Preventive practice in Plague-time under the Tudors 309 Sanitation in Plantagenet and Tudor times 322 The disposal of the dead 332 Chronology of Plague 1564-1592--Vital statistics of London 1578-1583 337 The London Plague of 1592-1593 351 Plague in the Provinces, 1592-1598 356 Plague in Scotland, 1495-1603--Skene on the Plague (1568) 360 Plague in Ireland in the Tudor period 371 CHAPTER VII. GAOL FEVERS, INFLUENZAS, AND OTHER FEVERS IN THE TUDOR PERIOD. The Black Assizes of Cambridge, 1522 375 Oxford Black Assizes, 1577 376 Exeter Black Assizes, 1586 383 Increase of Pauperism, Vagrancy, &c. in the Tudor period 387 Influenzas and other “strange fevers” and fluxes, 1540-1597 397 CHAPTER VIII. THE FRENCH POX. Meagreness of English records 414 Evidence of its invasion of Scotland and England, in 1497 and subsequent years 417 English writings on the Pox in the Elizabethan period, with some notices for the Stuart period 423 The circumstances of the great European outbreak in 1494-- Invasion of Italy by Charles VIII. 429 CHAPTER IX. SMALLPOX AND MEASLES. First accounts of Smallpox in Arabic writings--Nature of the disease 439 European Smallpox in the Middle Ages 445 Measles in medieval writings--Origin of the names “measles” and “pocks” 448 First English notices of Smallpox in the Tudor period 456 Great increase of Smallpox in the Stuart period 463 Smallpox in Continental writings of the 16th century 467 CHAPTER X. PLAGUE, FEVER AND INFLUENZA FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES I. TO THE RESTORATION. Growth of London in the Tudor and Stuart periods 471 The London Plague of 1603 474 Annual Plague in London after 1603 493 Plague in the Provinces, Ireland and Scotland, in 1603 and following years 496 Malignant Fever preceding the Plague of 1625 504 The London Plague of 1625 507 Plague in the Provinces in 1625 and following years 520