Mediaeval Leicester
Mediaeval Leicester
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Throsby's estimate of 3, 000 for the year 1558, and 3, 480 for 1600, based upon the statistics of deaths, would seem to be nearer the mark. At any rate, we may safely conclude that, when the 17th century opened, the inhabitants of the town were not more than in 1500, and probably hardly reached 4, 000.
Recurring visitations of the plague were met by better sanitary measures for coping with the epidemic ; a policy of isolating infected areas and cases did much to prevent the disease spread- ing ...; and yet the further progress of Leicester was undoubtedly muclj retarded by this scourge, which in 1610-11 claimed very many victims. According to the register of All Saints, more than 600 persons died from it in that year at Leicester. Some time later the devastation of civil war, and the calamity of a great siege did far less to impair the population, which by the year 1664 '^^^ considerably increased. The Leicester Hearth Tax Returns for Lady Day, 1663, show rather more than 600 occupied houses, which would hardly give a population much exceeding 3, 000, but these returns were less complete than those of 1664, which have been transcribed and published by Mr.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Throsby's estimate of 3, 000 for the year 1558, and 3, 480 for 1600, based upon the statistics of deaths, would seem to be nearer the mark. At any rate, we may safely conclude that, when the 17th century opened, the inhabitants of the town were not more than in 1500, and probably hardly reached 4, 000.
Recurring visitations of the plague were met by better sanitary measures for coping with the epidemic ; a policy of isolating infected areas and cases did much to prevent the disease spread- ing ...; and yet the further progress of Leicester was undoubtedly muclj retarded by this scourge, which in 1610-11 claimed very many victims. According to the register of All Saints, more than 600 persons died from it in that year at Leicester. Some time later the devastation of civil war, and the calamity of a great siege did far less to impair the population, which by the year 1664 '^^^ considerably increased. The Leicester Hearth Tax Returns for Lady Day, 1663, show rather more than 600 occupied houses, which would hardly give a population much exceeding 3, 000, but these returns were less complete than those of 1664, which have been transcribed and published by Mr.
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