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Common terms and phrases
according Annals appear August authority began beginning bills Black Death body brought burials buried called carried causes century chapter China Chronicle church clear comes common continued court dead died disease Edward effects England English entry epidemic Europe evidence famine fever four give given ground hand Henry Hist hospital houses hundred infection instances Italy John July June kind king known labour land later lepers leprosy letter living London lord manor March means medieval mentioned months mortality nature November occurred October original outbreak Oxford parish particular perhaps period persons pestilence plague poor population prevalence probably records reference reign relating remained remarkable Rolls says Scotland season September severe shillings sickness smallpox soil sweat taken things town various villages week whole writes
Popular passages
Page 654 - On the other side. Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Page 79 - And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
Page 653 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 381 - For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest, and therefore dearest wool, there noblemen and gentlemen : yea, and certain Abbots, holy men...
Page 381 - ... fraud, or by violent oppression they be put besides it, or by wrongs and injuries they be so wearied, that they be compelled to sell all...
Page 381 - By reason whereof a marvellous multitude and number of the people of this realm be not able to provide meat, drink and clothes necessary for themselves, their wives and children, but be so discouraged with misery and poverty, that they fall daily to theft, robbery, and other inconveniences, or pitifully die for hunger and cold...
Page 381 - All their household stuff", which is very little worth, though it might well abide the sale, yet being suddenly thrust out, they be constrained to sell it for a thing of nought. And when they have wandered abroad, till that be spent, what can they then else do but steal, and then justly pardy be hanged, or else go about a begging.
Page 318 - FORGET six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town; Think rather of the pack-horse on the down, And dream of London, small, and white, and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green...
Page 381 - I cannot tell whereof taking occasion, began diligently and busily to praise that strait and rigorous justice, which at that time was there executed upon felons, who, as he said, were for the most part twenty hanged together upon one gallows. And, seeing so few escaped punishment, he said he could not choose, but greatly wonder and marvel, how and by what evil luck it should so come to pass, that thieves nevertheless were in every place so rife and rank. Nay, sir...
Page 666 - Or the marriage-bed changed the first night into a sepulchre, and the unhappy pair meet with death in their first embraces? Some of the infected run about staggering like drunken men, and fall and expire in the streets ; while others lie...
Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of epidemics in Britain ... v. 1, 1891, Volume 1 A History of epidemics in Britain ... v. 1, 1891, Charles Creighton |
| Author | Charles Creighton |
| Publisher | University Press, 1891 |
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