[153] Dr. Norman Moore has printed the Cottonian MS. Life of Rahere in the _Bartholomew Hospital Reports_, vol. xxi., and copious extracts from the MS. had previously been given by Mr. J. Saunders in his articles on St. Bartholomew's in Knight's _London_, vol. ii. [154] _Progress of Medicine_, 1888, p. 21. [155] These documents are printed in the Appendix to _Memoranda relating to the Royal Hospitals of London_, 1836, pp. 1-49. [156] Reprinted in Dr. Furnivall's edition of Thomas Vicary's _Anatomie of the Bodie of Man_, E. E. T. S., 1888, pp. 289-336. [157] 'The Physicians and Surgeons of St. Bartholomew's Hospital before the time of Harvey,' St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports, vol. xviii., 1882, pp. 333-338. [158] 'The Serjeant-Surgeons of England and their Office,' by D'Arcy Power (_British Medical Journal_, 1900, vol. i. p. 583). [159] The manuscript is dated 1392, but the handwriting of the copy used by Dr. Payne is of a much later date. Dr. Payne says that the _Anatomy_ of Vicary is absolutely that of the fourteenth century, without any correction or addition to bring it up to the standard of his own day, 'On an unpublished English Anatomical Treatise of the fourteenth century, and its relation to the _Anatomy_ of Thomas Vicary' (_British Medical Journal_, 25th January 1896, p. 208). [160] _A History of Epidemics in Britain_, by Charles Creighton, M.D., 1891, vol. i. pp. 97, 98. [161] _Ibid._, p. 106. [162] Creighton, vol. i. p. 97. [163] _England in the Fifteenth Century_, 1888, p. 208 (note). [164] Creighton, vol. i. p. 105. [165] _Quarterly Review_, No. 388, p. 540. [166] _Epidemics in Britain_, vol. i. p. 119. _See_ also _The Great Pestilence_, by F. A. Gasquet, D.D., O.S.B., London, 1893. [167] Riley's Introduction to _Liber Albus_, p. liv. [168] Jessopp's _Coming of the Friars_. [169] Riley's _Memorials_, p. 219 (note). [170] _Ibid._, p. 240 (note). [171] _A History of Epidemics in Britain_, vol. i. p. 202. [172] _Ibid._, p. 228. [173] Creighton, vol. i. pp. 313, 314. [174] _Anatomie of the Bodie of Man_, ed. Furnivall, App. 161. [175] _Ibid._, pp. 163, 164. [176] _Calendar of State Papers_, Venetian, vii. 749. [177] Creighton, vol. i. p. 316. [178] Vicary, App. iii. p. 166. [179] Mr. Power refers me to the fact that isolated cases of plague and local epidemics occurred long after the Great Fire. [180] In a broadside referring to '_The Plague of London_, printed by Peter Cole, at the printing office in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange, 1665,' the number of deaths from plague in 1603, 1625 and 1636 are given as follows:--1603, 30,561 persons; 1625, 35,403; and 1636, 10,400. The numbers in 1593 are given as above.