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  • An approved medicine against the deserued plague.

    • Anderson, Anthony, -1593.
    Date
    1593
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  • By the King : a proclamation for the adiournament [sic] of part of Michaelmas tearme.

    • England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
    Date
    1625
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  • By the King : Whereas wee did lately prorogue our Parliament till the ninth day of Nouember now next comming.

    • England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I)
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    Anno 1609..
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  • By the Queene. The Queenes Maiestie, perceiuing the state of the citie of London, (being aunciently termed her chambre) and the suburbes and confines thereof.

    • England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I)
    Date
    [1583?]]
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  • The vvonderfull yeare. 1603 : Wherein is shewed the picture of London, lying sicke of the plague. At the ende of all (like a mery epilogue to a dull play) certaine tales are cut out in sundry fashions, of purpose to shorten the liues of long winters nights, that lye watching in the darke for vs.

    • Dekker, Thomas, approximately 1572-1632.
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    [1603?]
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  • An epistle discoursing vpon the present pestilence : Teaching what it is, and how the people of God should carrie themselues towards God and their neighbour therein. Reprinted with some additions. By Henoch Clapham.

    • Clapham, Henoch.
    Date
    1603
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  • A lamentation taken up for London : that late flourishing city, a bitter, yea a bitter lamentation over all her inhabitants yet living within and about her borders, and over all her rulers and mighty men, who are fled from her as from a murtherer, with good counsel and advice, from the spirit of the Lord to all, that they may turn unto him before the vials of his wrath be poured out for their utter destruction. By a lover of truth and righteousness: Thomas Greene.

    • Greene, Thomas, 1634?-1699.
    Date
    Printed in the year, 1665
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  • Vox ciuitatis, or Londons complaint against her children in the countrie : Shewing them to her infirmitie. Povertie. Desolate misery. Upbraiding them with unkindnesse. Uncharitablenesse. Distrustfulnesse. Informing them of her comfort in God. Counsell to them. Chiding the countrie for their ignorance of God. And his hand. Hard-heartednesse in entertaining. Burying. Taken from her own mouth, and written by Beniamin Spencer, Master in Arts.

    • Spenser, Benjamin.
    Date
    1636
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  • Londons loud cryes to the Lord by prayer : made by a reverend divine, and approved of by many others: most fit to be used by every master of a family, both in city and country. With an account of several modern plagues, or visitations in London, with the number of those that then dyed, as well of all diseases, as of the plague; continued down to this present day August, 8th. 1665.

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    [1665]
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  • A Direction concerning the plague, or pestilence, for pooore [sic] and rich.

    Date
    [1625?]
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