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The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
Savoy Hospital was located along the Strand in Westminster.
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reliefe of one hundreth poore people
(Stow 1598, sig. 2D7r). The hospital was suppressed by
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I have standardized all Julian dates to consider the beginning of the year at January 1, following the practices of the STC, Wing, and Serial. While the Bills of Mortality may have been on what is known as the nativity calendar
(as evidenced in the yearly bills), this distinction is never explicit. Thus, these are encoded with
This enumerative, exhaustive bibliography lists the bills of mortality that meet the following criteria:
Small summative documents (often referred to as plague bills) are not included, except for a few early manuscript records that provide documentation about the tradition of gathering statistics. Texts that quote mortality numbers or publish them as paratext on printed broadside prayers and ballads have been excluded. Facsimiles and scholarly transcriptions are not included unless they contain the only known reference to a particular bill, in which case a citation is provided in the note column.
The bills in this bibliography are sorted by year and defined by the following parameters:
† denotes that the data has been inferred.