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The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Other ... - Page 451
by Thomas Allen - 1837
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London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British ..., Volume 2

David Hughson - London (England) - 1805 - 598 pages
...yea, and to Oxford, and London; and, finally, it spread over all England ; and »o wasted and spoiled the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive : when church yards were not sufficient .and large enough to bury their dead in, they chose certain...
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London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British ..., Volume 2

David Hughson - London (England) - 1805 - 590 pages
...yea, and fo Oxford, and London ; and, finally, it spread over all England ; and so wasted and spoiled the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive : when church yards were not sufficient and large enough fo bury their dead in, they chose certain,...
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London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive ..., Volume 1

Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale - London (England) - 1810 - 762 pages
...breaking out in India, spread itself westward through every country on the globe, reached England, " and so wasted and spoyled the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive."f Its ravages in London were so great, that the common cemeteries were not sufficiently capacious...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations ..., Volume 10, Issue 1

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1810 - 778 pages
...breaking out in India, spread itself w estward through every country on the globe, reached England, " and so wasted and spoyled the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alivc."f Its ravages in London were so great, that the common cemeteries were not suliiciently capacious...
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London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive ..., Volume 1

Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale - London (England) - 1810 - 768 pages
...India, spread itself westward throngh every country on the globe, reached England, " and so wasted ami spoyled the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive."f Its ravages in London were so great, that the common cemeteries were not sufficiently capacious...
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Londiniana: Or, Reminiscences of the British Metropolis, Volume 3

Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1828 - 414 pages
...hour-glass. PARDON CnCBCH-YARD, I :.KIi:-:r N',\ ELL. WHEN the direful Pestilence which breaking oat in the East Indies and Tartary, spread itself westward...the people that scarce the tenth person of all sorts \vas left alive ; and the dead were buried in fields and waste grounds, the church-yards becoming inadequate...
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Londiniana: Or, Reminiscences of the British Metropolis: Including ..., Volume 3

Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1829 - 416 pages
...sepulchral Dance, ami shaking the last sands from his waning hour-glass. PARDON CHURCH-YARD, CLERKEN WELL. WHEN the direful Pestilence which breaking out in...grounds, the church-yards becoming inadequate to contain theo."f This calamity bcg;ui at London about the feast of All Saints, 1348, and it raged with more...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 152

Great Britain - 1832 - 728 pages
...mortality had but twenty-eight teeth, where before they had two-andthirty ! In England it so wasted the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive. There died in London, some say in Norwich, between the first of January and the first of July, 57,374...
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A survey of London

John Stow - London (England) - 1842 - 252 pages
...Priory of St. John of Jerusalem. 161 length came to London, and overspread all England, so wasting the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive, and churchyards were not sufficient to receive the dead, but men were forced to choose out certain fields...
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A Survey of London

John Stow - London (England) - 1842 - 250 pages
...Knight's London, ii. 113—132. length came to London, and overspread all England, so wasting the pcople, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive, and churchyards were not sufficient to receive the dead, but men were forced to choose out certain fields...
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