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VIII. Observations on the Plague in England, by the Rev. Mr. Pegge. In a Letter to Mr. Gough
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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Though I esteem it to be criminal in some degree to be dropping false hints and suggestions about any matters that may materially affect the public, or raising groundless fears and apprehensions concerning the plague, or war, or any other the like alarming subjects; yet I doubt I shall be but too well justified in declaring, that at this juncture we appear to be in imminent danger of having the pestilence imported into this island. It now rages violently at Constantinople, in the Levant, and in Africa; insomuch that all the neighbouring nations, as we learn from the public prints, are taking all necessary precautions against it; and administration here at home have thought proper to double the quarantine.
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page 80 note [a] Stowe, p. 857. Dr. R. Brooke's Hist. of Pestil. Distempers, p. 33.
page 80 note [b] Stowe, ibid.
page 81 note [c] This bridge, of which some remains are now to be seen in the river Rother at low water, was never after re-edified; for though one Martin Wostenholme, of Eckington, wanted to have it rebuilt, and for that purpose indicted it, the people of Brimington stood trial with him, and cast him at the quarter-sessions, about A. D. 1692. A lane goes down from Brimington northward to the place where the bridge stood, and another from Whittington southward, and these lanes plainly point out the quondam site of the bridge. This was then a great road for packhorses from the vicinal parts of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, which, after they had crossed the water, proceeded through Brimington, and over the moor there, for London. The only road from Whittington to Brimington now is by the New Bridge, so called in respect of that old one pulled down as above.
page 81 note [d] See Dr. Mead's works, p. 290.
page 82 note [e] Loimologia, p. 28.
page 82 note [f] Others say, 68,596. Dr. Hodges in the Table; Annot. on Rapin II. p. 641. Maitland I. p. 430. Here they speak of the Bills of mortality merely.
page 82 note [g] Dr. Mead, p, 290.
page 83 note [h] Dr. Mead, p. 291.
page 83 note [i] Catharine, daughter of Ralph Carr of Cocken in bishoprick of Durham, Esq. She died Aug. 25, 1666.
page 83 note [k] See the Directions for the Plague by Coll. of Physicians 1665. in Ded. and p. 33.
page 83 note [l] See Dr. Hodges, p. 74.
page 84 note [l] Porter's Life of Mr. John Hieron, p. 51.
page 84 note [m] Strype on Stowe's Survey of London, II. p. 544. 565.
page 84 note [n] This was a very destructive plague, Stowe, p. 1041. Maitland, I. p. 299. 430. Rapin, II. p. 244.
page 85 note [o] See also Dr. Hodges, p. 12. 15. 25.