books.google.com - The bubonic plague epidemic which struck England in 1665-6 was responsible for the deaths of almost a third of London's population. Its sheer scale was overwhelming and it was well-recorded, featuring in the works of Pepys and Defoe and described in terrible detail in the contemporary Bills of Mortality....http://books.google.com/books/about/Great_Plague.html?id=x2EBkPNnUXEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareGreat Plague
