Judith Malmayns, the wicked plague nurse, contemplating the murder of Amabel Bloundel, which she accomplishes by puncturing the girl's neck with a needle infected with the plague. 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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