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city_n	great_a	king_n	kingdom_n	9,660	5	5.5175	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72800	A true bill of the vvhole number that hath died in the cittie of London, the citty of VVestminster, the citty of Norwich, and diuers other places, since the time this last sicknes of the plague began in either of them, to this present month of October the 20. day, 1603. With a relation of many visitations by the plague, in sundry other forraine countries.; Bills of mortality. 1603	Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks.	1603 (1603)	STC 16743.3; ESTC S125101	3,867	1

A true bill of the whole number that hath died in the Cittie of London the citty of Westminster the citty of Norwich and diuers other places since the time this last sicknes of the plague began in either of them to this present month of October the 20. day 1603. With a relation of many visitations by the plague in sundry other forraine Countries IT is no doubt that the corruption of the ayre together with vncleanly and vnwholsome keeping of dwelling where many are pestered together as also the not obseruing to haue fiers priuate publiquely made as well within houses as without in the stréets at times when the ayre is infected are great occasions to increase corrupt and pestilent diseases Neither can it be denied that the ouer-boldnes of many preasing into infected places and the lewdnes of others with sores vppon them presuming into the open ayre some of wilfulnes but truly many of necessitie contaminateth corrupteth diuers as the Leprosie the Pocks and sundry such vncleane diseases doo as by drinking lying in company and other such meanes where pure complexions and cleane bloods are defiled with such as are putrified and therefore carefully to be auoyded But all these are accidentall and rather effects then the cause In the yéere of Christ 81. and in the yere 188. there continued a great time a plague in Rome of which there daily died two thousand people In the yéere 254. fiftéene prouinces of the Romaine Empire were in a manner consumed with the pestilence In the yéere 530. there died in Constantinople fiue thousand a day and diuers times tenne thousand and at that time in some other parts of Gréce there were not sufficient liuing men left to bury their dead And in the yéere ●…69 there fell such a plague in Constantinople that there died in sixe months spa●… 7. hundred thousand persons and the yéere following fell such a famine that a penny loafe of bread of English mony was worth a crowne of gold by reason whereof the people died as fast then of the famine as they did before of the plague In the yéere 540. there began an vniuersall plague all ouer the world that continued 50. yeres with great violence And in the yéere 1348. in Paris in fraunce there died a hundred thousand people of the Plague In the yéere 1359. so great a pestilence there was in Italy that there were scarce tenne left of a thousand And in the yéere 1521. there died in Rome a hundred thousand of the pestilence In the yéeres 1576. and 77. in Millan Padua and Venice there fell a hundred thousand in euery Citty and in Bohemia béeing but a small Kingdome there died thrée hundred thousand the same time Soone after the conquest of King William Duke of Normandy when the people were subdued to him and the Knights fées rated which he had made and himselfe placed with crowne and scepter hee tooke number of the acres of land in all the realme and of all the people and of all the cattell after which fell so fore a plague that the people died in such number that tillage decaied and famine ensued with rot of cattell that men were faine to eate flesh of dogs cats mise A fearefull example for Princes In the raigne of King Edward the third there fell a very great pestilence in the East-Indies among the Tartarians Saracens Turks which lasted the space of seauen yéeres through the feare whereof many of the Heathens willingly offered themselues to become Christians And shortly after by reason of passengers from one Prouince to another the same pestilence was dispersed in many Christian Kingdoms amongst other places brought into England where it was so forcible all ouer the Land that not onely men but also beasts birds and fishes were smitten therewith and found dead with botches vpon thē Also among men the number that were left aliue were scarely sufficient to bury their dead At which time with the rest that then died of the plague Henry Duke of Lancaster Blanch Dutchesse of Lancaster and the Earle of Warwicke ended their liues So that in one yéere in a little plot of ground of 13. acres compasse then called Spittle-croft and now the Charter-house was buried fifty thousand persons besides all them that were then buried in the Churchyards and diuers places in the fields Also in Barbarie Alexandria Tripolie and in Constantinople this last yéere 1602. fell so grieuous a plague that there died thrée thousand a day for a long time together Our visitations though our sinnes excéede haue béene more gentle For in the first great plague in our memory after the losse of Newhauen frō the first of Ianuary 1562. to Decemb. 1563. there died of the plague twenty thousand one hundred thirtie sixe And in the last great visitation from the 20. of December 1592. to the 23. of the same month in the yéere 1593. died in all 25886. of the plague in and about London 15003. And in the yéere before 2000. God of his mercy as he did then hold his heauy hand from vs and giue vs true repentance the onely meane to win his grace toward vs. And now in this present visitation which it pleaseth God to strike vs with there hath died from the 17. of December 1602. to the 14. of Iuly 1603. the whole number in London and the liberties 4314. Whereof of the plague 3310. The rest are set downe as they haue followed wéekely From the 14 of Iuly to the 21. of the same 867 In the out Parishes 319 vvhereof of the plague 646 Whereof of the plague 271 Buried in all this weeke 1186. vvhereof of the plague 917. From the 21 of Iuly to the 28 of the same 1103 In the out Parishes 781 vvhereof of the plague 671 vvhereof of the plague 857 Out of the pesthouse 18 Buried in all this weeke 1728. vvhereof of the plague 1396. From the 28 of Iuly to the 4. of August 1700 In the out parishes 537 vvhereof of the plague 464 vvhereof of the plague 1439 Pesthouse 19 Buried in all this weeke 2256. vvhereof of the plague 1922. From the 4 of August to the 11 of the same 1655 In the out Parishes 410 vvhereof of the plague 361 vvhereof of the plague 1372 Pesthouse 12 Buried in all this weeke 2077. vvhereof of the plague 1745. From the 11 of August to the 18 of the same 2486 In the out Parishes 568 vvhereof of the plague 514 vvhereof of the plague 2199 In Bridewell 7. Pesthouse 21 Buried in all this weeke 3054. vvhereof of the plague 2713. From the 18 of August to the 25 of the same 2343 In the out Parishes 510 vvhereof of the plague 448 vvhereof of the plague 2091 In Bridewell 8. Pesthouse 12 Buried in all this weeke 2853. vvhereof of the plague 2539. From the 25 of August to the 1. of September 2798 In the out Parishes 587 vvhereof of the plague 540 vvherof of the plague 2495 In Bridewell 5. Pesthouse 6