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Octobre, November, and December, people dyed so fast that 
theye could not be well remembered, tyll tbe 5 of December, 
when the seknes abayted.” 
Mr. Drake, in his History and Antiquities of tbe city of 
York,” briefly notices the plague of 1604. His account of it is 
comprised in a single paragraph :—At York, died of it to the 
number of S512 persons. A number [which] would make a 
great gap in its present inhabitants. The markets were all cried 
down; the lord president’s courts adjourned to Hipon and Dur¬ 
ham ; many of the citizens left their houses. The infected were 
sent to Hob-more and Horsefair, where booths were erected for 
them of boards. The minster and minster yard were close shut 
up. This is the last contagion this city has been visited with. 
Et avertat Dens in oeter7iumr* We may admire the historian’s 
pious apostrophe, though we cannot admit the truth of his 
assertion that this was the last visit of the plague to York. 
At intervals, for several years afterwards, the tranquillity 
of the citizens of York was disturbed by threatenings of 
the reappearance of this dreadful visitor. In Jan., 1607, news 
was brought to the city that Drax, Templehurst, Camblesforth, 
Carlton, Rockliff, and Barlow were greatly feared to be infected 
with the plague, and a strict watch was ordered to be kept. In 
April of that year, three or four houses at Pontefract were 
reported to be infected. In July, 1610, the infection was sore 
dispersed in Beverley, Bishop Burton, and other places in that 
part of Yorkshire. Again a strict watch was kept at York. 
In the metropolis itself, the plague that began in 1603, lasted 
eight successive years. The number of deaths occasioned by 
the infection, which occurred within the bills of mortality, 
exceeded 2000 in each of those years.f 
May 6th.— R. Davies, Esq., F. S. A., read the following 
continuation of his paper on The Plague at York in the 
Seventeenth Century.” 
Eboracum, p. 121. Mr. Drake’s ignorance of tbe events that happened in 
the city in the years 1625 and 1631, has misled subsequent writers. See Dr. 
Laycock’s Eeport, p. 258, and Mr. Durrant Cooper’s Notices of the Plague of 
1665-6. Archa3ologia, vol. 38, p. 20, note b. 
t Tracts relating to the Plague, 8vo., London, 1721, p. 60. 
