The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #30105   Message #385308
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
29-Jan-01 - 09:07 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Betsy Bell and Mary Grey (Child #201)
Subject: RE: Betsy Bell and Mary Grey
Plague victims in isolated places were simply left where they lay; there could be no question of a formal, churchyard interment.  In more heavily populated areas they were buried in mass graves ("plague pits") where there were enough people to do it; sometimes they were incinerated in their houses.  It has been suggested that the Fire of London might have been started deliberately to cleanse the city of plague, which it did indeed do.

Malcolm