ajor Halsey, 'a great creature of the Duke of Albemarle's']
tells me also, as he says of his own knowledge, that several people
before the duke went out did offer to supply the king with L100,000,
provided he would be treasurer of it, to see it laid out for the
navy: which he refused, and so it died."--Pepys, Diary, 24 June,
1666.

M655 The "Loyal London" launched, 10 June, 1666.

1283 Pepys, Diary, 10 and 26 June and 23 July. 1666.

M656 The Duke of York's victory over the Dutch fleet, 3 June, 1665.

1284 "All this day by all people upon the river, and almost every where
else hereabout were heard the guns, our two fleets for certain being
engaged; which was confirmed by letters from Harwich, but nothing
particular; and all our hearts full of concernment for the
duke."--Pepys, Diary, 3 June.

1285 Lord Arlington to the mayor, 5 (?) June.--Cal. State Papers Dom.
(1664-1665), p. 408.

1286 Journal 46, fo. 64b.

M657 Precautions against the plague, 1663-1664.

1287 Secretary Morrice to the lord mayor, 18 Oct., 1663; the lord mayor's
reply, 22 Oct.; the lords of the council to the mayor and aldermen,
23 Oct., and their reply.--Remembrancia, ix. 69, 70, 73, 74, (Index,
pp. 348-349).

1288 Original letter from the lords of the council to the lord mayor, 27
June, 1664, preserved in the Town Clerk's office.

M658 The Plague of 1665.

1289 Van Goch (or Gogh) to the States General, 24 July.--Cal. State Papers
Dom. (1664-1665), p. 488.

1290 Repertory 70, fo. 141.

1291 Burnet, i, 411.

1292 Journal 46, fo. 79.

1293 Repertory 70, fos. 136, 136b, 143b, 144, 144b, 147, 150b, 151;
Journal 46, fos. 61, 98, 98b.

1294 "London Remembrancer, or a true accompt of every particular week's
christnings and mortality in all the years of pestilence within the
cognizance of the Bills of Mortality, being xviii years, taken out
of the Register of the Company of Parish Clerks of London," 1665.

1295 The exact figures in the London Remembrancer are 3,151.

1296 Pepys, Diary, 6 and 20 Sept.

1297 Repertory 70, fo. 153b.

1298 Journal 46, fo. 97b.

1299 Pepys, Diary, 6 Aug., 1666.

1300 The number of inhabitants of the city _and its liberties_ in the
reign of Elizabeth has been estimated at 150,000 (Motley, "United
Netherlands," i, 306). As the suburbs grew the population of th