Washhouses and baths, 236 Washing with urine, 5 Water, 230; considered dietetically and medicinally, 230; conveyed to London by leaden pipes, 43; essential to vitality, 218; first brought by the New River to London, 98; of the Thames, 230 Weather, dry, 109; hot and moist, 113; inclement, 38, 81; tempestuous, 44; vicissitudes of, 32 Wells of hell-kettles, 36 Wet summer, 75 Wheat, price of, in famine, 44 Wierus, 89 Winchelscomb, storm at, 33 Winchelsea swallowed up by the sea, 41 Wind, a pestiferous, 51 Window-tax, the, 237 Winters, cold, 113; mild, 141; severe, 7, 18, 20, 30, 31, 35, 38, 41, 55, 94, 98, 137, 145, 148 Winton, Bishop, on public stews, 73 Wollaston, Dr., account of an epidemic of grangrenous ergotism by, 101 Worm, black, 141 Wrecks at London Bridge, 117 Wren, Sir Christopher, 243 Xativa, earthquake in, 78 Xerxes, destruction of the army of, 4 Yellow fever, 29, 146, 149, 156, 170, 171, 172, 173; pestilence, 99, 100, 104, 113, 151, 153, 155, 157 Zosimus, 21 Zurita, 49, 67 CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX B.C. Years. Page 1495 1 1471 to 1017 2 790 545 3 594 480 4 476 435 6 427 404 8 393 362 9 346 216 10 206 177 11 144 140 12 134 126 13 89 60 15 49 30 16 A.D.