363, 369

Inchkeith, quarantine for plague, 235, 360,
for syphilis, 417

Influenza, meaning of, 397,
early epidemics, 398,
in 1510, 399,
in 1540, 400,
in 1557-8, 401-5,
in 1580, 406,
in 1657-9, 568-574,
many other epidemics might be so called, 408-9, 411, 536, 541, 543-4, 567, 577

Interdict of burial &c., 11

Ipswich, scavengers of, 327,
plague at, in 1603, 498,
in 1665-6, 688

Ireland, plague in A.D. 664, 4-5,
condition in 12th cent., 21,
flux among troops, 33,
leper-houses, 100,
Black Death, 115, 118-19, 132,
succeeding plagues, 236,
alleged sweating sickness, 252 note, 400 note,
influenza, 398 note,
plague in Tudor period, 371-3,
in Cromwellian war, 365

Isle of Wight, depopulation of, 387,
influenza or sweat in 1558, 403


Jamaica, English occupation of, 636-642

James I., authority for “a pockie priest”, 415,
his accession followed by a great plague, 480,
his fatal illness, 512

Jarrow, plague in monastery of, 7

Jersey, plague in, 308

Jessopp, Augustus, on mortalities in the Black Death, 132, 134, 137,
on lawlessness after do., 140,
on panic from do., 181 note

John of Bridlington, 14th cent. pestilences, 204, 207

John of Burgoyne, 14th cent. writer on plague, 208

Jones, Dr John, on plague in London in 1563, 306,
on effects of the poor-rate, 394,
on influenza of 1558, 403,
his use of “ague”, 410

Justinian, plague in reign of, 2,
theory of it, 156, 159, 161


Kattiwar, plague in, 165, 169

Kellwaye, Simon, on the plague of 1593, 355,
on smallpox and measles, 461

Kendal, plague in 1598, 359

Kensington, plague in 1603, 492,
in 1625, 520

Kheybar, burials in, 165

Kilkenny, Black Death, 115, 119, 121, 132,
plague in 1649, 565

Kirkcaldy, plague in 1574, 366

Kirkoswald, plague in 1598, 360

Kremer, A. von, Mohammedan plagues, 163

Kumaon, plague in, 166

Kutch, plague in, 169


Labourers, Statute of, 66, 181-2

Lamesley, plague in 1610, 501

Lancashire, ergotism? in 1702, 59,
wills after Black Death, 138,
fever in 1651, 567

Lancaster, Sir James, scurvy in his ships, 599,
treats scurvy by lime juice, 601

Langland, see ‘Piers the Ploughman’

Lask, old name of flux, 400, 412

Latimer, on intramural burial, 336,
on stews closed, 420

Law, business of increased after Black Death, 188-9

Lazar, derivation of, 79 note

Lazarus, St, 79, 94

Lazarus, St, Knights of the Order of, 89

Leake, plague in 1587-8, 349

Leeds, fever in 1644, 558,
plague in 1645, 558

Leicester, Black Death, 124
pestis secunda, 203,
plague in 1563-4, 309,
in 1593, 357,
in 1607-11, 125, 501,
in 1626, 526

Leicestershire, strange epidemic in 1340, 59,
plague, 526

Leith, plague, 235 note, 361, 363, 366, 369, 503

Leominster, plague or fever in 1578, 349,
in 1597, 358 note

Leper-houses, in England,