86-99,their mixed inmates,93,vogue soon past,91-95,the later non-monastic,97,in Scotland,99,in Ireland,100Leprosy, 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,111note,constitutional,112,diet for in Scotland,113Lescarbot, on scurvy,597-8Leviticus, use of “leprosy” in,80Lichfield, plague,309,357,559Lieu-chow, bubonic disease,169Linacre,286,439Lincoln, leper-hospital at,92,decay of,195,plague at,357Lindsey, statute of labourers ineffective in,182Linlithgow, lepers at,99,French pox at,418Lithgow, W., on plague in Tyneside,557Lock, the, hospital,97,98noteLodge, Dr T., on rats and moles in plague-time,173,on plague in 1603,485,on compulsory removal of the sick,488London:fever in 962,26,in 1258,44-45,according to the bills,504,532,576Fitzstephen’s account of,34French pox in,424,428,432notelepers expelled,103,stopped at the Gates,104leper-hospitals of88,97-8nuisances in,323-6overcrowding of, in 1580,346,in 1602 et seq.,539-540Parish Clerks of,320-322plagues 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 1630,527of 1636529-32,of 1637-48,532,546(table533),of 1665,644-679plague-orders,312-322,355,481,488population,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 1665,660Richard of Devizes, on wickedness of,34sanitary 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 1582,330theatres closed in plague-time,494-6Loughborough, sweating sickness at,259,plague at,304,404,500,560Louth, plague in 1587,349(Notitiae Ludae),in 1631,527Lowe, Peter, on “Spanish Sickness”,427Lowry, Dr J. H., on Pakhoi plague,169Lyndsay, Sir D., “grandgore”,418Lynn, a physician of,51,leper-houses at,93,98,plague at, in 1635-6,528,in 1665,681Macclesfield, plague,498Macgowan, Dr D. J., on rats poisoned by the soil,169Magellan, scurvy in his ship,579Mahé, on cadaveric theory of plague,173noteMaidenhead, scene at,578Maillet, De, on preservation of corpses in Egypt,161Malpas, plague in 1625,526noteManardus, origin of syphilis,434Manchester, plague in 1608,499,in 1631,527Mansfeld, his English troops,522Margate, sick sailors at after Armada,350Marshall, John, on “parish infection”,396noteMartin, on the illness of Charles VIII.,437Matilda, Queen, and the lepers82;her hospital,88Mayerne, Sir Th., on the fevers of 1624,540Measles, Gaddesden on,448,derivation of name,451,joined with smallpox,458-9,462,465-6Measure for Measure, reference to “the sweat”,413note,the stews suppressed,420,doctrine of “obstruction” in,605noteMeaux, abbey of, Black Death in,118,131Meddus, Rev. Dr, in London during plague of 1625,514Medicine, profession of, little in evidence,51,258,402Melcombe, Black Death lands at,116Merdjé, modern plague at,170Merston Trussell, plague,498Milton, John, at Chalfont, in 1665,665noteMolesin plague-time,173,364Molineux on universal fevers and universal colds,409Monasteries, pestilence in,5-7,9-10,Stubbs on,50,found hospitals,95,Black Death in,131Monkleigh, plague,499Monmouthshire, fever and plague in 1638,541Montgomeryshire, plague in 1638,542Montpellier, case oflepraat,72,practice in the plague at,210Moorfields, common latrine in,325More, 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,389Morphaea, a case of,76Morton, Richard, on the fever of 1658,574“Mure,” old name of influenza,389.(“Tussis et le Murra.” Canterbury MS. inHist. MSS. Com.IX., pt. I. p. 127).Murrains,46noteMussis, De, on origin of Black Death at Caffa,144Namasse, modern plague,166Nanking, death of rats at,169Nantwich, plague,498Naples sickness of419,430“New Acquaintance”,260“New Disease”,401,403,404,534,536,541,543-4,570,577Newark, plague after siege,560Newcastle, plague in 1420,222note,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 1666,681New England, voyages to,612,epidemics in,613Niebuhr, on demoralisation after pestilence,186Nöldeke, Th., on legend of smallpox,442Normandy, Henry VII.’s troops raised in,271,275,endemic sweat of,271,273Northampton, old hospital at,90,plague,304,fever and plague in 1638,542Northwych, plague,340,498Norwich, 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 1465,230note,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 1665-6,681,688Nottingham, deaths at in 1518,291,plague at in 1593,357,in 1604,499,in 1667,691Nuisances, 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,502Odoric, friar, his vision of unburied dead in China,155Okehampton, plague at, in 1626,524Osiander, on Christian duty in the plague,310Ottery St Mary, camp sickness at in 1645,555,561Oundle, plague in 1665,681Oxford, 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.,285note,proposal to remove the university from,283Pakhoi, modern plague,168Paré, Ambroise, holds cadaveric theory of plague,156,162,658,on likeness of smallpox to great pox,468Paris, “lepers” banished from in 1488,104,437Pariset, Etienne, his theory of plague,156-161Parish Clerks, company of,320-322“Parish infection,” a myth,396notePauperism,39,41,387-395Pauw, De, Cornelius, on plague in Egypt,157,on sanitary practice in ditto,158Paynel, translates book on French pox,416Peebles, plague at in 1499,361Pellagra, akin to leprosy,108,110,causes of,109Penrith, plague at in 1598,359-60Perth, plague at in 1548,363,in 1580,367,in 1584-5,368,in 1608-9,503-4,in 1645,563Pestilentia volatilisin Scotland,398Peterborough, burials at in 1175,35,plague in 1574,339,in 1606,449,in 1665,681Petrarch, on effects of Black Death,177Phaer, Th., or Phayre, or Thayre, writer on plague,210,489,on smallpox and measles,458Picardy 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”,452-3Pinctor, Peter, relates cases of French pox in the Vatican,416Plague, 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,156et 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 underLondonand other placesPlanck, Dr, on causes of plague in Kumaon,167Plot, Dr, on Oxford Black Assizes,382,on mildness of smallpox,467Plymouth, plague in 1579,348,in 1590-91,351,sickness in the fleet in 1625,521-2,plague in 1626,523Poll-taxof 1377, population reckoned from,200Poor-laws, origin of,362-3,Jones on,394Populationof 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 1625,524,1666,688Posting sweat,260,posting fever,378Pox, 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,429-438Presteign, the sweat of 1551,259,plague in 1638,542Preston, wills proved after Black Death,138note,plague at in 1631,527Procopius, on a plague-immunity,675noteQuarantine, (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,672Radnorshire, plague in 1638,542Rats, death of in plague-time, in Kumaon,167,in Yun-nan,168,in China,169,