Scenes During the Great Plague

From a contemporary print in the Pepysian Collection

Multitudes flying from London in water by boats & barges
Flying by land
Burying the dead with a bell before them.     Searchers
Carts full of dead to bury.

source: E. P. Wilson, The Plague in Shakespeare's London,  (Oxford, 1927), p 149

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