The smith threatening Leonard Holt because he will not obey the Lord Mayor's instructions that all dogs must be killed to prevent the spread of the Plague, and protects Bell the dog of Mike Macascree the blind piper. The Plague of London (1665). Illustration by John Franklin () for William Harrison Ainsworth "Old Saint Paul's", London 1855 (first published 1841). Engraving

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