Notes
1. Leicestershire County Record Office : Loughborough Parish Records
2. Nichols J (1804). History and Antiquities of the County of
Leicester, Vol 3, part I
3. P Ziegler (1969). The Black Death. RS Gottfried (1978).
Epidemic Disease in Fifteenth Century England.
4. The Merck Manual 13th Edition (1977). Merck Sharp & Dohme
Research Laboratories p102
5. Paul Slack (1985). The Impact of the Plague in Tudor and Stuart
England.
6. L Bradley. The Most Famous of All English Plagues : A Detailed
Analysis of the Plague at Eyham 1665-6
7. Quoted Paul Slack , op.cit.
8. The Merck Manual 13th Edition (1977). Chapter 2, Viral Diseases.
9. Hastings Manuscripts; Historic Manuscripts Commission (1928).
Vol I, HMSO, 80 & 347
10. Quoted in Anne Richmond's Elizabethan Loughborough
11. ibid.
12. ibid.
13. Quoted Nichols J. op. cit, Vol 3, part I. p 892
14. J Nichols (1795). Collections of Leicestershire History,
Vol I, p 271
15. Wrigley and Schofield. Population History.
16. Nicholas Griffin (1978). Epidemics in Loughborough
17. Quoted Nichols J (1804). op. cit, Vol 3, part I. p 893
18. Quoted Paul Slack , op.cit.
19. Quoted Nicholas Griffin, op. cit.
20. ibid.
21. Quoted Nichols J (1804). op. cit, Vol 3, part I. p 893
22. Quoted Paul Slack , op.cit. p 56
23. ibid.
24. ibid. p 55
25. JC Cox. The Parish Registers of England
26. Cf., State Papers (Domestic), vol XLV, Miscellaneous Papers,
27
27. Quoted Paul Slack, op.cit. p 296, 297
28. Quoted Nichols J (1804). op. cit, Vol 3, part I. p 893
29. ibid.
30. Quoted Paul Slack , op.cit. p 322
31. Quoted Williams BCJ (1985). Walks around Loughborough: Number
Three
My sincere thanks to Ms Doreen Carter, Lecturer in History, Loughborough College, for her enthusiasm and guidance. And to Nicholas Griffin who published Epidemics in Loughborough (1978), a valuable source of statistics and hypothesis, some of which I have used in this paper.
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