CHAPTER VI

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PLAGUE IN THE TUDOR PERIOD.

Chronology of the outbreaks of Plague in London, provincial towns, and the country generally, from 1485 to 1556 282

The London Plague of 1563 304

Preventive practice in Plague-time under the Tudors 309

Sanitation in Plantagenet and Tudor times 322

The disposal of the dead 332

Chronology of Plague 1564-1592--Vital statistics of London 1578-1583 337

The London Plague of 1592-1593 351

Plague in the Provinces, 1592-1598 356

Plague in Scotland, 1495-1603--Skene on the Plague (1568) 360

Plague in Ireland in the Tudor period 371

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