in Gujerat, 170,
ref. to by Lodge (1603), 173

Read, John, of Gloucester, on pox grown milder, 425,
describes mountebank, 426

Renfrewshire, plague in in 1601, 370

Renny, on plague in Garhwal, 167

Rhazes, “the pills of”, 254,
source of medieval teaching on smallpox, 440

Richard II., “infection and the hand of war”, 547

Richard of Devizes, on London in 12th cent., 34,
on dislike of the Franks to soapboilers and scavengers, 329

Richmond, Yorks, reduced by Black Death, 191,
plague in 1597-8, 359

Ripon, corn at in famine, 40,
leper-hospital at, 93

Robert of Brunne, describes effects of famine, 48

Rocher, M., on plague in Yun-nan, 168

Rochester, late leper foundation at, 97,
plague at in 1665, 681

Roger of Wendover, stories of avarice, 39, 40,
on the friars, 41

Rogers, Thorold, on prices of corn 13th century, 37, 43,
on rye in England, 64,
on villenage, 184 note,
wages after the Black Death, 185,
on new system of farming after ditto, 192,
paralysis of wool-trade after ditto, 193,
on good diet of the English in 15th cent., 222,
introduction of inferior bread, 224 note

Rome, medieval epidemics at, 3, 10

Rouen, siege of, 222

Royston, fevers in 1625, 505,
plague in 1625, 525,
in 1665, 682

Rye-corn, spurred, 53,
little grown in England, 64


St Albans, school of annalists, 37,
burials at in 1247, 42,
famine in 1315, 48,
leper-hospitals at, 90,
admission to ditto, 102,
Black Death in the abbey, 131,
pestilence in 1431, 225,
plague in 1578, 347

St Andrews, plague at in 1585, 368,
in 1605, 503,
in 1647, 563

St Christopher, the French in, 618,
yellow fever in 1648, 621, 633

St Domingo, English attempt on, 634-6

St Giles’s, Cripplegate,
churchyard, 334,
modes of burial, 335,
populous parish, 472,
the Great Plague in, 649

St Giles’s-in-the-Fields, leper-hospital of, 83, 88,
Great Plague begins at, 656

St Johnstone, see Perth

St Kilda, boat-cold, 274

St Olave’s parish, plague of 1603, 478,
description of, 479

St Paul’s, churchyard, state of in 1582, 333,
the charnel-house of, 334

St Sepulchre’s parish, plague of 1563 in, 306,
churchyard of, 334

Salvetti, on the plague of 1625, 512, 519,
describes a fast, 513

Sandwich, plague in 1609, 500,
in 1635-37, 528,
in 1665, 681, 688

Sanitary Act, the first, 324

Sayer, Dr H., treats plague at Oxford in 1645, 559

Scavengers, at Ipswich, 327,
duties of at Exeter, 327,
in London, 328

Scurvy, in voyages, 579, 581-5, 594-6, 599-609,
among the French in Canada, 580, 597,
in a coaster, 597,
lime-juice for, 595, 601, 602-3,
pericarditis in, 580 note

Scyllatius, Nicolas, on French pox at Barcelona in 1494, 434

Searchers, at Shrewsbury in 1539, 320 note,
in London, 319, 321,
oath taken by in St Mary-le-Bow, 322,
at Colchester, 689 note

Seebohm, F., on mortality of Black Death among clergy, 134,
ditto in manor of Winslow, 136,
on remote effects of Black Death, 196

Shakespeare, John, fined, 327

Shakespeare, Wm., his business interfered with by plague, 495,
dies in a sickly year, 536.
See also titles of plays.

Shambles, a nuisance in London, 216, 324, 325, 330, 487

Sheppey, plague, 348

Sherborne, plague in 1611, 501,
in 1665, 681

Sherburn, leper-hospital at, 94

Short, Dr Thomas, his epidemiological works, 57 note, 404

Shrewsbury, privilege of lepers at, 99,
new civic class after Black Death, 199,
sweat of 1551, 259,
plague at in 1525, 292,
in 1536-7, 301, 302,
in 1575, 340,
in 1592-3, 357,
in 1604, 499,
in 1630, 527,
in 1650, 564

Simpson, Sir James, on leprosy in Scotland, 106 note,
on syphilis in Scotland, 418

Skeat, Dr, on the derivation of “measles”, 451 note

Skene, Dr Gilbert, on moles in plague-time, 173 note,
on cadaveric cause of plague, 336,
his book on plague (1568), 363-5

“Slaedan,” Irish name supposed of influenza, 398 note

Slave-ships, ordure of, 630

Slave-trade, early history of, 614-17,
mortality of, 625-28

Smallpox, originally an Arabic subject, 439,
in the Elephant War, 441,
nature and affinities of, 442-4,
in medieval compends, 446 and note,
Gaddesden’s alleged case, 447-8,
erroneously chronicled in 1366, 455,
in England 16th cent., 456-62,
case of in 1561, 459,
in 17th cent., 463,
Fracastori on, 467,
among American Indians (immunity of English), 613,
in Hispaniola, 615,
type of in Africans, 627,
in slave-ships 625, 627,
confused with great pox, 436-7, 456, 464, 468

Somersetshire, Black Death in, 117,
spotted fever in, 543

Southampton, plague in Venetian galley in 1519, 292,
plague in 1625, 524,
in 1665, 681

Southwell Abbey, plague in 1471, 230,
in 1478, 232

Spanish Main, sickness of English ships off, 588, 591

Spanish Town, mortality at in 1655, 638-642

Sprat, Bishop, on “remedy” of the sweat, 243

Stamford, plague in 1574, 339,
in 1580, 348,
in 1602-3, 360, 496,
in 1641, 545

Stapleton, Sir Ph., dies of plague at Calais, 546

Stepney, plague begins at in 1603, 477, 480,
plague of 1625 in, 511

Stews suppressed, 420

Stirling, grandgore at in 1498, 418,
plague at in 1606, 503

Stockport, plague, 498

Stoke (Newark), plague after siege, 560

Stoke Pogis, plague at in 1625, 520

“Stop-gallant,” “Stop-knave,” names of the sweat, 260, 262, 263

Stourbridge, leper-hospital, 93

Stratford, bread-carts, 215 note

Stratford-on-Avon, plague at, 309,
nuisance at, 327

Swainsthorpe, plague in 1479, 232

Sweat, the English, 1st epidemic, 235-243,
2nd epidemic, 243-5,
3rd epidemic, 245-250,
4th epidemic, 250-255,
5th epidemic, 259-263,
the epidemic of 1529 on the Continent, 256-259,
supposed sweats in England after 1551, 264, 280, 403, 413 note,
at Tiverton, 554,
supposed sweat in Flanders in 1551, 264 note,
supposed sweat in Ireland, 252 note, 400 note,
antecedents of in 1485, 265, 270, 273,
causes of (supposed) in London, 267,
a disease of the well-to-do, 263, 268,
extinction of, 279,
favouring conditions of the outbreaks, 276-9,
mortality from, 250, 251, 260-262,
abroad, 257,
symptoms of, 241, 246, 251,
theory of, 273,
treatment of, 242

Sweat of Picardy, 271

Sweating in influenza, 403, 554,
in war-typhus, 554

Syphilis, probably included under lepra, 72-75, 434, 437.
See also Pox, the French


Talifoo, modern plague, 168

Tana, 144, 147

Taylor, John, “water-poet”, 512

Texas fever, 274

Thame, war-fever at, 548-9

Thayre, Th., see Phaer

Thomson, Dr G., dissection of plague-body, 677

Timon of Athens, the pox described (Act IV. sc. 3), 428

Tittenhanger, Henry VIII. at, 254

Tiverton, plague at in 1591, 351,
sickness in 1597, 411,
war-typhus (“sweating sickness”) at in 1644, 552-5

Tobacco in plague-time, 674, 682

Torella, on origin of French pox, 434

Totness, plague at in 1590, 351,
in 1647, 561

Tottenham, in plague of 1625, 518, 520

Tregony, plague at in 1595, 357

Tripe, Andrew, his poem on the pox, 432 note

Trumpington, plague in 1625, 525

Truro, decayed, 221,
plague in 1578, 347

Tuke, Brian, on the sweat of 1528, 255

Turner, Mrs Anne, 487 note

Turner, Dr P., arsenic in plague, 487

Turner, of Boulogne, preaches against burials in the city, 336

Twyford, plague in 1603, 493

Tynemouth, plague during siege, 557


Uffculme, sweat at in 1551, 262


Valencia, cases of French pox at, 434-5

Vasco da Gama, scurvy in his ships, 579

Vatican, the French pox in the, 416

Vetlianka, modern plague at, 172

Vincent, Rev. Thomas, his experiences of the Great Plague, 648, 664, 670

Virgil, Polydore, on the sweat, 237, 240,
on treatment of ditto, 242

Virginia, voyages to, 590, 609-612


Wales, pestilence in the marches of in 1234, 12,
Giraldus on, 21,
famine in 1189, 35,
leper-law of, 106,
Black Death in, 118,
plague and fever in 1638, 541

Wallingford, after Black Death, 195,
small pox, measles and plague, 291,
plague at, 559

“Wame-ill,” Scots famine-sickness in 1438-9, 235

Wands carried in plague time, 314-5

Wells, Black Death in diocese of, 117,
plague at in 1575, 340

West Indies, colonization of, 617 et seq.

Whickham, plague, 501

White, Gilbert, on causes of leprosy, 110

Whitmore, H., on fever in 1651, 566,
on fever and influenza in 1658-9, 572-4

Whooping-cough, or the kink, 459

Willan, Dr, 4, 440

William of Newburgh, story of plague at Annan, 11,
famine-fever of 1196, 35,
Durham leper-hospital, 94

Willis, Dr T., on the war typhus of 1643, 547, 549,
on plague at Oxford &c., 559,
on the fevers and (or) influenzas of 1657-8, 568-572

Wills, in Black Death, in London, 117-18, 186,
in Lancashire, 138 note,
in Colchester, 186;
in London in 1361, 203,
in 1368, 216

Wilton, sweat at 252

Winchester, plague at in 1603, 489,
in 1625, 521 note,
in 1666, 687, 691

Winslow, manor of, 136

Wisbech, plague at in 1586, 349

Wither, George, on plague of 1625, 512

Woburn, sweat at, 252

Wolsey, the sweat in his household, 247, 252, 253,
letter from Anne Boleyn to, 255,
charged with the great pox, 422

Woodall, John, describes the plague-bubo, 122,
on scurvy, 603-6

Woodstock, sickness near, 291,
plague, 292

Wool trade after Black Death, 179, 193

Wyclif, on decrease of population, 201


Yarmouth, Black Death in, 130,
decline of, 195, 221;
plague in 1579, 348,
in 1625, 525,
in 1635-6, 528,
in 1664-5, 680

Yellow Fever, epidemic of at Bridgetown in 1647, 620,
in St Christopher, 621,
case of described, 623,
characters of, 624,
in “Regalia” and “La Pique”, 629,
theory of in slave-ports, 630-31,
as a soil-poison, 632-3,
question of, in Drake’s fleet, 518-9

York, wasting of, 27,
hospital at, 87,
Black Death at, 118, 131,
ditto in diocese of, 134,
size of after ditto, 201,
plague in 1391, 220,
in 1485, 282,
plague or sweat in 1551, 261,
plague in 1604, 489

Yun-nan, modern plague, 168

Yusufzai, bubonic typhus in, 171