The King's Town Upon Hull Warbler

A sad and sorry diary of those that have suffered under the great plague that has beset our land.

• Pestilence Index
  by Fr Benedict
  March 17, 1641

  Counters in the villages on the public byways submit reports daily on outbreak of the bubonic plague. Physicians wearing the beak mask should look to the market for stocks of herbs to combat the miasma, also known as the night air. Lavender, peppermint, camphor, roses, carnations, as well as juniper berry, ambergris, cloves, labdanum, myrrh, storax, and a vinegar soaked sponge.