602-3Edenhall, plague,360Edinburgh, 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 1600,370noteEdward the Confessor and the leper,81Edward III., his activity after the Black Death,178-9Edward IV., his illness from “pockys” in 1463,455Edward VI., on the sweat of 1551,260Egypt, theory of plague in,156,659,sanitary wisdom of ancient,158,embalming in,159,160-1,compared with China,161-2Elizabeth, 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 1591,461Elizabeth of York, in 1502, pays for cure of John Pertriche,419Elphege, St, stops pestilence in 1011,13Ely, bishop of, alienates Stourbridge leper-hospital,93Ely monastery, Black Death in,132Elyot, Sir Thomas, lay writer on medicine,402,mentions smallpox,457Emigrants, mortality of English to Virginia,610,to New England &c.,612-13,to Barbados,619,of French to St Christopher,618,to Guadeloupe,621Ensham, manor of, after Black Death,139,141Erasmus, 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,420-21Ergotism, causes and signs of,53-55,two forms,55,cases of in England,57,possible instances of,59-63,reasons of English immunity from,64,68Essex, Lord General, typhus in his army,548-9,occupies Tiverton,552-3Ethredge, Dr G., the sweat of 1551 at Oxford,260,380,the gaol-fever at Oxford,381Eton, plague,348,520,boys compelled to smoke in plague-time,674Evesham, monastery, fugitives at after wasting of Yorkshire,27note,drives out its leprous prior,101Evesham, town, plague and bad scavenging,501Exeter, the scavengers of,327,plague,288,famine and plague,300,plague,498,523,Black Assizes,383-6Eyam, plague at in 1665-6,682-7Eydon, plague,498Fabyan, on the first sweat,239,on plague in London, 1478-9,234,and 1500,287,uses the name “pockys”,420Famines, 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 1596-7,358Fever, 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 1596-7358,411;epidemics of in war,547,552;spotted,504,540,542,543,551;“strange,” seeInfluenza,Yellow, seeYellow Fever,in gaols, seeGaol-fever;in ships,350,538Finchley, dysentery at, 1596-7,411Findhorn, plague,370Finsbury, laystalls at,334Fish, Simon, ‘Supplication of Beggars’,421Fleet Ditch, unwholesome,352Forrestier, 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,266-7Foul Death, name used by Scots for plague in 1349,78,and in 1379,218Fracastori, on smallpox,467,on typhus,585Francis, St, of Assisi, and the lepers,85Freind, Dr J., on a strange chorea,61,on diffusion of smallpox,445,on Gaddesden,448Friars, their original mission,41,their care of lepers,85,107,side with the rich after the Black Death,188,bury rather than christen,332Froude, Mr, on plague at the Derry,372note,on “yellow fever” in Drake’s fleet,589note“Fruit of Times,” records “pokkes” for 1366,453Fryer, Dr John,307Gaddesden, John of, fails to describe fever of, 131551,on leprosy,76,on smallpox,446-8,on morbilli and “mesles”,449-51Gale, Thomas, on “the morbus”,422Galway, “sweating sickness” at,400noteGaols, first built,374Gaol Fever, in Newgate,374,395note,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,332Garter, Order of the,178Gascoigne T., cases of syphilis,74,Henry IV.’s “leprosy”,77note,“legists” after Black Death,189Gaubil, abbé, on the Chinese annals,154Geynes, Dr,307Gibbon, on the Justinian plague,2,on a remark by Procopius,675noteGibbons, Orlando,465,524Gilbertus Anglicus, on leprosy,70-72,morphaea,76,diet to keep off leprosy,113,on smallpox,446,447Glasgow, leper-house,99,keeps out plague,366,369,plague,370,563,syphilis,418Gloucester, Black Death,116,117,plague in 1580,348,in 1638,545,a quack at,426,relief of siege,549Goddard, Dr, his excuse for leaving London in the plague,667Gordonio, Bernard, on leprosy,70,case at Montpellier,72,on morphaea,76,on smallpox,447Grandgore, in Scotland,417-18,derivation of,418Grantham, plague near,500,sickness at,502Graunt, John, syphilis in London,428,London mortality,532Gravesend, plague,287,293,531Greaves, Sir E., fever at Oxford,547,551Greenwich, sweat at,244,251,plague at,293,plague in 1666,687Gregory, W. ref. to “pokkes,”454Gruner, on the sweat,258,collections on medieval smallpox,446noteGrünbeck, Jos. on syphilis,432Guignes, Des, on origin of Black Death,143,152Guinea, voyages to in 16th cent.,581-3,slave trade from,583,625-9Guy, Dr W., on “parish infection”,396noteHackney, leper-hospital,97,98note,plague in 1535,301,in 1603,492,in 1625,511Haddington,pestilentia volatilis,234,plague during siege,303Hall, his Chronicle on the sweat of 1517,250,on the mercenaries of Henry VII.,274,on the Cambridge Black Assizes,375Hampshire, parish in, statistics of,411,541Harrison, W. English houses,330note,fever of 1557-8,401Hartlepool, plague,349Harwich, plague at in 1665-6Havre de Grace (or “Newhaven”), plague during siege,307Hawkins, Sir John, in the slave trade,583Hawkins, Sir Richard, on health of Cape de Verde islands,589note,scurvy in his voyage of 1593,594-6Hecker, antecedents of Black Death,143-4,on fecundity after Black Death,200,sweating sickness,240,244note,258,263,265,271note,277noteHendon, sends help in 1625 plague,518Henry I., taxation under,31Henry II., charities of,33-34Henry III., famine under,43Henry IV., “leprosy” of,77Henry V., vigorous sanitation under,325Henry VII., his expedition of 1485,237,240,265,270,275,in the sweat of 1508,244,reception of Catharine of Arragon,288,sanitation under,325-6Henry 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 1514,456Henry of Huntingdon, poem by,18Hensler, his history of syphilis,416noteHensley, plague,309Hereford, plague,348Hereford, bishop of, case of morphaea,76Herefordshire, plague,500Hertford, sweat at,254,law courts at,331,plague,339,347,356Hertfordshire, after the Black Death,191,plague in,493Hirsch, Dr August, on endemics of syphilis,438Hispaniola, great pox and smallpox,430,469,flux among English troops,635-6Hoddesdon, plague,347Hodges, Dr, hisLoimologia,648,654,675Holinshed, erroneous entry of “small pocks”,454Holland, Abraham, poem on plague of 1625,512Holme Pierrepont, plague,499Höniger, effects of Black Death,141noteHoward, John, Oxford gaol,377,gaol-fever,382noteHugh, St, bp. of Lincoln, his care for burials,13note,for lepers,84Hull, plague at, in 1472-8,231,in 1576,340,in 1635-38,527Hunstanton, Black Death,137Hütten, Ulrich von, cure of syphilis,416Ibn Batuta, his report that Black Death came from China,146Ibn-ul-Khatib, origin of Black Death,146Ilchester, decayed,195,221Ilford, leper-hospital,95Inchcolm, quarantine island,363,369Inchkeith, quarantine for plague,235,360,for syphilis,417Influenza, 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,408-9,411,536,541,543-4,567,577Interdict of burial&c.,11Ipswich, scavengers of,327,plague at, in 1603,498,in 1665-6,688Ireland, plague inA.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,252note,400note,influenza,398note,plague in Tudor period,371-3,in Cromwellian war,365Isle of Wight, depopulation of,387,influenza or sweat in 1558,403Jamaica, English occupation of,636-642James I., authority for “a pockie priest”,415,his accession followed by a great plague,480,his fatal illness,512Jarrow, plague in monastery of,7Jersey, plague in,308Jessopp, Augustus, on mortalities in the Black Death,132,134,137,on lawlessness after do.,140,on panic from do.,181noteJohn of Bridlington, 14th cent. pestilences,204,207John of Burgoyne, 14th cent. writer on plague,208Jones, 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”,410Justinian, plague in reign of,2,theory of it,156,159,161Kattiwar, plague in,165,169Kellwaye, Simon, on the plague of 1593,355,on smallpox and measles,461Kendal, plague in 1598,359Kensington, plague in 1603,492,in 1625,520Kheybar, burials in,165Kilkenny, Black Death,115,119,121,132,plague in 1649,565Kirkcaldy, plague in 1574,366Kirkoswald, plague in 1598,360Kremer, A. von, Mohammedan plagues,163Kumaon, plague in,166Kutch, plague in,169Labourers, Statute of,66,181-2Lamesley, plague in 1610,501Lancashire, ergotism? in 1702,59,wills after Black Death,138,fever in 1651,567Lancaster, Sir James, scurvy in his ships,599,treats scurvy by lime juice,601Langland, see‘Piers the Ploughman’Lask, old name of flux,400,412Latimer, on intramural burial,336,on stews closed,420Law, business of increased after Black Death,188-9Lazar, derivation of,79noteLazarus, St,79,94Lazarus, St, Knights of the Order of,89Leake, plague in 1587-8,349Leeds, fever in 1644,558,plague in 1645,558Leicester, Black Death,124pestis secunda,203,plague in 1563-4,309,in 1593,357,in 1607-11,125,501,in 1626,526Leicestershire, strange epidemic in 1340,59,plague,526Leith, plague,235note,361,363,366,369,503Leominster, plague or fever in 1578,349,in 1597,358noteLeper-houses, in England,