At Hull, in 1576, there was an outbreak, small compared with some other visitations there, in the Blackfriars Gate, the deaths being about one hundred[664]. It is somewhat remarkable to find the borough of Kirkcudbright making regulations in the month of January, 1577, a most unlikely season, to prevent the introduction of the plague then raging on the Borders[665]. In September, 1577, there were issued orders to be put in execution throughout the realm in towns and villages infected with the plague. More definitely it is heard of on 21 October at Rye and Dover, and on 3 November, 1577, in London. We now come to a series of years, 1578 to 1583, for which we have full particulars of the burials in London, from plague and other causes, and of the christenings. These valuable statistics, the earliest known, are preserved among the papers of Lord Burghley, who procured them from the lord mayor of London[666], and are here given in full, having been copied from the MS. in the library of Hatfield House[667]. _Abstracts of Burials and Baptisms in London, 1578-1583_ 1578 Week Of Of other ending Dead plague diseases Christened Jan. 2 62 7 55 66 9 90 12 78 52 16 63 14 49 59 23 95 33 62 59 30 82 25 57 65 Feb. 6 88 24 64 51 13 102 25 77 59 20 100 26 74 77 27 84 12 72 84 Mar. 6 79 10 69 58 13 66 9 57 53 20 75 5 70 57 27 63 12 51 60 Apr. 3 96 19 77 64 10 89 25 64 67 17 102 31 71 66 24 91 37 54 62 May 1 109 25 84 44 8 116 33 83 37 15 141 43 98 48 22 109 36 73 66 29 119 34 85 43 June 5 99 38 61 51 12 91 35 56 41 19 76 34 42 54 26 75 18 57 48 July 3 92 34 58 52 10 99 35 64 48 17 98 39 59 52 24 129 63 66 49 31 100 41 59 59 Aug. 7 132 73 59 76 14 152 78 74 72 21 232 134 98 63 28 205 113 92 58 Sept. 4 257 162 95 84 11 297 183 114 64 18 308 189 119 68 25 330 189 141 72 Oct. 2 370 230 140 76