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plague
Sad at the newes that seven or eight houses in Bazing Hall street, are shut up of the plague. -
Jacke Cole died
So after supper to bed, and mightily troubled in my sleep all night with dreams of Jacke Cole, my old schoolfellow, lately dead, who was born at the same time with me, and we reckoned our fortunes pretty equal. God fit me for his condition -
Prince of Orange Died
, when the States-General disbanded part of the forces which the Prince of Orange (William) wished to retain. The prince attempted, but unsuccessfully, to possess himself of Amsterdam. In the same year he died, at the early age of twenty-four; some say of the small-pox; others, with Sir Richard Ford, say of poison -
plague
Above 700 died of the plague this week. -
Bills of Mortality
This day my Lord Brunker did give me Mr. Grant%u2019s book upon the Bills of Mortality, new printed and enlarged.
