86-99,
their mixed inmates, 93,
vogue soon past, 91-95,
the later non-monastic, 97,
in Scotland, 99,
in Ireland, 100

Leprosy, generic meaning of in medieval books, 70-79,
Biblical associations of, 79-81,
religious view of, 81-86,
prejudice against, 100-105,
laws against, 103-6,
estimated amount of, 107,
a disease akin to pellagra, 108, 110,
Gilbert White on causes of, 110,
dietetic cause of in, Hutchinson on cause of, 111 note,
constitutional, 112,
diet for in Scotland, 113

Lescarbot, on scurvy, 597-8

Leviticus, use of “leprosy” in, 80

Lichfield, plague, 309, 357, 559

Lieu-chow, bubonic disease, 169

Linacre, 286, 439

Lincoln, leper-hospital at, 92,
decay of, 195,
plague at, 357

Lindsey, statute of labourers ineffective in, 182

Linlithgow, lepers at, 99,
French pox at, 418

Lithgow, W., on plague in Tyneside, 557

Lock, the, hospital, 97, 98 note

Lodge, Dr T., on rats and moles in plague-time, 173,
on plague in 1603, 485,
on compulsory removal of the sick, 488

London:
fever in 962, 26,
in 1258, 44-45,
according to the bills, 504, 532, 576
Fitzstephen’s account of, 34
French pox in, 424, 428, 432 note
lepers expelled, 103,
stopped at the Gates, 104
leper-hospitals of 88, 97-8
nuisances in, 323-6
overcrowding of, in 1580, 346,
in 1602 et seq., 539-540
Parish Clerks of, 320-322
plagues in:
the Black Death, 117,
mortality of ditto, 126-9,
the plague of 1361, 203,
of 1368-9, 215-16,
of 1407, 220,
of 1426, 227,
of 1434, 227-8,
of 1437, 228,
of 1454, 229,
of 1466, 230,
of 1474, 231,
of 1478-9, 231-2,
of 1487, 287,
of 1499-1500, 287,
of 1504, 288,
of 1511-12, 288,
of 1513, 288-9,
of 1514-16, 289-90,
of 1517-18, 290, 292,
of 1521, 292,
of 1529-31, 292-3,
of 1532, 293-6,
of 1535, 297-300,
of 1536, 301-2,
of 1543, 302,
of 1547-8, 303,
of 1563, 304-7,
of 1568-9, 338,
of 1573-4, 339,
of 1577-83, 341-5, 347,
of 1592-93, 351-4, 356,
of 1594, 356,
of 1603, 474-92,
of 1604-1610, 493-4,
of 1625, 507-520,
of 1630, 527
of 1636 529-32,
of 1637-48, 532, 546 (table 533),
of 1665, 644-679
plague-orders, 312-322, 355, 481, 488
population,
end of 12th cent., 34,
in 1258, 44,
in 1349, 128-9,
in 1377, 201,
in 1535, 299,
in 1580, 345,
in 1593, 354,
in 1603 and before and after, 471-4,
in 1665, 660
Richard of Devizes, on wickedness of, 34
sanitary ordinances in 1369 and 1371, 216, 324,
in 1388, 324,
in 1415, 325,
in 1488-9, 325,
in 1543, 314, 315,
in 1568, 319,
in 1582, 330
theatres closed in plague-time, 494-6

Loughborough, sweating sickness at, 259,
plague at, 304, 404, 500, 560

Louth, plague in 1587, 349 (Notitiae Ludae),
in 1631, 527

Lowe, Peter, on “Spanish Sickness”, 427

Lowry, Dr J. H., on Pakhoi plague, 169

Lyndsay, Sir D., “grandgore”, 418

Lynn, a physician of, 51,
leper-houses at, 93, 98,
plague at, in 1635-6, 528,
in 1665, 681


Macclesfield, plague, 498

Macgowan, Dr D. J., on rats poisoned by the soil, 169

Magellan, scurvy in his ship, 579

Mahé, on cadaveric theory of plague, 173 note

Maidenhead, scene at, 578

Maillet, De, on preservation of corpses in Egypt, 161

Malpas, plague in 1625, 526 note

Manardus, origin of syphilis, 434

Manchester, plague in 1608, 499,
in 1631, 527

Mansfeld, his English troops, 522

Margate, sick sailors at after Armada, 350

Marshall, John, on “parish infection”, 396 note

Martin, on the illness of Charles VIII., 437

Matilda, Queen, and the lepers 82;
her hospital, 88

Mayerne, Sir Th., on the fevers of 1624, 540

Measles, Gaddesden on, 448,
derivation of name, 451,
joined with smallpox, 458-9, 462, 465-6

Measure for Measure, reference to “the sweat”, 413 note,
the stews suppressed, 420,
doctrine of “obstruction” in, 605 note

Meaux, abbey of, Black Death in, 118, 131

Meddus, Rev. Dr, in London during plague of 1625, 514

Medicine, profession of, little in evidence, 51, 258, 402

Melcombe, Black Death lands at, 116

Merdjé, modern plague at, 170

Merston Trussell, plague, 498

Milton, John, at Chalfont, in 1665, 665 note

Moles in plague-time, 173, 364

Molineux on universal fevers and universal colds, 409

Monasteries, pestilence in, 5-7, 9-10,
Stubbs on, 50,
found hospitals, 95,
Black Death in, 131

Monkleigh, plague, 499

Monmouthshire, fever and plague in 1638, 541

Montgomeryshire, plague in 1638, 542

Montpellier, case of lepra at, 72,
practice in the plague at, 210

Moorfields, common latrine in, 325

More, Sir Thomas, on relapses, 248,
his plague-orders at Oxford, 291,
as “a parish clerk”, 321,
describes London as the capital of Utopia, 329,
on pauperism and vagrancy, 389

Morphaea, a case of, 76

Morton, Richard, on the fever of 1658, 574

“Mure,” old name of influenza, 389.
(“Tussis et le Murra.” Canterbury MS. in Hist. MSS. Com. IX., pt. I. p. 127).

Murrains, 46 note

Mussis, De, on origin of Black Death at Caffa, 144


Namasse, modern plague, 166

Nanking, death of rats at, 169

Nantwich, plague, 498

Naples sickness of 419, 430

“New Acquaintance”, 260

“New Disease”, 401, 403, 404, 534, 536, 541, 543-4, 570, 577

Newark, plague after siege, 560

Newcastle, plague in 1420, 222 note,
in 1478, 232,
in 1544, 303,
in 1589, 350,
in 1597, 358,
in 1603, 498,
in 1609, 500,
in 1625, 526,
in 1636, 529,
in 1642 and 1645, 557,
in 1666, 681

New England, voyages to, 612,
epidemics in, 613

Niebuhr, on demoralisation after pestilence, 186

Nöldeke, Th., on legend of smallpox, 442

Normandy, Henry VII.’s troops raised in, 271, 275,
endemic sweat of, 271, 273

Northampton, old hospital at, 90,
plague, 304,
fever and plague in 1638, 542

Northwych, plague, 340, 498

Norwich, hospitals at, 93, 95,
leper-houses at the gates, 98,
the Black Death in, 129,
decline of after ditto, 193-5,
fever in 1382, 218,
plague in 1465, 230 note,
in 1479, 232,
in 1578, 348,
in 1603, 498,
in 1609, 500,
in 1625, 525,
in 1630-31, 527,
in 1636 fever or plague, 542,
plague in 1665-6, 681, 688

Nottingham, deaths at in 1518, 291,
plague at in 1593, 357,
in 1604, 499,
in 1667, 691

Nuisances, at Castle Combe, 198, 328,
in London, 216, 323-6,
at Stratford-on-Avon, 327,
at Ipswich, 327,
alleged by Erasmus, 329,
in London suburbs, 337,
at Evesham, 501,
at Kilkenny, 502


Odoric, friar, his vision of unburied dead in China, 155

Okehampton, plague at, in 1626, 524

Osiander, on Christian duty in the plague, 310

Ottery St Mary, camp sickness at in 1645, 555, 561

Oundle, plague in 1665, 681

Oxford, leper-hospital, 93,
Black Death at, 125,
law students at after ditto, 189,
sweat of 1485, 243,
sweat (?) of 1508, 245,
sweat of 1517, 247, 248,
sweat of 1551, 260,
plague in the 15th cent., 282-3,
in the 16th cent., 283-4,
houses shut up at in 1518, 291,
plague in 1571, 338,
in 1575, 340,
in 1603-5, 496-7,
in 1625, 525,
in 1645, 559,
gaol-fever in 1577, 376-382,
war-typhus in 1643, 549-51,
fellow expelled for French pox, 421,
unwholesomeness of in 15th cent., 285 note,
proposal to remove the university from, 283


Pakhoi, modern plague, 168

Paré, Ambroise, holds cadaveric theory of plague, 156, 162, 658,
on likeness of smallpox to great pox, 468

Paris, “lepers” banished from in 1488, 104, 437

Pariset, Etienne, his theory of plague, 156-161

Parish Clerks, company of, 320-322

“Parish infection,” a myth, 396 note

Pauperism, 39, 41, 387-395

Pauw, De, Cornelius, on plague in Egypt, 157,
on sanitary practice in ditto, 158

Paynel, translates book on French pox, 416

Peebles, plague at in 1499, 361

Pellagra, akin to leprosy, 108, 110,
causes of, 109

Penrith, plague at in 1598, 359-60

Perth, plague at in 1548, 363,
in 1580, 367,
in 1584-5, 368,
in 1608-9, 503-4,
in 1645, 563

Pestilentia volatilis in Scotland, 398

Peterborough, burials at in 1175, 35,
plague in 1574, 339,
in 1606, 449,
in 1665, 681

Petrarch, on effects of Black Death, 177

Phaer, Th., or Phayre, or Thayre, writer on plague, 210, 489,
on smallpox and measles, 458

Picardy Sweat, 271-3

‘Piers the Ploughman,’ quoted on surfeit and want, 65-67,
on moral effects of Black Death, 187-190,
on continuance of pestilence, 205-207,
on London famine of 1371, 215,
on burials by friars, 332,
use of “meseles”, 450,
of “pokkes”, 452-3

Pinctor, Peter, relates cases of French pox in the Vatican, 416

Plague, symptoms or characters of, in the Black Death, 120-122,
in medieval manuscripts, 208, 212-214,
in Skene’s treatise, 364-5,
in the plague of 1665 (Boghurst), 674;
cadaveric theory of, 156 et seq.,
relation of to typhus, 170.
General epidemics of:
Black Death, 116-141,
pestis secunda (1361), 203,
tertia (1368-9), 215,
quarta (1375), 217,
quinta (1382), 218,
of 1390-91, 219,
of 1407, 220,
of 1438-9, 225, 228,
of 1465, 230,
of 1471, 230.
Epidemics of in the Northern Marches, in 1379, 218,
in 1399, 220,
in 1421, 221.
See also under London and other places

Planck, Dr, on causes of plague in Kumaon, 167

Plot, Dr, on Oxford Black Assizes, 382,
on mildness of smallpox, 467

Plymouth, plague in 1579, 348,
in 1590-91, 351,
sickness in the fleet in 1625, 521-2,
plague in 1626, 523

Poll-tax of 1377, population reckoned from, 200

Poor-laws, origin of, 362-3,
Jones on, 394

Population of towns in Domesday, 23-24,
kept small by death of infants, 25,
after the Black Death, 200-204.
See also “London,” “Norwich.”

Portsmouth, plague in Venetian galley 1546, 303,
plague 1625, 524,
1666, 688

Posting sweat, 260,
posting fever, 378

Pox, the French, in Scotland, 417,
in England, 419,
Erasmus on, 421,
meagre writings on, 415, 422,
Clowes on, 423,
Read on, 425,
Banister on, 427,
Graunt on, 428,
origin of epidemic, 429-438

Presteign, the sweat of 1551, 259,
plague in 1638, 542

Preston, wills proved after Black Death, 138 note,
plague at in 1631, 527

Procopius, on a plague-immunity, 675 note


Quarantine, (forty days) for the Court in 1516, 290, 312,
in 1518, 313,
of persons in 1543, 313,
houses in 1563, 317,
in 1568, 318,
proposed for shipping at Gravesend in 1568, 337,
at Inchkeith in 1475, 235, 360,
details of at Inchcolm in 1564, 363,
case of at ditto, 367,
18th cent. law of, 672


Radnorshire, plague in 1638, 542

Rats, death of in plague-time, in Kumaon, 167,
in Yun-nan, 168,
in China, 169,